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Re: Replacing PSTN with VoIP wise? Was Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Sep 1 13:38:09 2005

To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:48:04 +0300."
             <43169614.4090009@he.iki.fi> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:37:26 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:48:04 +0300, Petri Helenius said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> >It's clearly possible to find telco engineers with 5/10/15 years experience in
> >running PSTN (might even find somebody with 40-50 years? :).  It's possible to
> >find network engineers with lots of BGP experience. Where do you find a senior
> >engineer with 5+ years experience in enterprise-scale VoIP deployment?

> Deployable enterprise VoIP products existed in 1998. So it would be 
> somebody who was there doing it back then? Goes 5+ with a margin.

Yes, but I hear that both of the guys who actually *DEPLOYED* anything
enterprise-wide in 1998 are happily employed and not available.


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