Jedi Oomodo
New member
Technical trainer for the network monitoring center of a paging company located here in Dallas. We have to constantly monitor our equipment for failures, and there's a lot of it. You have no idea what all it takes to make a pager go "beep".
It's more complicated than you thought. Ours is a TCP/IP network, as well as some other stuff, so I have to know Radio/RF engineering, Radio transmitters, computers, Ethernet LANs, DS-1/DS-3 circuits, Frame Relay, VSAT satellite dishes, Windows 95 & NT, Over-the-air paging protocols, etc. ad nauseum. But, wait, there's more! I have to know all this so that I can help the guys who do the actual monitoring know how it all works and how to fix it. I used to be one of those guys 'til I moved up in the world. (Sigh) I miss the good 'ol days....
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"Fear is the path to the Dark Side...
Fear leads to gun laws, gun laws lead to disarmament, disarmament... leads to Tyranny!"
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"If it isn't Scottish, it's CRAP!"
It's more complicated than you thought. Ours is a TCP/IP network, as well as some other stuff, so I have to know Radio/RF engineering, Radio transmitters, computers, Ethernet LANs, DS-1/DS-3 circuits, Frame Relay, VSAT satellite dishes, Windows 95 & NT, Over-the-air paging protocols, etc. ad nauseum. But, wait, there's more! I have to know all this so that I can help the guys who do the actual monitoring know how it all works and how to fix it. I used to be one of those guys 'til I moved up in the world. (Sigh) I miss the good 'ol days....
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"Fear is the path to the Dark Side...
Fear leads to gun laws, gun laws lead to disarmament, disarmament... leads to Tyranny!"
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"If it isn't Scottish, it's CRAP!"