NetworkCentricWarfare

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Network centric counter insurgency measures
We have a massive miss allocation of capital towards Telkom and inefficient security services. The money should rather be used for a TelephoneNetworkRollout networks to establish ourselves as a Telkom. This will boost our property value and stop the crime problem via CctvCameras and ZoneMinder networks and enable us to negotiate over the cost of bandwidth.

Security needs a combined effort approach. Each resident is in direct communication with every other house as far as the telephone network extends. When you press your panic button, every single house or base will know you are in distress instantly relayed over the Dslam network - in essence a mini http://www.eblockwatch.co.za network. Eblockwatch uses cellphones which weren't really designed to be used as a panic button. To send panic signals, panic buttons must be used, sending a signal on the 433mhz band to a receiver connected to the serial port of the PC - connected to the ADSL modem. The ADSL modem interfaces with the community DsLam

To win the war on the insurgency we need to engage in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Centric_Warfare - where each person is in 24hour contact with a communications network. Eblockwatch is an example of this - using SMS cell networks. The same concept can be extended to DsLam, Gprs and MeshNetworking] creating thousands of decentralised mini-Eblockwatch networks - using a different user interface. Each Adsl modem can see every single camera connected to the Dslam. Both the regional network coordinator and the residents thus have access to every camera in a region creating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_awareness

The RegionalLeader has the cell number of the SAPS member and will coordinate the SAPS response to an insurgent attack. A community TelephoneNetworkRollout enabels decentralised voice,video and data communications virtually for free. Coordinating the financing of cameras, vehicles, ThermalImagingCameras, CctvCameras can only efficiently be done if all the houses have a 24hour Intranet and Internet connection. Everybody must be able to reach any other house without going through a Telkom centralised network.

Security measures are reactive instead of preventative
Security measures in SA are largely reactive instead of preventative. There was a story recently in the paper about a person who had been robbed at his house with a security guard present. Because our gun laws are so draconian, guards are very reluctant to shoot first. Our security companies have also been deeply infiltrated by organised crime.

Presently to get anything organised one has to physically walk from house to house and get each person's number. Then you have to contact each person individually through the Vodacom/Telkom centralised network. Getting the funding in this manner for a patrol vehicle, ThermalImagingCameras is a daunting task. E-mail as a communications medium has been compromised through spam and thus people are reluctant to give their e-mail address. Some residences have a 24hour guard at a cost of R36000/year. Compare that amount to building a street Telkom of 1km for R55000 as explained at TelephoneNetworkCosts. If that person could change his thinking and rather spend that money on telephone poles, Watecs and TelephoneNetworkRollout - protecting everybody a change for the better will result. Because if everybody is protected then you protect yourself in the process. The difficulty is in persuading people to allow that extra pole - convincing them that they are not as useless as they think they are.

Community purchasing of Trenching equipment
Desperate times calls for desperate measures and innovative thinking.

The farmers and townies must import the TrenchingEquipment and rent it out in a community effort at cost price to each other. The equipment will be managed via a non-profit company. Everyperson that contributed to the cost of the equipment will have proportional voting rights to determine where the equipment will be used and at what price it will be rented out.

The idea is not to make super profits but to contribute as a South-African to the betterment of your country. Just like thousands of developers around the world gave freely of their time and money to develop the http://www.linux.com operating system so you should consider contributing to the only solution to our crime and Telkom problem: TelephoneNetworkRollout

MeshNetworking can't scale beyond a few users and thus is not a viable solution for high bandwidht CCTV. A limited hybrid network combining MeshNetworking and DsLam is possible but should only be used as a temporary measure to facilitate the rollout of the community telephone exchange. The mesh network can get it's ["DHCP"] leases from any ADSL modem connected to a DsLam. The focus should be to extend the [:DsLam:DsLam] network and not multiple 2.4ghz spectrum polluting antennas all over the place.

By advertising to the criminals that every house is connected via a DsLam and proving that the residents are streaming their perimeters and streets to a central base, the criminals would avoid such  a block of houses. Even the houses that don't have a single CctvCamera around their perimeter will benefit since the insurgents won't know which house is camera free. And if privacy is an issue then simply pull the plug on the cameras. Or activate them around the house perimeter at night. There are many of ways of enabling CctvCamera security and guarding your privacy.

You achieve very little by placing four cameras around the perimeter with the insurgents knowing that nobody is watching those cameras. Establishing a fixed wired copper connection between houses is the only way crime will be stopped. This concept must be marketed and patiently explained to people that are not technically inclined. It is so easy to solve the residential crime problem. All it takes is just a little bit of Lateral Thinking, CctvCameras, TelephoneNetworkRollout and a few DsLams.

South-Korea mandates ducting between houses
Each new building or house built in South-Korea must have a 110mm PVC pipe installed running the length of the property, connecting to the next. The same should be done in South-Africa but on a willing basis so that people can stream their data over your property as described under [:TelephoneNetworkRollout:TelephoneNetworkRollout]

Protect everybody and protect yourself
Our whole approach to the terrorist insurgency is wrong. We should all club together and allow a TelephoneNetworkRollout to cross our boundaries. Every house should be able to video stream to any other place on the network.

The trouble with "buurtwag" and buddy systems
We can't expect ordinary citizens to become parttime security guards. What we need is CctvCameras on the street not everybody in a constant state of situational awareness - South Africa is not Iraq. Building your own telephone exchange won't be an eternal expense where you don't know what your are getting for your money like with security companies. The public is exhausted and exasperated with the crime problem because they are constantly told about solutions that simply won't work. At 2am most of us have to sleep since we have a day job. Dedicated personal watching the streets via CctvCameras is the solution - not everybody scanning the street from their window like a bunch of bafoons. A TelephoneNetworkRollout will firstly save each house thousands in inflated Internet fees and thus subsidise CctvCameras. By building your own telephone exchange you automatically have the infrastructure to implement a "buurtwag" or buddy system without hasseling anybody in the process. The street ISP or network administrator will coordinate all such efforts without the need for endless meetings at a physical location or irritating people by pushing letters through their gates.

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Reasons why South Africa must build their own telephone exchanges

 * RISE IN PROPERTY VALUE: The property values of any community either a closed villages or open streets that have their own telephone exchange are considerably higher than properties where people refuse to communicate with one another.
 * 1000meg INTERNET: The IP protocol can be used to stream television content and Internet via SateLlite
 * GAMES: South-Korea has one of the largest gaming communities in the world due to their high available bandwidth.
 * CCTV TO STOP THE CRIME:It is something positive to do for your country. Instead of complaining about the crime and Telkom problem you should do something about it.