I agree...technology is converging more and more....you need know r/s, security, unix, voip, databases, programming, etc.... Besides...why would one want to limit oneself only to R/S?
-- Dain Deutschman CCNA, CSS-1, MCP, CNA Data Communications Manager New Star Sales and Service, Inc. 800.261.0475 ""nrf"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > 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=59657&t=59657 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
