Thank you Mr. Kingsly, I really appreciate your views and suggestions.
Wish you a happy NEW YEAR! I'm taking a break for a couple of days, and I will definitely consider all of your suggestions when I come back. regards geetha | On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Geetha Thennarassu wrote: | |I have suggested the same with the top management | |a couple of weeks before and I was astonished | |to see them taking decisions in a spur of a moment. | | | |Infact the reason for our adoption of cable as an | |option is a decision taken by the management and | |I am supposed to give a report on the pros & cons | |of such a set up. | | Management decisions are taken based solely on marketing/press coverage. | ;-) So database==Oracle , productivity==Office XP , broadband==Cable/DSL | !! | | Most people don't realise that the people with the most bandwidth.. all | those US Universities are on Ethernet ! (of course their pipe is as fat | as their local network.) | | |We'll probably be applying for a E1 line from VSNL | |and I hope [as per your suggestion] we'll be okay with a | |linux router for the time being. | | In '99 I implemented a fully linux based ISP-type setup and from what we | found we could support upto 200 users without any problems.(we were still | on 10Mbps Ether back then) | | |Will you please give me a clue with regards to | |how should go about giving a total linux solution | |to the project + the type & cost of the cable + | |cable modem.? | | Since you are covering such a vast area it would be difficult to estimate | the actual cost of cabling/maintenance etc. But if you are going in for a | cable modem solution... each modem costs around 10-15k and you can't | provide internet access directly through your existing cable network.. | there needs to be changes made to your repeaters(amps).. and maybe even | the quality of cable used. | | Even at the low cost of 10k ... you are still looking at a minimum of | 5lakhs .. just for termination equipment.. and you'll still need ethernet | cards on each machine for the cable modem to plug into... so on the | termination points alone you are going to have a difference of over Rs. | 5lakhs.. so by going in for a direct Ethernet solution .. you are only | going to eliminate. | | |If we take E1 [2mbps] line from vsnl and which | |in turn distributed to 50 users to begin with, what | |will be the bandwidth at each of the end point? | | If everyone is trying to download huge files over extended periods of | time .. then the speeds will come down to almost that of dialup... but | for normal browsing loads it'll be *really* good... almost 2mbps. | | |Will there be packet loss? | | Definitely not the kind of packet loss that the guy who suggested the | cisco solution was talking about... because of the distance you may face | degradation in the network quality.. which can be rectified using | repeaters ...but you'll find this degradation irrespective of cisco/linux | ... it's solely because of the distance. | | | We also look into the possibility of providing the same service to | |their employees as well for a monthly rent. | | at a cost of over 10,000 rupees I don't think many people will find the | offer worthwhile. | | You'll need to restrict access to stuff the Gnutella/KaZaA and other p2p | stuff if you don't ... you'll find that your network is *always* crawling | thanks to 1 or 2 people using the service... and keep track of people | using their MAC addresses+DHCP... and account the bandwidth they are | consuming. | | Have you looked at wireless as an option ? it might work out cheaper than | cable in the long run.. you won't have to worry about the | gardener/plumber accidentally chopping your cable! :) | | Kingsly | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
