From: José Osmin Martell (jmartell@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 18:19:52 GMT-3
At 02:00 PM 03/30/2000 -0600, David L Stewart wrote:
>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.
>
Don't forget to include marketing for the students and staff.
> 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.
>
Will add it.
> 3) The University and Cisco need to work out the mechanism for
> splitting the income from the UPL.
>
That should be done along with the report on a quarterly basis.
It should 25% of the net.
We talked about paying co-ops with this fund, but Cisco's intention is
for the University to pay lab assistants with their share.
I can still do training classes for those students though.
> 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.
>
We can still pursue an internship program, were we can hire them during
their
summer time off and then feed them to you for the lab assitant position
s.
> 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.
>
I'm getting a beta version of contract by end of this week.
> 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.
>
Can we start looking for an internship candidate now ?
I'll like for Cisco to hire at least 50 students every year.
How can we achieve this?
> 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.
>
I hear you. For now I can assure you that we'll do our best to keep th
e
current exercises re-freshed and new ones coming up. But as far as havi
ng
different levels, I don't know just yet. The focus is on the higher en
d.
I'm hiring a engineer to work on this exercises.
> 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.
>
Please refresh me on this one.
> 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.
>
This may make the difference for some candidates deciding which UPL to
go to. Eventually can become on on-line only. Or we may assign a rack f
or
just this purpose.
>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
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>David L. Stewart (512) 475-9425
>The University of Texas System FAX (512) 471-2449
>Office of Telecommunication Services D.Stewart@UTexas.edu
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
Dave and all, the pleasure was mine. I enjoyed visiting your campus and
having the
opportunity to work with you all.
++jose
Jose O. Martell
UPL Program Manager
cisco Systems Others Talk about it...cisco Does it!
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