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There are three sites at Bangladesh which PingER monitors. BRAC University is on satellite. Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology and the other university are connected through fiber but they use satellite as there backup link.
At At present there is not an Academic or Research network in Bangladesh. In the beginning of 1996, they first thought to set up an academic and research network in Bangladesh named BERNET (Bangladesh Education and Research Network). The network started in mid 1998 with limited connectivity. You can find the topological map of BERNET at
http://www.ugc.org/bernet.htm
But . But in 2003 they gave it up. The reasons , according are:
1. It is not easy to get country wide data connectivity available in our country.
2. Only BTTB (Bangladesh Telephone & Telegraph Board) provides DDN service for data network, but does not cover the whole country and this is not cost effective for the academic and research institutions.
3. There are not resource or content developed by the academic or research institutions of Bangladesh that can be used by others.
4. Most of the decision makers of every sectors of Bangladesh solely think of Internet bandwidth and are not aware of Intranet. So wheneverone try to talk about the academic network, the decisions are restricted to Internet Bandwidth.
When they were connected with BERNET they used only Internet Bandwidth of BERNET and talked about its Internet Bandwidth but we could not go beyond Internet.So everybody gave up and tried to setup up their own VSAT or Leased Internet connectivity.Therefore, other than Internet, there isn't Network infrastructure for Academic and research activities. That is most of the institutions find each other via Internet.
See 2007 "Bangladesh Country Report" by Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury.
There is a 2004 presentation at http://www.apng.org/xoops/modules/camp/download/72-3-1.ppt that explains the situation in Bangladesh.
Contact for main Universities in Bangladesh http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/report.php?id=1098894702546:489036339&fromISO=BD
Acedemic Networking in Bangladesh http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/report.php?id=42&fromISO=BD
South Asian Network Operators Group V http://www.sanog.org/sanog5/index.html
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