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Mool Singhi <[email protected]>

Justin N. Seruhere <[email protected]>

Greg Cole, Ph.D. <[email protected]>

Rahul Tongia, Ph.D. <[email protected]>

References:

(a) (20130310) Possible extension of GLORIAD to east coast of Africa?
<http://tinyurl.com/b4srxs5>

(b) (02/14/08) Idea for Trans-Africa Ultra High Speed Optical Fiber Network
<http://tinyurl.com/3x4roy>

(c) (05/28/08) Japanese $4 billion for Trans-Africa transportation infrastructure
<http://tinyurl.com/5a77dq>

(d) (08/19/08) Trans-Africa Ultra High Speed Optical Fiber Network
<http://tinyurl.com/5hcqce>

(e) (08/20/08) FiberAfrica Project
<http://tinyurl.com/5mu6xf>

(f) ATTACHMENT I of;
(09/25/08)  (1) Trouble with TinyURL and (2) FiberAfrica at CITI conference at Columbia University on 10/31/08
<http://tinyurl.com/aqesz52>

(g) (20110616) (1) NIGCOMSAT Communications Satellite & Research and Development Training Centre and (2) Cloud Computing Simulation Center in Nigeria
<http://tinyurl.com/3vgveal>


Dear Mool:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I below) in response to the Reference (a) above.

Dear Justin:

(2) I think that MoolÕs msg will give you some idea when and how you can get superb services of connecting to numerous higher educational and healthcare institutions in the northern hemisphere via Greg ColeÕs GLORIAD.

I suppose that EASSY has already landed in Dar es Salaam of your Tanzania. You may check on this through a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam.

(3) About the cost of deploying optical fiber network around the in-continent of Africa, pls refer to the following write-up made by Rahul in Reference (f) above;

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~tongia/FiberAfrica--ending_a_digital_divide.pdf


As you see in it, Rahul estimated that the cost of deploying the optical fiber network in African continent is about US 1 billion.


Figure 1: <http://tinyurl.com/ap9kvjl>

Other references (b) to (g) above were our list discussions made about the deployment of optical fiber network in the African continent — particularly along the construction of super highways connecting various African countries with US$4 billion pledged by the Japanese government at the TICAD-IV in Yokohama, Japan, in the spring of 2008.



Figure 2: <http://tinyurl.com/agh23g7>


This figure, which I obtained at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs In Tokyo in the spring of 2011, shows how much the US$ 4 billion was spent for the new highway construction — but alas, it does not show any optical fiber layout.

The World Bank figure says that 43% of deploying optical fiber is to digging roads.  So, if it can be done at the occasion of constructing the super highways, 43% of US$ 1 billion (i.e, $430 million) can be saved — which is the Japanese payersÕ tax!!  You may tell this to President of TICAD  Dr. Akihiko Tanaka whom you recently met at the UN in Manhattan.

BTW, many of the US state laws mandate to lay out optical fiber along the newly constructing transportation highways.

(4) If you can connect countries in the eastern part of Africa, it would be very significant.

Kilimanjaro is in your Tanzania and it is the very source of water of Nile River.  GEWS project through broadband Internet via optical fiber network along the Nile River basin countries would provide a water management scheme — people in Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, etc., have already indicated their interest in working on this issue. We have made many list discussions on this.  I would be very happy to disclose them to a professor of the University of Dar es Salaam when you will introduce him/her to us.

Keep in touch.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I


From: "Mool Singhi" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [gu-new] (20130310) Possible extension of GLORIAD to east coast ofAfrica?
Date: March 11, 2013 10:57:31 AM EDT
To: <[email protected]>, "'gu-new'" <[email protected]>

Dear Tak,

There are number of points should be noted:

-  ACE will land in South Africa toward the end of 2014.
-  Once land on the west coast of South Africa, we will connect to east
coast through terrestrial fiber west to east.  It can be connected to EASSY
with no problem.
-  Tanzania is connected to EASSY and SEACOM cable systems, so there should
be no problem in extending GLORIAD to Tanzania.

Hope this helps.

Regards


Mool Singhi
Chief Operating Officer
Baharicom Development Co. Ltd
Ph:     +1 973 895 2750
GSM: +1 973 960 2735
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Mool Singhi
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Justin N. Seruhere
Minister Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of the United Republic of Tanzania to the UN
212-972-9160
Cel: 646-578-9434
[email protected]

Greg Cole, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD)
Director/Center for International Networking Initiatives (CINI)
Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment
311 Conference Center Bldg
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
Cel: 865-309-5524
865‐974‐1262 – GregÕs phone.
865-974-2459
Fax: 865-974-1838
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.gloriad.org/
http://issue.utk.edu/cini/
http://www.gloriad.org/gloriad/team/usa/gcole.html
http://www.friends-partners.org/
http://events.internet2.edu/speakers/speakers.php?go=people&id=1495 -- bio
http://www.friendspartners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Cole's%20GLORAID/GLORIAD_update.pdf
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B3BD61B1B
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040102092834.htm
http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive/2005/Apr/15-476539.html -- about GLORIAD

Funded by the US National Science Foundation, GLORIAD rings the northern hemisphere with an advanced optical Internet currently linking scientists, educators, and students in the USA, Russia, China, Korea, Canada, Netherlands, the five Nordic countries, Egypt, India, and Singapore.


Rahul Tongia, Ph.D.
Senior Systems Scientist
Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (COS)
School of Computer Science (ISR) /
Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
tel: 412-268-5619
fax: 412-268-2338
email: [email protected]
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia

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