Re: SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Hmm...the ones I've been involved with have to go through an > independent third party audit to ensure that they are compliant.  The the pci-is-good/sux (and sas-70 is-good/sux) discussion seems out of nanog scope, to me... but really PCI c

Re: 802.17b Case studies and current usage on Metro Ethernets

2009-09-22 Thread Vinay Bannai
Fabio, I believe there are several companies that build equipment based on the 802.17B standard. I will be more than glad to list them if you want. I was quite involved in IEEE 802.17 during the standardization up till 2005. What are you looking for in the case studies? I can go at length on

Re: SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread Charles Mills
Hmm...the ones I've been involved with have to go through an independent third party audit to ensure that they are compliant. The independent auditor has to agree that they're practices are secure and satisfies the credit card company's security objectives. If it were that loose you'd see a lot mo

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS >gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my >monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. If your monitoring system has reliable IP connectivity, I can recomme

Re: SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Most of our customers just make up their own definition of PCI and then demand that we help them adhere to it. Jeff On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Jay Farrell wrote: > Yes, but with PCI compliance the powers that be (credit card > companies) can actually fine you big bucks for being non-compli

Re: SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread Jay Farrell
Yes, but with PCI compliance the powers that be (credit card companies) can actually fine you big bucks for being non-compliant. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=pci+compliance+fines&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1g-m1 http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pcifaqs.php#11 Cheers, Jayfar On Tue, Sep 22

Re: SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
People buy SAS 70 compliant anything just because it's the latest buzzword, kind of like PCI compliance. Jeff On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:52 PM, John Curran wrote: > On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Andy Ashley wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would really appreciate any recommendations for SAS70 Type II com

Re: SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread John Curran
On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Andy Ashley wrote: Hi, I would really appreciate any recommendations for SAS70 Type II compliant colocation providers in Chicago, IL Andy - As an FYI, SAS 70 Type II compliance means whatever that provider's "SAS 70 Type II" audit document states for cont

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Nathan Ward
On 23/09/2009, at 4:29 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Scott Berkman wrote: Some people use a serial interface to a specific model cell phones to directly send the message over the carrier's cellular network. This is good in the event of isolation of a location

Re: Contact w/ clue re: AT&T SMS email gateway?

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Pascoe
Many people responded to me directly, so I thought I would summarize my findings. 1) AT&T Customer Service never returned my call, despite saying they would. I guess they couldn't get to the right folks. The occasional curse of being in a really large company. 2) A very kind inside AT&T person

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Shane Ronan wrote: > >> How do I send out an email if the network is down? > > I have had success using a GSM phone hooked up to the server via USB. > (Bonus is that the server constantly 'charges' the phone). An ugly set > of scripts deal

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Shane Ronan wrote: How do I send out an email if the network is down? I have had success using a GSM phone hooked up to the server via USB. (Bonus is that the server constantly 'charges' the phone). An ugly set of scripts deals with taking emails and changing them into

RE: Contact w/ clue re: AT&T SMS email gateway?

2009-09-22 Thread Aaron D. Osgood
Point of note: NONE of the cellular carriers treat SMS messages as "data". SMS messaging is carried on the "Control" channel that works similar to the "D" channel on a PRI Aaron D. Osgood Streamline Solutions L.L.C P.O. Box 6115 Falmouth, ME 04105 TEL: 207-781-5561 FAX: 615-704-8067 MOBILE: 20

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Frédéric
Le mardi 22 septembre 2009 à 16:27 -0400, Shane Ronan a écrit : > How do I send out an email if the network is down? > via a gsm modem (phone + usb cable) connect to you monitoring server. > On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: > > > Shane Ronan wrote: > > > >> On that same not

RE: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Aaron D. Osgood
We have a package which uses the MultiTech line of modems coupled with software that will watch files on your network and generate SMS messges (or SNPP, WCTP, TAP, FAX, etc). The underlying engine is a highly customized version of PageGate software from NotePage, Inc. Part of our customization was

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:31:48PM -0500, Brandon Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Shane Ronan wrote: > > > How do I send out an email if the network is down? > > > > > Why not use an e-mail to SMS gateway from whichever carrier? > >> > > > > > Your external monitoring box send

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Shane Ronan wrote: > How do I send out an email if the network is down? > > Why not use an e-mail to SMS gateway from whichever carrier? >> > > Your external monitoring box sends the email? You do have something doing external monitoring, right? -- Brandon Galb

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Shane Ronan
How do I send out an email if the network is down? On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: Shane Ronan wrote: On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am uns

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, William Herrin said: > The Multitech Multimodem GPRS model MTCBA-G-EN-F4 has an ethernet > port. Add a SIM card from your favorite wireless carrier and you can > send and receive SMS messages via "AT" commands over a TCP socket. > Problem is, it seizes up or otherwise founders ev

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alex Balashov said: > Shane Ronan wrote: > >On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS > >gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my > >monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. > > Why not use an e-mail to

Re: UDP and IP fragmentation

2009-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009, Philip Lavine wrote: > To all, > > I am running a Windows based high performance computing application that uses > "reliable" multicast (29West) on a gigabit LAN. All systems are logically on > the same VLAN and even on the same physical switch The application is set to >

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Shane Ronan wrote: On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. --- end of quote --- There are several ways to do this: - Open source soft

RE: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Berkman
FYI here is one view of one of the threads I was recalling: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/104612?search_string=sms;# 104612 Make sure to look at post #5 that summarized a previous thread too. I think the "direct connection" I was thinking of was the modem to TAP gateway optio

UDP and IP fragmentation

2009-09-22 Thread Philip Lavine
To all, I am running a Windows based high performance computing application that uses "reliable" multicast (29West) on a gigabit LAN. All systems are logically on the same VLAN and even on the same physical switch The application is set to use an 8k buffer and therefore results in IP fragmentat

RE: Router for a file hosting service

2009-09-22 Thread Fouant, Stefan
> -Original Message- > From: Vasil Kolev [mailto:va...@ludost.net] > > What I need is something that can handle something like 24 10gbit ports > - 10-12 to switches with the serving equipment (each one of them > pushing around 8-9Gbit) and on the other side connected to a few ISPs, > some

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Scott Berkman wrote: > Some people use a serial interface to a specific model cell phones to > directly send the message over the carrier's cellular network.  This is good > in the event of isolation of a location from any IP connectivity to a > carrier gateway.

Router for a file hosting service

2009-09-22 Thread Vasil Kolev
Hi all, I've been banging my head for a while and finally decided to ask for a recommendation for a router for a somewhat weird situation. What we currently have is a number of 10G ethernet ports to one carrier, just switches and nothing more, the carrier is the gw for all the servers we have (ev

Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"

2009-09-22 Thread Warren Kumari
On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:01 PM, William Pitcock wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 18:18 +0200, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: Hello Nanog, I'm looking into a weird request which more and more customers have. They want "different Class C addresses", by which they mean IPs in different /24 subnets. The ap

RE: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Berkman
Another for this list is http://msgme.com/. Setting up your own short codes is an expensive and long process, so you are usually best starting off with a shared code from one of these companies and you can migrate down the line if the revenue/volume is there to make it worthwhile. -Scott

RE: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Berkman
Many people consider these (carrier email to SMS gateways) too unreliable as there are no SLAs from the carriers, and sometimes experience long delays in message delivery, or just flat out dropped messages. If this is what you are depending on for outage notification that's a big risk. Some peopl

SAS70 Type II compliant colo providers - Chicago, IL

2009-09-22 Thread Andy Ashley
Hi, I would really appreciate any recommendations for SAS70 Type II compliant colocation providers in Chicago, IL The requirement is fairly small (1/2 - 1 rack). Mail me off list please. Thanks. Regards, Andy. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanne

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Balashov
Shane Ronan wrote: On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. Appreciate the assistance. Why not use an e-mail to SMS gateway from whic

Re: Cisco 7600 vs ASR 9000

2009-09-22 Thread Terje Bless
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Nick Colton wrote: >Cisco has been recommending the Cisco 7600 as our core router.  My concern >is that cisco told us that in the event of an RSP failover the 7600 could take >up to >30 seconds to begin routing packets again, this seems wrong to me since my >old E

RE: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Express Web Systems
Shaun, This is called "Short code sms messaging". www.clickatell.com offers this service and is considered to be one of the bigger players in the SMS market. Warm regards, Tom Walsh Express Web Systems, Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Shaun Rossi [mailto:ro...@fidalia.com] > Sent: Tue

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Shane Ronan
On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. Appreciate the assistance. Shane Ronan On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Express Web Systems wro

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Shaun Rossi
"Short-codes" it is! Thanks everyone, -Shaun Shaun Rossi Fidalia Networks Inc tel. (905) 271-0037 x 111 1-866-FIDALIA (343-2542) x 111 fax. (905) 271-1036 1 Port Street East - Second Floor Mississauga, Ontario L5G 4N1 Canada

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread William Hamilton
> Hello, > > I have no idea what this is referred to as, so I will try > to explain: I have a client interested in setting up a > mobile phone text message service where a mobile user > would send a text to a short (say 5 digit) 'telephone' > number. I've seen commercials on TV w

Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"

2009-09-22 Thread Michael Holstein
Good luck. Google doesn't disclose their algorithms. There doesn't appear to be any Google statement on this matter, either. No, but for "honest" folks, they do provide guidelines : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 One can't really fault Google for tak

SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Shaun Rossi
Hello, I have no idea what this is referred to as, so I will try to explain: I have a client interested in setting up a mobile phone text message service where a mobile user would send a text to a short (say 5 digit) 'telephone' number. I've seen commercials on TV where you co

Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"

2009-09-22 Thread Joe Greco
> On a similar issue, I have a debate going on in my company about SEO > and links coming from IP blocks allocated from different upstream > providers will improve page ranks. (So, if I have block A from > provider 1 and block B from provider 2, web sites linking each other > on block A & B, the r

Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"

2009-09-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Sebastian Wiesinger: > I'm looking into a weird request which more and more customers have. > They want "different Class C addresses", by which they mean IPs in > different /24 subnets. It's not that weired at all. Others demand the same because it allegedly increases reliability. > My questi

Re: Google Pagerank and "Class-C Addresses"

2009-09-22 Thread Jay Nakamura
On a similar issue, I have a debate going on in my company about SEO and links coming from IP blocks allocated from different upstream providers will improve page ranks. (So, if I have block A from provider 1 and block B from provider 2, web sites linking each other on block A & B, the rank will g

Re: TDM data analyzer

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Balashov
j...@seminte.lt wrote: Hello fellow NANOGers. Slightly offtopic, but I would greatly appreciate your suggestions. For my telecommunications engineering degree I am designing a TDM data analyzer, and I need suggestion, what you would like in an appliance like that. Right now my idea is that it

Re: Cisco 7600 vs ASR 9000

2009-09-22 Thread Jared Mauch
This question would likely be better answered on cisco-nsp. But the asr9k provides a better roadmap than the 7600/6500 platform. These are now quite old platforms in the overall lifecycle. The 9k also runs xr which is either an asset or liability depending on your network. Me? I always wa

TDM data analyzer

2009-09-22 Thread jp
Hello fellow NANOGers. Slightly offtopic, but I would greatly appreciate your suggestions. For my telecommunications engineering degree I am designing a TDM data analyzer, and I need suggestion, what you would like in an appliance like that. Right now my idea is that it should be a transparent de

Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-22 Thread Colin Alston
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > It would be nice to know what those recommendations were... > > Excuse the delayed reply from a SA person :) I'm guessing the recommendations were not to use an asymmetrical service for trying to upload large amounts of data. Ironically th