APAN-PH

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APAN-PH

• Denis F. Villorente
• Advanced Science and Technology Institute
• denis_at_asti.dost.gov.ph
• 16th APAN Meetings, Busan, Korea
• (25-29 August 2003)

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PREGINET

• Philippine Research, Education, and Government
  Information Network
• 19 access points nationwide
• Links 64 institutions in the Philippines (as of
  May 2003)
• Connected to AI3 (1.54Mbps shared
  6Mbps/512kbps)
• Connected to APAN Tokyo NOC (512kbps thru PHnet
  will be upgraded to 6Mbps within this year in
  cooperation with MAFFIN)

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PREGINET(as of August 2003)
MMSU
AI3
DMMMSU
Benguet State University
APAN
PSHS-CVC
BPHRE
PLDT-Mabuhay
PCC
PhilRice
DOST Agencies
PSHS-Main
EARIST
CLSU
University of the Philippines
ASTI
Manila
DOTC-Telof
Bicol University
Bureau of Agricultural Research
Leyte State University
IRRI
PSHS-Main
SLPC
UP Open University
PSHS-EVC
WVCST
PSHS-WVC
MPSC
CVPC
Cebu
CVISNet
MSU-IIT
Backbone E1 Spur Links E1 and 512kbps
University of San Carlos
Cagayan de Oro
Ateneo de Zamboanga
University of Southern Mindanao
Davao
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Updates

• Initiation of the Open Academy for Philippine
  Agriculture DA, DOST, UPOU, other state
  universities and colleges, IRRI, ICRISAT
• Technology and information services for
  agriculture extension workers and farmers
• Will use FITS Centers (currently more than 100
  nationwide)
• Will use existing network infrastructure
  PREGINET and DA-NIN, also commercial ISPs
• Hybrid rice later corn, sugarcane, coconut,
  vegetables and rootcrops

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Updates

• Upgrade of MAFFIN link to 6Mbps by November this
  year

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Other Activities

• Digital Library Project with the National
  Library of the Philippines, University of the
  Philippines Libraries, Science Libraries Network,
  DA Library
• Mirror services over PREGINET Biomirror,
  SAlliance (bioinformatics courseware), Libweb

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PREGINET is supported under the Grants-in-Aid
Program of the Department of Science and
Technology

• http//preginet.asti.dost.gov.ph
• http//www.preginet.net
• Email mgmt_at_preginet.net