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From: "Fazel Hanif" <fazel.hanif@undp.org> To: <mlizarza@uoregon.edu> Cc: <sghuter@nsrc.org>, <suzanne.mikawa@undp.org> Time: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:15:03 +0430 Subject: RE: The current state of Internet in Afghanistan Hi Maria, > 1. Please provide a brief technical description of Afghanistan's external > connectivity to the Internet, including upstream provider(s). The Internet connectivity for Afghanistan is via satellite/VSAT and there are a few ISP's that provide Internet connection to Afghanistan. a- CeReTechs. info@ceretechs.com. b- NEDA Telecomunication. rajiv@neda.af c- BroadbandlVS. satelliteans@web-sat.com. WWW.BroadBandiVS.COM d- Quiklink Communications. www.quicklinktele.com. e- Iogloblal. info@globle.com. www.io-global.com f- New Dunia Telecom. newdunia@newdunia.com > 2. Please list the Universities with connectivity in Afghanistan, > their URLs and contact information if possible (name and email of > an administrative and/or technical contact). We have 4 Cisco Academies within universities and 2 Cisco Academies within the Ministry of Communications’ technical school and Ministry of Women’s Affairs vocational center for women. The Cisco Networking Academies in Afghanistan are: 1- Kabul University Regional Cisco Networking Academy . www.ku.edu.af Tariq Meeran is the Legal Main Contact. tmeeran@ku.edu.af. Their connection is Via VSAT which has been provided by NATO. The bandwidth is currently 384K. 2- Herat University Local Academy . Legal Main contact is Farhad Salehi. farhad_salehi2004@yahoo.com. New Dunia Telecom is their ISP. 128K download and 64K upload. 3- Balkh University Local Academy . Legal main contact is Mustafa Ahmadi. ahmadi.mustafa@gmail.com. New Dunia Telecom is their ISP. 128K and 64K upload. 4- Khost University Local Academy . Sultan Ahmad is the Legal main contact. sultan.Ahmad@satellite-email.com . New Dunia Telecom is their ISP. 128K download and 64 K upload. 5-TTC (Telecommunications Training centre) Peer Mohammad is the legal main contact. pirmb@yahoo.com. The connection is point to point via Ministry of communications VSAT. 6- MoWA (Ministry of Women’s affairs) Academy. Fazel Hanif fazel.hanif@undp.org is the main contact. The internet connection is VIA UNDP VSAT. I would like to let you know that during this year we will expand the Cisco Networking Academies to the three or four new sites within the Universities. Regards, Fazel Hanif Cisco Networking Academy Manger UNDP- KABUL - Afghanistan E-mail: fazel.hanif@undp.org Mobile : 0093 70 027 549.
