technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
I recently started evaluating the Nortel Business Ethernet Switch 50 for Small Office and Home Office (SOHO) deployments in a Virtual Private Network.These are very small business offices, doctor's offices and senior executives homes where we … [Continue reading]
I've been working with Motorola and Nortel for over the past 9 months troubleshooting an issue that was causing the Nortel wireless phones (2210, 2211, 6120, 6140) to reset while the phone was idle. We eventually traced the problem to a buffer … [Continue reading]
It's closing in on two months now since I migrated my content from Blogger over to my new WordPress installation at GoDaddy. I must admit that I've enjoyed the entire process, from researching the different hosting providers to actually migrating the … [Continue reading]
In a previous post entitled, "Ethernet Switch 470 Stack Troubleshooting", I discussed how to troubleshoot stacking issues between Ethernet Switch 470 switches and I highlighted some caveats that can prevent switches from stacking properly. As I … [Continue reading]
It would seem that Nortel has discovered some serious flaws in software 4.1.6.0 for the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. Nortel published a bulletin today entitled, "Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 8600: System Instability maybe seen after upgraded … [Continue reading]