D.S.

Network Administration

Let me manage your networks, configure your routers and switches and design your businesses to meet your needs.

Networks are fundamental to any business and it’s important they’re done right. The switches and routers that make up any network need routine monitoring and maintenance to keep your business at its best. No matter your industry or size, you need your network to keep the innovation flowing, and I’m the right person for the job.

Network Vendors I’ve Used:

  1. Netgear
    1. Offers a selection of cheap reliable products. I usually use their unmanaged products where it makes sense.
  2. Ubiquiti UniFi (APs and switches)
    1. Great at APs
    2. The rest of their product line has improved dramatically, and can probably be used by most businesses today without issue
  3. Ubiquiti EdgeMAX (switches and routers)
    1. Just rock-solid switches and routers, with plenty of compute power to handle the heaviest workloads
    2. Price champions. Great value products.
  4. SonicWall (routers and APs)
    1. Decent for small to mid-size businesses, but I’ve found them to be somewhat unreliable in certain areas
    2. Over-complicated user interface makes management more difficult than competing products
  5. Cisco (routers and switches)
    1. Rock-solid reliable, but if you don’t know what Cisco is, you probably don’t need it. 🙂
  6. Dell (switches)
    1. They’re decent. Also reliable and cheap. Not my first choice.

I’ve become quite good at troubleshooting networks, many of the tools involved such as ping, traceroute, tcpdump, nmap, etc., becoming quite instinctual for me, and I’ve become accustomed to doing all the troubleshooting I need from a CLI interface.

I’ve put together networks from scratch using VLANs and strict but not overly strict firewall rules. It’s important to keep your network safe, but it’s also important to do so in a way that doesn’t interfere with the ability of the employees to do their jobs. It’s a fine line, and I manage to walk the line quite well. Zero-trust is what I use to deploy best-practices as much as possible, and I pride myself in doing so with ease.

Put me into your network, and I’ll figure out what’s what in no time.

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