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  3G Broadband Solution for Small and Medium Enterprises  
  Authors : Haruna U. Adoga
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Broadband internet access has been a challenge in most developing African countries for some years now, it costs a lot to get a steady internet access in most developing countries. This paper presents a solution that can be used to provide reliable and affordable internet access using equipment that are inexpensive and robust at the same time. This basically works with a 3G wireless gateway router that is available with telecommunications service providers across Africa. For this paper, Airtel telecommunications company was used i.e. the Huawei B683 Airtel 3G wireless gateway router, this device basically supports a simultaneous connection of about 32 to 70 nodes shared over a Local Area Network(LAN) using an Ethernet switch and wireless access points, with proper collision control mechanism, the Ethernet switch that was used to accomplish this work is the 24-port D-Link DES1024DEthernet switch which uses the inbuilt Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) mechanism to prevent devices on the Local Area Network from experiencing collision during the transmission of data. With proper authentication, Wireless users within the coverage area of the network can also gain access via the TP-Link access points which in turn gets their internet connection from the ISP gateway device. The flexibility provided by this work in terms of data size and cost of deployment is fascinating. Organizations deploying this solution can choose what data size they wish to purchase from the service provider and also they can decide when to subscribe as against the V-Sat option in which clients pay huge amount of money for internet access in which they end up not utilizing to full capacity, the issues of money being wasted on unused data will be drastically reduced.

 

Published In : IJCSN Journal Volume 3, Issue 3

Date of Publication : 01 June 2014

Pages : 33 - 40

Figures : 07

Tables : 02

Publication Link : 3G Broadband Solution for Small and Medium Enterprises

 

 

 

Haruna Umar Adoga : was awarded the degree of Bachelor ofEngineering (Electrical and Electronic) with Second Class Honors (Upper Division) in University of Maiduguri, Nigeria on 18th December 2009. He attended the Cisco Networking Academy from 2009 to 2010 and got certified as a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), a graduate member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). Haruna has worked as a contract instructor at InfoSoft Technologies where he taught the Cisco Certified Network Associate course, participated as a team member in the design and deployment of various data networks, the solution presented in one of his papers i.e. “3G broadband solution for Small and Medium Enterprises” has been successfully deployed at the Office of the Secretary to the Nasarawa State Government in Nigeria. He joined the department of Computer Science, Federal University Lafia in Nigeria on 14th May 2012 as a research and teaching assistant. Haruna has taught tutorial and practical courses in introduction to Computer Science, Computer Programming using both the Java and C++ programming languages, Net-Centric computing (Networks) and Computer Logic. Harunas is a strong believer in self-study and research as he has been working with several web technology platforms and technologies like virtualization, computer/network simulation and network emulation software. At the time of this writing, He is holding an unconditional offer to study MSC Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Networks, distributed computing and cloud computing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Broadband

WLAN

Local Area Networks

SMEs

In this paper, the design and configuration of a Local Area Network (LAN) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) solution that can be used as a substitute for V-Sat solution for internet access used by Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) was presented. Based on the results presented in this work, small businesses and offices that have 32 to 70 nodes (Users) can have steady and reliable internet access using this solution that has proven to be cost effective and flexible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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