| In a past life I had to admin a Nortel PBX. Before that task, my exposure to telecom was dialing phone numbers. My vendor at the time actually trained me on how to do basic MAC tasks by setting up a one-on-one day with their lead tech. We paid for his time that day of course, but the vendor was more than happy to have us doing our own MAC work. Otherwise they had to send out a person to do 15 minutes worth of work who could have otherwise been billing time to a bigger project elsewhere.
My vendor wanted us to be self-sufficient in the day-to day garbage. I found this site years ago to get a little help when I knew what I wanted to do and where to go, but couldn't remember exact syntaxes. In the long run it really helped out having this site, my vendor, and the NTPs. There wasn't much we wanted to do but couldn't except upgrades and hardware malfunctions.
Telecom is no longer in my job (please don't kick me out) so I stay around for the off-topic and hittables. Occasionally I'll venture into the technical forums just to stay informed of what's going on. I'd like to be doing telecom again someday and some projects I have on my programming horizon could include some integration work with our Avaya.
Saying that sharing info steals from vendors is like saying a site for auto repair takes money away from garages and stealerships. If you feel confident doing it yourself, why not?
Last edited by monkeylizard; 09-29-2006 at 09:15 AM. |