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Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:07:22 +0200
On 12/Mar/20 21:37, Jared Mauch wrote:
I’m expecting that despite the usual game and download/streaming events, the baseline usage during the daytime is going to tick up significantly eating into network margin. Hopefully everyone has your upgrades on order due to the aforementioned lead-time issues. Hopefully everything is back to normal in 4-6 weeks.
On this side of the world, no major policies yet to force staff to work from home. But we are currently facing plenty of power generation shortages in South Africa specifically, and while offices have generators and such, most homes do not. So the problem with working from home is some people won't be able to until they either install alternative power sources or national power generation normalizes. Over the years, we've built a myriad of pfSense-based OpenVPN servers across several countries and cities so staff can always connect to the closest one when traveling or working from home. Traffic flow is non-split, and because they've been upgraded almost every year, we don't anticipate load issues if more people are out of the office. We've reduced reliance on internal VoIP PABX systems for conference calls since dumping WebEx and going Zoom nearly 2 years ago. Everyone knows how to use it, and we use it rather frequently, so folk can still have their meetings as usual. Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks, (continued)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks A. Pishdadi (Mar 13)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keaton Alexander Guger Lair (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Paul Nash (Mar 15)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Matthew Petach (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Christopher Morrow (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Matthew Petach (Mar 13)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Troy Martin (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Jared Mauch (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Jared Mauch (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Brian K Miller (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Rubens Kuhl (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Ahmed Borno (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Bolitho (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Hugo Slabbert (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Sabri Berisha (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Darin Steffl (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Owen DeLong (Mar 13)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Hugo Slabbert (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Bolitho (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Ahmed Borno (Mar 13)