hello guys, am a 400 level student of engineering.i av 2 offer for my i.t. telecoms and networking/isp.i love the 2 areas but i av more passsion for networking cos av bin into cisco.which should i choose.i need advice from experienced hand pls

First of all, u've got offer form ds two places as an IT student , u get mouth/leg come chop knuckle...dts rili good of u

Getting started with analysis, first m nt an experienced hand like u demanded for buh ll try, second u can't v passion for cisco, 'she' is very wide, uve got to b specific; routing n switching, security, service provider, wireless ....bla bla bla! me assume its d first n ll base R&S, so ll make suggestions on dt....

Proceeding further, there r various dept in telecom n ISP but d two of concerns r ACCESS network n CORE network, how do u fit in? Let's break it down 2geda.... (it will b lengthy, radical but worth it)

ACCESS NETWORK (ISP)
Technology is forcing pple out, during d days wen wi fi was used for MAN, ur work here will involve installing n configuring radios/access point plus antennas, u'll b ensuring perfect line of sight btw d ISP n d customer premises, u'll lead d cable frm d radio to likely a router n feed others....bla bla, it will b fun cos u'll move frm site to site seeing diff problems n scenarios n gaining experience, u might also find urself in min base stations belonging to d ISP cos one station can't cover a city

But wat do we v today with d ISPs, every1 is going WiMAX, a perfect non line of site technology, a customer just need to plug a pen-drive-like device to a system in mushin or ikeja and there's is a connection to a base station in balaraba musa in VI, to make matter worse, just dis one station can serve d whole of lagos, wats more customer premise equipments r now plug n play, d pen-drive-like device or d bigger table-top one, u don't v much business with ISP access network as an IT student.

ACCESS NETWORK (telecom)
Hmmmmn, enuff technical jargons dey here, ll try 2 b simple and str8, truly u v a lot of work here unlike dt of d ISP, u v d radio network planning & optimization u also v d pple doing installation n commissioning, to b blunt n candid if u come here u'll spend 4-5 months of ur IT period bin confused, wen dey tell u dey r planning scrambling codes for 3G, u won't knw y and won't knw d alternative of dt in 2G is freq reuse, wen dey start talking SDCCH n TCH level to reduce call drop, or pilot pollution,drive testing or co channel interference...bros d truth u've gotta study b4 u enter ds place n I doubt if a coy will b ready to send an IT student on course, if u go in as IT to dt place u r 'likely' to serve tea/coffee n buy sweet sensation or MR. BIGGS for d engineers there, that's if dey even allow u here. Telecom coy (both vendors n operators) r multinationals....more often dan nt its nt a place where u perform experiment.

U see we've nt talked abt ur cisco, let's head over to d core network, but ds post is long already so ll break it and start off again....m trying to give u d info I wished I knew during my IT, I had to learn d hard way.

...to b continued!

You have more passion for networking, stay with it. every man that has attained and maintained success did so by doing what they had passions for. I've always believed, if you do not have a passion for the job you do, run out of it like you would from a burning house.
it is passion for what you do that will make you go the extra mile to archive success.

See you at the top

tanx bro