Network Management

dfern1 asked:


I have a B.S in Information Networking and Telecommunications and several years of project management and IT service desk experience.

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Martin asked:


your organization sustain business operations through a flu pandemic or natural disaster if 40 percent of the workforce were unable to report to work for several weeks or longer?

There is little doubt that a natural disaster or a global pandemic could strike in the future. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that if there were a pandemic of the H5N1 Bird Flu, as much as 40 percent of the workforce could be out at any one time. Mitigation strategies such as voluntary or mandatory social distancing could last for days or even months and have disastrous financial implications for employees and organizations that did not have a readily available way to remotely access their corporate networks.

Governments and health agencies have been urging organizations to prepare for a pandemic or a natural disaster such as a hurricane or tornado. However, in a recent Deloitte survey of 163 large enterprises, 48 percent of respondents said their companies have not adequately prepared for such disasters.

Authorities are thus stressing the importance of developing pandemic plans that will allow organizations to keep functioning in the event of an emergency. An important part of such plans is ensuring adequate network capacity for all employees, contractors, and partners so they can work from home for weeks or possibly months. One of the most critical (and typically unknown) components of pandemic planning is determining whether or not your service providers – and carriers themselves – are ready for a global pandemic outbreak or unforeseen disaster. Capacity planning, redundancy of operations, security, and overall support need to be tightly integrated to truly create an infrastructure that can continue to operate in the face of a major emergency.

Outsourcing a pandemic readiness solution ensures end users are prepared ahead of time and resources are available if they need them. However, rapidly scaling a network can be an organization’s greatest challenge if it has not done the appropriate due diligence. Service providers can offer economical, customized services that allow networks to scale up rapidly and support hundreds or even thousands of end users working remotely. These providers have developed solution platforms that allow organizations to host SSL VPN gateways, firewalls, and intrusion prevention equipment at regional centers, allowing customers to connect securely to application servers at their corporate data centers over an MPLS infrastructure.

Managed service providers that have access agreements with multiple MPLS service providers can provide another layer of resiliency by leveraging these carriers to intelligently route customer traffic. Simply stated, the ability to leverage and control the flow of traffic across multiple world-class backbones to provide last-mile access connectivity across a wide geographic area is essential to making any successful pandemic plan for multi-national organizations.

In the event a portion of an organization’s network is incapacitated, preventing end users from getting to corporate data centers, managed service providers should be able to exploit multiple data centers for redundancy. Multi-layered connectivity in and out of regional centers provides the highest resiliency and offers the most protection to companies in the event of a pandemic.

With a managed service provider managing the scalability of your network, you can have all key components already in place to not only change the volume of users on your network on a moment’s notice but also how they access it.

Ramping Up Remote Access

When deploying a pandemic plan, it is essential to put all of the pieces in place to allow employees to continue working from remote locations and to ensure your network is scalable. Emergency licensing, global load balancing, and security are key to this process.

Emergency licensing is a terrific insurance policy. Clients pay an upfront fee for pre-installed licenses; when emergency licensing is activated, the number of concurrent users per client gateway can immediately be increased to the maximum allowable on the existing hardware. Even better, emergency licensing fees are a fraction of the cost of permanent concurrent-user licenses. A company’s existing gateway may be licensed for 200 concurrent users, but when emergency licensing is activated, the same gateway could accommodate 2,000 concurrent users.

In the event social distancing is necessary, excess load will occur on a regional scale as workers are forced to work remotely. Depending on how the pandemic spreads, different regions may experience different levels of adverse impact. Load balancing deals with this by dynamically allocating traffic across multiple data centers in the event remote-access capacity adjustments need to be made. Global load balancing dynamically adjusts the load between regional data centers so idle capacity can be used efficiently.

You must not overlook security when planning for a pandemic. Hackers are waiting for opportunities that will leave a network vulnerable and will likely launch attacks when they think they can do the most damage. Organizations will therefore need perimeter firewalls and intrusion prevention to block malicious activity. Security event correlation is another important feature to seek out from your MSP. For example, integrating the SSL VPN, firewall, and IPS with security event correlation enables service providers to make more informed decisions about what constitutes malicious activity and automatically take action to avert attacks.

Economic Benefits

When putting a pandemic plan into place, one of the greatest benefits of a managed approach is the ability to leverage the existing network infrastructure and existing support staff, without having to add capital expenses or additional headcount. Organizations do not want to build out a costly new infrastructure where capacity may sit idle. However, organizations should not do business without a safety net that will let them leverage the infrastructure in place today, assess where and how critical users can failover, and support an increase in users.

Being prepared does not have to equal high cost. Take the example of a customer deployment that includes a fully redundant and scaleable remote access infrastructure for a large manufacturing company with over 50,000 remote users around the world. The organization chose a hosted, cloud-based solution with six regional centers to host an array of dedicated network and security equipment, standardized around the world.

The regional centers are interconnected to multiple Tier 1-ISPs that vary region by region for maximum interconnectivity and diversity. Each center connects directly to the enterprise MPLS network, so each regional center acts and looks like a customer edge on the MPLS wide area network. All the provider’s regional centers are integrated with one another via a multi-carrier MPLS core in the event of a customer circuit failure.

The manufacturer reaps a number of economic benefits from its managed pandemic planning solution:

The company avoided over 80 percent of “idle” pandemic-capacity license costs;

A $2.1 million hardware capital investment was rolled into operational expenses; The entire rollout, plus management for three years, required zero additional headcount; The solution required zero footprint on customer premises and data centers.

Organizations can achieve pandemic readiness for as little as 15 percent of the cost of a baseline solution for standard remote access should an epidemic or natural disaster impair a large portion of the workforce. Secure and scalable solutions that allow organizations to build a contingency plan that fits their specific needs can be turned on and off as needed. The benefits of pandemic planning could be vast for organizations that take the time to put plans in place today to avoid a cessation of workforce productivity in the face of a pandemic in the future.

Organizations tasked with this vital responsibility must be prepared in every way possible to prevent, respond to, and recover from large-scale emergencies, and effective communications are essential to this effort. To ensure continuity of operations and enhance recovery efforts, partnering with trusted specialists who can offer relevant expertise, equipment, infrastructure, and services can make the difference when it comes to sustaining business operations in the face of a pandemic.



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Michelle Penfold asked:


If you are serious about starting your own business and have decided that network marketing is the best model for you to achieve your goals, there are important considerations to look for when evaluating a network marketing company. Some companies are more distributor-focused than others. The top management of the company is also something to consider. What kind of products and services does the company provide and do they stand by their products? These are all important factors when selecting a network marketing company that will help you meet your goals of financial success and independence.

An important quality to look for in a network marketing company is integrity and are they distributor-focused? What this means is does the company make realistic claims about income potential and do they stand by their products and services. In addition to this integrity, which is crucial to your success, a company that is distributor-focused is the best one to go with. They know that the distributors are their front line for getting their products sold on the market. They will do everything they can to support their distributors with training, sales materials and frequent communication on any changes in products or policies.

A network marketing company should have products or services that people will genuinely be interested in and want to buy. If other people can see the value in the product or service, chances are you have a good opportunity. If the product or service is something that people use everyday, or helps them reach their goals and desires, you have a good network marketing company. Part of the success of being a network marketing distributor is being able to make direct sales of the product. This is much easier when you are offering something that is useful to people and they can see the value in purchasing it through you. Network marketing companies will often have products or services that are unique and create high demand for them. If the demand is there, you have a better chance of succeeding in the network marketing business.

Management of the parent company is also very important when you are looking at network marketing opportunities. Good management is a must in every business, including network marketing. You should evaluate the experience of the top managers and they should have proven track records of success in this industry. They should also be committed to supporting distributors through training and marketing support. If a company has a good management team in place with solid network marketing experience, chances are you will have more chance of success with a company like this.



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EILISHA asked:


Hi, I am thinking about going into a program called a Network Cabling Specialist. It’s a 3 month program(including a interning process at the end of the program).

I have a bachelors in management and organizational development but am unhappy with the pay (I make 14.00 an hour).

I was hoping that i would be able to live comfortably, if I got my education, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I am currently a project coordinator for a I.T department and am interested in becoming hands-on, with the technical side of I.T instead of the I.T. Business only side.

Please tell me what you think… Do you think the job market is right for me to be making a career change right now? Also, what type of jobs would I be able to get and about how much will they pay to start on the networking technical side?

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LeonardoENERGY asked:

Power Quality monitoring has become a standard task in electrical network management. Amir Broshi explains how he noticed through “real life” case studies of Power Quality troubleshooting that solving the Power Quality problem with measurements simply taken to comply with standards is sometimes not possible. He shows that by providing engineers with data beyond the standards, an unprecedented number of Power Quality events can not only be captured, but are definitively solved. …

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WowGao Inc. asked:


For Immediate Release

Discuss the Evolution of Municipal Wireless Networks with Cisco Systems at the 2008 Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo

2008 – Toronto, Canada – The Evolution of Municipal Wireless Networks – Demise or Transition? This is the question Cisco Systems’ Geoff Cargill will address at the 2008 Government Technologies Conference and Expo,2008 at the Design Exchange in the Heart of Downtown Toronto. Geoff Cargill is Business Development Manager, Public Sector – Government and Education for Cisco Systems

Municipal and government sponsored wireless networks have reached a critical inflection point in their evolution. The hype of municipal wireless that dominated headlines from 2004 to 2006 has given way to predictions on the demise of pervasive Wi-Fi for outdoor use. But what has really changed? Has it really failed? This session will discuss that rather than a complete demise there is a transition underway. An evolution that is necessary to address the underlying problems that were encountered in some of the first generation of outdoor wireless network deployments. Attendees will learn the history of municipal wireless networks, what happened, and what’s next.

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About Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco’s Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

Cisco enables people to make powerful connections—whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible—providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.

About the 2008 Government and Health Technologies Conference & Expo:

The 2008 Government and Health Technologies Conference and Expo will focus on the latest IT products and solutions being developed and sought after in the healthcare and public service sector, including Web 2.0, Patient Monitoring Systems, Document Management, Business Intelligence, Mobile Data Systems, RFID Solutions, Biometrics and much more.

As one of Canada’s leading annual IT conference and exposition, the event features ground breaking IT applications that aim to educate key IT professionals, Government officials, developers, architects, engineers and medical professionals with the necessary tools and techniques for the reliable, effective management of all public information services across Canada. For more information about the event, please visit http://gov.wowgao.com

About WowGao Inc.

WowGao Inc. is an award winning leading event management company that produces, since 2003, internationally renowned conferences and expositions that address the latest innovations and developments in the information technology industry. Our featured events include:

Government & Health Technologies Conference and Expo, April 15 & 16, 2008

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The first Member Company, GAO Research Inc., was founded on June 2, 1992 and it quickly established its reputation as an R & D power house in the embedded industry. GAO Group has continually grown and has become a conglomerate of fast growing companies with an enormous international customer base and an extensive network of VARs, distributors, resellers, and strategic partners in diversified industries worldwide.

With the aim of providing unparalleled services to its enormous customer base spread out over the world, GAO Group has developed and deployed state of the art technologies among all its facilities to support such functions as e-commerce, inventory management, CRM, project management, and supply chain management.



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breezinoz asked:


Which of the listed activities below are the responsibility of a Network Administrator?

a) Sets up and manages user accounts
b) Works with management to determine IT needs
c) Assists users over the phone with software problems
d) Implements the network
e) Supports the web administrator

network management architecture

tado789 asked:


I have both WLAN/LAN installed(built-in) in my Computer(Laptop) and got a problem on viewing its icons in Network Connections. The only connection i could view were on my Dial Up Connection, I’ve tried to view my Computer Management->Device Manager to check if its enabled/or if it got unknown device but not. i’ve tried to enable/disable then restart my PC for changes but didn’t work on viewing its icons on Network Connection…

HELP! HELP! HELP!

Sorry for Little Bad English

network management protocols

har7171 asked:


SSL Tunnels (VPN): Secured Connectivity across multiple Locations.
* Hierarchical Bandwidth management on multiple levels and Q.O.S.
* Allot and measure bandwidth by rate and utilization.
* Graphs for utilization of bandwidth by machine and users.
* Facility to modify users bandwidth policy for administrator.
* Tunable traffic and QOS configuration (Protocol wise Bandwidth
Allocation and Prioritization).
* Grouping of multiple ip addresses and defining them as single node.
* Antivirus on gateway level.
* Firewall for internal network with configurable parameters for
blocking all or specified tcp/udp ports.
* Discriminatory policies for Content/Web filtering.
* Load Balancing and Fail-over.
* Internet access based on users or IP Addresses.
* Flexible Internet Time management.
* Extensive reporting and monitoring of URLs and sites visited,
bandwidth usage on users and group bases.
* Easy deployment and web based

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dr_placebo81 asked:


I have decided to migrate from windows to linux, i would like to know which linux OS among Ubuntu and Suse is best for local networking and ICS ? which OS will give me more options or control in local network management ?? thanks .

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