Network engineering is not a glamorous profession, and the physical structures of the greatest network ever built lack the grandeur of a hydroelectric dam or a continent-spanning railway.

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Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

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Not only did it bring Vess to America, but it also put him in an academic setting that would allow his innate talents and curiosity to flourish in the field of Network Engineering.

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