Infrastructure Design
Samiuela Loni Vea Taufa
Just a discussion on the interconnection/intranet proposal.
The interconnection/intranet between the Tier 1 'backbone' providers is sometimes called an Internet Exchange or IPX.
I have proposed the idea to both Tonfon and TCC, and both organisations are still 'going through the numbers.' Likewise, I sent a similar proposal to DoC many moons ago that outlined governance issues as well as a benefits proposition. (I'll try to find it)
Contract it:
With the potential advent of the Cable, we can probably get all of it together as Havea proposes as a contract requirement with the selected cable operator.
Sam T.
Kataki pe kapau ‘oku ou too mama’o atu au mei he me’a ‘oku fai ai e talanoa, kae mahalo pe na’a ‘aonga atu. The way I observe on how we interconnect in terms of networking, Tonga network is made up of TCC and TONFON as the first tier network, and I can include Government Network there (assuming the fiber cable will be in place in the future). Each network is considered an autonomous system and the current point of interconnection is INTERNET - internet is the biggest issue in terms of speed where we want to solve!.
I believe the interconnecting amongst those three networks (as intranet ) should be included in the Fiber Cable Project but right now, we need to interconnect TCC and TONFON by wireless medium as the quickest, and setup as intranet backbone (ie, reconfigure all the necessary ICT components such as DNS, DHCP, Email, Web-servers, AS Routers etc). This way will help us maintaining the internal traffic within Tonga Network, and allow only traffic that suppose to the internet.
I believe on building the most needed ICT infrastructure and enhance it as we along especially the followings;
(1) Networking
(2) Affordable End User Terminal (PC)
(3) Affordable Connection
Regards,
Havea
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Havea Hikule'o Fonua
Thanks Sam, if we can ensure the first tier IPX within Tonga (Tonfon and TCC) to be high speed network and well managed then it will be easier to design the network performance of 2 tier and so forth downward.
With Tonfon Wireless Network for data network and also connect to the internet, we use WiFi (ieee 802.11 series) and Canopy (ieee 802.16 series) technologies and we are still trying to enhance its backbone network to satisfy with the increasing numbers of users or subscribers. Users have to pay different fees for capacity used over the data network (within Tonga) and capacity used to the internet, where at this stage 1Mbps is the highest for data service and 512Kbps is for internet.
As we all aware, almost all LAN in Tonga use the technology of Ethernet (ieee 802.3) over twisted pair cables with the usable capacity is 10/100Mbps. I believe the backbone network where each LAN connect to should be considered the high speed technology such as optical fiber (ieee 802.5) to created high speed network such as ATM, MPLS, or Frame Relay network.
I believe it will be more attractive to average users (over 50% of Tonga Population) to have affordable data connection within Tonga where most of them need to access internal services. As an example, if we target to increase the number of data network users within Tonga, educational Institutions are the best choice to start with. Let’s say every household who has student in any high school or college should have the followings;
(1) PC (assuming the affordability is $200/PC)
(2) Data connection (assuming the affordability is $20/month) : installation one-off cost is $50
(3) Internet connection (depending on ISP and DoC)
Every educational institution should enforce the usage of the data network by posting the notices and announcement on the website to both parent and student. This way will help the student grows with the technology learnt at school but also parents and members of the family. Email and Web browser are the two most needed services to be used by every household. From there they can work their up to the other technology available on the data network. Once the majority of Tonga gets the feel then connecting to the internet is not a problem with PTA (Parent Teacher Association) because they are also the end users.
Regards
Havea
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12:17 PM
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Cc: Alfred Soakai
Subject: [tg-tech] Infrastructure
Design
Havea does it again with
a good assessment.
Just a discussion on the interconnection/intranet proposal.
The interconnection/intranet between the Tier 1 'backbone' providers is
sometimes called an Internet Exchange or IPX.
I have proposed the idea to both Tonfon and TCC, and both organisations are
still 'going through the numbers.' Likewise, I sent a similar proposal to DoC
many moons ago that outlined governance issues as well as a benefits
proposition. (I'll try to find it)
Contract it:
With the potential advent of the Cable, we can probably get all of
it together as Havea proposes as a contract requirement with the selected cable
operator.
Sam T.
From: Havea Hikule'o Fonua
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:14 PM
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Subject: RE: NICT workshop: press release
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I believe the interconnecting amongst those three networks (as intranet ) should be included in the Fiber Cable Project but right now, we need to interconnect TCC and TONFON by wireless medium as the quickest, and setup as intranet backbone (ie, reconfigure all the necessary ICT components such as DNS, DHCP, Email, Web-servers, AS Routers etc). This way will help us maintaining the internal traffic within Tonga Network, and allow only traffic that suppose to the internet.
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Regards,
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