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filkenjitsu

Associate Data Network Engineer - Cellular Telecommunications / Mobile Broadband

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boredgamelad

Security Engineer (I) - MSSP

I don't actually engineer anything. It's just a title. All I really do is level 1 firewall monitoring; device up/down, high availability problems, etc. It's not really what I want to be doing but the pay/benefits are right right now and they're paying for me to get some certs so I'll be here until August (my 2 years) at least.

kriscamaro68

Windows System Administrator - biotech/heatlh

dazl1212

It support Analyst/Systems Engineer I work in the car park management industry setting up ANPR systems

drkat

NOC Engineer - Telecommunications / Managed Services

dead_p00l

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

Three vendors:

Motorola BSR's - These are being decommed as we move customers to better platforms
Arris C4's - Love these freaking things
Cisco UBR7k/10k - The 7k's are likewise being decommed. The 10k's are a huge pain in the ass, as we're running them in M-CMTS mode. 10k platform is still a little bit too buggy for my taste, we run into some weird stuff. We've had several TAC cases where they had to haul in the software engineers to get really dirty with the debugs. We've also had multiple issues with SIP's and SPA's. We're deploying the 10k's because we need the capacity, but unfortunately, every time one of them has a problem, it affects a huge number of subscribers.

I can feel your pain. We used the Big Band Cudas in the past. We're primarily a Cisco shop when it comes to CMTS and we're testing some of the Arris gear. We're running a mix of M-CMTS and I-CMTS at the moment and some regions are starting to implement the 3G60's on the M-CMTS platform. Running into all kinds of issues with some of those.

filkenjitsu

What type of service provider?

nicklauscombs

Information Security Systems Engineer 3

XiaoTech

Technical Analyst - Mobility

Nobylspoon

"Resident Engineer"

I'm employed by a Global 500 IT company but I work permanently on-site at a major telecom's test lab to support our products and maintain the network segment that handles those products.

Forsaken_GA

dead_p00l wrote: »

I can feel your pain. We used the Big Band Cudas in the past. We're primarily a Cisco shop when it comes to CMTS and we're testing some of the Arris gear. We're running a mix of M-CMTS and I-CMTS at the moment and some regions are starting to implement the 3G60's on the M-CMTS platform. Running into all kinds of issues with some of those.

Yeah, our Arris gear is all ICMTS, and our 10k's are all MCMTS. We've been implementing 3G60's as well, and yeah, they're a pain. It's usually hit or miss, the upgrade goes beautiful, or it's a nightmare. We need the capacity though.

dead_p00l

filkenjitsu wrote: »

What type of service provider?

MSO / Cable operator

dead_p00l

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

Yeah, our Arris gear is all ICMTS, and our 10k's are all MCMTS. We've been implementing 3G60's as well, and yeah, they're a pain. It's usually hit or miss, the upgrade goes beautiful, or it's a nightmare. We need the capacity though.

What type of gear are you running across your core? We're a mix of Cisco and Juniper at the moment.

Lizano

NOC Manager - Telecom/Managed Services Provider

Forsaken_GA

dead_p00l wrote: »

What type of gear are you running across your core? We're a mix of Cisco and Juniper at the moment.

Same, collection of CRS's and MX's in the core, with 7600's aggregrating the remote sites to feed into the core.

epicdean

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

I work for one of the largest cable and internet providers in the US. My team is responsible for break/fix, change management and install/deployment for pretty much every IP capable device in our division. Lots and lots of IP routing, multicast, and CMTS work

I am a level 1 network analyst for a large ISP in Canada and pretty much have the same responsibilities. Right now I am working on my CCNA then CCIP so I can become a senior network analyst.

epicdean

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

Three vendors:

Motorola BSR's - These are being decommed as we move customers to better platforms
Arris C4's - Love these freaking things
Cisco UBR7k/10k - The 7k's are likewise being decommed. The 10k's are a huge pain in the ass, as we're running them in M-CMTS mode. 10k platform is still a little bit too buggy for my taste, we run into some weird stuff. We've had several TAC cases where they had to haul in the software engineers to get really dirty with the debugs. We've also had multiple issues with SIP's and SPA's. We're deploying the 10k's because we need the capacity, but unfortunately, every time one of them has a problem, it affects a huge number of subscribers.

Ya I worked for a Cable ISP before I came over to a telcom ISP and they used Arris C4's and they are nice.I knida miss working for the cable company it seemed to be a lot less issues with the coax network anyway.

Forsaken_GA

epicdean wrote: »

Ya I worked for a Cable ISP before I came over to a telcom ISP and they used Arris C4's and they are nice.I knida miss working for the cable company it seemed to be a lot less issues with the coax network anyway.

Yeah, the majority of our issues are plant issues, and that varies from headend to headend. Some folks are RF gods, some folks... aren't. Honestly, probably our biggest pain in the ass are fiber cuts. Few weeks ago, level3 had a major fiber cut that took out 7 of our 100gig port channels, as well as other 10 and 40 gig links, but fortunately we're redundant enough that it didn't impact anyone... backup links were awfully saturated for a bit though.

doread

Title: IT Coordinator
Industry: Building Distribution

NightShade1

Title: Network & Infrastructure Specialist
Industry: IT Consultants

Mrock4

lead network engineer, IT consulting company

gabypr

Position: IT Supervisor (looking for Manager position later this year)
Industry: Bank

RomBUS

Network Administrator - Manufacturing

A bit of a glorified title since it is pretty much IT end user support...

FloOz

Desktop Engineer - Law

cknapp78

Title: Messaging Architect
Industry: Oil and Energy

demonfurbie

probation officer
law enforcement

zippie666

IT Service desk engineer
I work for a service provider: 100% of my time i'm working as factory support agent (servicedesk for production environment) of a car factory

vinbuck

Elder of the Internet: Mississippi Division

networker050184

vinbuck wrote: »

Elder of the Internet: Mississippi Division

When did they get internet in Mississippi?

Aldur

Content Developer - Juniper Networks

I get to write/develop Juniper Networks courseware, eg. Advanced Junos Security, JNCIE Service Provider bootcamp, JNCIE Enterprise bootcamp, ect ...

shodown

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

I work for one of the largest cable and internet providers in the US. My team is responsible for break/fix, change management and install/deployment for pretty much every IP capable device in our division. Lots and lots of IP routing, multicast, and CMTS work

Sounds like you work for COX