[49871] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Thu Jul 11 15:48:09 2002
From: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@sockeye.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:46:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0207111453070.3120-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Actually, the reverse would be useful, as well. Voice Networking/SS7 stuff
for us IP weenies. (i.e. not voice over IP, just straight voice)
- Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Sean Donelan
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:09 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
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> Has anyone written the equivalent of the old Bell Systems Notes on the
> Network for the Internet? A couple of books come close, Hueston's ISP
> Survival Guide and Cisco's ISP Essentials. But there doesn't seem to
> be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing
> or signaling means on the Internet. There are a lot of words which are
> spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell world and the
> Internet world.
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> I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA. We drive
> on different sides of the road. Its safe until you get someone who
> doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the
> Atlantic. So how do you explain the rules of the Internet road to someone
> used to driving on the telephone system?
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