Timeline for Is SF an appropriate place to ask any question about telco network?
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| Oct 4, 2012 at 21:55 | comment | added | Alexander Janssen | Note: I don't want to start a flamewar. I just want to say that telco protocols are really not much different from what we're used to when we talk IP. It's just different. You have a hard time finding people on the Internet who really know about SS7-protocols or how the whole GPRS-stuff is really working. It'd be a shame to alienate those people just because it's not IP. We don't scare off people using Netbios, or are we? (ok, this might be disputable...;) | |
| Oct 4, 2012 at 21:48 | comment | added | Alexander Janssen | @voretaq7 To be honest... the telco-protocols aren't really related to electrical engineering. If I want to connect a call via ITUP I don't care miuch about what resistors are there to pull up the line. These are real protocol running over multiple ISO-layers (and: ISO by design, not by definition, like in IP) and if you ask someone who has to set up a GGSN router, if he cares about the line level encoding of his Gn-interface, he'll just say: "WHAT? It's a friggin' TenGigabitEthernet interface on a Cisco 7600!" | |
| Oct 4, 2012 at 15:17 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | EE may be an OK place to ask some GSM/EDGE questions (relating to the protocols themselves) - It may even be more appropriate than SF when talking about the wire-level stuff underlying our traditional networks. I'd check with them first though (the same way you did with us) before jumping in: I don't spend enough time there to know if they'd consider this stuff wholly in-scope or not. | |
| Oct 4, 2012 at 7:33 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Alexander, you need a lot better reason than just the lack of a more suitable site. I don't think there is an SE site about eating lunch, so do you think questions on that topic should also be allowed on SF? | |
| Oct 3, 2012 at 23:11 | comment | added | Alexander Janssen | I don't see why those kind of questions couldn't be posted to SF as long as no better SE site is available. | |
| Oct 3, 2012 at 10:10 | history | answered | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |