Current status of Lao Education

& Research Network (LERNET)

Khamxay LEEVANGTOU

Computer engineering and IT(CE-IT)

Faculty of engineering (FE)

National University of Laos(NUOL)

Date: 2015. 05. 16 Place: Hanoi, Viet Nam

OF@TEIN Workshop @ Hanoi

Agenda

About Laos

About NUOL / LERNET

Current Situation for establishing connection from

LERNET to TEIN (via UniNET)

Next plan

Achievement

About Laos

Country Name Lao People's Democratic Republic

Area 236,800 Km2

Capital City Vientiane Capital

Population 7.028 Millions (female 50.1%)

Official language Lao language

Currency LAK / Kip (1 US$ = 8061 Kip)

Time Zone UTC +7

Calling code +856

ccTLD la

PSTN 3 Operators (LTC, ETL, STL)

Mobile 4 Operators (LTC, ETL, STL, VCL)

ISPs 6 ISPs (ETL,LTC,STL,VCL,SkyTel,Planet )

China

Operator and ISPs in Laos Name Describe

Lao Telecom Co (LTC) Established in 1996

Lao Government 51% and Thaicom (Thailand) 49%

ETL Public Company

(Enterprise Telecom Lao)

Re-established in 2000

State-owned company, Lao Government 100%

ETL will sell first 30% IPO on November 2011 (delay),

Government will continue to hold 70%.

Star Telecom Lao (STL) Established in 2008

Lao Asia Telecom 51% and Viettel Global (Vietnam) 49%

Started the new brand “Unitel” on October 2009.

VimpelCom Lao (Beeline)

(VCL)

Established in 2003, (re-established in 2011)

Lao Government 22% and VimpelCom 78%

VimpelCom (Russia) bought 78% shares from Millicom

International Cellular (MIC) on March 2011

Planet Online Established in 1997, Lao Private Company

Sky Telecom Established in 2005

Lao Government 30% and Sky Telecom Thailand 70%

Sky Telecom Thailand withdraw the investment in beginning of

2011, and now restructuring under Ministry of Defense (MOD)

Ref.: LANIC, Lao National Internet Center, lanic.la

Current Laos internet Connection

Ref.: LANIC, Lao National Internet Center, lanic.la

1. Dongdok – Main campus

2. Sokpaluang – Faculty of Engineering Campus

3. Tadthong– Faculty of Water Resources Eng.

4. Nabong – Faculty of Argriculture

5. Don Nok Koum – Faculty of Law and Political Science

National University of Laos (NUOL)

NUOL connection

NUOL, National University Of Laos provides the internet connection, network infrastructure and application services.

IP Block: 180.131.148.0 - 180.131.151.255 (/22) - APNIC

AS Number: AS45906 - APNIC

Current Connections: 4 ISPs

ETL- 2mbps

LTC- 2mbps

BeeLine- 2mbps

Unitel – 4 mbps

Plan to establish LERNET

Plan to connect the LERNET to TEIN with bandwidth 10 mbps

Information from LERNET report

Network Topology inside of University

2 mbps

2mbps

4mbps

2mbps

GTPAGTPA

GTPA

NUOL

NUOL

ICT Center,MoES

Sky Telecom/LANIC

LERNET

NUOLETL

UniTel

BeeLine

LTC

NUOL, Faculty/Institute/Center Network

National Research & Education Network in

Laos

Information from LERNET report

NUOL’s Network

Diagram

BW Management

IPS,LB

Application Servers

Backup & Network Management Zone

Apps(EMIS, HRMS, )

DNS

Mail

Web

Database

VoIP

AAA Backup

Wireless Controller

Proxy

IPS,LB

IPS, LBIPS, LB

eGov & Org.

External Links

Univ. (SU&CU)Research Institutes

eGov GPTA

LERNet LANIC

DNS Control for all access

VLAN 101:172.16.8.0/22

AdminA

VLAN 99:172.16.24.0/21

UCL

VLAN 98:172.16.16.0/22

AdminB

VLAN 97:172.16.12.0/22

Training107

VLAN 114:172.16.40.0/21

FOL

VLAN 115:172.16.48.0/21

FOS1

VLAN 116:172.16.56.0/21

KhongChier

VLAN 118:172.16.72.0/21

FOF

VLAN 120:172.16.80.0/21

FOSS

VLAN 121:172.16.88.0/21

FOEM

VLAN 117:172.16.64.0/21

FOE

VLAN 122:172.16.96.0/21

FOAr

VLAN 123:172.16.104.4/21

TarentSchool

VLAN 124:172.16.108.0/22

TDC

VLAN 151:172.16.128.0/21

BuildingT

VLAN50:172.16.120.0/21

FOLA

VLAN 125:172.16.112.0/21

FOA

VLAN 152:172.16.136.0/21

FOEn-TT

FOEv

VLAN 153:172.16.160.0/21

VLAN 154:172.16.168.0

FOS2

VLAN 155:172.16.192.0/18

FOEn

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21VLAN 156:172.16.2.0/24

Internal Service25

ISPs

LTCLANICETL

UnitelBeeLine

Information from LERNET report

LERNET PATH TO TEIN

KKUNongkhai campus

CAT Telecom,Nongkhai Office

BorderNongkhai – Vientiane

Friendship Bridge I

LANIC, Vientiane

Dongdok Campus

GTPA

GTPAGTPACAT

UniNET

LANICCAT

TEIN 3

UniNet NUOL

LERNET

Information from LERNET report

LERNET PATH TO TEIN

UniNET at Khon Kaen University (Nongkhai Campus) installs the

transmission link to CAT Telecom (Nongkhai Office)

From CAT Telecom (Nongkhai Office), UniNET leases the transmission

link from CAT Telecom to connect with LANIC.

LANIC and GTPA provides the transmission link for NUOL to connect

with UniNET .

LERNET will connect with TEIN3 via UniNET.

GTPA = Government Telecommunication Project Agency, Sky Telecom

Information from LERNET report

TEIN*CC plans to extend its international collaboration efforts with other countries as it moves forward

Next Plan

NUOL

FE

Lower Layer