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2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic – Flyers v. Bruins
1December 21, 2009
Our own Philadelphia Flyers will be playing in this years NHL Winter Classic being held at Fenway Park in Boston, MA on January 1, 2010. I enjoy playing the game myself and watching the NHL, AHL and college games. I’m only hoping that the Flyers, a team named by some as a contender for this years Stanley Cup, don’t embarrass Philadelphia fans any further having lost 14 of their last 17 games.
Here’s the time lapse footage provided by NHL.TV of the transformation of Fenway Park.
References;
2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic
Avaya closes acquisition of Nortel
0December 19, 2009
It’s now official – the Nortel/Avaya deal has closed. As of today, Avaya has expanded its portfolio, enlarged its customer base and broadened its global reach…
It would seem the deal is officially done. The words above appeared on the Nortel Enterprise Technology blog yesterday afternoon. I also know that the Nortel sales team responsible for Southern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey were essentially fired by Nortel as of Friday’s close of business. Those that have been offered positions will become Avaya employees on Monday.
With the acquisition complete the clock is now running for Avaya to produce a product roadmap to Nortel/Avaya customers. There’s been a lot of speculation as to which products will make the cut and how Avaya might integrate some of the Nortel products into their portfolio. I won’t add to that speculation other than to say there are a lot of eager Nortel customers waiting on Avaya to release their product roadmap.
You can find the official press release from Avaya here.
Cheers!
MRV LX-4108T Terminal Server – Out of band Networking
6December 14, 2009
by Michael McNamara in MRV
In the old days most organizations didn’t think of building out-of-band management networks. When needed it was easy enough to hang a modem with an analog phone line off the console port of a router or switch and call it a day. In today’s world with 99.999% uptime requirements an out-of-band network is now longer a wish it’s a real day necessity for any network engineer/manager.
The LX Series software delivers the most secure and richest set of features including point and click access to any port, per port password protection, SSH v2.0, SNMP V3, IP V6, RADIUS, SecurID, LDAP, TACACS+, PPP PAP/ CHAP, PPP dial-back, user access lists, and on-board user database capabilities.
The MRV ships with a default IP address of 192.168.100.1 along with a default username of “InReach” and a default password of “access”. The diag (console) port on the MRV defaults to 9600/8/1/None. The “Getting Started Guide” includes all the information you’d need to perform the initial configuration.
I will say that we started using the MRV LX 4100T series terminal servers almost a year ago now and we’ve been very happy with them. They’ve saved the day on numerous occasions and are one of the best solutions out there.
Cheers!
References;
http://www.mrv.com/datasheets/IR/PDF300/MRV-IR-4108T_HI.pdf
http://service.mrv.com/downloads/4510363b.pdf (Getting Started Guide)
