Instant Message Excerpt: On Being a Network Engineer, 9

| June 20, 2009

Customers… can’t live with them, can’t have a job without them. Juan(17:55:45): I was hoping to have a weekend with at least one day un-ruined Russ(17:56:29): I see the ticket you just got Russ(17:56:51): this isn’t gonna be your weekend [Nor, for the record, mine.]

Instant Message Excerpt: On Being a Network Engineer, 8

| May 28, 2009

I am part of a management team, 50+ people, which oversees 30,000+ routers and switches. These are not little routers like that Linksys or D-link you might have on your desk at home. The smallest router I deal with has ten times the capability of those… and the most powerful ones are nearly the size […]