Riverbed install done.

It didn't take long. About an hour on the phone. We are going to have to upgrade the OS on all 6 at some point though. Just like any home router or access point the upgrade is pretty much the same way. Download the OS, browes to where it was saved and install.

Here they are. This first one is the 1020 and it is connected to another like it in London.


This next one is the 200 and it is connected to another like it in Shanghai.


to learn more about Riverbed appliances visit www.riverbed.com

Second set of Riverbeds going in..

Our second set of Riverbed devices are going in tomorrow between NY and Shanghai. Nothing special but plug them in between your network and your point-to-point router.

IPT rollout continued

We have changed from our original plan of just rolling out IP phones to the office. The phones we were rolling and have started to roll out were the 7941G. We decided to move up to the 7941G-GE. What is the difference? Well the power requirements for both phones for starters and the bandwidth the other. what do I mean? The 7941G is a 10/100 phone that require 6.3W of power. The 7941G-GE is a 10/100/1000 phones that require 12.9W of power. Each WS-3560-48PS switch or any switch for that matter (access layer)provides a maximum of 370W of power. So if loaded up the switch with all 7941G's the power consumption would be 48x6.3W= 302.4W of power. Now that we decided for the more bandwidth option we can not add 48 7941G-GE phones to these switches (alone). They need power bricks or adapters b/c if I added these phones without them the power requirement would exceed what the switch can handle. 48x12.9=619.2W of power. That is almost twice what the switch can put out.

So in order for me to make this work smoothly I am going to disable PoE on the ports so I don't have any mishaps in the future. I'd rather plug a device in the switch and it not power up then plug a device in the switch and it blow out said switch and everything that is plug into it. So I will use the;

(config-if)#power inline never

on the range of ports I want no PoE to. Better safe then sorry.