What is an LOA for a cross-connect?
LOA’s (Letters of Authority/Authorization) are a mystery to many. We help many of our customers with LOA’s on a semi-regular basis. If you are here you are probably wanting to find out what an LOA is and how to properly fill …
WISP teamwork for the greater good
This post is a huge shout out to Tasos Alexiou from RF Elements. This story started out at WISPAPALOOZA Vegas this year. I had a few clients who have been fighting noise issues. While working the Cambium booth we would go …
OTV and VXLAN
A great article on explaining what OTV is and how it compares to VXLAN http://www.routexp.com/2017/04/vxlan-and-otv-what-is-difference.html?m=1
Fear in I.T.
I have always been a firm believer in re-evaluating yourself on a regular basis. Take a look at yourself, your behaviors, and your quirks. By doing this, you can uncover weaknesses you. Read to work on, but also build on …
Zip Ties or no Zip Ties in the data center
Fluke networks has fired another volley in the “zip ties vs. velcro” for cables front. While this article does not address velcro vs Zip ties directly, it does bring up some points about using zip ties. https://www.flukenetworks.com/blog/cabling-chronicles/beauty-isn-t-skin-deep
ISP Visio Stencil List
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Public IP addresses on Baicells clients
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Data Center Tiers
Tier 1 = Non-redundant capacity components. things such as power have single feeds. 99.671% Uptime no redundancy 28.8 Hours of downtime per year. Tier 2 = Tier 1 + Redundant capacity components. 99.749% Uptime Partial redundancy in power and cooling Experience …
Podcasts and Blogs List
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PeeringDB Tutorial
The folks over at PeeringDB have a presentation on setting up an account and adding your network. https://docs.peeringdb.com/presentation/20190227-peeringdb-workshop-2-main.pdf