Chris Cason wrote:
> I'm an embedded (aka 'firmware') engineer in the R&D division of a
> multinational electronics firm. I work primarily on high-end broadband
> hardware (the sort of stuff that goes in network centers and telephone
> exchanges; we don't make consumer broadband gear anymore).
> 
> The board you see on my bench is part of a prototype of a new GPON card
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPON) for ATCA racks:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Telecommunications_Computing_Architecture
> 
> It has a total of six CPU's (one 16-bit PIC, one PPC 8347, plus four
> specialized network processors). The gray cable leading from the board goes
> to a JTAG-based debugger box.
> 
> It's a fairly geeky environment. I run Linux on my desktop and IT doesn't
> get to tell me what office suite to use or what specific shade of awful I
> must have as my desktop background this week.

Wow... elite!

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