Wireless Ghana

Wireless Ghana in Action

CUWiN has been working with Wireless Ghana to connect public institutions and provide Internet access at community centers. Wireless Ghana has been particularly helpful in developing CUWiNware and testing wireless community networking outside the United States. The Wireless Ghana website is a great resource for those interested in learning about the particular challenges faced by community networking in developing countries.

November 2006 Wireless Ghana is pleased to announce that we have successfully implemented VoIP onto our flagship network in the Akwapim district of Ghana's Eastern Region. VoIP is available at three locations, and allows communications between two community centers in Akropong and one in Apirede, spanning a 6km distance. An application called SJPhone is running the frontend and doing IP to IP dials across our CuWIN-based WiFi mesh network. VoIP marks the first service Wireless Ghana has implemented to work solely on its LAN. The service is available at all times that electricity is available, even when our satellite Internet uplink is not.

For more information about community networking in West Africa, contact Wireless Ghana.

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