NS-WAN Team Meeting Minutes 7-23-18

Tabled for a future meeting: Should we be protecting our transit interfaces better (Michael)

Drafty agenda items so far include:

1. PMDP review

• Discussion about PMDP.hr.wisc.edu & E-mail that is generated when Pat starts review

• Likely will skip questions next year in favor of online system

2. MX2010 upgrade planning (JUNOS & backplane)

• Michael trying to schedule 

• WEJ/Tim will test backplane installation in lab MX104 by 7/30/18 & then we’ll schedule Madison

• Milwaukee will also be scheduled by ~8/15/18

3. SysNet “all hands” meeting agenda

*Remote access is limited*

Roundtable discussions – 2 hours

• Topics other UWs want to discuss

• Each UW provide status update?

• Darren/Kurt presentation?

• UW-Madison update

o Tim – graphana

o Dennis’ team?

• Pat – Availability & other metrics report (10 min)

o Fiber updates – report sent in advance

 UWC-Waukesha

 UWC-RockCO

 UWC-Baraboo-SaukCO

 UWC-SheboyganCO

 UWC-Marinette

 And others???

• Michael – network update

o Network virtualization: virtual routing & switching options for: VoIP & data center DR, branch campus connectivity, cloud computing, SIP trunking on BadgerNet

• Will / Tim - MX104 issue discussion

• Optical discussion

o DCI devices (Infinera, Ciena) – datacenter interconnect

o Open line system (WN/BOREAS-Net proposed upgrade)

o CFP2 v qSFP28; 

o WEJ – 10GE > 80km (Colleges solution > 2xGE East/West)

• Will – DDoS???  (likely not)

Day 2

• Jeff Harrison – System IT consolidation (30 min)

• Pat - SWOT Analysis (1 hr)

4. New hire update

• Jeremy Sarauer accepted offer and will start Tuesday 8/14/18

• Team will do a cube cleanup in preparation for Jeremy’s 1st day

• Jeremy will use Mike B’s old cube

*  Dan & Paul are Jeremy's new hire mentors

5. Partners in Giving team opportunity

• Pat notified group of opportunity to participate on team; contact Pat for more details

6. MX104 discussion

• Flash vendor has admitted that JP4 flash is suboptimal

• ATP & Juniper developed code to identify spare & bad blocks on flash

• While attempting to load code on UW-Platteville router we ran into corruption issues where the flash code tool was telling us there were many spare blocks

• Juniper has offered 4 free routing engines (RE’s); we’ve asked for 20