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RE: Really? An IT Professional doesn't know as much as you do?

Sorry, you are talking to the wrong guy, here when it comes to computer networking.

"IT professional" can be as low a level job as a person who answers a help desk, or more likely a computer operator or technician. However at a computer manufacturer or network equipment manufacturer, there are engineers who design the gear and then there are the engineers who make the inventions that make the designs possible. And finally there are the highest level of engineers who set technology strategy and develop the engineering culture.

When I worked at Digital Equipment the highest level engineers were called Corporate Consulting Engineers and at DEC I was one of these people. At other companies such as IBM and Cisco, these people are called Fellows. Two of the people who worked for me (and whom I mentored at one time) went on to become fellows at Intel and Cisco. Other people in my group are now professors of Computer Science at various universities. While I was managing network technology at DEC my group developed over 400 patents. Among other things, my group developed the first commercial LAN bridge. Part of this project included inventing the spanning tree protocol which manages LAN connectivity between switches. (That's how I know what can happen if people start plugging and unplugging cables.) The group also did fundamental research on network congestion starting in the late 1970's. I started this research program at Digital, because I anticipated that network congestion was going to be a serious problem.





Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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  • RE: Really? An IT Professional doesn't know as much as you do? - Tony Lauck 07/28/1513:48:31 07/28/15 (1)

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