Re: Replacement for Avaya CNA/RouteScience

["Christian Koch" <christian () broknrobot com>]

agreed. i see the most benefit from these boxes geared towards networks with
critical apps that are latency intensive and more than a handful of transit
providers than i do for a smaller provider..

depending on how many upstreams you're juggling, its not that hard to create
some traffic engineering policies that can easily be modified, (whether by
hand or you use a script with a front end that can push the changes for you)
in order to re-route traffic in the event of issues with an SP network in
your end to end path..

personally i think manual traffic engineering and re-routing is one of the
more fun parts of engineering..


-christian





On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs () seastrom com> wrote:

> Eric Van Tol <eric () atlantech net> writes:
>
> > I'd like to hire that engineer, please.  Can you send me his resume?
> > Here's the job description:
> >
> >  - Required to works 24x7x365.
> >  - Must monitor all network egress points to examine latency,
> retransmissions, packet loss, link utilization, and link cost.
> >  - Required to "tweak localpref" on an average of 5000 prefixes per day,
> based upon a combination of the above criteria.
> >  - Required to write up a daily, weekly, and monthly report to be sent to
> all managers on said schedule.
> >  - Must not require health or dental care.
> >
> > These devices are not a replacement for an actual engineer.  They
> > are a supplement to the network to assist the engineer in doing what
> > he should be doing - engineering and planning as opposed to
> > resolving some other network's packet loss/blackhole/peering
> > dispute/latency problem.
>
> You can certainly get close to the requirements stated above by
> offering a decent salary and hiring a reasonably clued engineer with
> an SP background.  You may have to settle for IRC, WoW, or SecondLife
> as daily recreational activity that doesn't buy you much (expressed in
> your requirements list as "tweaking localpref").
>
> My general experience with such boxes is that they're awfully good at
> impressing the PHBs, but not something you can really defend from a
> cost/benefit perspective.  I really do need to go into the "custom
> painted boxes with LCD screens on the front" business.  I could make
> "melons", like Tom Vu.
>
>                                        ---Rob


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