technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
Let's keep going... let's bring a Cisco 3750E into the topology and let's talk about utilizing Spanning Tree. Let's get this out the way, Avaya does NOT recommend that you disable Spanning Tree. Avaya's Split MultiLink Trunking (SMLT) is not … [Continue reading]
As is usually the case at this time of the year I have some vacation time to burn. After all my choirs and mini projects I still have time left for tinkering, so this past week I opened the box on a Juniper EX2200-C switch. I've enjoyed configuring … [Continue reading]
There's a lot of talk about SPAM the last few weeks. Yesterday I read a Brian Krebs story titled, Don’t Like Spam? Complain About It. It was interesting to learn that the miscreants as Brian likes to call them are actively trying to avoid anti-spam … [Continue reading]
I've been deploying and maintaining wireless IP handsets since the original Symbol Netvision handsets back in 2004 with the original Nortel Internet Telephony Gateway (ITG) card in the Nortel Meridian-1 PBX. While technology has come a long way in … [Continue reading]
Last week I published an article highlighting my move from Linode to Digital Ocean.On Monday morning Linode reached out to me to ask if I would be interested in re-running some of my benchmarks on their new hardware. I accepted the offer and my … [Continue reading]