This is a culture that respects knowledge and intellect, and the cost for those who stay is money. He kept that network up and running an astounding 99.8 percent of the time. He is currently contracting at Pacific Bell and testing as a Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer. He is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, teaching graduate courses on network protocols, and has taught global networking at the University of San Francisco. I hate to think of students giving up the chance to read great literature, or not understanding the basic math that makes the technology run.
College gives an underlying educational structure that can be expanded on throughout life.
With fiber optic cabling spinning a web around the earth and more and more efficient routers, switches, and bridges in place to speed network communications, Leitner sees no technical limits on global network growth. Limits, he says, are more often encountered in the illusory form of corporate politics and greed. Leitner still believes in connecting the world. He plays music professionally at Bay Area clubs and plans someday to engineer a mini-network from his home, put his original music on CD, and market it on the Internet. Experience has shown him any bridge that truly connects us to others is a bridge of gold.