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Case Study: PUST, NSTU and BRU
• Fully running campus
• Located far from City
• Approximate number of Internet users*:
• PUST: 2000
• NSTU: 3300
• BRU: 4000
• No internet connection so far
• BTCL is the only hope
• Transmission link is not available
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* Source: Wikipedia/Internal
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Case Study: BU
• Campus under construction
• Located far from City
• Approximately 2500 internet users*
• Uses one WiMAX internet connection for official activities
• BTCL is not there yet
• Transmission link is not available
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* Source: Wikipedia/Internal
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Case Study: BSMRSTU, JUST and PSTU
• New and fully running campus
• All are technical universities
• Located far from City
• Approximate number of Internet users*:
• BSMRSTU: 1500
• JUST: 2400
• PSTU: 1500
• Less than 10 Mbps internet connection
• 8 more similar campuses with ≤10 Mbps BW
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* Source: Wikipedia/Internal
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Challenge: Infrastructure
• Located far from the city
• Areas are not developed
• No transmission infrastructure
• Not lucrative for ISPs, hence little presence
• High BW cost for the Universities
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Solutions
• Building Transmission infrastructure
• Countrywide 3000+ Km, one pair of OPGW from PGCB
• Dedicated OFC for each university
• 300+ Km underground OFC for last mile up to universities
• Highly reliable and redundant
• Redundant OFC
• DWDM and MPLS based network
• High level Tier-3 DC and DR facilities
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Challenges: Connectivity and Resources
• No connectivity with R&E networks
• Research activity handles high volume of traffic
• Requires low latency/jitter
• No or limited online resource repository
• No or very few facilities for content localization
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Solutions
• High capacity dedicated academic network connectivity
• Connected to TEIN, APAN, Internet2, Geant and so on
• Content localization
• Highly equipped large Data Center
• Central/local online repository
• Storage of local contents
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Challenge: Leveraging the services
• No or low maintained campus network
• Poor technical expertise
• Inadequate labs and equipment
• Lack of research and innovation
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Solutions
• Building high capacity campus network
• In each and every public university of Bangladesh
• Training and manpower development
• Regular capacity building training and workshops
• Facilitating innovations and preparing highly equipped labs
• Fostering academic innovations and research projects
• Research and collaboration through VC and UC systems
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Challenge: Technical
• Universities doesn’t have own IP and AS
• BdREN has limited IPv4 address
• Necessity of enabling IPv6 network
• Load balancing with other providers
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Solutions
• Design and deploy dual stack network from day 1
• Planning a scalable network
• Building a highly reliable, robust and redundant network
• Strengthening monitoring system and reducing downtime
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