September 6th

Today the Procera Packet Tracer was put on line. Over the past few weeks we have been getting ready for this. I have made the cables to the exact length, tested them to ensure they worked and labeled them. We un packaged the packet tracer and placed it in the rack and powered it up. We sent out an outage message to the campus the internet will be down this morning at 6:00 am. We came in started a ping session and removed the first cable going to the firewall. Once we did that the switch automatically rolled over to the second connection then we swapped over the redundant connection. During the swap over we monitored the ping session and the internet was down for less than 5 seconds. Now that we have the Packet Shaper in place we can monitor where all of the traffic is going and what is taking up our bandwidth. This is a great investment for the college to improve the reliability of the network. During the rest of the day wil be I working on the network map.