N4C Summer
-2011 Trial N4C Summer
-2011 Trial
DTN Summer 2011 TrialBetween early June and the middle of July 2011 the participants in the networking -for communications challenged communities (N4C) +
Between the 8th and the 15th of July 2011 the participants in the Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions
+(SAIL 
) project following on the work of the networking
+for communications challenged communities (N4C 
)
project will be providing email and limited
-web services in some locations in Padjelanta.
+web services in a location in Padjelanta.
Given that there are no normal Internet connections in the area, we will be
using Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) in order to provide
-these services. That means that an email sent from Staloluokta will travel on
+these services. That means that an email sent from Skuolla will travel on
the next suitable helicopter to Ritsem from where it will be forwarded to the
Internet. Based on our experience from 2009 and 2010, we expect on average such an email
-will take about 15 hours to get from Staloluokta to its destination. Similarly,
+will take about 15 hours to get from Skuolla to its destination. Similarly,
a response email from the Internet is likely to take another 15 hours to get
-back to Staloluokta. The limited web services we will be providing include
+back to Skuolla. The limited web services we will be providing include
content regularly pushed from the Internet as well as the ability to request
specific web pages. As with the email service, delays will be measured in hours
or days, depending on the location, helicopter movements and the availability
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Please DON'T TAMPER WITH THESE DEVICES - as you can imagine it can take a lot of effort to go visit one to fix it!
-We have installed equipment on two Fiskflyg helicopters that can -transfer messages between these village DTN routers and gateway devices +
Fiskflyg have agreed to +carry equipment on their helicopters that can +transfer messages between the village DTN router at Skuolla and gateway device installed at Ritsem. That is how emails and web content move between the remote sites and the Internet.
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Current plans call for village DTN routers to be installed as listed below. Note that dates may vary somewhat and that even locations are subject to -change, as the trial proceeds.
+The village DTN router is to be installed as listed below:
For most services, messages from the Internet are delivered to all -locations. So if you send a mail from Ritsem and someone answers that mail, +
Messages from the Internet are delivered to this location. +So if you send a mail from Ritsem and someone answers that mail, then you should be able to see the response when you access the mail service -later on in, for example, Staloluokta (if enough time has passed of +later on in, for example, Skuolla (if enough time has passed of course.)
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