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In the name of God the Most Compassionate and Merciful
Contents
1.Introduction
2. Project Overall Goal
3. Business Plan
4. Network Plan
5. Operation and Maintenance
7. Project Cost
8. Challenges and Opportunities
9. Proposed Network Design
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1. Introduction
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1. About Sudan
Area : 1 million square miles.
Population: 36 Million
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Telecommunication Revolution in Sudan
1993 Privatization of Telecommunication in
Sudan
1994 Regulator •
1995 Internet •
1997 Mobile Communication •
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Telecommunication Revolution in Sudan
Mobile Technologies: 2.5 G, 3G, and 3.5G
Data Transmission Networks : X-25, ATM, Frame
Relay, DSL, mDSL, EVDO
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Optical Fibre in Sudan
a total of
11000 km
Covering all
states except
the south
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Higher Education
1902
• The beginning of higher education in Sudan trace to the
establishment of the Gordon Memorial College in 1902
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Geographical Distribution of Universities
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1. Introduction
• The ICT community at these universities and
enthusiastic users exerted great pressure to
acquire their own network.
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1. Introduction
• In 2004 the Ministry of Higher Education
responded to these needs by establishing The
Sudanese Universities Virtual Library project
(SUVL) and later being upgraded to Sudanese
Universities Information Network (SUIN.)
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The Sudanese Universities
Information Network
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Main Goals
The main goals of this project are to provide
connectivity among the Sudanese educational
institutions, increase sharing of knowledge,
help universities build their information
infrastructure, and extend the value of digital
libraries.
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Main Goals
The main goals of this project are to provide
connectivity among the Sudanese educational
institutions, increase sharing of knowledge,
help universities build their information
infrastructure, and extend the value of digital
libraries.
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Business Plan
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UofK is the oldest and largest public university in
Sudan.
It has 5 campuses located in different geographical
locations in Khartoum.
In 1999 the campuses were connected in a WAN
based on different technologies (Optical fibre, frame
relay and wireless Tech).
The business plan for SUIN was based on the model of
the University of Khartoum (UofK) network
It has a similar users’ behaviour and service demand
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Phased Plan
• A five years plan for the whole project was outlined
as follows:
• Phase I Implementation of the Sudanese
Universities Information Network (SUIN) 2005
• Phase II Implementation of the Sudanese
Universities Virtual Library (SUVL) 2006
• Phase III Network upgrade and optimization 2007
• Phase IV Content development 2008
• Phase V E- services provision 2009
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1. Project Phase I
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Network Plan: Phase I (2005)
• 31 public universities were connected by
128 kbps data link using the Frame Relay
technology to a central router at the University
of Khartoum.
• 4 Mbps was provided for the Internet, using the
DSL technology.
• Cisco routers and fast Ethernet were the
technologies used.
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Network Plan: Phase I (2005)
• The service was provided by Sudatel.
• Why starting with that very low connectivity ?
• Because of the low budget available at that
time.
Frame Relay
128 Kbps / month ----------150 USD
VSAT
512 Kbps/ month -----------2000 USD
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Optical Fibre
1 Mbps /month -----------2500 USD
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Network Plan: Phase I (network topology)
DTU 2801
Cisco 3660
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Network Plan: Phase I (Obstacles)
• 10 fold increase of the traffic especially for
those universities for which SUIN were the
only path to the Internet.
• Due to small bandwidth; universities
looked for other solutions to get a better
bandwidth for the Internet.
• Weak operation due to lack of proper
contacts with the ICT people in the
universities.
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1. Project Phase II
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Phase II
The Sudanese Universities Virtual
Library
SUVL
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Local contents
DBs
Lib catalog
ETD
Staff
Institutes
Reports and
stats
Digital Libs
News
E-clases
SUVL
Int Libraries
Int Clases
Int sites
Lib Societies
Int. DBs
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Network Plan: Phase II (network topology)
• A web server and a firewall were
connected to SUIN and four databases
were implemented.
• Open source software is the used
• Figure (4) shows the network topology
with details concerning the web server and
firewall located in the University of
Khartoum.
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Network Plan: Phase II (network topology)
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1. Project Phase III
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Phase III: Network upgrade
• We got Fund for 2008
• Optical Fiber for
– 30 Public univ,
– 10 private
– 10 research centers
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Phase III: Network upgrade
Current situation
• Optical Fiber
• Wireless
• VSAT
• Frame Relay
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Phase III: Optical Fiber
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Phase III: Network upgrade
VSAT
Wireless
Frame
Relay
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Optical
Fibre
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Operation and Maintenance
ICT
Committee
Consultancy
Committee
Technical
Team
Librarian and
Information
Committee
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Operation and Maintenance
Consultancy committee
• 2 Univeristies VC
• 2 CEO form universities networks
• 2 Directors from Ministry of Higher
Education
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Operation and Maintenance
Technical Team
• SUIN (CEO)
• UofK CEO
• SUST CEO
• SUIN (CTO)
• Three Technical assistant ( programmers)
• Two part-time network engineers
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Operation and Maintenance
The ICT Committee
The ICTC is comprised of 31 ICT specialists
(Heads of university computer centers
(CEOs)).
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Operation and Maintenance
The Libraries and Information Committee
(LIC)
The LIC is comprised of 13 librarians and
information specialists in SUIN member
institutions.
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Capacity Building
• In 2005: One training workshop in
Networking and Linux operation system
(70 trainers)
• In 2007: 3 training workshops in Linux
operating system ( 20 ICT specialists)
• In 2007; 2 Training workshops in quality
assurance of Libraries and building ecatalogues( 30 Librarians)
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Project Cost
The Project is Funded by Governmental bodies:
1. The Ministry of Higher Education
2. The Sudanese Information Technology Fund
(SITF)
• The whole project is locally funded WITHOUT
any support from the International Bodies.
• THEN we need to strengthen the relation with
the supporting bodies
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Challenges
• Need for a decentralized design
• Need for a sustainable operation model.
• Completing the fiber networking with
acceptable prices
• Keeping the parties supporting the project
motivated
• Improve environment and salaries for ICT
professionals
• Applications and contents Development (
webhosting , email, elearning)
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Opportunities
• The National Regulator is the driving force
for the project
• The e-government project is a guarantee for
continuation
• Fiber will soon extend to southern Sudan
and will connect to Uganda
• Opportunity for STM1 provision
• Opportunity for Dark fibre (e-Government
project)
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Proposed Network Design
All connections through optical fibre
• Decentralization of the network can be
based either on:
1. Based on 4 universities where professional
ICT people and proper server rooms exist.
2. E-Government Project
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Proposed Network Design 1
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Proposed Network Design I
• This design is centralized in 4 universities (4 NOCs)
• Static Router
• SNMP Activated in all Routers
• 4 VLAN ID for each site (Internet, Data, Voice,
Backup)
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Research
Institutions
Proposed Network Design I
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WAN IP: 192.168.16.40/30
LAN IP: 172.16.0.x/24
VLAN ID:
BW: 2Mbps
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Internet IP: X.X.X.X/30
WAN IP: Y.Y.Y.Y/24
VLAN ID:
BW: 5Mbps
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Proposed Network Design II
The e-government project
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Proposed Network Design II
• The university node will be used as the
gateway for the state and federal ministries and
departments at state capital.
• The federal ministries at Khartoum are
connected to the network by GE links by using
one of the following devices ( depending on size
of Ministry and its location)
-Net engine (router) NE20]
-Net engine (router) AR28
-Layer 3 switch S3900
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Proposed Network Design II
• VLANs
• Each university has its own VLAN
• Routing to take place at the nearest network
engine or L3 switch
• SUIN will be connected to the NTC Data
Center via network engine NE40 and GE link
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Thanks
Telecommunication in Sudan
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