Rural e-Center System Integration & Design(Garchitorena)

Abstract :
Rural e-Center is the ultimate solutions of bridging rural community digital divide. But the sufficiency of funds weigh more than any dilemma compared to its technology importance.It is the challenge of pursuing an e-Center to look for a bulky funds (solicitation and donations ) or what just we need is the customizations of technical skills expertise that indirectly proportionate the cost and eventually attain the establishment of Rural e-Center program.

Introductions :

So; we live in this archipelago and in particular in the place they called Bicol where we had grown technically and professionally. For the years passed by, this place with outbound beauties is always been surprised by calamities and that could turn into a traumatic event that folks can never ever be forgotten. Whatsoever, there are essence of coping up, Bicolanos are oragon' and have all the means to strive of moving on-still life with non fading hopes. Astonishingly aside from those calamities Bicolanos residing in rural places in hilly or in coastal areas couldn't travel by land if roads are at mud, nor by sea when waves hits is lethal. Losses of information & communication almost caution his life to an onslaught of disasters and still Bicolanos survived. But for how long this digital divide would deprive their lives and futures? And those were the history, those were stories, and those were sympathy and countless way to promote who really we are.

Now, we realize it’s time to leave the book and turn around credentials and widen the horizon of our own e-lab and addressed to the technical problem outside. Because for us, what matter most is the challenge these marginalize brethren who happen to be our town folks-Bicolanos experienced marginality in the hope to see the freedom of techno's and info’s freely. A freedom that they can surf the wide world virtually, a joy to converge speaking with other remotely and no need for a half day journey and going back home for another day. Somehow,it is worth compelling service to let them reunite with their families abroad and let themselves gain morale- believing they are still connected in the globe.

Hence, we; are not a traditionally made politician, a well off business men neither an influential public figure. Yet, we have a less penny in the pocket a supplemental ideas and tools to crack the barrier and outreach concern to their necessities. And what are these for all? An e-service and an e-business ,after all a philosophy of helping and living and is possible through System Integrations & Design of a Rural e-Center . EtherTech Team(Bicol)

Objectives:
1)To provide useful documents about the Rural e-Center System Integration & Design
2)To provide detailed technical data from scratch to fully operational System Integration of an e-Center
3) The How-To's of establishing Rural e-Center System


Methodology of the Project:

The project will be done with 4 phase of development: The first phase is the building of mini-edifice of an e-Center and the installation of the satellite dish.The second phase is the kind of network topology the DTE /CPE will be interconnected.The third phase is the network security and the convenience of the user to patronize the e-Center's feature and applications. The last phase is all about the transfer of technology and the technical documentations of the System Integrations & Design of a Rural e-Center .

e-Center Scope of Work:

VSAT Network Design
->Satellite Dish:Orientations, panning, mounting
->Calibrations
->Configurations
->Final Setup

Infrastructure Design
-Floor Dimension
->Area
->Height
-Electrical Layout
->AVR/UPS
->Current rating

Local Area Network Cabling Design
->Cable crimping
->Roughing
->Patching
->Hauling
->Smoothing

Network Communication System Efficiency
-Bandwidth Management
->Traffic Routing,
->Sharing
->Shaping

-Network Security
->NAT
->IP Filter
->Firewall
->Open Kiosk

Server Setup
->FTP server
->Mail Server
->Squid Proxy Server
->Embedded server Setup
->VoIP Server Setup
->Open Kiosk Server Setup

DTE/CPE setup & Installations
->Router
->Switch
->IP Phones
->Tele Fax Machine Setup
->Web Camera
->Scanner/Printer/Photo Copier

Applications Internet:
->Browsing
->Uploading /Downloading
->SSS-ID/loan/benefits transactions
->GSIS -ID/loan/benefits transactions
->Web Cam with Chat
->E-mail
->VoIP
-->Intranet IP calls
-->External IP calls
->PSTN Calls
->TeleFax Machine
-> Video Conferencing

Detail(1): Garchitorena e-Center site


Detail(2): Tamban port and the journey to Garchitorena e-Center


Detail(3): Garchitorena Sea port-reaching Techno Barrio e-Center

Detail(4): The e-Center crafty laborer


Detail(5) "e-Phone" Garchitorena IP Telephony booth constructions


Detail(5.a) "e-Phone" IP Telephony booth complete setup


Detail(6): Garchitorena e-Center first and youngest volunteer IT worker


Detail(7):Satellite(Outer-space) link successful configurations-IP Star(Thai-Comm4)


Detail(8): The "Sampayan" beyond IP Star


Detail(9): An e-Center humble beginning and its indigenous smile

Detail(10) Electrical lay out,UPS,Modem,router,server,and network links

Detail(11): Satellite Link bandwidth testing-ftp server


Detail(12): Satellite link access speed test-speed meter


Detail(13): e-Center Network Diagram


Detail(14) A newly hired technical quality consultant


Detail(15) e-Center 's kiosk and its sharing futures


Detail(16) Video coverage Garchitorena Cam. Sur e-Center

Summary :

Requirements for Satellite integration and Installations certification was successfully passed by the EtherTech Team.PC's and equipments were safely transported from Manila to the remote area of Garchitorena. A complete establishment of an e-Center was finished with satellite internet(TCP/IP) access that were linked to the DTE/CPE terminals. Shared bandwidth both wireless and wired connections was ideal and MTBF did not affect its system full usage.The final demonstrations of an e-Center makes it possible through dry-running with 4 weeks of broadband internet traffic testing and the results was superb.EtherTech is working on additional room for the e-Center expansion which is exclusively use for monitoring ,traffic controls and farm servers.

Conclusions:
Yes, a complete System integration and design of a rural e-Center.


Acknowledgments:

To HIM who give us the determinations to the fruition of pursuing an e-Center.
To Oliver Family of Garchitorena, Mam Lina and Sir , and their grand kids who had shown great interest to the world of Info Tech .
To my Family of Progress Home Canaman and my two nephews: Crisdon and MacRon.
To the Town folks who handed us some extra woods which were free of charge just to add beaming in the structure of e-Center.
To the Open source Community for our innovations of making a simple PC robust and reliable and alternatives to hi-tech equipments thus reducing cost.
To WIT Company for the trust and confident that make us as one of their business partner.
To the Filipinos of this archipelago who believe that changes could happen within themselves.

EtherTech Team:(info at et-ict dot com)

Cenon Menard Oliver
-System Integrator Engineer
-Certified Satellite Installer & Integrator
-Rural e-Center Operation Manager(cmb dot oliver at et-ict dot com)

Michael Anthony Anonat,ECE
-Telecom Engineer(Consultant)

Richard Esperitu,CoE
-Network Engineer(Consultant)

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