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Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
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?
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- Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Sean Donelan (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Peter Salus (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads JC Dill (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads dre (Jul 11)
- RE: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Daniel Golding (Jul 11)
- RE: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Ron Oliver (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Scott Call (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Sean Donelan (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Randy Bush (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Sean Donelan (Jul 11)
- All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads] Chris Kilbourn (Jul 12)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Sean Donelan (Jul 11)
- Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads Peter Salus (Jul 11)