Ethiopian Telecommunications

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Ethiopian Telecommunications
Corporation
(ETC)

• Application of Broadband Infrastructure
• For E- Health

Mandefro Tiruneh
Mar,2006
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Broadband ICT Infrastructure For E-Health In
Ethiopia
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E-Health/Telemedicine

• E-Health is the process of using information and
  communications technologies (ICTs) to deliver
  health information, services, and expertise over
  short and long distances.
• E-Health is a more inclusive term than telehealth
  and represents the use of both telecommunications
  and information technology.
• E-health is not a replacement of existing medical
  and health care services, but it is an additional
  tool to improve access to existing facilities and
  resources.
• E-health or Telemedicine strategic tool for
  facilitating the health care delivery.
• E-health is a trend that follows the broader
  development of the information economy.

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Health Telematics

• Health telematics is a composite term for
  health-related activities, services and systems,
  carried out over a distance by means of
  information and communication technologies, for
  the purposes of global health promotion, disease
  control and health care, as well as education,
  management and research for health.

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The potential benefits of E-Health

• Improves survival rate
• Improves care outcomes with lower cost of care
• Immediate response
• Expands geographic coverage
• Reduces operating costs (mainly transportation)
• Increase access to continuing medical education
  and training
• Reduce professional isolation among doctors and
  other health care staff located remote and rural
  areas
• Patient satisfaction worker/professional
  retention
• Provide an advanced medical services in
  emergencies
• Equity is an issues access to high quality
  care whether in urban or rural areas
• Part of e- government

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E-Health settings

• Rural
• Schools
• Clinics
• Hospitals
• Prisons
• Nursing homes/ Assisted living

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Infrastructure Requirement to address those
settings

• High quality patient data, video and images to be
  exchanged between different medical institutions
• ICT (Infrastructure) to connect geographically
  dispersed institutions, nation wide or world wide
• The infrastructure should support data, video and
  voice/audio (multimedia) services
• Quality, secured and fast delivery medical
  information
• High speed (BW) connectivity or Broadband
  Infrastructure required
• Part of ETCs Vision and Mission broadband
  initiatives for socio-economic development

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Vision

• ETC envisions an information-based Ethiopian
  society where all our people have access to
  information infrastructure on equitable basis.
  ETC shall be an internationally recognized agile,
  strong and vibrant world-class ICT infrastructure
  and services provider

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Mission

• Develop and maintain a modern information and
  communications network infrastructure capable of
  supporting voice, data and video services,
  equitably across the country and with high
  capacity digital connectivity to the rest of the
  world.
• Provide world-class telecommunication services
  including basic telephony, mobile and Internet
  and Multimedia Services.
• Provide training, education and conduct research
  in the field of ICT for effective utilization
  telecommunications infrastructure.

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Broadband NetworkInfrastructures Mission/Vision
Deliberation

• ETC started constructing end to end broadband
  infrastructure that can enable ETC to provide
  integrated services (Voice, Data and Video) to
  demanding customers, through multiple access
  means.
• This network will have a great role for the
  overall development of the country in general and
  nationwide ICT development program in particular.

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Continued

• ETCs understanding of broadband is that it is
  the ability to provide a multiplicity of
  services, whether data, voice/audio or video, at
  any speed
• Broadband networks and interactive multimedia
  applications are providing the foundation for the
  transformation of existing social and economic
  relationships into an information society.

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Broadband for socio- economic development

• Modern, on-line public services Realization
• e-government
• e-learning
• e-Health, etc
• Dynamic, e-business environment
• Widespread availability of broadband access at
  competitive prices
• Secure information infrastructure
• broadband delivers the needs of the information
  society and governments socio-economic objectives

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Critical Factors/Challenges for Broadband Access
Realization

• Reaching multiple Locations / Geographies
• Using Multiple Access Technologies
• Delivering Multiple Services
• Addressing Multiple User Markets

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Addressing Challenges ETCs Perspective

• Broadband Multimedia Network
• Broadband VSAT
• Broadband Internet
• National Fiber Backbone

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Broadband Multimedia Network

• The Core Broadband Infrastructure Terrestrial
• Capable of providing data, video, and voice
  services
• 24 Point of Presences covering business sites
• With Multiple Broadband Access
• ADSL
• FWA
• WIFI
• Fiber
• This network enables ETC to provide a reliable,
  flexible, scalable, secure, cost effective and
  fully managed IP /MPLS VPN solutions for
  customers like
• Governmental and Non-governmental organizations
• Private Business/Organizations
• Academic Institutions
• International Organizations
• Residential
• Medical Institutions , etc

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Broadband VSAT

• A Broadband VSAT Network is platform which
  supports integrated services such as video, Data
  /Internet, and voice on a single infrastructure.
• Has country wide coverage (450 schools and 550
  weredas) as part of schoolnet and weredanet
  deployments
• Integrated with the core multimedia network, also
  used as broadband access means

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ETCs Broadband IntegratedInfrastructure
e-Health Applications (1)
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e-Health Applications (2)
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Hub Site
Remote Site
Broadband connection
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e-Health Applications (3) Coverage
Yeka OldAir irkos
Nifasilk Dessie Jimma Awassa
Nazareth Dirediwa Debrazeit B/Dar
Mekele
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BMN Premium Services
ETC Making Broadband Services a Reality!!!
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Virtual Private Network Simply Defined as
Customer Connectivity Deployed on a Shared
Infrastructure with the Same Policies as a
Private Network

• Intranet Site-to-Site VPN
• Branch offices
• Access VPN
• Telecommuters and Traveling users
• Extranet VPN
• Business-to-business

SP Shared Network
VPN B
VPN A
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Thank You !