Re: Comments ......

[Lunghabo James <lunghabo@afsat.com>]

Vicent you said

>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 ?...

Well if we are aproaching the "donor" sot o speak, should we aim 
below the belt or above it ?

However to agree with you kinda, perhaps we could have 2 setups proposed 
so that in the event that we have funding, we go for the "more costly" 
but better setup and in the event that it is no there, we go for 
the "simple setup".

rgds

L

At Monday, 30 April 2001, Vincent Kaabunga <kavin@uol.co.ug> wrote:

>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
>




Lunghabo Wire James

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