Well that's as I suspected, thanks it gives me something to show to our admin guy.....
Concerning the responsibility: there will no doubt be a clause in the contract to evade that.

Re. the virus protection of Xtra, I must asy that it has stopped quite a few, but our own scanner still picks up the odd one that they miss.

Regards

At 11:06 26/09/02 +1200, you wrote:

Key point to note:

Telecom salesman
        ^^^^^^^^

Its there job to Sell freezers to eskimos and firewalls to cellphone users.
95% of the time they dont know what they are talking about ( In a previous life (Well Job) I worked with sales people (both Internal and Telecom) for a few too many years.... up to 30% of my job was fixing there blunders)

With your own fire-wall you have 100% control over the configuration, with telecom you have next to none.

If they are offering it for 'Free' it may be worth considering as another security layer..... oh I think they offer virus filtering as well... not 100% sure on this.


Quoting Gerard van Antwerpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi,
> We're looking at getting Jetstream, just set up IPCop for our current
> dial-up.
> Telecom salesman told our admin manager that we need their firewall,
> that a
> local one is not 'enough'.
> Any comments?
>
> Gerard van Antwerpen
> BE mech., MIPENZ, Reg.223986
> Design Engineer, QA Manager
> Cuddon Ltd.
> Blenheim, NZ




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Gerard van Antwerpen
BE mech., MIPENZ, Reg.223986
Design Engineer, QA Manager
Cuddon Ltd.
Blenheim, NZ

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