Recent and Ongoing Projects

Here is a sampling of recent projects illustrating the range of CGNET’s services:

Save the Children
CGNET recently helped STC upgrade to Exchange 2003 and Active Directory in its Washington D.C. and Westport offices, and we are now beginning to reconfigure their worldwide Exchange network to improve performance and reliability, including dynamic failover services to replica servers.

Women’s Funding Network
CGNET has been helping WFN with a wide variety of IT tasks, ranging from desktop and network support to providing a new search engine for WFN’s Knowledge Center portal and assisting them in selecting new accounting and fundraising software. WFN is also planning to host its email at CGNET.

Nairobi Satellite Link
Ricardo Uribe traveled to Kenya in December to assist a major foundation in implementing a dedicated international satellite link from Nairobi to the Internet in Germany. This allowed the foundation to get greater bandwidth at lower cost than otherwise available.

ASARECA
CGNET is now supplying hosting for the Website of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, based in Entebbe, Uganda.

Family Health Internatonal
We are now providing Gatekeeper anti-spam and anti-virus protection to FHI’s Research Triangle Park, NC, headquarters and Washington D.C. offices, in addition to the 25 international sites already covered.

CGIAR
CGIAR centers now have access to Microsoft Live Communications Server, including native features, access to public Instant Messaging services, voice and video, and support across NAT firewalls.

Winrock International
Winrock International now has secure access to its corporate network from home and branch offices via Cisco PIX firewalls configured and supplied by CGNET.

Beijing Office Implementation
CGNET field consultants are providing desktop, mobile, LAN and WAN implementation and support for a large foundation as it establishes offices in Beijing.

International Potato Center (CIP)
CGNET has delivered a Regional Broadband Global Area Network (RBGAN) mobile satellite terminal and tested Internet configurations, to allow the unit to serve as an emergency Internet connection in case of a terrestrial network failure.

African Development Bank
The Bank has begun a project which will provide high-availability business continuity for the Microsoft Exchange servers at its temporary relocation headquarters in Tunis. It is expected that the system will be expanded to include disaster recovery replication to a co-location facility on another continent.