Sizang Village Telco
(Connecting peoples ) - Connecting Those Who Need It Most

What is Community WLAN- (Why WiFi for rural Communication?)

What is a Village Telco

Regular Wifi Networks

Mesh Wireless Networks

Sizang Khua Telco Goals

Project Plan??(ki cian nei x lai, Sizang Community tawh ki zom na nei )

Wireless Technology Application (examples)...

Risks ??

Q & A.

It is better to be crazy than to die...If you want to do some thing good without money you have to work like crazy and try everything else.-A Napali Proverb-

What is a Village Telco

Regular Wifi Networks

Village Telco Network

Sizang Village Telco - Goals

GoalsTrain Sizang Community to install a Village Telco network

Install at least 10 Mesh Potatoes(within 5 villages)

Build a local call telephone network

Build an IP Backbone for local IP traffic

Project Plan

A ki cian om ngol lai...

Sizang World Wide Communites te tawh na sep khop thei na nei zo nuam..

Education

Health care(Telemedicine)

Communication(Email/Intranet/Internet)

Local Business

Access to news and Information

And many more....

Sizang Village Telco

Main goal is local telephone calls

IP connectivity across Sizang Villages

Public IP backbone across Sizang Villages

Public resource, e.g. local chat, web servers, Wiki, mirror of web content

Internet can be distributed by this network(via Kalaymyo IPSTAR or DSL)

But this project doesn't provide Internet

Risks

What can go wrong?

What happens when the trainers goes home?

Train Sizang Community to fix problems

Focus on keeping network running

Train many people, not just one expert

Sustainable Strategy/plan(a diak diak Community based projects na sep na ah...)

How can we make it more reliable?Do we need special licence for 2.4 and 5.0 Ghz frequency bands in Burma?

Bang Van teng ki sam/zang tu?

Inndoor Access Point Router (Or)

Outdoor Access Point Router(incl.Antenna)

High-gain Antenna

Router Firmware/OS(open WRT with Mesh network protocols)

Mesh Potato

Bang dan devices te ki zang/sam?

Indoor Access Point(AP)/Wireless Router

Indoor WLAN Access Point Router- Linksys WRT54G (40 - 50 US $)

Bang dan devices te ki zang/sam?

Outdoor Accesspoint(AP) with highgain antenna.

60 US $ Antenna: Integrated 10dBi Dual Pol + External SMA Port , Outdoor Range: over 15km

Antenna

Ol tak in vawt tawm thei pawl khat te.

Can Antenna (5 US $ - 7 US $) 0.5 -1,3 Km Distance

Ref : http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

Antenna

2.4Ghz Square Grid Parabolic Antenna, 24DBI 50 US $

But with modern Outdoor Access Point Router with integrated antenna, you dont need those Parabolic Antenna anymore.!!!

OMNI-DIRECTIONAL - 360

The Mesh Potato

The Mesh Potato is a new device for providing low-cost telephony and Internet in areas where alternative access either doesnt exist or is too expensive. It is a marriage of a low-cost wireless access point ( AP) capable of running a mesh networking protocol with an Analog Telephony Adapter (ATA).Wireless Router 2 dbi Antenna + Telephone a ki hel Device no khat hi.60 100 $ man.

Khau 2 ki zom na tu. Phone bek hi x hi..

2 Mesh Potato (180 US $) :-( ha, man ham thong

2 Outdoor AP 100 US $

Cables 15 US $

2 Analog Telephone 30 US $plus logistics coststotals 325 US $ Phone call + Data network for many purposes

A ki cing zaw na sim nuam leh? http://bit.ly/dzbQoc

Solar powered WLAN Radio Station

Example : ThangMual tung ah Repeater in zak thei tu...

10 watt solar panel : 100 $Dry Baterry 12 V, 30 $ ?AD/DC Converter : ??

Total : ca. 150 - 200 US $

Survey for GSM and WLAN installation in Siyin Region by Pa Pum Suan Hang

more info http://bit.ly/9xeI6v

Survey for GSM and WLAN installation in Siyin Region by Pa Pum Suan Hang

more info http://bit.ly/9xeI6v

Thanks

Me and the Village Hackers : Elektra(Ph.d) , David(Ph.d),

Thanks

Freifunkt.net (Free WLAN Community-Germany)

Dr. David Rowe(Ph.d) (Mesh Potato initiator)

Atcom(manufacture), who are making the Mesh Potatoes for the better world

Shuttleworth Foundation, who supported the Village Telco project

Village Telco community from all over the world.

Khaipi(Zogamnuam)khaipi@gmail.com / twitter : khaipi

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