New for 2012

Well it's been a long time since I posted last.  Where should I start.  Well we have finally redone our wireless network here at GT.  We replaced the SonicPoints from SonicWall with a new state of the art Ruckus Wireless system thanks to Mark Moreno from C&M Support Services Inc.  We now have 11 active Ruckus 7363 APs with an 1125 Zone Director running them and it is GREAT.  Great connectivity, lots of users online etc.

Mark also helped me redo our VLan scheme to take into consideration the new Ruckus Wireless as well as the new VoIP phone system from Digium, Switchvox that we will be installing in May 2012. We will be replacing our old Toshiba system along with the old Amanda voice mail (running on a 486 no less and DOS), with a new Digium Switchvox A355 and Digium D70 phones.  We are using our same wiring infrastructure with Voice VLaning on it.  The Digium D70 phones have builtin Gigabit switches so that works great with our HP Procurve 2848 networking infrastructure.  

We also installed PowerDSine POE Midspans to get Power Over Ethernet to all the Ruckus WAPs and all the Digium VoIP phones as well.  This was a less expensive investment than purchasing new 24 or 48 port POE Gigabit switches.  The midspans are 10/100/1000 capable so they pass thru the gigabit with no problems while still providing POE to the devices.

Also I just got back from CITRT 2012 which was help at Watermark Community Church in Dallas Texas.  What an AWESOME time.  The best Round Table event so far.  Great to see friends that I only get to talk to online or via twitter, and also to network and learn from them too. Can't wait to see what is done for next year.

New for 2011

Well it's been a few months since my last post. Being full time now is great, and there is so much that needs to be accomplished. We made it to Florida for both CITRT 2011 (FANTASTIC event, can't tell you how much I learned and how great it was seeing all the other CITRT'rs there), can't wait for Dallas in 2012 :-)

Being the Technical Operations Manager at GT is awesome. There are so many things to get done that I'm never bored for things to do. I love computers, electronics etc, so it all just works for me.

I'm going to have Mark Moreno back again this year to deal with upgrades to our Intel MFSYS35 chassis (installing 2 more compute modules, converting from total VMWare to VMWare with Hyper-V cluster).