2. SUDAN
Name, Location and Area
Population
Airports, Airstrip and Seaports
Mobile operators
Fixed communication
Isps
Traffic
Fiber optic
ICT
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3. Name, Location and Area
.
Sudan is located in the northeastern part of Africa .
The country occupies the middle part between
Africa and the Arab World.
Total area of the Sudan is(about 1.882.000 million
km square) which makes it one of the largest
African countries and it comes sixteenth among the
largest countries of the world. Sudan is the third
largest Arab country and the second African's.
The Capital: Khartoum
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5. Population
Population of Sudan in the beginning of the
year 2011 is estimated to (33) million persons
at a growth rate of 2,53 annually.
Religions
: Islam, Christian.
Languages
Arabic, English, local languages.
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6. Airports, Airstrip and Seaports
There are (17) airports in Sudan of
which(6)are international airports, the biggest
one in the capital Khartoum International
Airport and (11) local airport distributed in
states. There are(63)airstrips currently in the
different parts of Sudan.
The Red Sea is the only navigation outlet for
Sudan to the external world. Port Sudan,
Suakin , Awseif and Bashair are the Sudanese
ports.
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12. Infrastructure
And although Sudan has an impressive spread
of fiber infrastructure, there are still significant
areas of the country that remain unconnected
except through the rather more expensive
means of satellite backhaul. With the
difficulties imposed by the weather , it would
make sense to have higher levels of network
redundancy
Sudan have 23000 km . Fiber optic backboone
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16. This network linked with Ethiopia and
Egypt with the fiber optic , which also
contributes with the 2 cables SAS1
and SAS2 that links Port Sudan to
Jeddah with 50% partnership with
STC.
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17. sudan also contributes with the submarine cable of
East Africa ESSAY with 13% that is extended from
Port Sudan to Cape Town linking 13 countries in
eastern coast of Africa that is considered one of the
most important telecommunication projects in the
world and it represents the final link at the
submarine cable.
In addition to the contribution to the continental
cable ACE with 9% which links the western coast
countries in Africa that is extending from Cape
Town to France.
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18. ICT Projects
Computer to each family.
Labs of secondary schools.
Universal Service Centers.
Dual Universal Service Centers.
e-Government support project.
Computer literacy project, (E-citizen).
Project Sudanese universities and the Virtual Library.
ICT research laboratory.
Support the National Archives.
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19. FTTH IN SUDAN
Sudatel offers fiber based broadband
residential and small or home office
packages at speeds of 1 Mbit/s, in
part of khartoum with plans to
expand to all location in khrtoum and
other major cities in the future.
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