November 2006 

SEA-TUG's Quarterly Meeting will be at Bayring's Colo Facility at Pease.

Topic: What is a Colo? What can it do for me?
When: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 5:30pm

Bayring has agreed to host this month's meeting where we'll talk about when an enterprise should consider collocation, what should go into a colo, disaster recovery and colo, marco colo, and more.

Afterwards, we will adjourn to Paddy's for some after meeting cheer and cocktails.

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August 2006 

MARCH 2006 

Topic: A Real-World Server Virtualization Report

Guest Speakers Ken Wilson and Mike Ransom from Newmarket International shared with us how  they were able to virtualize 76 servers.  This was all real-world, including their architecture pros/cons, migrations hits/misses, etc.  We have talked about virtual servers a lot before and now it's great to have a local company sharing with us their real world experiences. Dan Sullivan from VMWare was also onsite to answer questions.

See the PowerPoint file from Ken Wilson and Mike Ransom here.
See the PowerPoint file from Dan Sullivan (vmWare) here.

Topic: So, you have a WAN.  Now what!?  How can you optimize the bandwidth?

We have a special presentation for February, and unfortunately it requires us moving the meeting to a new night.  Doug Green. Network Manager from University of New Hampshire is going to talk about bandwidth management and how Packeteer helps UNH keep track of over 15,000 users between Internet 1 and Internet 2, residence halls, file sharing applications, etc.

In addition, Mike Pagliuca, representing Packeteer, will be on-hand with a live unit as we simulate (as best we can) its use and its effects at the conclusion of Doug's presentation.

This will be hands-down one of the most interesting presentations of any of the user groups in New England.  Please help us get the word out - invite your friends, neighbors, colleagues, customers, etc.  The continued success of Sea-Tug and getting quality presentations depends on improved attendance.  Help keep Sea-Tug alive. 

Meetings are free to attend and you leave with knowledge, contacts of other network admins in the area, and door prizes!  A special door prize will be reserved for the attendee who brings the most 'first-timers' along to the meeting.

Click here for the Packeteer presentation deck.

January 2006 - VOIP

VOIP is huge and has gained widespread acceptance.  Vonage, Lingo, Skype, Net2Phone, even Yahoo Messenger... the list of players is huge.  Cisco is a big player (obviously), and now even their Linksys subdivision has a new line out (called Linksys One). 

What's it all about?  How does it work?  What unique features does VOIP have?  How can you integrate VOIP in to your existing traditional POTS or PBX phone systems?  All these questions (and more!) will be answered by Ray Benoit, President of "Remove the Mystery" in Merrimack.  Ray and one his engineers will be presenting the following agenda, and may be bringing some live gear with them for a demo: