Please tell me in general about jobs in networking career There are so much job titles but when I read the description it's actually same and not much differ from each others I only know two that are definite: Network Administrator : Maintain computer/network system Network Engineer : Design/build computer/network system Others than that please tell me if there are another job that take different path than the two above from many network career job titles I find here: Network Technician, Network Planner, Network Analyst, System Security Techical, Network System Engineer, Network Manager, Network System Manager, Information System Manager, Network Programmer, Network Architect so from job titles above, which is new/differ? Network Technician : same as network administrator? Network Planner : same as Network Manager? ... so confusing, please enlighten me..
Network Administrator should be the "official" job description (can vary, depending on which country you live in). Big companys often let you specialize in one of the many fields (designing, security, administration, analysing, etc.) and have more or less created their own jobs. for instance will a network administrator more or less only manage the software necessary to run the network, while a techician is responsible for the hardware. But I would really refrain from generalizing this and ask the company directly.
I'm not familiar with IT technology but, usually, you'll go to a major to a university where you'll learn various things about computers. After that comes specialisation. Go to uniiversities websites and read their programs/majors/what they have to offer.
I somewhat disagree. Depending on the job you're trying to get, it may be significantly faster to just become certified.
There are companies entirely based around managing networks. Basically the onky way to reach the highest level of this career path is to join one of them. One of the more famous is probably Juniper
You are misunderstanding something. I'm just talking about the specific tasks you will have to do when you are hired, since you can't derive them from the job name. This information you can only get from the company... Even if you study at an university, you will not learn about every software there is out there... Take virtual environments as an example... IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, VWWare, etc... There are so many different products, that you can't possibly cover all of them. Not to mention that many publisher offer their own certifications you can acquire, which would be comparable to majoring at an university in itself. (If only I knew how to english... )
Wow, where'd that backbone thing go, cat? You weren't wrong. Juniper is a fair competitor to Cisco. In some areas. Just saying, I think even very basic courses at least get your feet wet with a variety of virtual machines.
I'm not trying to compare Cisco and well...any other networking company really. Cisco is the god of networking and its not a competition right now. It's not about backbone, since Juniper is pretty famous, if you know networking. It's about acknowledging that Cisco has way more influence in the networking field