> Definitely. Janitors now use vacuum-cleaners as well as brooms. > Telephone operators now use keyboards, not patchcords. Networkers will > need to know more than just layers 2 and 3. But there will be a > continued demand for R/S as part of the networkers job.
I think you just said the key word right there, the word "part" - it will just be part of a job. Not like today or the recent past where R/S was a job all in itself. > > Another point is that bandwidth is not necessarily cheap all over the > world, Europe is more expensive than the US, and Asia even worse, so > engineering is required, in fact surely "traffic engineering" is all the > rage at the moment. Europe may be more expensive than the US, but European providers still have far too much bandwidth than the market demands. After all, look at what happened to KPNQwest. Actually I find traffic-engineering to be of little importance in today's market as a whole, except in certain pockets like in Asia. Most providers in the world just shrug their shoulders at traffic-engineering. > > I guess what I want to say is that when an economy is booming, people > unrealistically believe it's forever and they will be millionaires by > next June. Conversely when the economy is in a trough then people get > gloomy and believe that they'll never pay off their credit card bills. > Neither view is realistic. R/S is not dead, it's sleeping and will wake > up. Granted there will not be the insane rush into network builds that > we saw a few years ago but the wireless boom is around the corner.... Is that the same wireless boom that has basically bankrupted every European telco? > > rgds > Marc Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=59459&t=59459 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
