- Title
- Investigating wireless network deployment configurations for marginalized areas
- Creator
- Ndlovu, Nkanyiso
- Subject
- Wireless LAN -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Information networks -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Information technology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- IEEE 802.16 (Standard)
- Subject
- Telecommunication wiring -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Internet -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Globalization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc (Computer Science)
- Identifier
- vital:11385
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/463
- Identifier
- Wireless LAN -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Information networks -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Information technology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- IEEE 802.16 (Standard)
- Identifier
- Telecommunication wiring -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Internet -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Globalization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- In recent years, immense effort has been channelled towards the Information and Technological development of rural areas. To support this development, telecommunication networks have been deployed. The availability of these telecommunication networks is expected to improve the way people share ideas and communicate locally and globally, reducing limiting factors like distance through the use of the Internet. The major problem for these networks is that very few of them have managed to stay in operation over long periods of time. One of the major causes of this failure is the lack of proper monitoring and management as, in some cases, administrators are located far away from the network site. Other factors that contribute to the frequent failure of these networks are lack of proper infrastructure, lack of a constant power supply and other environmental issues. A telecommunication network was deployed for the people of Dwesa by the Siyakhula Living Lab project. During this research project, frequent visits were made to the site and network users were informally interviewed in order to gain insight into the network challenges. Based on the challenges, different network monitoring systems and other solutions were deployed on the network. This thesis analyses the problems encountered and presents possible and affordable solutions that were implemented on the network. This was done to improve the network‟s reliability, availability and manageability whilst exploring possible and practical ways in which the connectivity of the deployed telecommunication network can be maintained. As part of these solutions, a GPRS redundant link, Nagios and Cacti monitoring systems as well as Simple backup systems were deployed. v Acronyms AC Access Concentrators AMANDA Automatic Marylyn Network Disk Archiver CDMA Code Divison Multiple Access CGI Common Gateway Interface.
- Format
- 146 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science & Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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