I couldn't get any video from the surveillance camera I had installed in my house and left it for a while.

The other day, I finally found the time to fix it.

In our house, I initially suspected a broken LAN cable, since I have passed LAN cables from window to window, outdoors.

Holding my laptop, I climbed up a ladder to the ceiling of the entrance, disconnected the LAN cable module of the installed camera, and tested the connection with the laptop to confirm the connection.

I was impressed with the durability of the LAN cable.

I had already left my flat LAN cable exposed outdoors, tucked in window frames for more than 10 years, and the cable was still alive.

Now that the "failure of the surveillance camera" was confirmed, I decided to replace it with another camera.

This camera has been working outdoors for 10 years, so I believe it has served its purpose well.

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I did some research and found that the first year of production for this camera was 2004.

Naturally, this camera does not implement TLS (https) or SFTP, which are now common sense measures for secure communication.

I'm a little worried, but well, however, it's not a problem, as long as they don't break into Ebata's LAN.

The Ebata family's PC server has now been moved to the cloud, and there is no server that can be used as a stepping stone.

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Well, I never thought I would see a future where browsers would criticize me by name for 'unprotected communication' when I access a server that is not TLS-enabled.

Recently, it has become troublesome to even find the IP address of my home PC easily because Windows 10 does not respond to pings.

Virtual environments such as Docker and cloud packaging such as AWS have also entered as network elements, and in general, it is difficult to work on building and maintaining network systems these days.

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Recently, I heard that a company has announced a policy of "making network integrators a business.

To be honest, I didn't know what it was at first.

At least, I thought that building IP networks was in the realm of SIers(*).

(*)A company that undertakes a variety of tasks ranging from software design and operation to consulting (SIer)

But now, building an IP network has become a hassle.

I believe that from now on, there will be a new type of job called "NWer" (an abbreviation of Network Integrator), not "SIer". I think it may be the time when "NWer" will exist independently from software development.