For most of the time I have been a Network Admin, our campus has been shifting from an HP to Cisco wired infrastructure and has always had a Cisco wireless solution. In general, I have been satisfied with Cisco hardware and with TAC support, but I have been getting more…
I have had a pretty frustrating week. I have two different Cisco installations misbehaving and have opened a TAC for each of them. Before I go into my rant, I would like to say that my general experience with TAC has been very good and TAC support is one of…
I am now down to just a few more items to install before I can call our campus’ latest remodel complete. I has been a stressful summer and fall, doing configurations, physically installing equipment, meeting with contractors, and turning in punch lists. The stress was increased by the fact that…
I am about to configure new switches to go into a soon-to-be-remodeled building on our campus. As I go into the process, I am thinking about a number of variables including the fact that this will be the first of our buildings to use port channels to aggregate two interfaces…
I am a network administrator for a small community college and have been working in this field since 2010. I also do a little bit of computer maintenance with my side business. What this means in real terms is that I have been doing this long enough to be considered…