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<DIV>But you are very wrong here. It is very fortunate indeed.</DIV>
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<DIV>And the question is not resiliency but usability -- a great resilient system that nobody uses answers all your other questions. Your issues regarding friendship and in and out of Africa, dotBombs and maintainability are a direct reflection of your failure to consider what makes people use your stuff. Take a look at marketing and sales -- that is what pays for this gear not benevolent governments. (you don't even seem to consider - Twitter, Itunes, facebook, myspace, ebay types, craiglist types and what makes a 10 million dollar domain, skype, yahoo messenger, pirate bay, efaxes and remittance transfers) <BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 6/28/09, <SPAN>McTim</SPAN> <I><dogwallah@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Yes, but unfortuantely, engineers only run the networks, they don't<BR>run the companies that own the networks ;-/<BR><BR>Especially of one keeps in<BR>> mind what happened -and how many billions were spent without any further<BR>> use- during the dot.com bubble. Just an example, there were at that time 23<BR>> "pan-european networks" existing in parallel and actually some of them are<BR>> simply forgotten ... If we are to help Africa in its way for development we<BR>> should be very careful and "technology and econoy driven" in our<BR>> proposals especially as OPERATION & MAINTENANCE is the other major problem<BR>> in any network, and more particularly in Africa than in the RoW. A good<BR>> design for a network is this one that is resilient, survivable, upgradable,<BR>> maintenable ... and affordable for the operators over the lifetime.<BR>><BR>> < In Africa, most of our
traffic leaves the continent, as there isn't<BR>>> the local content and applications available to keep traffic within<BR>>> the continent.<BR>><BR>> As a friend of Africa I cannot accept this statement.<BR><BR>Well it's the current reality, whether you accept it or not.<BR><BR>I hope that Africans<BR>> will progressively (and at a good pace) develop THEIR own content and<BR>> applications and put them as soon as possible on the "pipes" for the sake of<BR>> their populations, economy and culture ! Shouldn't the CS from everywhere<BR>> support strongly this hope ?<BR><BR>of course, but until then....<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>McTim<BR>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<BR>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A
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