About

About me

Hello and welcome to my blog. I’ve been working in the information technology industry for over 15 years, specializing in Unified Communications, networking, and Linux topics. This is somewhat of a knowledge base for my myself, but I hope others find this site useful. I can’t take much credit for the information here as it’s been cobbled together from other sites, blogs, discussion posts, etc..

A few other blogs I follow:

• NOC Thoughts
• Voice in Peace VIP
• Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration

Technologies I’ve worked with

VoIP/Telecommunications

Traditional PBXes:

• Iwatsu ECS
• ADIX, ADIX-VS
• Nortel CS1000M, CallPilot voicemail

VoIP:

• Asterisk, FreePBX
• Avaya Aura Contact Center, IP Office Server Edition
• FreeSwitch, FusionPBX
• Cisco Collaboration Appliances: Call Manager, Unity Connection, IM & Presence, Emergency Responder
• Cisco CUBE
• Cisco Webex
• Sangoma analog gateways
• ShoreTel Small Business Edition

Contact Centers:

• Avaya Aura Contact Center
• Cisco Contact Center Express

Fax Servers:

• OpenText RightFax
• MultiTech FaxFinder
• Equisys Zetafax

Networking

Routing and switching:

• Cisco Catalyst Center
• Cisco Routers/Gateways/ISRs: 2900, 4000 series
• Cisco Analog Gateways: VG350, VG310, VG224, VG204 series
• Cisco Switches: 1000, 2900, 9000 series

SD-WAN:

• Cisco vManage
• Cisco SD-WAN Routers: 1000, 8000 series

Wireless:

• Cisco 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
• ExtremeCloud IQ Controller

Directory Services

• Cisco: LDAP integrations with UCM
• Microsoft: Azure AD, Active Directory (on-prem)

Cloud

• Microsoft: Azure, 365 Administration

Virtualization/Infrastructure

• Cisco: UCS 220 M4, 5100 series
• VMware: vSphere, ESXi
• KVM

Used in this site

• DigitalOcean
• GitHub
• Hugo (Go)