I'm the owner of the site, I've been involved in Telecommunications for nearly 20 years, doing programming, product design and build, installation, network design, product sourcing, SS7 network design, and now I'm doing OSS over IP, Mobile, and Transport networks. I started this site to help fill a gap; we don't tend to be able to talk about our networks freely and so we end up solving the same problems over and over again independently (I guess). StackOverflow is a great site for programmers, but this one is for Telecommunications engineers (and designers, and architects, and students, and and and)