[asterisk-biz] Employment

[Alex Balashov]

Alex Balashov wrote:

> c.savinovich at itntelecom.com wrote:
> 
>>   What skills you have make all the difference.  If you were to add to
>> your resume: Cisco CCIE and CCVP.  Call Manager and Cisco telephony
>> guru.  Nortel, and Avaya expert....plus Asterisk... then you will find
>> plenty of employment offerings in the web sites you mention :)
> 
> Agreed.  I've held one job that could be described more or less as a 
> full-time Asterisk job, and several others that bear tangential relation.
> 
> In every case, without exception, what was really needed was a VoIP 
> expert, not just an Asterisk expert.  Someone that could integrate VoIP 
> systems and negotiate interop issues with these other platforms, as well 
> as legacy equipment.  That's just where VoIP is right now.

In other words, there really aren't going to be any Asterisk jobs per 
se, as such except in companies that are Asterisk shops to begin with, 
be they VoIP service companies or consumers of VoIP services.  At least, 
right now.

In the latter situation, what is needed is someone who has network 
engineering and integration expertise more than anything else - someone 
that, if they know Asterisk and want to use it, is equipped to deliver 
Asterisk as a VoIP implementation more or less end-to-end, with all the 
things that go into that in an enterprise environment - network design, 
QoS, interoperation, protocol analysis, etc.  Knowledge of Asterisk in 
and of itself, hermetically, is somewhat useless.


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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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