Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads

Thu Jul 11 19:53:50 UTC 2002

Sean,

My vote goes for...

 How to build an Internet Service Company
  From A to Z...
  All you need to know to plan, build and market an Internet service company.
  Tips and tricks from the inside.

 Charles H. Burke
 July '96
 ISBN: 0-935563-02-4

And I quote...

> Coffee Maker - Coffee is an necessary as HTML to the aspiring ISP.
> ...
> I highly recommend the Bunn-Omatic corporation for excellent high
> performance coffee makers.
> ...

It's a classic!

As for driving in the UK and US... I have explained the value of roundabouts to many, many Americans and they still don't get it.  Being British, but living in the US... I just don't get why they are not used here.

You will have to put up with the face that Bell-heads and Net-heads just doing things differently and not understanding why the other side prefers an opposite method!

Martin

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At 03:09 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:

>Has anyone written the equivalent of the old Bell Systems Notes on the
>Network for the Internet?  A couple of books come close, Hueston's ISP
>Survival Guide and Cisco's ISP Essentials.  But there doesn't seem to
>be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing
>or signaling means on the Internet.  There are a lot of words which are
>spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell world and the
>Internet world.
>
>I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA.  We drive
>on different sides of the road.  Its safe until you get someone who
>doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the
>Atlantic.  So how do you explain the rules of the Internet road to someone
>used to driving on the telephone system?