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    DDoS Products/Solutions

    We have an Arbor Networks Peakflow SP unit that I priced and installed ~6 months ago. It receives netflow statistics from our edge peering routers and not only gives usage information but when it detects the start of a DDoS attack(usually within 15-30 seconds of the attack starting). It will...
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    Help Wiring a DSLAM

    I oversee network engineering for a small FTTP telecommunications company company, we use the VDSL DSLAM's to serve last 1000 ft in large MDU's so we can serve IPTV and high speed internet to users where it's too costly to pull all new fiber in.
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    Best Label Maker?

    I have a Rhino 5200 labeler and it seems to work fine, I'd rather have gotten a Rhino 6000 but overall it gets the job done.
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    Help Wiring a DSLAM

    I have a TA1248V(VDSL2 Flavor) sitting in my lab now. We have several hosts and clients deployed in large MDU's to provide high speed internet, sub-1000 foot loop lengths we easily see 100 Mb down and 50+ Mb up train rates. Should be testing some VDSL2 bonding in the near future and curious to...
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    Network pics thread

    We deploy calix, started on the C7's and moved to E7-2 and 20's. Using a lot of 716GE-I's now, moved away from the outdoor ONT's. Will have to get some pictures, for now here's a few. 1. This is from a few years back when we were staging our Microsoft Mediaroom Deployment while finishing our...
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    Metered PDU's for Server Racks

    We use APC in our data center, they work great, metered and can switch ports on/off remotely. We've bought several of them on used from Gruber Power in the past.
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    Ruckus wireless mesh network?

    I just installed a Ruckus ZoneDirector 1006 and 2 7962 AP's (1 in each office location). One of our locations is 7,500 sq foot retail/office space and 7,500 sq foot warehouse in the back. I ordered two 7962's for this location alone and it ended up that just 1 covers the entire space and about...
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    Does anyone know of a university where my IT certifications count towards credits?

    While I was going through my Bachelors my college switched to a Cisco Certified Academy. I already had my CCNA at the time and so it allowed me to "test out" of the CCNA classes, 4 semesters of classes for free. The college didn't want to just give me the credits, they had no choice it was a...
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    Barebone Servers - Newegg Edition

    I bought 4 1RU servers from ABMX a few years ago, cost was low and haven't had an issue with any of them in over 2 years.
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    Building a scalable VM deployment

    Non-Profits can get Windows 2008 Enterprise for next to nothing which would give you 1 Physical License and 4 Virtual Licenses. Did a virtualization project for a school using Hyper-V earlier this year, 7 TB SAN, 2 Servers, software for $35,000 so it definitely can be done.
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    Do you remember your first graphics card?

    Voodoo 3 3000, still have it somewhere around here.
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    Galaxy - 8 Weeks of Free Video Cards @ [H] - Week 3

    Please!!! :)
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    Capstone Project Idea

    Pick a city of between 5,000-10,000 people, do a physical plant deisgn for a PON Based FTTP system. It's easy as hell to throw the devices into a visio diagram but there is a lot of work to the physical plant design. Are you going to run 1:1 fiber to the plant and put all your passives in CO...
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    Offsite backup service for SMB

    I've been using JungleDisk with Amazon S3, overall I've been pretty happy with it, it's fairly cheap. JungleDisk now offers the rackspace storage cloud as well. I'm staying on Amazon S3 as many of our linux machines run s3cmd and backup to the same amazon s3 account. We also use Mozy Pro, it...
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    Anyone here use Nagios?

    We use it at work, looking to switch to zabbix or groundworks opensource. Nagios 3.0 has added quite a few functions. Currently we monitor only 110 devices and 220 services but we heavily customized our nagios installation to alarm based on snmp-traps which reduces the load on the server as it...
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