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In March 2005, NSRC donated a couple of routers, a switch, and some wireless APS Access Points for the first incarnation of the RUB network. And Steve Huter
has been working some with the main engineer doing the network design, deploy, etc. for the university network. In close collaboration with his good friend,
Gaurab Upadhaya, who is part of this planning group, NSRC collaborated with SANOG (www.sanog.org) to organize and teach in a couple of the first tech
workshops held in Bhutan for local networkers, including some participation from the education sector.
http://ws.edu.isoc.org/workshops/2005/pre-SANOG-VI/
http://ws.edu.isoc.org/workshops/2005/SANOG-VI/
He Steve Huter also paid a visited to Bhutan in November and the situation there is relatively simple. There had been a number of colleges spread throughout the country and a few years ago they were assimilated into the new Royal University of Bhutan (RUB). The university is building a RUBWAN, a fiber network linking all the constituent colleges. There is also a fiber link to India from Bhutan, so they are relatively quite advanced. The hub of the network will be in a new Vice Chancellor's building in Thimphu, the capital, which is the planning stage.
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We found two hosts in Maldives, (the traceroute results showed that the second last hop was through Itlay). The site has been added to the PingER Guthrie
database. Later on we came to know by Guarab that Maldives just got at the start of 2007 the Maldives were connected through the SMW4 fibre as a result of collaboration between Dhiraagu and Telecom
Italia Sparkle. This There is an interesting report on Maldives Internet Connectivity at www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/maldives/material/CS_MDV_part3.pdf
Maldives got fiber connectivity early this year. Here is a press release from Telecom Italia Sparkle http://www.telecomitaliasparkle.com/press_info/press_info_index/event17.htm
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A presentation about the internet connectivity in Nepal can be found here. Recently Nepal Telecom struck a deal with Indian BSNL so now the land locked Nepal will have access optic fibre, which previously was via optical fibre. Previously they were largly dependent on VSAT. Here is the complete story Out of the nodes that PingER monitors in Nepal one is connected through Indian BSNL (koshi.ioe.edu.np) with a average RTT of 330 ms. The other one is connected directly to New York through a Satellite link (most.gov.np) with an average RTT of 550 ms.
Afghanistan
We got We have three sites in Afghanistan and they were quite hard to get. Also these sites have min RTT greater than 700 ms which indicates that they are on satellite. On March 10, 2003, Afghanistan went live on the Web which was previous banned under the Taliban rule. The Internet infrastructure in Afghanistan is immature and the pricing for internet is quite high.
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