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Services offered by PLANET :
- UNIX & NT Operating Systems setup and configuration
- Setup and configuration of Routers,Bridges, and Gateways.
- Setup Web Servers
- Provide and setup connection (VASAT, RM, LL)
- Electronic Mail
- World Wide Web
- Telnet
- Usenet and News services
- FTP
- Chatting
- Creating and maintaining of Homepages -
- Full text electronic Journals and Abstracts
- Training and IT related workshops
- Maintaining Special Interest Group
lists.
- Maintaining Academic Bulletin Board
- In the process to build a lecture hall for
palestinian students.
Connectivity
Currently Planet provides access to its services to about 600 users. Users
are of the following categories :
- Higher Education Institutes
- Academic & Non-Academic Research Centers
- University faculty members
- College students
- School teachers
Universities are connected through VSAT
links.
VSAT link provides unlimited email service accounts and about 10 to 15
simultaneous
Internet browsing accounts. Research Centers and other categories are
connected
through dial-up links.
University campuses that are within the Jerusalem area are connected
through leased lines. Now Planet offers leased lines connection through
paltel between and within cities.
Universities and colleges in the West Bank and Gaza are connected through
wireless communication links.
Three of the campuses of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem are connected
through leased lines.
Abu Deis campus and Medical Professions are connected through
VST. Al-Najah
University, Hebron Polytechnic, Islamic University in Gaza are connected
through
VSAT.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Alteri Womens college
(UNRWA)
are connected through microwave
links.
Research centers like ARIJ, Arab Studies, Mass, Almultaqa, and
others are connected through different communication means/links.
Equipment Up-grade
Planet is always trying to upgrade its equipments due to the large
demand of service provider.
Urgent Needs
Subscription to Electronic Journals: what makes Planet unique in its
services is that it always looks for
fund to buy databases and electronic Journals to the academic community. Our
most urgent project is to subscribe to electronic Journals like Current Content
and install it on the server for fast and efficient access for Palestinians.
Fund is urgently needed since Palestinian universities are in very much need
for such service as printed journals are not possible to get due to financial
problems. Bibliographical data on books, journals, andresearch reports
are always
in big demand.
Cooperation
We at PLANET are very much interested in opening a channel of communication
for cooperation with acadamic, Research Centers, similar acadamics in
world wide
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