Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
Kris Foster
Kris.Foster at telus.com
Thu Jul 11 20:00:17 UTC 2002
You're thinking of:
Carrier-scale IP networks: designing and operating Internet networks
Edited by Peter Willis, ISBN 0 85296 982 1, The Institute of Electrical
Engineers, London
Kris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin J. Levy [mailto:mahtin at mahtin.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:54 PM
> To: Sean Donelan; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
>
>
>
> 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
>
> ----------------
> 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?
>
>
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