[kictanet] Resiliency of our Internet Infrastructure during the COVID -19 Season

[Noah]

The intermittent ip networks and grid-power aside.

Am curious to know why in this day and time and day, we are still focusing
on vendor specific trainings.

During earlier 2000's we focused so much on the Cisco's, then somehow the
Junipers and today we are seeing the Huawei syntax.

Shouldn't we be focusing in todays Africa on teaching standard protocols
even at a fundamental level and cocktail of vendors sythax rather than
continually pushing some specific vendors technology which indirectly
markets their kit as defacto to those we keep imbibing the skills too.

Just my thoughts....

Noah


On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 11:28 Kelvin Kariuki via kictanet, <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> This is very true Barrack,
> I have been teaching a live online class on a Huawei Certification in the
> past week
> using Zoom and some of my students, who are on different parts of the
> country,
> have really had issues keeping up because of poor internet connections and
> regular disconnections. Thank God Zoom has a feature to record the classes
> but for sure this is something that we need to look into.
>
> PS: All my students are using Safaricom as Huawei Kenya offered them with
> credit cards to buy internet bundles in order to be able to learn online.
> The training
> I'm doing is Huawei Certified ICT Associate (Routing & Switching)
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:14 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Barrack
>>
>> You got that right. Both Safaricom and Zuku have been intermittent over
>> the past few days. Let's not even start with Kenya Power...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>>
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>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:07 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Listers,
>>>
>>> It seems the quality of our Infrastructure is taking a hit as more
>>> people are working from home. Talking to friends from different corners of
>>> the countries across different Networks, there seems to be a challenge. I
>>> hope the Communications Authority is paying attention. The Internet and
>>> Infrastructure service providers should not just focus on free Internet and
>>> double speeds, quality of the connection is critical.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> --
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