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Re: staffing guidelines
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:16:06 -0400
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:27:56PM -0500, Murphy, Brennan wrote:
I am interested more in how many *engineers* are needed on 200, 500, 2000 device networks, where "device" means routers, switches and any servers that support the routers/switches such as HP Openview, Sniffers or ACS servers, ...Firewalls, etc.
That's rather like asking how many cars a mechanic can service. At Jiffy Lube it's 100's a day. At Ford it's 10's a day. At the Ferrari shop it might be one a day. Race teams might devote several mechanics to one car for days at a time. I can invision networks of 2000 devices that one engineer runs, and networks of 200 devices that require 2000 engineers. There is very little to link the number of devices to the number of people needed to run them. The time people spend is dominated by rate of change, rate of failure, scope of work, redundancy of design, and the level of support you want to offer. The time spent installing devices, or upgrading them is rather small in most networks. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
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- Re: staffing guidelines Gregory Hicks (Oct 04)
- RE: staffing guidelines Murphy, Brennan (Oct 04)
- Re: staffing guidelines Leo Bicknell (Oct 05)
- RE: staffing guidelines Ron Snyder (Oct 08)