[47260] in North American Network Operators' Group
Lab/testing time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Kruckenberg)
Wed May 1 19:30:49 2002
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 17:29:33 -0600 (MDT)
From: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
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I'm putting together a justication for additional lab
equipment and personnel, and would be interested what an
average network engineering group spends in terms of budget
and personnel on a lab and people to run it, as a percentage
of overall budget.
This would be primarily for main-stream issues (software
testing, configuration testing), as opposed to
new-vendor/bleeding-edge lab work.
I'm also interested if there are significant variations
between these costs with various vendors. Are the
lab/testing costs significantly different if I were
primarily using vendor X vs. vendor Y, and how would costs
for a pure X vendor network compare to a X+Y multivendor
network?
Thanks.
Pete.
