Re: Comments ......from Nsubuga

[Sematimba Noah K <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug>]

> Lets take people's ideas more especially those who will be financing the
> system.
I think though that financing in this case really depends on which model
is chosen. The switch in the centre model is not a problem and I am sure
that we can also acquire a donation for that if needed. We also have been
told that if cisco will not come through with a router one can be acquired
for us though I think we really should leave this mentality of wanting
everything to be free and try to get some resources in within us. Let us
not sacrifice perfomance in the altar of cost because in the long run we
will still be the ones to pay if it collapses and has to be redone.

> I agree with last meeting's resolution of getting the cost of every system
> and we evaluate which one is better on the other in terms of Cost,
> perfomance and stardards.
>
> Edward Nsubuga
> Sanyutel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Kaabunga <kavin@uol.co.ug>
> To: Lunghabo James <lunghabo@afsat.com>
> Cc: techies@uixp.co.ug <techies@uixp.co.ug>
> Date: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Comments ......
>
>
> >
> >On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Lunghabo James wrote:
> >
> >> Anyway I am just jumping into the deep end of the discussion by asking:
> >>
> >> 1. Why should we start off with the Randy kind of set up ?
> >
> >I'd prefer to call it a simple rather than Randy kind of set up.
> >Anyhow, the major selling pt here is cost and simplicity.
> >
> >All the other scenarios we're looking at revolve around hardware at the
> >IXP that has to be aquired somehow (donated or procured), rent, A/C,
> >utilities, blah, blah ,blah for the IXP. And we still aren't sure how
> >we're going to address these.
> >
> >
> >> 2. If we are truly going to benefit from support offered by Cisco,
> >> dont you all think that we could as well go in for the proposal
> >> #2 (refer to last meeting) ?
> >
> >Having worked for a major donor myself, I know that there is a difference
> >between "we are willing to give..." and "we are giving..."
> >
> >Until we have it on paper, we do not have a commitment from Cisco.
> >They might, or they might not.
> >And if they don't ?...
> >
> >> 3. Since the routers to be bought by ISP's are the same in either
> >> scenario and from the best of my knowledge Cisco is willing to give
> >> us the Central router, dont you think that we are better off going
> >> ahead with such a setup now other than wait ?
> >
> >Actually, this "simple" setup uses your existing router.
> >
> >Later,
> > Vincent
> >
>
>

Sematimba Noah
ksemat@eahd.or.ug
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