> - engineering > customer applications (voip, iptv, access, etc) > capacity management > peering > (bgp on rare and special occasions) > > - operations > monitoring > NOC related > ddos defense > maintenance
Congrats Martin. I believe you are the first person to openly mention on NANOG that Network Engineering and Network Operations are two different things. Way back in the beginning, network engineers did everything and the distinctions were vague. But nowadays most Internet network operators are telcos with a distinction between Engineering and Ops. Where I work, Engineers have to justify why they want access to routers and the Ops people really don't want to give enable to an engineer at all. I strongly suspect that most network operators have roughly similar division of labor (and responsibilities) along the lines that Martin described. If we would explain who our target audience using the kind of terminology above, perhaps the audience would grow. Is a particular talk aimed at operations people, NOC employees, network design engineers or capacity management analysts? How often do we have an answer to that question? Do we even have a common understanding of the terminology related to job functions? --Michael Dillon
