On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: > --- r...@maine.edu wrote: > From: Ray Soucy <r...@maine.edu> > > We service most of the state's public schools and > libraries (about 1000). Historically the CPE of > choice was a small Cisco ISR (1600,1700, 1800, and > 1900 most recently). As bandwidth levels went up, > and Ethernet-based transport services became > available, we started looking and leveraging FOSS > on commodity hardware to lower costs and move
>> After roll-out and after a time in steady-state >> operation did you do an analysis of human and >> hardware/software costs (as well as service to >> end sites, such as outages that might not have >> happened with normal routers and LAN switches) >> to see if you actually saved money? : For us, the ability to have more tools to poke : at the state of the system and troubleshoot : issues (such as performing packet captures : directly on the device) has been invaluable. : It has allowed us to track down issues (such : as TCP window scaling problems with unnamed : cloud services and their incorrectly configured : load balancers) remotely that would have : required on-site capture in the past. This alone would put me in heaven, rather than the mirror to an open port and sniff it procedure... :-) Thanks for the response, scott