Over at the ECI blog, Jonathan Homa has a nice article about the importance of network planning--

In the classic movie, The Graduate (1967), the protagonist is advised on career choices, “In one word - plastics.” If you were asked by a young person today, graduating with an engineering or similar degree about a career choice in telecommunications, would you think of responding, “network planning”? Well, probably not.

Jonathan describes why this is so--traffic is constantly increasing, and the choice of tools we have to support the traffic loads of today and tomorrow can be classified in two ways: slim and none (as I remember a weather forecaster saying when I "wore a younger man's shoes"). The problem, however, is not just tools. The network is increasingly seen as a commodity, "pure bandwidth that should be replaceable like memory," made up of entirely interchangeable parts and pieces, primarily driven by the cost to move a bit across a given distance.

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