If you have an Avaya 8600 in your network at some point you are going to have to upgrade the code. To some people this is a scary time in their career as they may have never done this before. Also, if you don’t have dual 8600 redundancy then rebooting your core switch and taking [...]
Juniper acquires Mykonos Software
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — Juniper Networks Inc., the second- largest maker of networking equipment, purchased closely held Mykonos Software Inc. for $80 million in cash, adding products that bolster the security of Internet applications. The acquisition, which closed on Feb. 13, complements Juniper’s existing security offerings, such as firewalls and protective systems within a corporate [...]
Juniper buys Trapeze network for $152 million
Juniper has purchased Trapeze networks for $152 million. Juniper, citing Dell’Oro data, says the enterprise WLAN market is expected to grow from $2.2 billion in 2010 to $3.4 billion in 2014. Trapeze was one of a pack of start-ups that pioneered the concept of the “wireless LAN switch,” linking with so-called thin access points to [...]
Google Apps for your company
Google Apps has been one of the best offerings by Google for businesses. I found Exchange to be a pain in managing, giving remote access to and troubleshooting. You may not know that Google Apps is for more than just Email but Calendar, Documents, Sites, IM, Cloud Connect, Groups, Video and Apps. Google Apps is free [...]
Avaya WLAN 2300 Remote Packet Capture
Have you ever needed to run a packet capture from a WAP (Wireless Access Point)? With the WLAN 2300 you can do just that. 1. Configure Snoop set snoop <name><options> observer <ip-address> 2. Map the Snoop Filter to the AP/Radio set snoop map <name> ap <ap-number> radio <radio number>
Google Drive
April 24th, 2012 
JayD Google is now offering Google Drive storage . Go to http://drive.google.com/start to get started. Current pricing as of April 24, 2012: Storage Monthly Rate 25 GB $2.49 100 GB $4.99 200 GB $9.99 400 GB $19.99 1 TB $49.99 2 TB $99.99 4 TB $199.99 8 TB $399.99 16 TB $799.99
MacBook Restore to Factory Default
March 27th, 2012 JayD Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press [...]
Avaya ERS and Avaya IP phones Automatic Provisioning Configuration Examples
March 26th, 2012 JayD Avaya VoIP Automatic Provisioning Configuration Examples: If you have or are planning on deploying VoIP and your network consists of Avaya Enterprise Routing Switches then you need to know how to configure your switches for the best voice quality you can provide your clients. This document will cover various configuration examples to allow for automatic [...]
Tip: How to Bypass Android Activation Screen on Motorola Droid
March 26th, 2012 JayD I found an article on how to bypass Android activation screen on the Motorola Droid and thought I would share it. Why would you want to do this? When you upgrade to a new phone and you can’t sell you old Droid might as well give it to your kids to use, remember you can [...]
AVaya IP phone dhcp server setup
March 20th, 2012 JayD The following setup applies to configuring a DHCP server for auto configuration. Depending on the Avaya IP phone series used, the DHCP options can vary. VLAN Setting using DHCP Double DHCP is a term used where the IP Phone learns the voice VLAN Id using DHCP. From a default setting, all IP Phones send out [...]
Avaya ERS LLDP Auto Configuration with a Stackable Ethernet Routing Switch – with traffic filters for QoS and optional LLDP MED Policy
March 20th, 2012 JayD How to configure your network with Avaya ERS LLDP Auto Configuration with a Stackable Ethernet Routing Switch – with traffic filters for QoS and optional LLDP MED Policy This diagram is utilizing Stackable Enterprise Routing Switch (2500, 4000, or 5000 series) Configuring your Avaya ERS Edge Switch for LLDP: (2500, 4000, or 5000 series) Requirements: DHCP [...]
Avaya ERS qos
March 19th, 2012 JayD QoS can be one of the most confusing technologies to configure. When you read the documents on how to configure QoS you usually come away even more confused. Avaya ERS QoS is actually quite simple despite their technical documentation on the subject. First off let’s see how your switch is currently configured: 4526T-PWR+#show qos if-group [...]
VMware ESX v3.x and v4.x How To: Change IP, subnet mask and default gateway
March 13th, 2012 JayD VMware ESX v3.x and 4.x How To: Change IP, subnet mask and default gateway If you ever need to change the IP address, subnet mask or default gateway on your VMware EXSi server then I found a great video in the VMware KB I would like to share. How to change the IP address, hostname, [...]
Juniper Configuration Restore
March 6th, 2012 JayD Juniper has a great feature built into JunOs that is seldom used but should be as a just in case I screwed up something. The command “commit confirmed 5″ will restore the switch back to it’s previous configuration after 5 minutes unless you enter the command “commit” or “commit check” within 5 minutes. This is useful when [...]
