Recently, I needed to buy travel insurance in order to apply for a residence visa for one of the European countries. I literally collected quotation from ALL insurance companies who offered travel insurance! Honestly it was time consuming to collect it and i hope with this article, you wont have to do the same as i did.
I was looking for a travel insurance with a duration of 6 months, cover the costs totaling at least EUR 30 000, cover the costs of both emergency and other medical care, as well as hospitalization, dental care and possible repatriation for medical reasons and covers all European countries. From these criteria, here are the quoted price from various insurance companies :-
Companies
Price
Remarks
Tune Protect
RM571.50
seems like it doesn’t cover repatriation
PIAM
no facilities to provide online quotation and i lazy to call them
AIG
RM3020.00
Allianz
RM1820.00
Berjaya Sompo
RM254.50
total cover is rm150k for 3 months max
AXA
RM493.75
Etiqa
RM433.00
duration is 2 months
Great Eastern
RM370.00
duration is 2 months
RHB
RM751.75
CHUBB
somehow the online quotation doesn’t work
Zurich
RM570.00
Tokio Marine
RM580.75
MSIG
somehow the online quotation doesn’t work
Kurnia
RM759.00
I ended up shortlisting Zurich and Tokio Marine since their prices look affordable. Finally i chose Zurich because I can change the start/end date for the policy. I hope this article helps.
Here is the installation guide for deploying complete LTE network (UE, eNodeB, EPC) in a single computer. ZeroMQ is used for the communication bettween the network elements. The whole LTE network can be simulated without using physical UE, sim card and SDR card.
Computer specification CPU – Intel Core i5-8400 Memory – 16GB RAM OS – Ubuntu 20.04
//install luajit git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git make sudo make install PREFIX=/usr edit /home/budakgigibesi/SoapySDR/build/CMakeCache.txt, change the /usr/bin/luajit to /usr/bin/luajit-2.1.0-beta3
//install soapySDR git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR.git cd SoapySDR mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j4 sudo make install sudo ldconfig #needed on debian systems SoapySDRUtil –info
//install srsGUI git clone https://github.com/srsLTE/srsGUI.git cd srsgui mkdir build cd build cmake ../ make sudo make install make test
Step 5 – install zeroMQ //install zeroMQ core engine git clone https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq.git cd libzmq ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install sudo ldconfig
//install High-level C binding for zeroMQ git clone https://github.com/zeromq/czmq.git cd czmq ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install sudo ldconfig
Step 5 – install srsRAN //dependencies for srsRAN sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libfftw3-dev libmbedtls-dev libboost-program-options-dev libconfig++-dev libsctp-dev sudo apt install libdw-dev sudo apt install libdwarf-dev sudo apt install binutils-dev #for libbfd sudo apt install python3-jinja2 #need to install this if not nas integrity check will fail
//install srsRAN git clone https://github.com/srsRAN/srsRAN.git cd srsRAN mkdir build cd build cmake ../ make make test sudo make install
//generate configuration files srsran_install_configs.sh user
Step 6 – Run the network //creating a new network namespace called “ue1” for the (first) UE: sudo ip netns add ue1 sudo ip netns list
//run the epc sudo srsepc –pcap.enable=true
//run the enb sudo srsenb –rf.device_name=zmq –rf.device_args=”fail_on_disconnect=true,tx_port=tcp://*:2000,rx_port=tcp://localhost:2001,id=enb,base_srate=23.04e6″
