PROJECT SUMMARY

        This Project will integrate and field test a series of data
radios into a wireless Internetwork in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia. It
will build on knowledge being gained in the NSF 'Wireless Field Test
Project' for Education NCR 9527664 in the US under rural, but not
extreme, conditions or in a foreign technological culture.

        The ultimate purpose of the Project is to assist US
scientific and educational institutions to reach the scientific and
educational institutions of Mongolia. The wireless links are to
provide the 'last mile' of data connectivity at suitable bandwidth
rates, between the institutions and the country's only satellite
ground station.

         Old Colorado City Communications will procure sets of
advanced data radios configured to Mongolian government approved
frequencies, as well as necessary peripheral equipment. It will
retain a contractor to build special routers for linking workstation
or LAN equipment operating at the 8 institutional sites in
Ulaanbataar, to the PanAmSat, (satellite) Sprintlink downlink
Internet site at DATACOM, Ltd's premises in the city.

         A Project Team travelling to Ulaanbaatar for two weeks,
will configure the radios and routers, and, with the support of
Mongolian DATACOM, Ltd company technical staff, install them at 8
sites within the capital city, including the Mongolian Technical
University, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, National University of
Mongolia, the Mongolian Agricultural University, and the National
Library.

        The staff of DATACOM, Ltd headed by Dr. Dangaasuren Enkhbat
will be trained concurrently by the Project Team to install,
maintain, and expand such a wireless network.

        Data will be assembled by the Project Team, on the
performance of the wireless network, as well as the costs - time and
dollars - of installation, and training required by in-country
personnel. DATACOM will gather data on their performance over the
subsequent 6 months, and report independently to the PI. These
reports will be incorporated into the US Wireless Field Test
periodic and final print, and online, NSF reports, in addition to
the seperate Project report required by this grant.

        The significance of this Project will be to develop a
working model of how to permit US scientific and educational
institutions to reach counterpart institutions in a large number of
lesser developed nations with poor telecommunications
infrastructures.