Knock on wood indeed!!! But I imagine having local resources at the branch office would help a little. We have no servers at the branches. Everything is in HQ. Printers are all local (direct IP or USB), and all apps are published via Citrix. The desktops have an icon for http://citrix which brings them to the web interface of the 6.5 farm and presents them w/ their apps based on AD group membership. Even Internet Explorer is through Citrix, so no local internet access. Very centralized. All phones are VoIP too, with no local lines at any branch. (except for a fax machine at each location)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Evans Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Talari Networks for MPLS? We don't have any redundancy. Knock on wood, we haven't had a MPLS failure in the last 2 years with our current carrier. I'm sure if our experience was different, it would be an easier sell. Our branch offices are set up to stand alone as much as possible - each has an onsite DC, file & print server which would help mitigate the impact of any outage. ...Tim From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Mazzaccaro Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:17 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Talari Networks for MPLS? I currently have a remote office w/ 5 users (single T1 MPLS connection) that's been down for 27+ hours. It can't cost more than that downtime? Or maybe it can... that office doesn't do much business... LOL What do you do for redundancy now? I am also looking at a cellular failover to 3G/4G to keep the office online in the event the T goes down. That is $100/month. I can also add a 2nd T1 line there for $300/mo - the most I could do with that is request the provider feed it from a separate DS3 I guess. Doesn't help it the utility pole gets hit... but that's where the cellular would kick in. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Evans Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:55 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Talari Networks for MPLS? We looked at them last year and were very impressed. We even did a small POC in our lab with a couple of evaluation boxes. Support was very helpful. We haven't implemented it yet because I'm waiting for management approval of the budget. Unfortunately, they aren't cheap. ...Tim From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Mazzaccaro Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:52 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Talari Networks for MPLS? http://www.talari.com Anyone out there have any good/bad experiences with this company? Their solution looks like something I could really benefit from. Device at main location, device at each branch office that can use a variety of connectivity options to act as a failover VPN if MPLS goes down, but more importantly, it also combines all connections for connectivity. . . .
