What are the networking fields?

hell911

Like Programming, there are a lot of programming languages, i can choose anyone of them or many for me to get into a job.

but what about in Networking? what are the fields under that? i am sure i will not study and get a job on all of them.

dead_p00l

Networking doesn't typically specialize to the degree that programming does. You can break it down maybe into Corporate environments, Service provider environments, Data center, and I'm sure others that I'm not mentioning. You will also have some people that will specialize in Voice services, Typical routing and switching and security. Beyond that you may find people who are stronger with switching than routing, people who specialize in network security, and other. This probably isn't really the answer you were looking for but hopefully it will help.

mapletune

Look at Cisco, or Juniper, or other vendor's certification tracks. That might give you a broad idea of the specializations in networking.

Otherwise, you could take a look at this article from the packetpushers.com community blog aggregation:

Three Types of Networks – Choosing a Career Path

It boils things down a little bit simpler into 3 broad paths.

Zartanasaurus

And don't forget storage networking.

NetworkVeteran

hell911 wrote: »

Like Programming, there are a lot of programming languages, i can choose anyone of them or many for me to get into a job. but what about in Networking? what are the fields under that? i am sure i will not study and get a job on all of them.

There are also sectors to consider.

Someone who is good at setting up routing for companies with less than 1000 employees using EIGRP would be at a distinct disadvantage at an ISP running IS-IS plus BGP.

hell911

thanks for the answers.