AFRIKANET, AIRTI and Save The Children partnered from 2012 to 2014 to provide Internet to pupils in need for a better education in Côte d’Ivoire.

About Save The Children:

Save the Children supports education programs that are proven to promote learning in school and in the community. It works to influence global and national policy to improve children’s access to quality education, from pre-school care through to adulthood. Additionally, Save the Children delivers education programs to reach children who are out of school.

EAC – Educate A Child – and Save the Children have partnered to provide quality basic education to out of school children affected by conflict in Côte d’Ivoire and Thailand/Myanmar, and those who are the most marginalized in Ethiopia.  In Côte d’Ivoire, the EAC and Save the Children partnership will provide 28,800 out of school children in areas with very limited access to education with educational opportunities.

AFRIKANET solution:

AFRIKANET provided an Internet connection VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) to build this project with ARTI in Côte d’Ivoire. From 2012 to 2014 we implemented VSAT equipments on 3 different sites spread across the country:

• Guiglo in the South West of the country – AFRIKANET and ARTI installed a VSAT equipment + a C-band bandwidth broadcast on Intelsat A8903
• Odienné in the North West – AFRIKANET and ARTI installed a VSAT equipment + a Ku-band bandwidth broadcast on Telesat T11N
• Bondoukou in the North East of the country – AFRIKANET and ARTI installed a VSAT equipment + a Ku-band bandwidth broadcast on Telesat T11N

See below a scheme of our installation:

Our VSAT equipment is composed of different dish sizes from 1.2m to 1.8m, an iDirect X3 modem, 3 or 5 watt BUC, LNB, and other cables and connectors. Additional products might be added if needed such as Wlan products: WiFi and Wimax devices.

Our commitment to improve the education system in Cote d’Ivoire enabled children to get a better education, be more open-minded, more attentive to the world and fulfil their dreams. Save The Children had also been able to communicate within all its worldwide offices by exchanging data, file transferring, browsing and videoconferencing. AFRIKANET is proud to help African countries to develop themselves with a better education.

For more info about VSAT bandwidth and equipment do not hesitate to contact us.

Our partners in Ivory Coast:

AIRTI – COTE D’IVOIRE-

01 BP 13042 Abidjan 01

Abidjan – COTE D’IVOIRE

Tel: +225  77 73 92 71

AFRIKANET and ARTI are now connected airports across Côte d’Ivoire with the company Sodexam from 2015 to 2018.

About the project:

SODEXAM is a state-owned company with a capital of 1.000.000.000 FCFA which missions are controlling and managing 15 airports in Ivory Coast. The company is responsible for:

– The implementation of the legislation on the Civil Aviation and Meteorology, particularly in the areas of following activities: Air navigation / Aerodromes / Airport safety and facilitation / Aviation and airport Medicine,

– Meteorology and areas relating thereto;

– The provision of aeronautical, airport and weather to meet the needs of the community while ensuring efficiency, safety, and regularity

– Monitoring and control of airport concessions

– Airport development, aviation and meteorology

SODEXAM recently open a new airport in Korgoho which is the 5^th biggest airport of the country. To be truly attractive and have a competitive advantage to grow bigger and stronger Korhogo airport needed a fast and reliable Internet connection.

 “The opening of the Korhogo airport by our minister of transports on 15th of November has been a success. The general impression has been very good”, said Mr Mamadou Diabaté, Chief of the Main Information System Department at SODEXAM.

AFRIKANET solution:

AFRIKANET is supplying Internet to 14 different airports in 14 different cities separated and 2 different services!

– San Pedro, Tabou, Daloa, Yamoussouko, Sassamdra, Gagnao, Dimboko, Bondoukou and Adiake are fully equipped with a VSAT equipment and a Ku-band broadcast on satellite T-11N

– Abidjan, Bouake, Khorogo, Odienne and Man are fully operational under a VSAT equipment + C-band operated under AMOS 5 satellite.

Our VSAT equipment is composed of different dish sizes from 1.2m to 1.8m, an iDirect X3 modem, 3 or 5 watt BUC, LNB, and other cables and connectors. Additional products might be added if needed such as Wlan products: WiFi and Wimax devices.

AFRIKANET also provides VSAT training to SODEXAM technicians to help them to be 100% independent: install new equipment and maintain equipment.

Our VSAT training grants you access to a GVF certification with different degrees of graduations depending on your needs.

Our commitment to spread Internet across Côte d’Ivoire made possible this project to see light. Nowadays Sodexam can organized better its activity, offer a qualitative service to its travelers AFRIKANET and its partners were deeply committed together on the telecommunication part of this great project.

“The collaboration with Afrikanet in order to provide us Internet per satellite with a high speed is outstanding and the next airports to link will be developed on the same basis”, added Mr Diabaté

For more info about VSAT product and VSAT training do not hesitate to contact us.

ARTI – COTE D’IVOIRE-

01 BP 13042 Abidjan 01

Abidjan – COTE D’IVOIRE

Tel: +225  77 73 92 71