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2003 - current
UK headquartered NGO
VSAT network, initially five sites in Africa
(Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania).
Ultimately the network could be made available
to all organisational sites globally that have poor or unreliable terrestrial communications.
AfriConnect provide consultancy services,
hardware, satellite installation,
satellite bandwidth, DNS domain hosting, Mail relaying and far-side email scrubbing,
security, monitoring and control, training
and all necessary services.
AfriConnect also provide RBGan and BGAN satellite modems for country offices where either a VSAT is unneccessary or inappropriate, or for a mobile employee..
Equipment deployed at each site include AfriConnect SatWidth or SatIP VSATs,
Managed firewall router, SIP Unit (optional) and in some cases a VPN back to an AfriConnect managed VPN router in client HQ. |
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1998 - current
Large US Governmental Health Organisation
Malaria research network – extensive
research in the field of overcoming and
mitigating this disease.
Project management, installation, commissioning
and support for the roll-out of 12 sites,
many in remote areas, using VSAT to provide
internet connectivity, allowing researchers
to send and receive email, search medical
literature and databases, or share files
and images 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Permanent access to information is moving
researchers in Africa toward a more efficient
way of working with colleagues around the
world. Sites range from a few 10’s
of users at field stations to over 250 users
at the main headquaters in Nairobi. The
network is designed to allow hundreds of
researchers in Africa to share satellite
bandwidth, maximizing the usage of satellite
capacity and minimizing cost per site.
The network has evolved significantly from
its initial two sites sharing a 64kb satellite
link, to the end of 2003 with 12 sites sharing
approx 2MBps of in-& out-bound capacity,
plus other direct links through local ISPs.
AfriConnect continues to provide ongoing
support services for the network, and other
non-VSAT sites. |
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2003 - current
French Medical Research Organisation
VSAT network, initially 5 sites in Africa
(Cameroon, Niger, Cote d’Ivoire, Madagascar,
Central African Republic) and 3 in Vietnam.
Ultimately the network could be made available
to all organisational sites globally, totalling
23 sites.
AfriConnect provide consultancy services,
hardware, satellite and other ICT installation,
satellite bandwidth, voice services, web design,
security, monitoring and control, training
and all necessary services.
Equipment deployed at each site included AfriConnect
SatWise integrated terminal equipment : VSAT,
Managed Switch, VoIP Unit (optional) Linux
Server, Firewall Mail server (SMTP / POP3
/ Webmail) with virus scanning, Intranet host. |
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2003-7
Group of Military and International Health
Organisations
Study programme in a rural area of Northern
Ghana where a VSAT system was already deployed.
Improved connectivity was required in order
to support a planned malaria vaccine trial.
The requirement was to ensure that mobile
nurses, field workers and clinics must have
wholly reliable communications, both voice,
messaging and Internet access when in villages
which have no power supply or conventional
means of communication.
Resulting network was being project managed
and deployed during Q1 2004. |
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2004
Large College in Malawi
Development of an ICT Strategy for the college
to cover the next three years following the
mandate to quadruple the number of students
trained as doctors in order to support the
Malawi Ministry of Health. |
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1996 – 2004 - current
Large African Trade Organisation
Design, consultancy, training, telecommunications
/ networking, e-commerce, and support services.
Implementation of oranisation website and
its transition to a bi-lingual (French/English)
user driven content managed portal, their
Secretariat network infrastructure and Internet
access. |
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2003
Medical Research based Organisation, Gambia
Needs analysis and appraisal visits to organisations
research sites in the Gambia. Preparation
of detailed Request for Proposal for organisation,
to enable it to tender for broadband VSAT
Internet connectivity at their two research
sites.
Expansion to two further VSAT sites is
expected as a secondary phase to the project. |
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2003
Large US-Funded International Health Organisation
Complete review of the organisations communications
needs in Kenya for the next 5 years.
Scope included: fixed and mobile Internet
access for research and field workers based
on satellite, wireless, GSM and conventional
connectivity options. |
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2003 - current
Scientific Publications Organisation
The organisation is a cooperative network
of partners tasked with enhancing the flow
of scientific information between countries,
especially those with less developed systems
of publication and dissemination.
Following concerns over bandwidth available
at Universities in LDCs, the organisation
commissioned a study to provide bodies seeking
to optimise Internet access with sources of
information, and potential solutions and cost
reducing measures. This detailed 265-page
report provides practical suggestions and
recommendations for improved management of
Internet applications, so that existing bandwidth
can be made more productive. It includes eight
case studies drawn from Africa and Asia to
highlight best practice in maximising bandwidth.
AfriConnect has provided strategic guidance, software and training material for the Bandwidth Optimisation Training being co-ordinated by this International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications.
AfriConnect have facilitated several hands-on network traffic monitoring and analysis workshops in various universities throughout Africa and in South America as part of this programme.
Participants received a Linux based bootable CD network toolkit, recommendations on building a simple to administer Linux based network monitoring system, and a CD compendium of possible tools and white papers, in addition to electronic copies of all workshop materials.
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2001 - 4
Large College in Malawi
Initiative to improve ICT and in particular
Internet connectivity, with the installation
of a wide area network to providing internal
communication and full Internet access to
around 100 PCs throughout the college.
The WAN, which utilises ‘permanently
on’ broadband wireless networking, was
commissioned in April 2002, linking together
all departments, which in turn connected to
the local Internet provider, as well as across
to their own satellite link to the Internet
backbone. Departments that did not already
have a local area network also had one installed
at this time.
All computers were effectively joined in one
wide area network (WAN) that now links over
250 PCs used by both staff, students, administrators
and researchers. |
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2000
Global NGO, Uganda
Project to design and tender for a VSAT network
designed to provide Internet connectivity
to 15 secondary schools in rural Uganda, some
of which had onwards wireless connections
to further locations, and where significant
expansion was possible. |
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1999-2000
Global NGO, Zambia
This project provided a new computerised
management system for hundreds of microfinance
projects around Zambia, complete with connectivity
from nine regional capitals giving access
to a common database. The scope of work
was to specify the system, tender, recruit
staff, build the associated website, provide
initial connectivity and train staff. |
