26 Jun
2022
26 Jun
'22
11:53 p.m.
Erik,
Thanks for the reply & the account of your work.
You seemed to do a lot less work than I saw networking teams forced into.
As you say, “work with it”.
I worked at the ANU for a short time.
They used a Class-B, with address ranges delegated to (many) local admin, but Central IT
demanded every device connect to their switch, which allowed them to monitor ports.
I think they’d have a hard time renumbering, my section didn’t even have DHCP.
Here’s the reference I spared the list initially.
Very thin on details. The only more detailed info is a video.
Australia Post's telco transformation named top IT project
<https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-posts-telco-transformation-named-top-it-project-581371>
Billed as the largest project of its type, the project wrapped up in November last year
after more than two years of work to address critical network performances challenges and
high operating costs.
The telecommunication transformation saw the rollout a new software-defined wide area
network (SD-WAN) across 4000 sites.
regards
steve j
On 27 Jun 2022, at 06:35, Erik Fair
<fair(a)netbsd.org> wrote:
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On Jun 26, 2022, at 02:46, steve jenkin <sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
One of the modern challenges for Enterprise Customers is “change network provider”.
One major Aussie firm just took two years to move Service Provider and it was ’news’.
25yrs ago, and probably now as well, interconnecting / splitting corporate networks
following merges / de-merges was a huge task.
IP networks require re-numbering and basic IP services, like DNS, email, web, need
re-provisioning / re-platforming.
I take issue with this, and have experience to backup my view: it is not hard to change
Internet Service Providers (ISP) for large corporations - I did it several times during my
tenure as the “Internet guy” for Apple Computer, Inc., an ~$8bn revenue multinational
corporation. You just have to plan for it properly, handle transitions gracefully
(ideally, with overlap), and keep control of (do not outsource) key assets like domain
names, public IP network address assignments, and services like e-mail (SMTP).