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Understanding the Network Architect’s Role
Today, the network infrastructure (or fabric as I like to call it) is vast compared to how it was just 23 years ago, and even more sophisticated than when networks were around in the early 1970s. The infrastructure has evolved, and so has the people required to take care of and maintain them. But even in doing so, the role and responsibility have also evolved to be more. Before, the responsibility could have seen one or two people doing everything, such as racking and stacking, cabling, router configurations (as there were no switches at the time), installing hubs, and storage consolidation. Now, there are many roles in an organization that specialize in these varied tasks.
So much emphasis is put ...
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