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William Flanagan
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ViewsLetter 

is an email newsletter that isn't tied to the news, but may use a "news peg" to select a topic on which one (or more) of our consultants has a strong opinion.  
The ViewsLetter list server ensures that our emails comply with legal guidelines and "good practice" to avoid spam.  The ViewsLetter is the only email you will receive from this list.   All are invited to subscribe.   The logos in the site map lead to the archive for each series.
We started in 2002 by looking at automating the installation and  provisioning of carrier services.  As the first issue stated the problem, imagine voice call switching still done by manual cord boards.  There aren't enough people in the country to handle the call volume in telephony.  

Likewise, data traffic now exceeds the world's ability to train and certify network engineers (operators) to set up services--unless the process is automated.  To meet demand, carriers installed new procedures, new equipment, and new software management tools--creating hope for an economic recovery in telecoms.

With so much data, we've become dependent on its "always on" connectivity.  Just as we always expect dial tone when we pick up a phone, we expect our browser and email to work all the time.  Historically, the tolerance for outages has been higher among Internet/router people than among telephone people.  That is changing, as availability become a performance metric for the IT dept. as well as the voice service.  At the end of 2005, ViewsLetter refocused on High Availability to cover the evolving network and server technology that's making data services more reliable all the time.

We invite you to subscribe, to get our  analysis based on historical perspective and knowledge of end users' needs--it might give your head a spin.   

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