January 28, 2009Many thanks to Nick Anderson for this blog entry!
Matt was kind enough to ask me to spice things up a bit while he is gone on vacation.(well kind to me, perhaps not so kind to his readers).
If you have ever wanted to monitor network bandwidth I’m sure your familiar with mrtg. I find it useful [...]
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January 26, 2009Many thanks to Ian Carder for this blog entry!
Over the past year we have replaced all of our remaining Cabletron network equipment with Cisco gear. Being a K-12 School District, we made use of Cisco Catalyst Express series of switches in our IDFs. The CE series of switches are configured using a web browser. We [...]
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September 2, 2008I read Jeff Hengesbach’s blog every day, and I’m fairly sure that if you like my blog, you’ll love his. He recently started it, and every post so far has been really interesting. You should check it out.
Anyway, today Jeff wrote about iSCSI SANs. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, here is a great [...]
Posted in fiber, networking, storage 5 Comments »
August 30, 2008Browsing through Digg today, I chanced across this article about Google expanding their undersea cable portfolio. Aside from increasing the inter-Asian bandwidth by over 7Tb/s, it will be Google’s 2nd undersea cable, the first being the transPacific cable known as “Unity”. As recently as a year ago, the first cable was just a rumor. [...]
Posted in bandwidth, fiber, international, networking 2 Comments »
August 26, 2008In reality, there are far more than 5 ways to easily improve your network’s security and reliability, without spending hardly any money at all. I’ve just briefly gone over the most blatant 5 that make the biggest difference for next to no expenditure. Sure, a few office supplies might need to be sacrificed [...]
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August 20, 2008I found this amusing/depressing series of pages involving some epic wiring jobs
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html
God help you if you’re stuck with anything remotely this bad.
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