About
For those who have been in the industry a while, the occasional clash between the philosophies and views of those who come from “telecom” (know as bellheads) and those who come from “IT networking” (know as netheads) is nothing new. The first true public exposure was the October 1996 issue of Wired Magazine where the headline teaser claimed that “at stake [was] nothing less than the organization of cyberspace.” Needless to say, for some it is a religious war.
Such wars are nothing new to me. At age 11 I was dialed in to compuserve (at a raging 300 baud no less), espousing the better qualities of my apple II+ over the VIC 20 and its brethren the TI 49A. Later, with an amateure radio operators license and an internship under Krish Prabu at Rockwell International (now at Tellabs) under my belt, I became hooked on digital communications and thus my career in telecom started.
Presently I am buried in the bowels of a major equipment provider servicing the major accounts. Past roles have included network operations, network design, product architecture, field trials (some of these make beta web2.0 products look spiffy), telecom standards and product management. I hope to take these experiences and provide some pragmatic analysis of the topics affecting today’s network- going beyond the dogma of the religious wars.
As for blogging topics, most anything is fair game, but I hope to concentrate on the following:
- Business models and the economic consequences of modern networks
- COTS and Open Source Software effects on telecom
- Bellhead values - the attributes most forget about, but that are so essential
- IMS, standards and the hope for getting them someplace better than where we are today
