Connectivity Providers Database

From: chand@lanka.net (Chand Samaratunga) To: sghuter@nsrc.org CC: chand@lanka.net (Chand Samaratunga) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 08:23:16 +0000 (GMT) Hi Steve, Technical Description: Lanka Internet is connected to Sprint in Washington D.C., via a 256kb/s fibre optic line. The network is fully TCP/IP. within Sri Lanka, we carry IPX also encapsulated within IP. Domestic network consists of about 10 dedicated leased lines on copper, and about 5 radio links using Cylink radios. In addition there is an ongoing plan to develop a metropolitan Colombo wide radio network using Aironet Wireless LAN cards as a MAN. The equipment we use are Pentium computers with SCSI hard disks, and about 32MB of RAM running Solaris x86 2.5.1, in all our servers. We currently have 2 mail servers, 2 web servers, 3 PPP servers, 1 mail relay, 1 annonymous ftp server, 1 ftp/telnet server for customers, along with a firewall server. We are in the process of retiring our original "all in one" server which is an ancient Sparc Classic. Lanka Internet has over 90% of the Internet customers in Sri Lanka, and currently has over 2000 paying customers. Our pricing is Rs. 3500/ month (about US $ 50/ month) flat fee for unlimited dial-up access. For 64k leased lines the cost is Rs. 55,000/month (about US $ 1000/month) flat fee. Regards, Chand