Good News for my Personal Economy

Even though my job is interesting to me, there are not many aspects of my job that a layman can understand, but this is one of them, so I thought I'd share.

My company has mostly sold to customers in the United States. I am among the first to make a product for the international market. Here's a picture of it. A colleague of mine designed the hardware and I'm responsible for the software. You plug cables into the front to provide internet service through a certain kind of phone line to special modems for up to 32 business customers. Up to 22 of these cards plug into a rack designed for them, so that's up to 704 customers per rack, although you usually group more than one together per customer so they can have a faster connection. That's enough total bandwidth per rack to carry 22,528 simultaneous phone calls or dial-up modem connections.


So anyway, I've been working on this since September, even though we didn't have a customer for it. That has been a little nerve-wracking because of the economy and things like one of our big competitors filing for bankruptcy yesterday. I'm still one of the newer employees in the company, so I would likely be included in any layoff. However, I found out this morning that marketing sold some of my cards to a telecommunications provider in Australia!