Rural area survey and proposal for telecommunications service provision

Author

Mbatha, Sakhi J. ; Afullo, Thomas J.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Univ. of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

17-17 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

71

Abstract

Telecommunication service provision in rural areas is a very demanding enterprise, due to inadequate infrastructure and scattered settlements. On the other hand, since the rural areas are also developing, albeit with varying needs, telecommunications services also need to develop. In order to service such areas, we consider using an ATM network because of its capability to accommodate or combine voice, data and video communication in one network and reduce the use of multiple networks. We investigate the feasibility of ATM implementation in a rural area as a wide area network. In particular, we focus on different ATM classes of services

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; data communication; multimedia communication; telecommunication network topology; voice communication; wide area networks; ATM network; ATM service classes; data communication; network topology; rural area service provision survey; scattered settlements; telecommunication infrastructure; telecommunications service provision; video communication; voice communication; wide area network; Africa; Aggregates; Agriculture; Costs; Proposals; Scattering; Strategic planning; Telecommunication services; Telecommunication traffic; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2004. 7th AFRICON Conference in Africa

Conference_Location

Gaborone

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8605-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRICON.2004.1406636

Filename

1406636