[134309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RES: RES: Software For Telcos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cat Okita)
Tue Jan 4 11:04:20 2011
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 11:03:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
To: Takashi Tome <takashi@cpqd.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <E723F40B750C0D47B43CDC67EFC3806E1CE4CF@MAILSRV4.aquarius.cpqd.com.br>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Takashi Tome wrote:
> That was true some 30 years ago...
That's still true today. There's an insane amount of in-house stuff still
kicking around, for various reasons, some reasonable, some not so much.
> Actually, I think the problem is quite different. Big telco's network is
> a very complex thing - well, you all can say, Internet is too...
> But if we see some "similar" business like aircraft-defense and
> professional video market, we see some similarities: there are a lot
> of tricks and "non-documented standards" that make those software a kind
> of mistery for foreigners. Put in other words, software knowledge is
> not enough, you must have a deep understanding of that business and the
> history of the system itself...
I believe that would be the intersection of COTS and NIH ... "Yup, we're
using $SOFTWARE, but we have a few in-house customizations..."
cheers!
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