Where did the time go? - December 2013 Edition

The other day in reading a few blog posts I notice that some of my favorites were a little neglected. I was about to give them a little jab over twitter, then I thought when was your last post? Umm, Umm, Yeah got myself. August 25th. It's December, where did the time go?

I realize that I am not the master of content, churning out daily posts or even weekly posts. But I think it was time for something.

I could go down a list of thing of how we got to this point but let me filter out the more technical highlights.

Things that have kept me busy since the last post:

• Fall Semester started - now is almost over, couple more days.
• Limited packetfence work other that keep it running. FreeRadius issue - patched with restart script
• Cloud storage vendor change
• Twinstrata implementation - Lots of data move from one provider to another
• Office 365 Implementation - Still in process
• Initial setup was contracted, production migrations up to us
• Migrations scheduled into early next year (2014)
• Personal device Printing - Still in process
• IOS/AirPrint - Papercut
• Bonjour over Cisco controller based wireless
• Family - busy with activities for the kids

With Christmas break coming up, unlike some who get a change freeze, I get a change window, including some during the middle of the day.

Looking forward past the current items: 

• Testing of new gear
• Airtight AP - received that in late November, have to dig into the interface to see all the nerd knobs
• Brocade switches
• Received 2 - 6610 and 2 - 3450 switches to evaluate uses as campus switches
• The 6610 has the potential to be used as a core replacement, with the stacking and L3 features. 
• Getting back to OpenDaylight. 
• Writing a few more posts. The list above has more than enough topics to write on, just have to do it.

If anyone picked up on that little tidbit a few lines back, yes my core switch is slated for EOS in a couple years, so I think it is time to evaluate what is out in the market.