Shock Horror - And There Goes The Network Neighborhood
The Register, Monday, November 6,2023
Curious tech learned an important lesson about keeping a grip in tight situations
WHO, ME? Oh for heavens' sakes is it Monday already? Far out. Well, if you're here anyway, you may as well read another instalment of Who, Me? - The Register's weekly attempt to look on the bright side of the working week by revelling in the misfortune of others.
This week, meet "Vincent" who once, many many moons ago, worked for some very important people at a very important American university. Very importantly, he worked in the Telecommunications division at said university, and was responsible for (among other things) maintaining the switch gear in a cabinet.
Now that might not sound very important, but the thing to understand is that the university at the time operated a network of T1 circuits that connected all of the various campuses of the university around the state. Every campus had a T1 switch that handled voice, data and video conferencing traffic, and they were all ultimately centralized in the cabinet in Vincent's office, which was labelled "Network Equipment Technologies."