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RE: Point 2 Point for Athletic fields?

Posted By Michael Davis 04-04-2024 10:49:01 AM
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What you'd want to ask for is PtMP aka Point to Multi-Point. Don't believe we currently have any true PtMP deployed currently, but we have looked at it in the past with Ubiquity and currently are exploring it with Cambium. We do have an Aruba wireless mesh deployment in one of our parking lots ...

RE: FCC Order 10-72A1

Posted By Michael Davis 03-28-2024 07:39:27 AM
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I would suggest start having conversations with the carriers in your area about their solutions for non-POTS lines that still meet all applicable local/state/federal codes so you can start planning the future state after POTS on your schedule. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services ...

RE: Wireless Tools - Ekahau vs Hamina

Posted By Michael Davis 03-18-2024 04:20:32 PM
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We're renewing our Ekahau licenses for a 1 year term to give ourselves time to evaluate Hamina and their hardware solution properly, but just their list pricing is very compelling. One of our prior wireless engineers recently put together a Hamina video giving a comprehensive look at the planning ...

RE: iSCSI and Jumbo Frames

Posted By Michael Davis 02-21-2024 09:05:20 AM
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The biggest gotcha with jumbo frames is to ensure you have them enabled end to end so you don't cause fragmentation. Also important to note that some vendors calculate packet size differently so that's good to check on as well. But in years of running Equallogic, Compellent, and Pure with jumbo frames ...

RE: HPE/Juniper

Posted By Michael Davis 02-20-2024 12:01:35 PM
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I personally would be very shocked if they chose to keep Central around over Mist especially with Juniper CEO Rami Rahim being tabbed to lead the combined networking unit post acquisition. Mist is the platform that HPE/Aruba has been trying to turn Central into. But it also wouldn't be the first ...

RE: Palo Alto Throughput

Posted By Michael Davis 01-19-2024 10:31:21 AM
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I haven't observed that with our perimeter Palo FWs, but in testing I've routinely been able to push nearly 1Gbps through a PA-200 which IIRC was rated for only ~150Mbps. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld

RE: Large scale NAT for LAN/WLAN clients

Posted By Michael Davis 01-17-2024 03:58:50 PM
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Whomever told you that was misinformed or maybe speaking of a much older platform. This link shows the maxims of each object type - https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/product-selection.html# Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/mi ...

RE: Large scale NAT for LAN/WLAN clients

Posted By Michael Davis 01-17-2024 12:46:11 PM
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We're doing NAT via our Palo firewalls, 35-50K clients daily. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld

RE: Password Managers

Posted By Michael Davis 01-11-2024 07:17:47 AM
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Take a look at Keeper Security. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld

RE: Wireless Tools

Posted By Michael Davis 11-30-2023 10:40:18 AM
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There is also Hamina who last month announced their site-survey equipment (https://blog.hamina.com/introducing-hamina-onsite) and has been doing the planning side of things for a while now (https://www.hamina.com/product). No hands on experience but have heard many good things about it from those ...

RE: What are you using for packet brokering and packet capturing

Posted By Michael Davis 10-13-2023 10:46:41 AM
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Another reason to use taps vs SPAN or mirror ports in a high traffic environment is most vendors drop this traffic first if there are resource constraints being hit. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld

RE: What are you using for packet brokering and packet capturing

Posted By Michael Davis 10-13-2023 10:43:03 AM
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Garland Technology is another one to look at, they do both the tap and aggregation/broker side of things. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld

RE: PoE to parking lot light poles

Posted By Michael Davis 08-03-2023 07:24:21 AM
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We've not used it yet, but Commscope has a powered fiber solution that is designed for situations such as this and has been used at some MLB parks for cameras. https://www.commscope.com/product-type/networking-systems/powered-fiber-cable-systems/ Michael Davis Network Architect University IT ...

RE: Open source network management

Posted By Michael Davis 04-14-2023 11:59:09 AM
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A combination of LibreNMS and RANCID should do what you're looking for. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld

RE: Network Monitoring Tools

Posted By Michael Davis 02-02-2023 09:53:10 AM
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We rolled out LogicMonitor this past fall and have been quite happy with it. We're using it for monitoring & alerting of devices, operational logging, and config backups. One of the big pros for use is that aside from the on-premises data collectors all the infrastructure is hosted and maintained ...

RE: Blocking / Allowing QUIC

Posted By Michael Davis 10-25-2022 08:24:26 AM
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Been blocking QUIC for years with no real problems as *most* things will just fail back to HTTPS. As use of it grows with HTTP/3 and by providers other than just Google our posture is going to have to be revaluated. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.e ...

RE: Subnetting in the Datacenter: RFC 1918 or world routable?

Posted By Michael Davis 05-23-2022 02:02:20 PM
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I'll echo what Lee said. In our environment we've got anything that is solely internal facing on RFC1918 space, and turn a critical eye to any system/service that the owner of says has to be on a publicly routed IP. If the process/procedure for making changes in the firewall, LB, NAT, etc. are well designed ...

RE: Change Control/Management

Posted By Michael Davis 04-01-2022 09:12:09 AM
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Thank you to all who have shared insights into how your schools handle change management, much appreciated. ------------------------------ Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uark.edu/people/michaeld ------------------------------

Change Control Feedback

Posted By Michael Davis 03-29-2022 08:23:00 AM
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Curious if any would be willing to share information about their change control process, policies, and tools? Our current process is very immature, and involves emailing Word documents around in what amounts to a game of 20 questions. I'm spearheading an effort to improve things and would like to learn ...

RE: Firewall Vendor

Posted By Michael Davis 03-07-2022 02:25:35 PM
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In general what we're seeing is when PA releases new hardware it is cheaper and performs better than what it replaced. The 220 was cheaper & faster than the 200, the 4x0 family is cheaper and faster than the 500s, etc. Michael Davis Network Architect University IT Services http://directory.uar ...