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N-1-3-011.10.1, "A Caribbean Basin Survey", by Daniel Pimienta*,
(pimienta!daniel@redid.org.do)
The Caribbean Basin has not been left apart of the ongoing network
growth within the region. If the user population, except for Puerto
Rico and Costa Rica, is still low, infrastructures are in place which
expect further developments in the coming months.
Costa Rica has been a BITNET key location for several years. It hosts
the central UUCP node of a pilot project named HURACAN, which offers
accesses to various researchers belonging to different Central
American countries via their interconnected national X.25 networks.
This project is a result of a cooperative effort started by Canadian
Agencies and completed by the UNDP. The BITNET contact is: Guy de
Teramond (gdeter@ucrvm2.bitnet). The HURACAN technical contact is:
Ted Hope (hope@huracan.cr) and the HURACAN management contact is:
Edgardo Richards (richards@huracan.cr).
As a result of years of investments and technical follow-up, Puerto
Rico is presenting a state-of-the-art network linking all the campuses
together with the Internet by high speed lines. It allows students to
operate Telnet functions in a fraction of seconds in several terminal
areas spread over the country. CRACIN (Corporation for the National
Academic Scientific and Research Network) can now concentrate on user
support and make available some time to help its neighbor.
Puerto Rico is heading a sub-regional project, named CUNET (Caribbean
Universities Network), which has put seeds virtually in all English
speaking islands of the Caribbean. CUNET has a star organized design
where UUCP nodes route, by switched connection, into the Puerto Rico
network which gates the traffic toward the Internet. The user number
is reported to have a steady growth in various countries (for instance
Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica). The project is sponsored by OAS
which pays for the expert travelling and the dial-up connections to
Puerto Rico. The CRACIN and CUNET contact is: Roberto Loran
(R_Loran@racin.clu.net).
Cuba is experimenting a spectacular growth of the network. The island
has a traditional strong science and technology sector and is in a
good position to present user applications and scientific data bases.
INFO93, a congress planned for May 1993 in La Habana, will focus on
networking. The Cuba contact is: Jesus Martinez (jemar@ceniai.cu).
Surprisingly, the French West Indies have stayed aside from the area
move. There is a RIO (Orstom network) node, but a 1988 plan to make
the University (UAG) join EARN-France has not yet been implemented.
However, moves are underway to make them an active player in network
related training.
The Dominican Republic's REDID was born last May (see hereafter
article, "REDID: Red Dominicana de Intercambio para el Desarrollo").
Also, one of the 25 Dominican universities (PUCMM) is maintaining a PC
station connected to the CUNET project and has been planning a BITNET
node for some time.
Haiti was targeted to be part of the REDID creation process. The
political turmoil in this country has jeopardized the process. Other
alternatives, such as training a group of researchers outside the
country, are currently under study.
University of Nicaragua is maintaining a UUCP node. The contact is:
Teresa Ortega, teresa@uni.ni
RAW ESTIMATION OF USER FIGURES:
SERVED POTENTIAL
Costa Rica: 900 2500
Cuba: 800 9500
Cunet: 100 2000
Huracan: 400 4500
Dominican Republic: 50 1000
Nicaragua: 100 1000
Puerto Rico: 2400 3000
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TOTAL 4750 23500
*Asesor Cientifico Union Latina, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana