Hi all, I am a project manager who has started working in the telco industry in the last year. They specialise more in the enterprise and govt. market rather than retail and I am mostly involved in I&O projects. I have learnt a little about each of the different engineering types and how the technology works. I have mostly been educating myself online as required but I'm now on a project that has a tech aspect I just can't wrap my head around. If I ask the designers and engineers to simplify it for me one more time I am positive that I will lose all credibility and my project will fail. I obviously don't want to reveal too much so hopefully I am giving enough info for someone to explain this like I am five. It is also quite a large project so I will just be using a singular example of one component. I believe the simplest way to describe it is:
We are implementing agg hardware (Juniper MX204 universal router platform) to an existing backhaul to maximise efficiency at the interconnection point.
I have been operating on the assumption/belief that the purpose of this activity is to increase network capacity. Likely because all my previous projects have been around increasing capacity on the fibre network. However, one of the engineers just corrected me that we are not trying to increase capacity. So what is the purpose of the agg hardware? What does it achieve?
Please be kind in your replies. I know this might sound like the stupidest question ever; it's just that I went too far down the rabbit hole (technology wise) that now I'm having trouble forming a high-level, big-picture understanding. Also, I know that PMs don't necessarily need to deeply understand the engineering side of things; but I am far more effective when I know what the hell is going on.
SOS
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