Re: Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Jason Dearborn
> Their support sucks really really bad. I had a level 3 outtage and > it took 10 calls to finally get them to do something. Things might > have improved by now, but no promises. If you are getting a large > amount of bandwidth ask for direct access to the carriers noc. That > how we do it. They

Re: Make that NTT America (was Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-15 Thread Jason Dearborn
Twitter doesn't run their own core or edge. It's all in the NTT "cloud". On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Erik Fichtner wrote: > Brandon Galbraith wrote: > >>> http://status.twitter.com/post/124145031/maintenance-window-tonight-9-45p-pacific > >> You sure it's their network, and not Twitter's cor

Re: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?

2009-03-10 Thread Jason Dearborn
Good question. I'm also curious if anyone has experience with the Mushroom BBNA device and how it compares to Talari. Due to various premises and telco issues, I've been unable to get anything faster than a DSL connection pulled into a certain branch office. I'm considering any and every alterna

Re: Network diagram software

2009-02-11 Thread Jason Dearborn
I use the free basic version of http://www.gliffy.com for mock-ups. It doesn't go as deep as OmniGraffle or Visio, but it's enough to illustrate concepts to NOC guys or executives.