Back from vacation….. 😉 I wrote a couple blogs a few months ago about how few organization have a proactive capacity management program, but how everyone should. I’m a firm believer in the benefits of capacity management programs, but they are often the first thing to go during budgeting. Few organizations have ever had a proactive capacity management program so they don’t see the benefits. That’s why I was pleased last week to receive an e-mail from a recruiter looking to hire a Network Performance Engineer. This was for a carrier size network, but with a large retail footprint. Technology ranged from Frame-Relay to MPLS to Gigabit Metro Ethernet. The job called for skills with:
- Quality of service monitoring
- Congestion monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Capacity planning
Tools included Infovista, NetScout, NetCool with more on the way. Almost everything is done with Cisco equipment:
- 2800-series in the retail network.
- Aggregate routers are 10000-series.
- Infrastructure includes 7000-series and 12000-series routers and 6500 switches.
Great stuff. It’s good to see a company seeing the benefits of a capacity management program and spending the money to hire an engineer specifically to do capacity management. This is a differentiator for this business. Bravo! PS – If you’re interested in the job, e-mail me.
More >From the Field blog entries:
Burning Down Your VPN with Super Broadband Speeds
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It’s One of Those Opinionated Days
So What’s This About the Internet Melting Down?
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