NS-WAN Team Meeting Minutes 7-23-18
Summary of NS-WAN Team Meeting Thursday 7-23-18
Attendees: Bill Jensen, Will Boettcher, Tim Czerwonka, Dan Parenteau, Michael Hare, Pat Christian, Paul Nazario
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