Attack the slack
My friends over at FMC products have a good article on airflow in racks
Fiber Store Bulk Ethernet cable
Fiber Store now has bulk ethernet cable in several varieties. Both Cat5, Cat6, and even Cat7.https://www.fs.com/products/58708.html?attribute=4700&id=199736
Late-night router work
Mikrotik CCR1072 for an ISP network running BGP.
Preseem now supports IPv6
https://docs.preseem.com/changes Features IPv6 Preseem now supports IPv6 for all use cases. This includes the ability to assign subscribers a prefix of arbitrary length. IPv4 with Prefixes of Arbitrary Length Previously Preseem modelled subnet assignments to customers as a number of …
OpenGear Resilience gateway for ISPs
Some quick notes and screenshots from the OpenGear Resilience Gateway https://opengear.com/products/acm7000-resilience-gateway . The model I am working with is the ACM7004-2-L. It has 4 serial Cisco Straight pinout, Dual 1 GbE Ethernet, Global 4G LTE-A Pro cellular, 2 DIO, and …
Cisco High Availability design
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Hurricane Electric now requires IRR and filters invalid RPKI
If you are a Hurricane Electric customer you may be receiving e-mails like the following: What does this mean for you as a service provider? If you use Hurricane Electric as transit or peer with them on an exchange you …
Rack Studs series II
Gonna try these out for mounting equipment in a rack with square holes. www.rackstuds.com
Benefits of a carrier neutral data center?
A carrier-neutral data center, also called a carrier hotel, is a data center facility that is entirely independent of network providers.