[c-nsp] Ode to the old days

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> Mattias Gyllenvarg
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2016 11:46 AM
> To: cisco-nsp
> Subject: [c-nsp] Ode to the old days
> 
> Dear All
> 
> 10year 4weeks 6days and about 11hours ago I was working for my first ISP
> (ispA).
> 
> On that day I put a 3560-24TS into production as a device to terminate to
a
> Metronet running OSPF/BGP och public IP space.
> 
> A few years later I started consulting for ispB who later split into and
became
> ispC for whom I worked for several years.
> 
> After this I ventured into a smaller ISP (ispD) that was acquiring ispA.
> 
> During that time that 3560 has been working without issue or power
> interruptions.
> Today, that it was replaced to add MPLS capabilities to the node boasting
an
> up-time of 10 years 4 weeks 6 days and 11 hours.
> 
> I fear I will never beat this record in my career.
> 
> To the old gear!

Hi Mattias,

That's an amazing story.
Makes me feel melancholic though.

Note: Tangent warning
I miss the good old times very much, engineers back then had to do so much
with such a little forcing them to come up with brilliant ideas and
engineering solutions.
I feel like the less we are constrained, due to growing abundance of CPU
power, RAM space and resulting features, the more we are losing this
"engineering edge".

Fortunately there are still some areas pushing the envelope like:
NPU design/routers' internal architecture, Massively Scalable Data Centre
designs, HFT networks, ...

adam


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