Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorRoro, Zukile
dc.contributor.authorRey-Moreno, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorTucker, William David
dc.contributor.authorSiya, Masbulele Jay
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-06T09:33:25Z
dc.date.available2013-05-06T09:33:25Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationRoro, Z., et al. (2012). Socio-economic aspects of voice-over-IP technology in rural SA. In S. Scriba (ed.), Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), pp. 497–498, George, South Africaen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-620-53713-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/594
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes work in progress towards developing a business case and preliminary design for an 802.11-based mesh network in the remote rural community of Mankosi in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Aside from the technical challenges to building the network to be sustainable in the long term, this network needs to generate some revenue. Hence, there needs to be a business model that has revenue generation potential. This study will explore the economical and social aspects of voice over Internet- Protocol as a service for this community. After talking to the village leaders, we learned that there is a demand for telecommunication services and that most of them were interested only in telephony service. Very few villagers were interested in or had any knowledge about the Internet. We also learned that most of their cellular phone calls are local within the Mankosi community. This allows us to deploy an experimental local telephony service; a perfect opportunity for a low-cost and lowcosting inverse mesh infrastructure that can easily be connected to breakout and Internet services in the future.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTelkom, Cisco, Aria Technologies, THRIP, NRFen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTelkomen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Telkom. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required.
dc.subjectAd hoc networken_US
dc.subjectConverged servicesen_US
dc.subjectLimited range communicationsen_US
dc.subjectVoice over IPen_US
dc.subjectWireless mesh networksen_US
dc.titleSocio-economic aspects of voice-over-IP technology in rural SAen_US
dc.typeConference Proceedingsen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record