[Networking ppl] post your stories, new tech? new toys? etc

[afxacid]

quit a few ppl on the board in the networking world it seems.

lets get some conversation on what you/your company is up to.
new projects? no technologies you guys are implementing? ups, downs, stories? etc

we're slowly beginning to migrate some of our wan sites from p2p to mpls, and it's a pretty bitchin' technology.

so let's hear it for whatever stuff you've been working on/playing with lately.

[ytzombe]

I've been playing with IPCop and Copfilter. THat pretty much sums up everything I've been doing networking lately.

[DarkHelmet]

I am building an IP network to manage a SONET network, it's some cool shit.

pics:



Sonet gear:

[afxacid]

Nice, details on the ring?

[da sponge]

I'm finishing my company's transition from 25+ random servers to 4 tight VI3 hosts

Next up, expanding our SAN.

[fiber]

Originally Posted by da sponge

Next up, expanding our SAN.

More details.

[DarkHelmet]

Originally Posted by afxacid

Nice, details on the ring?

Well we are building out rings to multi tennent cell sites to sell T1, T3 and Etherent transport to cell carriers. We are doing it in a few markets now and just have all the cool IP gear to manage it, the NEM server is sweet it's a dual 1.5 GHz sun v245 with 16 gb of ram

[odd]

Building out a entire LAN/WAN for a radio station. Just got up the edge router, 2x 48 port GbE switches and 6 WiFI AP's deployed on Friday. Next week, I'll be putting in a 64 port Silkworm fibre switch with 4GbE to all the A/V servers and the 5TB SAN.

[fiber]

Originally Posted by odd

5TB SAN.

What kind?

[unix_foo]

50+ remote sites. 30+ on 1Gb or 100Mb QMOE or Verizon TLS links with backup MPLS. The rest are mixture of MPLS or bonded T1. All-Cisco shop, about 1500+ of teal gear ... 7600, 7200, 2800, 6500, 4500, 3750 etc. . Site to site PBX are all IP trunks, altho no Cisco in the voice picture *bummer*. No carrier grade equipment yet butsoon we are going that route since this network is getting huge. Wireless infrastructure is all Cisco and I am slowly migrating the sites from WLSE/WLSM to WCS/WISM with Location Services/RF Firewall. All managed by CiscoWorks but monitoring is done thru SolarWinds Orion.

[afxacid]

impressive

[DigitalMocking]

Originally Posted by unix_foo

50+ remote sites. 30+ on 1Gb or 100Mb QMOE or Verizon TLS links with backup MPLS. The rest are mixture of MPLS or bonded T1. All-Cisco shop, about 1500+ of teal gear ... 7600, 7200, 2800, 6500, 4500, 3750 etc. . Site to site PBX are all IP trunks, altho no Cisco in the voice picture *bummer*. No carrier grade equipment yet butsoon we are going that route since this network is getting huge. Wireless infrastructure is all Cisco and I am slowly migrating the sites from WLSE/WLSM to WCS/WISM with Location Services/RF Firewall. All managed by CiscoWorks but monitoring is done thru SolarWinds Orion.

eww, solarwinds orion?

Please tell me the product has improved. Last I looked at it it was complete crap. You'd get better alerting/CRM ticket generation using nagios and perl scripts to email your trouble ticket system.

[SnarkFish]

right now, i am part of the project to upgrade our edge devices for CALEA compliance

mostly upgrading older cards in 120xx routers, moving customers to 124xx routers and/or upgrading code to a version that supports Lawful Intercept

(Cisco btw)

[RobCrezz]

Just upgraded our switches to Cisco 4x 48 port 3750's all with PoE, with one 3750g with wireless control. I like that these switches can all be configured as one switch (probably isnt that new a feature, but our old 3524's couldnt do it). The wireless control is really cool too, having setup 1 wlan for laptops, and another wlan for our crappy Cisco 7920 wireless IP phones (which goes on the voice VLAN).

[typhoon43]

Just slapped in a new BES server, and am in the middle of configuring a new Aventail EX-750 SSL VPN concentrator. Next week I have an 80,000 dollar contract to setup by myself. Yay..Uggh.. Migrate an SBS2000 Domain to 2003 on all new Hardware, Exchange Enterprise, Trend Gateway Security Appliance, Gig Switches, 25 Tape LTO library with CommVault Galaxy, and a 24 site Sharepoint 2007 Portal Server install. Oh yeah, and 2 DB servers as well. They've billed them for an estimated 100 hours of install/setup. I'm not so sure I can get it all done that quickly..