You're thinking of: Carrier-scale IP networks: designing and operating Internet networks Edited by Peter Willis, ISBN 0 85296 982 1, The Institute of Electrical Engineers, London Kris

-----Original Message----- From: Martin J. Levy [mailto:mahtin@mahtin.com] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:54 PM To: Sean Donelan; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads

Sean,

My vote goes for...

How to build an Internet Service Company From A to Z... All you need to know to plan, build and market an Internet service company. Tips and tricks from the inside.

Charles H. Burke July '96 ISBN: 0-935563-02-4

And I quote...

...

Coffee Maker - Coffee is an necessary as HTML to the aspiring ISP. ... I highly recommend the Bunn-Omatic corporation for excellent high performance coffee makers. ...

It's a classic!

As for driving in the UK and US... I have explained the value of roundabouts to many, many Americans and they still don't get it. Being British, but living in the US... I just don't get why they are not used here.

You will have to put up with the face that Bell-heads and Net-heads just doing things differently and not understanding why the other side prefers an opposite method!

Martin

---------------- At 03:09 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:

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Has anyone written the equivalent of the old Bell Systems Notes on the Network for the Internet? A couple of books come close, Hueston's ISP Survival Guide and Cisco's ISP Essentials. But there doesn't seem to be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing or signaling means on the Internet. There are a lot of words which are spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell world and the Internet world.

I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA. We drive on different sides of the road. Its safe until you get someone who doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the Atlantic. So how do you explain the rules of the Internet road to someone used to driving on the telephone system?