Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-7
Continuing from last week, let us dig deeper into the IP – Optics split. Let us start by acknowledging that IP is all pervasive. That IP is the God of telecommunications and IT. No one can survive without it any…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 8
Continuing from last week, today I will be sharing another lesson from Anthony. This is second of the two lessons that one of my mentors, “Malur” reminded me of. We all had a chance to work with Anthony, during those…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-6
Continuing from last week, let us today explore another aspect of building blocks. If one building block was a good choice yesterday, will it be a good choice today? I guess, I do not have to say much. We all…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 7
Continuing from last week, today I will be sharing another lesson from Anthony. This is one of the two lessons that one of my mentors, “Malur” reminded me of. We all had a chance to work with Anthony, during those…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-5
Continuing from last week, let us continue to discuss the example of a bad network split. We saw that Government does the worst network splits and create so many limitations in terms of future network expansions and create a lot…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 6
Continuing from last week, today I will be sharing another lesson from Anthony. If you need to improve, get feedback. During one of my discussions with Anthony, I raised the question of career development. I did feel that I could…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-4
Continuing from last week, let us discuss an example of a bad network split. By network split, I mean that you carve out a piece of the network that you are happy to buy from one vendor independently of the…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 5
Continuing from last week, today I will share another invaluable lesson from Anthony. One must use time effectively. Anthony had to travel a lot and he spent at least half of the month traveling. He was expected to be on…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-3
Continuing from last week, let us discuss further as two how we can have standards and still a lot of innovation. The trick is to find the right partitions. If we split the network into layers in such a way…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 4
Continuing from last week, let me share today another simple yet powerful lesson from Anthony. Leaders must use all potential opportunities to connect with teams I had the opportunity to travel with Anthony for a few customer meetings, and invariably…