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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>Hi John et
al,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>One minor
clarification.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>I think you mean L3
(IP) VPN (virtual private network) not VLAN (virtual LAN). Let me know if that
is not right as you can send an IP packet from one VLAN to another but not from
one VPN to another (except in special cases).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>BTW sounds like
people have spent a lot of time at customers lately. If you have time a brief
write up of what is important (or not) at each customer would be very
helpful.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>e.g. Peru -
Inter-school collaboration not important, managing school servers is a challenge
(need GUI?), off the shelf HW is not good fo XS and need customer box, XO
updates are a problem, what build of XO and XS they are on
etc.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>You can post that to
the wiki (e.g. <A
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Uruguay">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Uruguay</A> and
<A
href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru</A>) or
just send it to the list and I'll copy it over.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>If you can also
bring back a technical contact we can use that to come up with a list of
questions which you can run by the customers. Then we
can put customer names next to each item on the roadmap and in general
verify the priorities of the roadmap with the customers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>I don't mean to pile
on the work. Just want to make sure we use your unique position of having direct
contact with implementers to focus the development.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=843505514-30042008>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>Greg
S</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><PRE><SPAN class=843505514-30042008>******</SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN class=843505514-30042008></SPAN>I learned more about the network built by the MED in Peru for their
schools. Each school is in its own VLAN, and cannot route to the
other schools, only to the Internet and to MED servers.
They have good economic reasons for encouraging this, but
it means that inter-school collaboration will have to happen
through data pushed to an MED server (and won't be real-time
activity collaboration).
wad</PRE></DIV></BODY></HTML>