From: David L Stewart (D.Stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 17:00:31 GMT-3
March 30, 2000
Jose,
Thank you for the visit. I enjoyed talking with you about our UPL and
Cisco initiatives. Just to reiterate the goals that were originally
set for the UPL program:
a) Create environments where Cisco's partners, customers, and
even Cisco employees can prepare for their CCIE lab exam.
b) Build strong relationships with the University's professors to
generate Networking curriculum for Networking Academies,
Universities and other institutions.
c) Groom next generation of networking professionals.
This is what I took away from the meeting:
1) The University needs to have a marketing plan to increase
utilization of the UPL.
My opinion is that any advertising should be directed to
networking people. Kris Thompson has agreed to help with this.
2) The University needs to generate monthly and/or quarterly
reports. Vanessa is already creating a report for the UPL use
through March to be sent to Jose. I am going to suggest that
this be an item in the future UPL contract.
3) The University and Cisco need to work out the mechanism for
splitting the income from the UPL.
Suggestions were made on how to do this. One suggestion was for
Cisco and UT split the salaries for interns. This assumes an
intern program will be established.
4) The University and Cisco need to execute the new UPL contract
that is being developed by Cisco. The old contract, originally
written by Wichita State, does not need to be signed.
5) The University and Cisco are interested in providing additional
exposure of networking concepts to our students. Several ways
were discussed; inclusion of Cisco certification topics in
academic courses, bootcamps, internships, and other cooperative
programs between Cisco and The University. This should lead to
better proctor candidates for the UPL and future employees for
Cisco and the industry, higher 1st job offers and many other
benefits.
6) Cisco is going to pursue developing new lab exercises for the
UPL. These new labs should be at the advanced level expected of
CCIE candidates and include hints and solutions. It is desired
that the lab scenarios will be refreshed periodically and that
all UPLs will get the same ones.
I personally would like to see progressive lab exercises that
begin at a basic level and sequence to a high degree of
complexity. We need to decide if we only want to cater to the
CCIE candidate or provide introductory learning also. To build
a networking professional, we may need to use the UPL in
addition to internships, college courses, bootcamps, etc.
Outside people who rent our lab may need these entry level
exercises also.
7) There is a need to keep the equipment in the UPL up to what is in
the CCIE lab test. Currently, ATM and voice need to be added.
Near future additions to the CCIE lab test may include VPN and
policy routing. We also discussed adding analog modems, DSL, and
cable modems to the lab. Cisco has agreed to assist keeping the
lab current and possibly adding abilities that may not be in the
Routing and Switching lab test. Establishing a Dial ISP lab
rack was also discussed.
8) On-line labs were discussed. We already do on-line setups by
request from former UT Austin UPL users. This could be expanded
to include a fixed number of hours in a separate V-lab to all
UPL renters. This would be a nice value added feature.
I did not take notes but I think these were all the high points.
Please add any comments or corrections and send them to us.
Again, it was a pleasure having you and I look forward to future
meeting with you and other UPL managers.
Dave
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David L. Stewart (512) 475-9425
The University of Texas System FAX (512) 471-2449
Office of Telecommunication Services D.Stewart@UTexas.edu
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