RE: [saml-dev] [Fwd: RE: URGENT: PARTICIPANTS MUST READ]

["Philpott, Robert" <rphilpott@rsasecurity.com>]

Hi Don - The assumption of 1 monitor/1 CPU per vendor doesn't match with the
vendor input in the spreadsheet and other messages.

We'll be fine with a single monitor, but we'll definitely need room and
power for multiple systems (laptops in our case).  I guess we could place
the laptops under the table and connect them to the keyboard/monitor/mouse
on the table as long as we bring along a KVM switch.  Our KVM switch may
also require power (depends on the model I can dig up).

We really can't make everything run on a single system.  Our laptops aren't
powerful enough. 

RSA is also bringing along an extra laptop for running the DNS server for
the group.  I assume we can place this with the network switch, so it
doesn't need to be with our vendor equipment.

It appears that every vendor needs to bring network cables up to 100 feet in
length in order to reach from one end of the room to the network switch at
the back of the room. Obviously this depends on their position along the
vendor wall.  It would perhaps be more workable if the switch could be
placed in the middle of the vendor wall, which would limit the cables to 40+
feet max.  Is this feasible?

We could reduce the number of long cables needed further if we had a few
8-port hubs to place along the vendor wall with uplink cables to the switch.

Thoughts?

Rob Philpott
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Bowen [mailto:don.bowen@sun.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:07 PM
> To: saml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [saml-dev] [Fwd: RE: URGENT: PARTICIPANTS MUST READ]
> 
> Per Jim's request.
> 
> Don;
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: URGENT: PARTICIPANTS MUST READ
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:44:18 -0600
> From: James Kobielus <jkobielus@burtongroup.com>
> To: "'Don Bowen'" <don.bowen@sun.com>
> CC: Kathy Herrmann <KHerrmann@burtongroup.com>
> 
> Don:
> 
> Thanks for posting the previous messages to the SAML-DEV
> group.
> 
> Can you please post this current message and attachment to
> the group as well
> (after you've had a chance to review it)? I've thought
> through your likely
> facilities requirements for the demo/suite, and I've made
> some working
> assumptions in all the areas I outlined. My hunch is that
> the only things
> Kathy Herrmann will need to discuss/request with the hotel
> and others are:
> 
> --Ordering 10 six-foot-long stand-up tables for the
> computers and literature
> --Ordering 13 monitor-mounted display signs, one for each
> participating
> vendor (per whatever design is agreed upon by the
> participating vendors)
> --Ordering the food/drink cart/tables and
> bartender/buspeople
> 
> My current working assumptions (contained in the attached
> document) are that
> my proposed room layout/design are OK; there will be no more
> than one
> CPU/monitor station per participating vendor; that vendors
> will provide
> their own Ethernet/LAN switch and horizontal cabling; that
> existing in-room
> lighting fixtures and power outlets will be sufficient; and
> that no Internet
> connections or desk telephones will be required in the room.
> I'm also
> assuming that the press conference will take place in the
> demo/suite room.
> 
> Please have the team confirm/correct/adjust these
> assumptions ASAP. Kathy
> can't negotiate/provision these things without your
> confirmation. The longer
> you wait, the less likely it is that Kathy will be able to
> provision them
> for the demo/suite in time.
> 
> I'm trying to make your and Kathy's jobs easier by positing
> some plausible
> assumptions in all these areas. Time's a-wasting.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim