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Re: Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)


From: "Watson, Bob" <Bob.Watson () wwt com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 06:03:13 +0000

Carrier oem churn (turnover /agitation cycles)
First mover for features happen and leapfrog but the ones that matter get adopted across the line in time.  


On May 7, 2015, at 8:40 PM, Josh Reynolds <josh () spitwspots com> wrote:

What churn rates are you talking about?

Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.com

On 05/07/2015 05:36 PM, Watson, Bob wrote:
Many of these churn rates result from problems  self inflicted hence all the dramatic sdn promises, popularity in 
abstractions, Api all the things, let's go yang/netconf and retrofit every ietf standard.  There's benefits  but 
gotta rant a little. What's better than correct? Well over correct of course.




On May 7, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Josh Reynolds <josh () spitwspots com> wrote:

You know where these people wouldn't fit? W/ISPs.

Every three years or so you are forklifting the majority of your wireless PtMP for either a new series or a totally 
different vendor. New backhaul vendors often. You're building AC and DC power plants. You likely touch Cisco, 
juniper, HP, mikrotik, ubiquiti, Linux, windows, *BSD/pfsense, lucent, accedian/ciena, etc due to various client 
and network requirements all in the same week, AND you have to make them work together nicely :)

It's not the environment for somebody like that, and I truly don't understand how people of that.. "caliber" end up 
working on large scale WANs and global transit networks.

Frankly, it scares me a bit.

On May 7, 2015 9:07:35 AM AKDT, Craig <cvuljanic () gmail com> wrote:
we do "cry" when we interview people that claim to have "advanced
knowledge" of BGP and we ask them some very basic BGP questions, and we
get
a blank stare.....

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs () seastrom com> wrote:

Josh Reynolds <josh () spitwspots com> writes:

It really bothers me to see that people in this industry are so
worried about a change of syntax or terminology. If there's one
thing about the big vendors that bothers me, it's that these
batteries of vendor specific tests have allowed many "techs" to get
lazy. They simply can't seem to operate well, if at all, in a
non-Cisco (primarily) environment.
If that bothers you, I recommend you not look at what passes for a
"system administrator" these days.  It will make you cry.

-r
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