ISP consultants.How to hire and engage Part 1
I have been a consultant for the Internet Service Provider (ISP) space for the better part of my working life. I have dealt with the technical side of the field and some of the business and back end. I have …
Musings of an ISP Engineer part 2
Part 1 can be viewed here -Always check layer1 first. Your momma told you it’s the simplest things in life. Most times it is that simple. -After that check layer 2. If a backhaul or fiber link can’t push data …
Justin’s List of xISP vendors and resources
I have been working on this list for a while. The following are vendors, manufacturers, and various companies I have dealt with in my career as an ISP owner and consultant. This is not a complete list by any means. …
Shuffle poles for smart cities utilizing Siklu
Siklu, a global leader in Fixed 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions for Gigabit Wireless Access (GWA), Smart City and security networks, today announced an initiative with Schréder, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of outdoor lighting systems, to create the first-ever …
VMware Fusion and MacOS Big Sur
While doing some work tonight I received an update notification from VMware Fusion, which I use to run Windows 10 inside Mac OS. • Fusion 11 can not run on macOS 11 Big Sur because it depends on Kernel Extensions …
Mounting old file system CDs on MacOS Catalina
Recently I had an issue with mounting older CD-Roms of backup files and such on MacOSX Catalina. Apparently, Apple dropped support for HFS volumes. In order to fix this it is pretty easy. You will need HomeBrew. Being a network …
Siklu Case study 80 GHZ Indianapolis Indiana
Some photos from a Siklu 80GHZ deployment in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. This was deployed by On-Ramp Indiana (https://www.ori.net). The problem being solved is moving video files around a network in order to get it to smart screens and projectors. This …
RPKI and misconceptions
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After my blog post about Hurricane Electric and RPKi support, I was seeing some comments by folks that warrant some clarification. I put together a short midnight podcast on this. To summarize1. route original validation is not the same as …
Unimus version 2.0 released
A short list of highlights from this release: – “Zones” feature for support of remote networks, including Unimus Core (remote agent / remote probe) – Full Config Change Notifications (including a diff) over Slack – Config Push Scheduling (MCP presets …