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By Tren Griffin
Next-generation service providers such as NEXTLINK, QWEST and Level 3
are basing their future business cases on the economic merits of
providing value-added solutions over an end-to-end facilities-based
broadband network optimized for IP. Some providers will be trying to do
this without access to their own next generation national fiber backbone
or their own local broadband access links, which is a way of fishing the
past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and
recycling it for more that it's worth. Having said that,
Enjoy the power and beauty of routers. Oh, never mind. You will not
fully understand the power and beauty of routers until circuit switches
are junk. But trust me that very soon you'll look back at photos of
circuit switches and understand in a way you can't grasp now how
fabulous routers really are.
Don't worry about whether MMDS service can scale. The real troubles in
your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind--
the kind that blind side you at 7AM on some Monday morning-- like the
Melissa virus.
Do one thing every day that scares you, like getting into an esoteric
discussion about W3C Tim Berners-Lee.
Read IETF RFCs.
Don't be reckless with IPV6. Don't put up with people who are reckless
with your firewall.
Debug.
Don't waste your time on trying to pay off your capital expenditures
with voice revenues.
Remember compliments you receive at IETF meetings. Forget the insults
you get at the ATM Forum.
Keep your old RSVP texts. Throw away your old manuals on ISDN-B.
Delete old e-mails.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know Pi to 340 digits. The most
interesting people I know didn't at 22. Some of the most interesting
40-year-olds I know still can't do that.
Read the NANOG Web page. Be kind to people who are unable to port from
the circuit world. You'll not miss them when they're gone since they
will be working at the fast food restaurants you frequent and they may
give your extra fries for your kindness.
Maybe you'll learn what IP switching really means, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have understand differentiated services, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll sell your Internet stocks when they are at a high. Maybe
you'll hold them until just before you dance the funky chicken on your
75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself
too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So
are everybody else's.
Enjoy your laptop. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of
what other people think of it since it is so big and clunky. It's the
instrument most likely to crash that you'll ever own.
Learn the OSI Reference Model and be able to explain at a cocktail party
what happens at each level even if few people actually use it.
Read the directions before you install Ciena's wave division
multiplexing equipment, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read stories in Business magazines about how much money you could
have made if you had bought Cisco stock six years ago. They will only
make you severely depressed.
Get to know your the technical support people at your vendors. You never
know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your PC support staff.
They're your best link to the data on your hard drive and ironically the
people most likely to lose that data in the future. Understand that PC
support staff come and go from your office and that there are a precious
few you should hold on to and not let leave your office until that bug
list is shortened.
Install and run Apache on a server once, but leave it for NT before it
makes you hard. Use a Macintosh once, but leave before it makes you
soft.
Don't work at companies that do not extensively use e-mail.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices of T1s will fall sharply (and
you will need to sell value-added solutions to make up the difference),
telephone company executives will philander, you, too, will be
considered an old geezer by the younger crowd with multiple visible body
piercings. And when you get older, you'll fantasize that there were
great margins in selling T1s when you were young, telephone company
executives were noble, and young staff members with multiple visible
body piercings respected their elders.
Maybe you will have son or daughter who can program. Maybe you'll have a
spouse who is very technical and has big stock options at an Internet
start-up. But you never know when all of them might run out on you.
Don't mess too much with your directories and routing tables.
But trust me on the need to offer value-added solutions over an
end-to-end facilities-based broadband network optimized for IP
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