[105826] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Replacement for Avaya CNA/RouteScience
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Van Tol)
Thu Jul 3 12:29:40 2008
From: Eric Van Tol <eric@atlantech.net>
To: 'Paul Wall' <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:29:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <620fd17c0807030825x66363d8fn373ca52427dd75bb@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Wall [mailto:pauldotwall@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:25 AM
> To: Drew Weaver
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Replacement for Avaya CNA/RouteScience
>
> Going off this and previous posts, you'd well-served to follow the
> advice you sarcastically dispense, and hire an engineer.
>
> Opex and capex (spread over a ~2 year product lifetime) costs for the
> above solutions in a small (several gigabits, several transit
> providers) environment are right up there with the salary of a junior
> to mid-level networking professional in most markets. By hiring a
> live human, you get not only somebody who can tweak localpref, but
> also a critical thinker who can aid in troubleshooting outages and
> help you plan for growth.
>
> Paul
I'd like to hire that engineer, please. Can you send me his resume? Here'=
s the job description:
- Required to works 24x7x365.
- Must monitor all network egress points to examine latency, retransmissio=
ns, packet loss, link utilization, and link cost.
- Required to "tweak localpref" on an average of 5000 prefixes per day, ba=
sed upon a combination of the above criteria.
- Required to write up a daily, weekly, and monthly report to be sent to a=
ll managers on said schedule.
- Must not require health or dental care.
These devices are not a replacement for an actual engineer. They are a sup=
plement to the network to assist the engineer in doing what he should be do=
ing - engineering and planning as opposed to resolving some other network's=
packet loss/blackhole/peering dispute/latency problem.
-evt
