Re: Comments ......

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

> 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".
It seems to me like the simple setup is actually the better one in this
case from arguments put forward.
>
> 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
> >
>
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