After a long, difficult evaluation I declined the IT position. It was truly a good position and it will be a good fit for someone; however, several cyber security positions were opened in the engineering group that will fit my career goals. While investigating the options for both positions I...
I am a telecom engineer and have been offered a position by our IT department. The engineering department I have been working in for 10 years has been fine but I can tell it is a dead end for my career. It seems all of the projects in engineering follow the lines of "this is what we have done...
I have been tasked with setting up new channel banks in a massive microwave/fiber system. To do this I need to track the TDM traffic all the way down to single ds0s. Does anybody have any experience with this? The only thing I can think of is a massive Excel spreadsheet detailing each...
Contact some of the major fiber cable providers and ask them for an install spec; most will have a generic one on hand that will make your life easier. I agree with robertojo24; have the contractor test each strand on the reel before installation and again after. The OTDR will test for any...
There are several fiber to serial media converters similar to what amurray mentioned. The dry contact I/O could be difficult to pass over the fiber optic cable without adding alot of equipment. For instance you could put a small channel bank at both ends, collect the RS485 and contact...
I see IEEE is pushing the WCET (Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies) certificaiton in advertisements and emails. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it worth the time?
I am wondering if anyone has used any type of telecommunication channel management software. Currently, I am maintaining huge Excel spreadsheets of all the DSOs, T1s, OC-3s, and how they all interconnect. This is very time consuming and I am unable to locate any specific software. Any...