technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Radware acquired the Alteon product line from Nortel back in the first half of 2009. Radware has put together a very interesting marketing plan to rebuild the Alteon brand and announce their first new product out of that acquisition.I've used the … [Continue reading]
This week I took on the task of upgrading a pair of Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600s from 4.1.8.0 to 5.1.1.1 software. I used the opportunity to 'test' out the upgrade process and procedure for a much larger site that I will be upgrading next … [Continue reading]
Juniper has released a new version of software for their SSL VPN (Secure Access) appliances. The new release, 6.5R2, hopefully corrects all the issues and heartache that 6.5R1 brought to Juniper's customers. I won't rehash the issues that we … [Continue reading]