Michael McNamara

technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony

Stop Online Piracy Act – Protect IP Act

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Unless you’ve been hiding in a hole the last few months you’ve probably already heard about the controversy around SOPA/PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act/ Protect IP Act). I had planned on writing something technical this morning but after reading Jane Well’s post over on WordPress.org I thought it was way past time for me to encourage all my US viewers to contact their legislative representatives and voice your displeasure with the proposed legislation.

If you are in Information Technology I’m sure you heard about the call to boycott GoDaddy. I have to admit that I use GoDaddy for all my domains and while I haven’t yet transferred them it was very interesting to see their about face when a mass boycott appeared to be gaining steam. Has anywhere reading this transferred their domains from GoDaddy? If so what registar did you use?

I’ll close this post by copying the last two lines from Jane’s post because they are spot on…

Go to Stop American Censorship for more information and a bunch of ways you can take action quickly, easily, and painlessly. The Senate votes in two weeks, and we need to help at least 41 more senators see reason before then. Please. Make your voice heard.

Cheers!

Avaya Technology Forum 2012

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I was only recently was made aware of a Technology Forum that Avaya will be holding on February 6 – 9 in Orlando, Florida. I’m told that the event will focus heavily on network technologies. I’ve looked over the breakout sessions and they are very impressive… now if I can just convince the boss to send me… all kidding aside if I plan to attend I’ll update this post and we can have an impromptu meet-up with anyone that interested in talking shop.

Here’s a quick blurb from Avaya’s website;

This 3 day technical engineering forum will address technology, solutions, business applications and real world network deployment challenges in a workshop format with detailed technical presentations, deployment methods, observations and demonstrations.

If you are interested in attending you can register at this URL, https://atac.avaya.com/etf/etf.asp

Cheers!

Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Software Release v6.2.4

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Avaya has released software 6.2.4 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series switches.

There are a number of significant bug fixes included in this release, please refer to the release notes for all the details.

If you have the opportunity to test 6.2.4 and would like to share your findings please make a post on the discussion forums.

Cheers!

Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 Software Release v5.6

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Avaya has released software 5.6 for the Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 series switch. In combination with this software release Avaya is releasing six new switch models;

  • Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4550T-PWR+
  • Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4526T-PWR+
  • Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4850GTS
  • Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4850GTS-PWR+
  • Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4826GTS
  • Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4826GTS-PWR+

Release 5.6 also introduces one new removable power supply for the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4000 Series — the ERS4x00 PoE+ PSU, a stackable 1000W AC Power over Ethernet plus power supply unit. The PoE+ models include a 1000w power supply that enables full support for 48 ports when all ports are operating at class 3 802.3af PoE. On the six new hardware variants, the switch CPU speed is 533 MHz, and the FLASH is larger to allow for large images, backup images, and configurations. The standard ADS console port (DTE) on all new products is an RJ-45 Female Connector: (8 pin RJ45).

There have been a number of added features including the following;

  • Cisco CLI Phase 1
  • Disable MAC Learning
  • Equal Cost MultiPath (ECMP)
  • Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Querier
  • Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 3 Snooping and Proxy
  • IP Phone automatic PoE changes
  • Layer 3 Brouter Port
  • Many to Many Port Mirroring
  • MLT/DMLT/LAG Dynamic VLAN changes
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Ping Source Address
  • Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
  • SFP Plus
  • Show Flash command
  • SSH Client
  • SSH RSA Authentication
  • Stack Health Monitoring and Recovery
  • Static FDB MAC Entry
  • Terminal Mode Permanent Setting
  • VLAN Scaling
  • Voice VLAN Integration

The resolved issues section of the release notes is mysteriously empty including this note, “This section will be updated on or before December 22, 2011.”

As always I suggest you review the release notes for yourself.

Cheers!

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