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RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks


From: Troy Martin <tmartin () charter ca>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:00:28 +0000

On March 12, 2020 10:22 AM, g () 1337 io wrote: 
With talk of there being an involuntary statewide (WA) and then national
quarantines (house arrest) for multiple weeks, has anyone put thought
into the impacts of this on your networks if/when this comes to
fruition?

No WFH policy here yet, but I've unpacked a couple of our ASAs from before our
most recent edge refresh to run AnyConnect for some of our remote sites. I'm
not expecting too much load being that we're not a particularly large company,
but it's better to have an extra couple RU filled up and happily whirring away
than to get a phone call at 5am when everyone in Eastern Time logs in and the
throughput drops like the Dow Jones.

I'm more worried about the lead times on new hardware skyrocketing than the
impact of having 8-10x the teleworkers. At least we can still fulfill orders
for software licenses...

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Troy


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