Enabling Broadband Rural Networking

Author

Malindi, Phumzile ; Kahn, Toriq

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Walter Sisulu Univ., East London

fYear

2008

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

88

Abstract

In the recent years, provision of ICT to rural communities has become of paramount importance to both national and international organizations in order to bridge the digital divide. This paper discusses ways of providing broadband communication in rural areas where the communication infrastructure is either underdeveloped or nonexistent. It looks at both fixed wireless and wired technologies. It also looks at the possibility of hybrid wireless-wireless and wired-wireless systems.

Keywords

broadband networks; internetworking; broadband communication; broadband rural networking; communication infrastructure; fixed wireless technologies; hybrid wireless-wireless system; international organizations; wired technologies; wired-wireless systems; Africa; Bridges; Broadband communication; Communications technology; Costs; Economics; Fuel economy; Government; Information technology; Urban areas; Broadband; HAP; PBL; Satellite; WiFi; WiMAX; rural areas; wireless technologies; wireline technologies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gauteng

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3281-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3453-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BROADCOM.2008.10

Filename

4696090