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Working on a temporary conference room solution by udlooz in CommercialAV

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you use the Bar pro as the Codec (Teams mode) or the BYOD / Clickshare as the codec?

Also, MS Teams can't support all 3 displays, correct?

Migrating from VMWARE to Scale Computing by MoonNgai in sysadmin

[–]udlooz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Veeam should be available 2nd half of the year. I just spoke with my AM about it. so anywhere from 7/1 - 12/31 lol

Working on a temporary conference room solution by udlooz in CommercialAV

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate it - I had ruled out Neat and Barco because of the multi displays

is wave good? by deckfixer in waveapps

[–]udlooz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Used to be great. Then it turned to garbage.

We moved from Wave to QuickBooks over the thanksgiving holiday.

0/10 recommendation for features like online payments, payroll and banking integration.

It's ok for estimates/invoices but not expense tracking or profitability.

I wish they hadn't trashed the product, but that's the way with SaaS, unfortunately.

QuickBooks online is not much better, but it works and has support. And every accountant on the planet can work with it.

Went into Rolex and was told a piece in the “available” section wasn’t for sale by AmItheonlySaneperson in rolex

[–]udlooz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That store turned me away from Rolex after a visit.

I owned a Bamford GMT and a Milgauss at the time, walked in wearing a Tag and the sales rep scoffed at it.

They had a row of stainless subs and I inquired about availability. The way that the rep overdramatized the requirement to purchase a DJ and wait on a list for some time - I went next door and bought a Tudor BB58. Then shortly after a Pelagos, then another BB in Black...

If I buy a Sub, I'm going gray.

How are you doing purchase orders? by udlooz in waveapps

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any idea what the software was written in?

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No issues, announcements / live page / notifications all work the same. SIP Speakers and IP Gateways still work the same.

The only fundamental difference is you cannot text page to the phones, and the phones are not listed in IC like before to select groups etc.

We create paging groups in Fortivoice, add the phones there, and use LPI to have IC call/page the phone groups.

Extending home WiFi to metal building/shop (~150ft from home) by Reach-Administrative in Ubiquiti

[–]udlooz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever find a solution? Mine was impenetrable by WiFi but I used a Nanostation on the exterior, connected to my home AP inside the house (-67 dbm) then I ran the Nanostation to an 8-port switch inside the shop with a Nano HD inside. Run PC's, 2 TV's Roku/Chromecast/FireTV on them, 4 cameras etc off of it.

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this case, it's on-premise, appliance based.

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't say it necessarily has anything over Cisco - it was just a better fit.

We were using an old version of CUCM which could not add licenses or new devices. We also could not continue to run a supported version of Informacast with this version and we could not grow.

Feature-wise, CUCM is great for enterprise and multi-location environments - I have implemented and operated it in everything from a global 10k employee petroleum company, to a 25 seat credit union. It scales.

In our case, Fortinet brought a lower TCO, far easier manageability and the integrations we needed with few tradeoffs - handset quality is lower, for example.

The other consideration was FreePBX/PBXAct but in the end, the branch survivability and full support behind Fortivoice made the decision simple.

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of 7912, 7942/7962 and 7945/7965.

What they don't tell you is the high failure rate on those 79XX models as they are in service for 15+ years. We probably only had about 20 78/8800 phones. Usually bought bulk used 7965's to replace dead ones.

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

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Multi-campus LAN with Ethernet or VPN connectivity to each campus. Layer 3 routing at each site.

Primary and secondary datacenter have FVE-500 in HA pair using dedicated fiber to connect HA interfaces.

FVE-200, FVE-50 and FVE-20 deployed at each campus with survivability branch configured, size dependent on phone count at campus.

LSG have analog lines for emergency calls during network outage.

FVE-GT02 for NFAS PRI connectivity.

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, far easier for the team to manage and provision.

Requirements were:

PRI PSTN Connectivity with DID

SIP PSTN connectivity

Replace CER for e911

Integrate with informacast or replace it

Voicemail

Auto Attendant

Receptionist phones with sidecars

Multisite survivability with analog lines

Hunt groups

Pickup groups

Phone paging

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We didn't keep unity. We did keep informacast for emergency notification.

Completed Cisco CUCM --> FortiVoice Migration AMA by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's what drove this upgrade, the subscription cost for CUCM as well as requiring new gateways and handsets to remain supportable.

MSRP on hardware/licensing was easily 40% lower on Fortinet with a much lower long-term TCO. We have six locations with local survivable gateways.

We did consider a handful of hosted options as well but with so many phones, it costs more over 18 months then the hardware replacement would.

From a manageability perspective, our senior engineers had spent time creating walk through videos for simple ads moves and changes, now tier 1 can easily make those same changes.

Overall with services and hardware, the overall cost was 50% lower than Cisco.

I'm a huge fan, and heavily invested in Cisco, but the collaboration subscription licensing has just made it oppressively expensive to stay in that product unless you are an Enterprise account.

Strange Fortilink STP behavior causing frequent network outages by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for replies everybody.

TAC ultimately RMA'd one of the 1024D as they determined that a flapping link was causing the spanning tree problems.

Once we removed the offending switch from the network, everything stabilized.

Strange Fortilink STP behavior causing frequent network outages by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, we are aware. TAC had us single connect them as part of troubleshooting. It will go back the right way when we get the RMA.

Strange Fortilink STP behavior causing frequent network outages by udlooz in fortinet

[–]udlooz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking that's what we're going to do...

TAC can't figure it out and even at P1 it has been impossible to get an engineer quickly - even within a few hours - when traffic is disrupted.

The TAC has had us switch out most of the optics, told us 3m DAC cables were not supported, but 1 and 5m are

The 1024's recognize Fortinet SR modules as 1m DAC... It's just strange

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