BGP Monitoring

What tools are you using to monitor BGP announcements and route changes? [OIT Website]<https://www.oit.co/> Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC [cid:915068ae-ac24-488b-95e0-65fd40ea5afb] 305.967.6756 x1009| [cid:6f566813-2e6f-4b77-86fb-6dcf7b370a8a] 305.57

Re: Any info on AT&T Wireless Outage?

We're affected as well. Unable to dial out. I haven't found any official statement though. [OIT Website]<https://www.oit.co/> Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC [cid:c8519a01-d6f7-40e7-8376-cceab8183f23] 305.967.6756 x1009| [cid:4471b74c-1422-4b97-b

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Cogent ...

It's illegal to prevent employees from discussing salary. Are you saying Cogent is doing unlawful things? Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https:/

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ?

Voip.ms attack has cleared up. Now they’re just screwed due to bandwidth.com. I haven’t seen anyone confirm the type of DDOS attack and it’s impossible to know if it’s related to the voip.ms attack. However that’s very likely. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009

RE: EXTERNAL: Anyone else expereincing phone line issues from west to east ?

Yes, Bandwidth has been experiencing DDoS attacks since Sat. status.bandwidth.com and downdetector.com Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.o

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: VoIP Provider DDoSes

Yes there are. I was about to message Steve about the correction. Corero and path.net are options. There are others. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: VoP regulatory consultant

I've worked with several of them over the past 10 years. I'm currently with CLA who bought GSA awhile back. I'm very happy with them. Matt LaHood is the contact. The contact is Matt LaHood Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.62

ISP NOC contact at Spectrum and RR.com

Can anyone at Spectrum and RR.com contact me off list? We've been seeing a ton of packet loss in the NE US over the past week affecting voice quality. Thank you. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How a

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Can't Port from a Particular Rate Center

If there's wireless you can always try porting to wireless. We do that in a few rate centers ____ Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray Headed to ASCII: Ohio on June 16th - 17th?

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Microsoft problems...

Azure is having outages atm - https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback.

RE: Looking for hosted SMTP service for small ISP

We use postmarkapp.com for our transactional and marketing outbound. It works extremely well and has excellent diagnostics. We've been with them a few years. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we

Re: CNAME records in place of A records

It's not a security thing. We do this with the the resellers who white label our VOIP. CNAMEs allow us to be flexible with our own hosts and infrastructure without having all of our resellers change DNS records. ____ Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT

RE: Pilot Fiber, Chicago Area: Impressions?

I've been working with Pilot for over a year. Great company and staff. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray How are we doing? We'd love to hear your feedback. https://go.oit.co/review ​Join our next Par

RE: WIKI documentation Software?

Confluence is good for small teams. Self-hosted is $10r. Plus addons we end up around $150/yr. Unfortunately, we outgrew it in terms of users. Additional users are way too expensive. [OIT Website]<https://www.oit.co/> Ray Orsini​ Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC [cid:image0

RE: Poor mans TAP

Most smart switches do port mirroring. But I've had the predecessor to that tap for a few years. It has always worked well. Ray Orsini Chief Executive Officer OIT, LLC 305.967.6756 x1009 | 305.571.6272 r...@oit.co | www.oit.co oit.co/ray -Original Message- From: NANOG On Beha

RE: Contacts wanted: OVH, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft (Deutschland)

I originally held back on a similar response. But I had the exact same opinion. It works against your argument when you start off with insults and condescension. Personally, I would not refer anyone to someone making a post like this. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology

RE: ISP License in the USA?

a SPIN is extremely easy. Applying for e-rate funding, on the other hand, is usually best done via a consultant. Thankfully that's the customer's problem, not yours. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.9

RE: Network traffic simulator

Siama also does this. I don't own any. But I've used them with some of my customers. http://siamasystems.com/?page_id=2280 Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com

RE: Level 3 issues?

I'm having trouble reaching my Birch connection from Verizon and another Birch site. But no issues from FPL Fibernet which passes through Level3. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009

RE: sub $500-750 CPE firewall for voip-centric application

We deploy SonicWALL TZ300 or SOHO using Dell's Security as a Service. That way our monthly cost per customer is under $50 and includes all security services plus GMS centralized management. Works great with our VOIP service. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants

RE: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

On our VOIP service we include US, Canada and Puerto Rico as "local" calling. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite

RE: Best practices for sending network maintenance notifications

so obvious. But, honestly I'd never thought it until right now. Thanks! Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lake

RE: Anyone from Verizon/MCI/UUNet ?

I'd watch that show! Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http://www.orsiniit.com | View My Cal

RE: SMS gateways

I can confirm that the device can send texts. I use the same 320U and 340U with AT&T and T-Mobile sims. Text is actually how they reset your account password if you need it. I use the prepaid plans. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDW

RE: Inferring the location points of traffic exchange between two networks

The fastest way to get this information first-hand would be to set up a network in an emulator (GNS3, VIRL, PacketTracer, etc). There are hundreds of guides online to do this. Then you could do the same show commands and record the output. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology

RE: SMS gateways

We use those a lot with mobile hotspots. Where did you find them for $20? We usually pay about 2x that much for used untis. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844

RE: Best Source for ARIN Region /24

Ditto here. Seems like Matthew beat me to the question Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SECURITY  SUPPORT P: 305.967.6756 x1009 E: r...@orsiniit.com TF: 844.OIT.VOIP 7900 NW 155th Street, Suite 103, Miami Lakes, FL 33016 http

RE: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.

On one hand I want to give Legere some credit for addressing the publicity himself. On the other hand, he sounds like a complete fool doing it. I wish I would've been on Periscope at the time. Regards, Ray Orsini – CEO Orsini IT, LLC – Technology Consultants VOICE DATA  BANDWIDTH  SEC