The Packet Wizard : Migrating from Cisco 6500 to Ruckus ICX

Just a quick post this week, I have been busy migrating from Cisco 6500 to Ruckus ICX. Here are some before and after photos and a video of the all important turn off. The main thing I learned in this migration is to chose your ports that are different, do Trunk Ports, Wireless, Printers, anything that is unique or requires a slightly different configuration do them first, then the regular desktop/user ports are just easy swaps.

The before picture we had already started to move the patch panels.

Listen to that power noise drop when it turns off. Turning off Cisco 6500 after Migration

The Packet Wizard : Work Travel

I am home! I have been travelling for work for the best part of the past 5 weeks. I was in Boston doing a network refresh the week before Easter, which included replacing all the network cables, installing new Palo Alto Firewalls and removing Cisco ASA’s. I also removed all Cisco Switches and installed a new stack of Ruckus 7250, replace the core switches with 2 new Arista’s. I then came home for 2 days and I left again for Singapore for 3 weeks. I was in Singapore integrating a new company we bought into our network, this was a team effort as we had other sites to bring online within 48 hours. Copenhagen and a small site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I have learned a lot over the past 2 month. I have some articles to write on what I have learned but for now, I just wanted to give a quick update. Here is some cable porn from the Boston Network Refresh.

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After: