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Title: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: LynK on November 15, 2017, 02:53:44 PM
Hey guys,

Decided to move on from my old job at a small company (~100 employees). I am now working for a medium sized business (~1000 employees). Seems to be the perfect mix of large + small enterprise. I got a lot to do, and they invest properly into their IT because they realize that without proper design and redundancy it costs them.

cheers!
Title: Re: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: deanwebb on November 15, 2017, 03:04:08 PM
Good stuff, LynK!

For your new employer, do they have production lines that need to be segmented? If so, you'll have some fun with that part.  >:D
Title: Re: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: dlots on November 15, 2017, 03:07:33 PM
Gratz!

Hope it goes great for you :-D
Title: Re: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: LynK on November 15, 2017, 03:13:39 PM
@dean,

Actually no... it is all together on what network from what I can see. I have a lot of work to do... the guy here decided to not use VPC with 2 7ks.... but has everything dual homed.... which makes no sense. I am still trying to figure out that one.

All of the manufacturing stuff is all serial/proprietary connections, that then go to Ethernet to a ERP system. Pretty interesting.


Thanks... it was tough to leave the small company. I liked all of them, but they lost one contract and I they didn't want to upgrade 80% of their infrastructure (original 6500's/4500's). But ownership was great, and they treated me well.
Title: Re: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: deanwebb on November 15, 2017, 05:21:05 PM
Sometimes, you just have to face facts and take a job that will be better than the one you left...
Title: Re: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: Dieselboy on November 16, 2017, 06:48:55 AM
Nice one mate! All the best 👍
Title: Re: New Job - Manufacturing
Post by: SimonV on November 16, 2017, 07:13:29 AM
Good luck! Manufacturing plants tend to invest a lot in their network and HA solutions :)

About the vPC, do you mean towards access switches or inside the DC?