[49872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin J. Levy)
Thu Jul 11 15:51:27 2002
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:53:50 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Martin J. Levy" <mahtin@mahtin.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0207111453070.3120-100000@clifden.donelan.co
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Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean,
My vote goes for...
How to build an Internet Service Company
From A to Z...
All you need to know to plan, build and market an Internet service company.
Tips and tricks from the inside.
Charles H. Burke
July '96
ISBN: 0-935563-02-4
And I quote...
> Coffee Maker - Coffee is an necessary as HTML to the aspiring ISP.
> ...
> I highly recommend the Bunn-Omatic corporation for excellent high
> performance coffee makers.
> ...
It's a classic!
As for driving in the UK and US... I have explained the value of roundabouts to many, many Americans and they still don't get it. Being British, but living in the US... I just don't get why they are not used here.
You will have to put up with the face that Bell-heads and Net-heads just doing things differently and not understanding why the other side prefers an opposite method!
Martin
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At 03:09 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>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.
>
>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?
