---------- Design Notes ---------- Keywords: "local" ....... means in Taos "remote" ...... means via phone line connection to another community "telnet" ...... "telnet" is both an application and a protocol suite The Chips: Item# A Identify General User Requirements: --------------------------- A1 low-end: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ A2 high-end: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ B Identify Specific User requirements: ------------------------------------ note - By saying "NO!," requiremnets will be excluded from the design criteria. B1___ Do user applications operate under X-Windows? B2___ Do user applications operate under MS Windows? B3___ Do user applications operate in "line" mode? B4___ Do user applications require ACSII-to-EBCIDIC conversion? ie Integrating TCP/IP into SNA data stream, locally 00 Expected Customer Base: ----------------------- low-end high-end 1___ At startup ............ Number ________ ________ 2___ At end of 6 mths ...... Number ________ ________ 3___ At end of 1 year ...... Number ________ ________ 4___ At end of 2 years ..... Number ________ ________ 5___ At end of 4 years ..... Number ________ ________ 6___ At end of ___ years ... Number ________ ________ 10 Scope of La Plaza Service: ----------------- 11___ Local BBS only 12___ Local BBS w/Internet 13___ Internet only 14___ Service to Remote communities ...... Number ______________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ 15___ Service to Local (sub) Centers ..... Number ______________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ who ___________________ who ______________________ 20 Operating System ------------------------- 21___ IBM-PC DOS or Windows Based 22___ Windows NT Based 23___ Unix Based ...... suggestions: __________________________ 24___ LAN (network) ... suggestions: ___________________________ ____________________________________________ 25___ WAN (network) ... suggestions: ___________________________ ____________________________________________ 30 Scale of Operating System Platform ---------------------------------- 31___ PC based (probably 486's) ....... Number ________________ 32___ PC based with LAN ............... Number ________________ 33___ Sun System workstations ......... Number ________________ 34___ Sun System mini-computer, only 35___ Sun System mini w/worksataions .. Number ________________ 36___ Mini-computer, vendor ___________________________________ 37___ Mini-computer w/workstations ____________________________ 40 Modem Support --------------- 41___ 1200 baud dialin ................ Number ________________ 42___ 2400 baud dialin ................ Number ________________ 43___ 9600 baud dialin ................ Number ________________ 44___ 14.2 kbaud dialin ............... Number ________________ 45___ 28 kbaud dialin ................. Number ________________ 50 Internet Service Provider to La Plaza ----------------- 51___ Local La Plaza (ie La Plaza IS the provider) 52___ Local UNM connection (ie La Plaza Is the provider) 53___ Local UNM 54___ Sprint 55___ MCI 56___ Mountain Bell 57___ Remote Santa Fe Institute 58___ Remote NM Technet 59___ Remote Colorado Supernet 5A___ Other __________________ 60 If needed - Phone Service Providers into Remote Internet -------------------------------------------- 61 Direct at UNM-Taos CC Offices (ie no phone need) 62 Local Mountain Bell across Town 63 Remote Mountain Bell to Santa Fe 64 Remote Mountain Bell to Alb 65 Remote to Colorado 70 if needed - Type of phone line to Service Provider ---------------- 71___ Local dialup .................. Number _______ 72___ Local 56 kbit line (dialup).... Number _______ 73___ Local 56 kbit line (dedicated). Number _______ 74___ Local T1 line 75___ Remote dialup ................. Number _______ 76___ Remote 56 kbit line (dialup)... Number _______ 77___ Remote 56 kbit line (dedicated) Number _______ 80 Type of User phone line into La Plaza ------------------------------------- 81___ Local dialup .................. Number _______ 82___ Local 56 kbit line (dialup).... Number _______ 83___ Local 56 kbit line (dedicated). Number _______ 84___ Local T1 Line ................. Number _______ 85___ Remote dialin ................. Number _______ 86___ Remote 56 kbit line (dialup) .. Number _______ 87___ Remote 56 kbit line (dedicated) Number _______ 90 Connection Types ---------------- 91___ Voice-Line dialin ............. Number ______ 92___ SLIP Connection (dialin)....... Number ______ 93___ SLIP Connection (dedicated).... Number ______ 94___ PPP Connection (dialin) ....... Number ______ 95___ PPP Connection (dedicated)..... Number ______ 100 Design strategy ---------------- 101___ Build-it-ourselves 102___ Build-it-with vendor support 102___ TurnKey (ie step aside) 104___ Start small and evolve 105___ Start at the high end of the service 106___ Learn-it-ourselves 107___ Higher a staff 108___ Contract to external Provider 110 System Software needed at LaPlaza ----------------------- 111___ SLIP + ______________________________________ 112___ PPP + ______________________________________ 113___ TCP/IP + ____________________________________ 114___ Packet Generator + __________________________ 115___ Integrate SNA and LAN networks using: bridge base or router-based software 120 Types of application services that will be provided ------------------------ 121___ Telnet directly to other remote sites 122___ Telnet directly to SNA-based hosts 122___ FTP (ie upload/download files) 123___ Usenet 124___ NewsNet .