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Virtual Silk Highway
A computer networking project for the Caucasus and Central Asia
On 19 AUGUST 2002 the following message was received at NATO from the technical manager, Dr. Hans Frese:
Since Saturday, the teams in Hamburg, Tashkent, and Ankara have been busy closing the link to Tashkent.
The cross-strapping of the West and East beams of the satellite has been enabled and the Hamburg signal . . . has been received in Tashkent. The signal is strong enough coming down in the East beam that we can even receive the East beam in Hamburg with 7 dB. For some unclear reason . . . the return path does not work yet. We have dispatched another amplifier to Tashkent which should arrive there on Wednesday at 5:05 in the morning. In the meantime, work is concentrating on Budapest, the equipment has been set up by Jacek's team and currently is being brought up with remote guidance from Hamburg by telephone.
Hans Frese
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron
Hamburg, Germany
On 20 AUGUST 2002 the workshop co-director in Budapest received the following message, just 15 minutes before the official opening of the workshop:
THE LINK IS UP - this email is sent by satellite!
Richard Perlman
[Member of the Budapest start-up team]
Later on 20 AUGUST 2002, Dr. Jacek Gajewski, Workshop Co-Director, sent the following message:
It is my pleasure to inform you that today, August 20th 2002 at 11 a.m. CET both way radio connectivity via EurasiaSat satellite between NOC in DESY Hamburg and our workshop site in CEU C&RC (Central European University Conference Centre) in Budapest has been established. We are waiting now for NOC to establish full IP connectivity.
I would like to thank here Mr Richard Perlman (ISOC and Lucent) and Mr Miha Dimec (ARNES, Slovenia) as well as the whole crew in Hamburg - V. Lavrov, H. Frese and Mark for their enthusiastic effort (eg. due to national holiday here in Hungary and the half-flooded Budapest we had no real tools and were using ladies nail clippers instead) to accomplish this task in 23 hours after getting an unexpected 'green light' from Hans Frese.
I would like also to thank the NATO Science Committee, the NATO Panel, Silk Task Force, Silk Board and Dr. Walter Kaffenberger in particular, for giving us a chance to have this workshop, to have Silk set-up here and to have the opportunity to be a part of this exciting project.
With the kindest regards,
Jacek Gajewski
CEENet Secretary General
ANW Co-Director
21 AUGUST 2002 - The following message was received from Tashkent at 16.48:
The satellite channel with Hamburg is established!!
With best regards,
Vadim [Navotny]
[Silk Project Co-Director in Uzbekistan]
Thus did we learn at NATO of the successful first step in our project to assist the academic community of the Caucasus and Central Asia to integrate with their colleagues world-wide.
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