Re: Telco's write best practices for packet switching networks

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jake Khuon wrote:
> emloyees access their infrastrcture.  Do you seperate and outsource your
> management infrastructure to your corporate IT support?  Do you seperate but
> control it within your production network engineering groups?  If so, do you
> have a special group within network engineering concentrating specifically
> on management or do you have the same people designing the network also do
> the management design?

Although many of the principles are the same, there are differences
between running a corporate network and a public network.  You can
have the same people doing both.  In small ISPs its likely the same
people will be doing both.  A larger company will have seperate groups
because they serve different masters and have different measures of
success.  A company may not want to pay for the same levels of
reliablity and survivability for their corporate network as their
public IP network.