RE: Minutes of Thursday Meeting

["Mark Tinka" <mtinka@sanyutel.com>]

The use of patch panels to connect member's network elements to the switch,
and their access equipment is of paramount significance. This has to be done
in anticipation of member's positional space, switch space, with clear and
precise marking and labelling, as projected in the layout schematic. Please
advise when NCR will start this portion of the project so I can work with
them. Thanks.

Regards,

Mark Tinka
Network Engineer
Sanyutel Uganda
7th Floor, Worker's House
1 Pilkington Street, Kampala
Tel:   +256-41-345463
Fax:   +256-41-345468
E-mail: mtinka@sanyutel.com
Web     www.sanyutel.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-techies@uixp.co.ug [mailto:owner-techies@uixp.co.ug]On
Behalf Of Charles Musisi
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:40 PM
To: Sematimba Noah Kevin
Cc: taskforce@uixp.co.ug; techies@uixp.co.ug
Subject: Re: Minutes of Thursday Meeting


At 10:09 AM 2/20/2002 +0300, Sematimba Noah Kevin wrote:
>For What comm equipment? I thought they are supposed to be taking care of
>making a LAN in the room for the IXP? I have been away for some time and
>will be again until Saturday but I will go and take a look when I am back
>to see what they are talking about.

the LAN in rm404 is the easier bit...infact a straight forward case. the
tougher
side is planning for hanging cables out of the ceiling. my attraction to NCR
is that they'll do a neat job straight into the patch panel mounted on
the side pillar, and into the cabinet(RACK).

take a look. go to the rooftop(above 12th Floor). we only have one key to
rm404.
its here with us at the CFI/UoL office -- so, you might want to call
for the key if you intend to get into the room.

>I only see this as a problem if we're considering how those who are using
>wireless to connect to the IXP will get in.

that's correct.

>Are we also solving their problems as well. As far as I knew each ISP is
>responsible
>for taking care of how they get into the room to avoid all of this though
>of course
>it is good to help as much as possible without over stretching the budget.

yes, this would be the case in the strictness of things as stated in the
TG, however
the IXP IMHO should give a hand and meet members networks halfway -- esp.
the line of site/wireless type i.e have that switch up near the rooftop.

also, the neatness of the cable layout and ease of isolation/labeling is
helped if we
have a single fibre strand from the rooftop.

lets revisit this later on so that everyone is sure we're taking the
correct decision.
meanwhile, we'll get the internal LAN, RACK, patch panels etc.. setup.

-- thanks


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