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Keep Everyone Up and Running: Computer Networking Careers

Keep Everyone Up and Running: Computer Networking Careers By Alan Drummer
alan.drummer@hqeducation.com
HQ Education Columnist
June 1, 2005

Network professionals are our new traffic cops, now that computer networking drives the businesses and organizations that drive America.

Traffic is thick. Network professionals keep it flowing. At this instant, the fruits of their labor are helping to land planes, hold companies together, manufacture products, transact finances -- in short, networks have become the backbone of our economy.

Make a Difference

If being important is meaningful, nobody is more important than those with a networking job when the system goes down. The eyes of your whole working world will be upon you. Those in the know will truly appreciate you when the system comes back up. Many others take its intricate engineering for granted, just like they do the electricity in the walls. Fortunately, you have a way to keep up with networking challenges.

Networking School

A couple decades of experience has polished the way that network engineering is taught. Even after you get your networking degree, it's likely your education will be continuous, with much of it learned online.

Get briefed on vital concepts in communication networking, such as network calculus with deterministically-constrained traffic, congestion control for elastic traffic, packet switch queuing, switching architectures, virtual path routing, and routing for quality of service.

Master the fast-changing concepts in wireless networking and security. Those two topics alone promise to re-shape many of the ways we do business.

Because Cisco routers power up to 80% of the networking world, Cisco networking and Cisco certification will likely be a big part of your education.

The world needs your skills to keep up and running.


About the Author

Alan Drummer is a writer and video producer based in Burlingame, California. His specialties include outdoor adventure, travel, technology and advertising and marketing. Trained as an ad agency copywriter, his TV spots for children won some of the industry's major awards. His features have appeared in publications such as Better Homes and Gardens, the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Magazine, and online at playstation.com.


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