Re: [Legba2013] bad news on placement

[David A. B. <dbu...@jc...>]

Tim -


On Jul 11, 2013, at 12:50 PM, tim panton <th...@we...> wrote:

> So we should:
> 	Aim for fewer sites
>        Prestage better
>        Not spend time using the the playa net wifi if we can help it.

Mark and I were thinking 2 2-sector sites on 40' masts, one on each side of town.  And we can use a couple of those army masts for fill in if we have time.

> 
> On which note, do we have plans on what the software config will look like?
> Have we a core network switch chosen and configured?

Mark and Diggz and I discussed the network this week and were thinking to use Yate for the main switch and Tropo for all of the applications.  (Yate would be configured to route application extensions to Tropo.)


> What's our decision on how we plan to provision users (inc ATT users?)

I don't know what to do with ATT users.  I think we'll provision everyone else by IVR or text, with text being preferred.  But we may just continue to block ATT users just to avoid any hint of trouble from Commnet.

> 
> There was talk of a test VPN springing up soonish.

Yes.  Mark is staging the network in SF this coming week.  The rule is that nothing goes to Burning Man that doesn't run and JFIX/RELIEF in the first week of August.  And nothing runs at JFIX/RELIEF that doesn't get staged in SF this month.

> 
> I'd be happy if we served fewer users and did it better, and even more in the spirit
> of the place.

I agree.

> 
> T.