Looking for Transport 5g/10g between Miami to Fortaleza, Brazil

[Faisal Imtiaz]

Hello all,

Anyone who can provide this, can you please contact me off list ?

Thanks.

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232

Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[George Herbert]

The last time I checked, the US CIO office was understaffed and fighting the 
bureaucratic hydra and mostly losing, but competent and doing things like 
providing IGs with relevant ammo.

If not true in this case then the audit should be redone with relevant criteria.

George William Herbert
Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 22, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Sean Donelan  wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, George Herbert wrote:
>> Come on, the audit requirements should have diversity/redundancy concerns in 
>> them.
>> 
>> That's standard in all the audits I have done or participated in.
>> 
>> If these ones don't I have a marketing opportunity to teach a HA seminar and 
>> followon consulting to the IG.
> 
> Turn on C-SPAN and watch any random congressional oversight hearing.
> 
> Reasonable, rational or logical thoughts are rare. You may be making 
> assumptions that aren't supported.  Just ask Flint Michigan about saving
> money on cheaper water supplies.
> 

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Scott Weeks]

I finally looked at the Data Center Optimization 
Initiative (DCOI) at https://datacenters.cio.gov.  

If you're planning to provide feedback I would just 
about assure you that this will not be looked at by 
anyone that will be able to do anything.  Likely,
there'll be containers for expected/wanted responses 
and the rest will goto the bit bucket.  It's a 
pressure release valve.  (Let `em get it off their 
chests and then we'll do what we normally do: create 
confusion and chaos, so no one notices what's actually 
being done)  

The politics of gov't folks will over run everything 
reasonable put forth by non-gov't folks like a 
stampede of bison.

scott

Top-shelf resilience (Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

- Original Message -
> From: "George Herbert" 

> There are corner cases where distributed resilience is paramount, including a
> lot of field operations (of all sorts) on ships (and aircraft and spacecraft),
> or places where the net really is unstable.  Any generalizations that wrap
> those legitimate exceptions in are overreaching their valid descriptive range.

This seems like a good time to mention my favorite example of such a thing.

In the Navy, originally, and it ended up in a few other places, there was
invented the concept of a 'battleshort', or 'battleshunt', depending on whom 
you're talking to.

This was something akin to a Big Frankenstein Knife Switch across the main
circuit breaker in a power panel (and maybe a couple branch circuit breakers),
whose job was to make sure those didn't trip on you at an inconvenient time.

Like when you were trying to lay a gun on a Bad Guy.

The engineering decision that was made there was that the minor possiblity of 
a circuit overheating and starting something on fire was less important that
*the ability to shoot at the bad guys*...

Or, in my favorite example, something going wrong when launching Apollo rockets.

If you examine the Firing Room recorder transcripts from the manned Apollo
launches, you will find, somewhere in the terminal count, an instruction to
"engage the battle short", or something like that.

Men were, I have been told, stationed at strategic locations with extinguishers,
in case something which would normally have tripped a breaker was forbidden from
doing so by the shunt...

so that the power wouldn't go out at T-4 seconds.

It's referenced in this article:

  http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/station/ops_areas.html

and a number of other places google will find you.

Unknown whether this protocol was still followed in the Shuttle era, or whether
it will return in the New Manned Space Flight era.

But, like the four star saluting the Medal Of Honor recipient, it's one of
those outliers that's *so far* out, that I love and collect them.

And it's a good category of idea to have in the back of your head when planning.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink   j...@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates   http://www.bcp38.info  2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA  BCP38: Ask For It By Name!   +1 727 647 1274

Re: So Cal Verizon Business FIOS to Frontier cutover

[Jay R. Ashworth]

The cost of a support call is $30-70; this does not scale well.

The *actual* problem here is that your website does not answer
the actual questions that actual users have; that's the thing
someone needs to fix, before the $70 phone calls start coming in.

Cheers,
-- jra

- Original Message -
> From: "Azinger, Marla" 
> To: "Paul B. Henson" , nanog@nanog.org
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:24:45 PM
> Subject: RE: So Cal Verizon Business FIOS to Frontier cutover

> Hi Paul
> 
> I will email you privately to address your concerns.
> 
> Regards
> Marla Azinger
> Supervisor Network ENG
> IP Address Management
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Henson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 5:27 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: So Cal Verizon Business FIOS to Frontier cutover
> 
> So the transition from Verizon to Frontier is coming up, and I recently got a
> notice from Verizon pointing me to the following website:
> 
> http://meetfrontier.com/
> 
> Evidently one of the things Verizon did not sell to Frontier is their IP 
> address
> space, as it seems customers with static IP addresses are going to have to
> change their allocations :(. I have five statics, and while it is not the end
> of the world, it will certainly be annoying to have to reconfigure not only my
> equipment but also update the configurations of my clients that access it and
> the other service providers I access who restrict based on it . I was
> hoping to get some simple additional information regarding this migration, 
> such
> as:
> 
> * How far in advance of the cutover will we be notified?
> * How far in advance of the cutover will we be supplied with the new static IP
> addresses?
> * How big will the cutover window be, and will it be attended or unattended?
> * How will reverse DNS resolution be handled?
> 
> So I called the phone number on the website that was provided for questions or
> additional information. I'm not quite sure why they provided it, as the person
> who answered it had absolutely no information to provide other than that that
> was already on the website, and said they were unable to direct me to anyone
> who could provide any further information; I guess it was for people who 
> needed
> the website read to them?
> 
> Any chance there is a Frontier engineer on the list who might be able to 
> provide
> this information, anonymously if necessary :)? Or someone who has gone through
> a Verizon to Frontier FIOS static IP address transition in another location 
> who
> might describe their experience with the assumption it will be similar in
> California?
> 
> As far as reverse DNS, the only thing I can seem to find is this:
> 
> http://hostmaster.frontier.com/reverse.html
> 
> Which talks about "Business Class DSL and Dedicated Internet" customers, not
> sure if it applies to FIOS? What I'd really like is to get my PTR entries
> delegated to me via CNAMEs so I could control the TTLs and update them 
> whenever
> I wanted to without having to hassle the provider (one of my colleagues has
> this arrangement with charter business cable), Verizon was never willing to do
> that.
> 
> On another note, does anybody have any idea regarding Frontier's position on
> rolling out IPv6 for business FIOS :)? Hopefully they won't be quite as 
> archaic
> and stuck in the mud as Verizon has been on that topic :(.
> 
> Thanks much for any info.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This communication is confidential. Frontier only sends and receives email on
> the basis of the terms set out at http://www.frontier.com/email_disclaimer.

-- 
Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink   j...@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates   http://www.bcp38.info  2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA  BCP38: Ask For It By Name!   +1 727 647 1274

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, George Herbert wrote:

Come on, the audit requirements should have diversity/redundancy concerns in 
them.

That's standard in all the audits I have done or participated in.

If these ones don't I have a marketing opportunity to teach a HA seminar and 
followon consulting to the IG.


Turn on C-SPAN and watch any random congressional oversight hearing.

Reasonable, rational or logical thoughts are rare. You may be making 
assumptions that aren't supported.  Just ask Flint Michigan about saving

money on cheaper water supplies.

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[George Herbert]

Come on, the audit requirements should have diversity/redundancy concerns in 
them.

That's standard in all the audits I have done or participated in.

If these ones don't I have a marketing opportunity to teach a HA seminar and 
followon consulting to the IG.

George William Herbert
Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 22, 2016, at 10:59 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:11:11 -0400, Sean Donelan said:
>> Why do you have two circuits with only 40% utilization. The auditor says
>> that's waste, and you only need one circuit at 80% utilization for half
>> the cost.
> 
> And of course, said auditor is probably near impervious to the very real
> and valid reasons you have 2 circuits.  Because as Upton Sinclair wrote
> around a century ago:
> 
> "You cannot make a man understand something when his paycheck depends
> on him not understanding it".

Re: mrtg alternative

[Jason LeBlanc]

+1 on Observium.  

I know I am late replying but I just installed it a couple weeks ago.  It 
integrates with Smokeping, Rancid, CollectD, Syslo... Took me 1 day to setup on 
CentOS.  Fantastic product so far!


//LeBlanc

>We’re using Observium for trend collecting, graphing, and alerting.
>
>-Pete
>

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:11:11 -0400, Sean Donelan said:
> Why do you have two circuits with only 40% utilization. The auditor says
> that's waste, and you only need one circuit at 80% utilization for half
> the cost.

And of course, said auditor is probably near impervious to the very real
and valid reasons you have 2 circuits.  Because as Upton Sinclair wrote
around a century ago:

"You cannot make a man understand something when his paycheck depends
on him not understanding it".


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Citrix Sales Reps?

[Scott Fisher]

I have sent 4 requests to Citrix for pricing questions on XenServer support
options and have gotten not a single call back. (Requested via email, form,
and calls).

Can someone from Citrix please hit me up offlist or can someone direct me
to an actual person I can hit up?

-- 
Scott

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

But when some Armenian script kiddie DDoSing Netflix takes down your TSA
terrorist lookup service, and you come to me asking why the plane blew up,
I'm going to tell you "because you fucking ignored my written advice on
the matter", while I'm packing my desk.


DOCI is about physical data center opimization, not about network or
service availability.

DCOI metrics:
- Energy metering
- Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
- Virtualization
- Server Utilization & Automated Monitoring
- Facility Utilization

Why do you have two circuits with only 40% utilization. The auditor says
that's waste, and you only need one circuit at 80% utilization for half
the cost.

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

[Jay R. Ashworth]

- Original Message -
> From: "Lee" 

> On 3/13/16, Sean Donelan wrote:

> I doubt anyone really believes that having a server in the room makes
> it a data center.  But if you're the Federal CIO pushing the cloud
> first policy, this seems like a great bureaucratic maneuver to get the
> decision making away from the techies that like redundant servers in
> multiple locations, their managers who's job rating depends on
> providing reliable services and even the agency CIOs.  Check the
> reporting section of the memo where it says "each agency head shall
> annually publish a Data Center Consolidation and Optimization
> Strategic Plan".   I dunno, but I'm guessing agency heads are
> political appointees that aren't going to spend much, if any, time
> listening to techies whine about how important their servers are & why
> they can't be consolidated, virtualized or outsourced.

Fine.

But when some Armenian script kiddie DDoSing Netflix takes down your TSA
terrorist lookup service, and you come to me asking why the plane blew up,
I'm going to tell you "because you fucking ignored my written advice on 
the matter", while I'm packing my desk.

In writing.

Cheers,
-- jra

-- 
Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink   j...@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates   http://www.bcp38.info  2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA  BCP38: Ask For It By Name!   +1 727 647 1274

Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema

[Jay R. Ashworth]

- Original Message -
> From: "Yardiel Fuentes" 

> Have any of you had the option or; conversely, do you know of “best
> practices" or “common standards”,  to color code physical cabling for your
> connections in DataCenters for Base-T and FX connections? If so, Could you
> share  any ttype of color-coding schema you are aware of ?…. Yes, this is
> actually considering paying for customized color-coded cabling in a Data
> Center...

EIA/TIA 568/598 talk to fiber color coding.  They have one for copper too,
but I can't find it either, off hand.

google://cable+jacket+color+standards is a pretty good search for this

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink   j...@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates   http://www.bcp38.info  2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA  BCP38: Ask For It By Name!   +1 727 647 1274