What I learned from a TED talk by Adam Grant
Changing track from last week, in the next few weeks I will cover the lessons I learned from some great TED talks. I will start with one talk that helps us build great organizations. Do you feel safe offering help?…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-9
Continuing from last week, let us understand what the web-scale guys have been pushing to make a great change in the way the networks are being built. But before we go there let us also understand their area of interest.…
What I learned from Mr. Brian Ostler at Power Grid
Continuing from the last week, let me talk some more about the good old days at Power Grid, when I used to work out of Hemkunth Chambers in Nehru Place, a commercial complex in Delhi. Mr. Brian Ostler was another…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-8
Continuing from last week, let us dig deeper in the IP Optics building block in reference to the Metro Networks. If you leave aside some boundary cases and some parts of the world geography where the fiber infra is in…
What I learned from Mr. Ralph Brown at Power Grid
This was the good old days at Power Grid, when I used to work out of Hemkunth Chambers in Nehru Place, a commercial complex in Delhi. Mr. Ralph Brown was a consultant from US and he was helping us write…
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…