[kictanet] Safaricom abhors open systems

[Josiah Mugambi]

Interesting, though I suppose that Safaricom has lots of vendor equipment
apart from Cisco...
--
Josiah Mugambi



On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Okech <okechjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Robert,
> This a splendid advise both to parents, teachers, industrialist and
> students.
> However, I tend to believe that the idea is not new. The question is why
> are people glued to vendor specific courses,
> Cisco has conquered the world through a superb marketing strategy. To oust
> them thus requires a radical strategy that I leave for the listers to
> deliberate on
>
> On Fri Jun 3rd, 2011 6:07 AM PDT robert yawe wrote:
>
> >Hi Listers,
> >
> >I have always said that it is wrong to train IT students on proprietary
> system
> >as is happening with Cisco training that is being offered as a career
> path.
> > Switching and routing principles are based on an open standard so
> students need
> >to have an appreciation of the technology and not a brand.
> >
> >I have been having an interesting exchange with Safaricom on setting up a
> >connection to their SMSC where their engineers insist that the solution
> can only
> >be implemented using a Cisco router.
> >
> >From this experience it is clear that most of the engineers at Safaricom
> have
> >been trained on vendor specific and proprietary standards which has denied
> them
> >the flexibility to work with none Cisco equipment.
> >
> >Safaricom has been a proponent of open systems by being open to various
> >handsets, so it is shocking that as they move towards becoming a data
> service
> >provider they are opting to close their systems.
> >
> >This attitude by Safaricom reminds me of Orange and their Livebox fiasco
> that
> >totally killed their broadband service yet all they had to do was allow
> any DSL
> >compliant equipment to be used on their network and used the funds tied in
> >equipment on advertising and any other activity.
> >
> >I hope this is just a hiccup in their transition and that we shall see a
> more
> >open minded organisation as they move towards being a serious contender in
> the
> >corporate data provision service.
> >
> >For those of you with children or relatives basing their carriers
> >on proprietary technologies please advice them to acquire generic
> education as
> >well otherwise they might find opportunities passing them by, its the
> principles
> >that matter.
> > Robert Yawe
> >KAY System Technologies Ltd
> >Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> >P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> >Kenya
> >
> >
> >Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
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