On 10 November 2010 09:53, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello @Jared, thanks for your comments and your points well put forward. :-)

I hope you are not confusing things like config maker etc. I think we should list the current Cisco Router/Switch simulators available and at what cost?

There are quite a number of Simulators, paid versions, free versions(GNS3, Dynamips etc) and Cracked versions, it all depends on you.

Do the training centres let the students ( whether part time or full time ) download, install and train on such?

Depends on what you want and whether you can afford.

Do any training facilties in Kenya offer the simulators as an indirect training facility? Is the lack of such simulators creating students who only memorize the theory training because lack of such?

Do the trainings teach things that are local eg how to configure a KDN, AK, JTL fiber WAN circuits or Wimax Vlans?

CCNA is based on cisco equipments and specific to a certain scope. The specifics of KDN, AK networks depend on those companies and if were to be taught would widen the scope beyond what you can imagine. On the same note, confuguring a cisco router, all factors held constant would be the same whether it is KDN, AK or JTL.

These are some of the questions I've pondered over time. My approach is to create the simulator and later incorporate as much as local infrastructure configurations into it.

How different is it from other infrastructure?

I'd like to ask you this too. At another project, I also intend to create a Telecom simulator eg on BTS that can help Telco students. This will mean working with vendors in our market. Should I stop and create another social kenyan website with the hope of ad revenue or will the Telecom Web Simulator have more of economic value to others?

I'd like to start of with building the foundation of the simulator that covers the Cisco CCNA subjects. With time and with people like you who will push the envelope of local justifications ( which is great and always a check ) , we will be able to create something that can work and help more towards localization

I think you should just say you want to build a simulator for CCNA, and then allow us to trace your nationality. We will then say, this simulator was built by a kenyan. CCNA is not even kenyan!

Me thots.

Rgds.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Jared Koyier <jaredkoyier@gmail.com> wrote:

Another Aki post,lengthy n pregnant with ideas. Like every other pregnancy,it's either a boy or girl,nothing new. CCNA simulators are all over the place n sufficient enough to give you a pass. Why you'd want to re-invent the wheel with a made in kenya tag perplex me. Tech is global..it doesnt matter where it's made as so long as it does what it shud. What is unique to KE CCNA students that warrants a KE simulator?

Jared

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