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Posted by Michael Raspet, Network Analyst/NIC Updates to

and removing legacy network equipment that was no longer

The removal of the equipment while freeing valuable rack

1 Posted by Michael Raspet, Network Analyst/NIC Updates to Datacenter 3 Michael Raspet was tasked with uninstalling and removing legacy network equipment that was no longer utilized in the production environment. The removal of the equipment while freeing valuable rack space will also decrease the electrical and cooling load within the datacenter.

Posted by: Janette Martinez, Network Infrastructure and Communications Facilities 2018 Summer Renovation Campuses On Friday, April 20th, Janette Martinez, Michael Raspet, Anna Senties, Elizabeth

2 Posted by: Janette Martinez, Network Infrastructure and Communications Facilities 2018 Summer Renovation Campuses On Friday, April 20th, Janette Martinez, Michael Raspet, Anna Senties, Elizabeth Montes and Derly Buentello attended a meeting with facilities to discuss the kitchen renovations at Ault ES, Bang ES, Emmott ES, and Hamilton ES and step through the timeline. On Friday, April 27 th, the technology equipment (WiFi access points, computers, time clocks, kitchen POS equipment) along with the other kitchen equipment will removed from the kitchens so the renovation can begin. To support this effort, the kitchen manager s office and POS equipment was moved to temporary locations and boxed lunches will be served at these campuses during the last month of school.

Posted by: Bradley Mulligan, Associate Network

Tuesday, April 17 th, Bradley Mulligan visited

3 Posted by: Bradley Mulligan, Associate Network Analyst April 6, 2018 Operational Planning On Tuesday, April 17 th, Bradley Mulligan visited Cypress Woods High School to do an inventory of all the network closets. After checking all the closets, there were 431 ports found to be available. The chart below shows the distribution of the available ports by the closet Available Port Count

Posted by: Sani Saqr, Network Analyst Operational Service On Friday April 20 th

4 Posted by: Sani Saqr, Network Analyst Operational Service On Friday April 20 th Sani Saqr called PS Lightwave to troubleshoot 3 different fiber strands that were out in his quadrant. All 3 were uplinks to the ISC from different Locations including Birkes ES, Lee ES and Kirk ES. After further Troubleshooting PS Lightwave found that all 3 cases were caused by damage to the lines in separate Incidents. They are working to fix the Damaged lines and their will be no outages because of these incidents.

Andrew Bailey and Matthew Stringer went to the ISC Datacenter to

Andrew and Matthew brought those in and installed them and then

5 Posted by: Sani Saqr, Network Analyst Operational Service On Wednesday April 18 th, Sani Saqr, Tony Rogers, Janette Martinez, Andrew Bailey and Matthew Stringer went to the ISC Datacenter to make room for 2 backup servers for the Alarm system. Andrew and Matthew brought those in and installed them and then discussed with ECN s Manager David Deitsch what they would need to get those working properly.

On April 17 th, David Glennon coordinated

NCR in replacing the SRST voice router at

6 Posted by: David Glennon, Associate Network Analyst Operational Enhancement On April 17 th, David Glennon coordinated Mike Aguirre with MCA and Jon Isom with NCR in replacing the SRST voice router at Holmsley Elementary School. After the replacement, David performed 911 testing to confirm that the caller id and correct physical address is being passed to Harris County Sheriff s Office 911 dispatching center.

Posted by: Roland Padilla, TelecommunicationsNetwork

Enhancement As the Cisco VOIP SRST router remediation

various campuses making final connections to the

7 Posted by: Roland Padilla, TelecommunicationsNetwork Analyst Enterprise Communications Network Operational Enhancement As the Cisco VOIP SRST router remediation continues into Phase 7, the POTS line project continues simultaneously. Here Mike Aguirre with MCA Communications is at various campuses making final connections to the various components for campus support. Cy Springs Cy Lakes Pope Elementary Mike Aguirre of MCA Communications

Posted by Andrew Tran, Senior Network Specialist April 6, 2018 Operational Contributions Worked with

to Microsoft for Kim Osborn Working on resolving Dexcom communication issue Working with Derly

School servers Attended Cisco Connect event Created Read Only accounts on the Firewalls for James

8 Posted by Andrew Tran, Senior Network Specialist April 6, 2018 Operational Contributions Worked with Anthony Melton on assuring Police One Academy testing goes smoothly Confirmed routing of HTTP traffic to Microsoft for Kim Osborn Working on resolving Dexcom communication issue Working with Derly Beuntello on The Green Alliance POC project Configured the Cisco ACE load balancer for the new E School servers Attended Cisco Connect event Created Read Only accounts on the Firewalls for James Costello Troubleshot middle schools DHCP issue Blocked to prevent phishing

Posted by Andrew Tran, Senior Network Specialist April 13, 2018 Operational Contributions Added 5 more servers to the Cisco ACE load balancer for E School

com for Teri Sarver Working with Fotinet TAM ( Lee Vang ) and Oscar Villar troubleshooting management VLAN access Configured the Fortigate to allow deaf

9 Posted by Andrew Tran, Senior Network Specialist April 13, 2018 Operational Contributions Added 5 more servers to the Cisco ACE load balancer for E School Resolved video access to vudu.com for Teri Sarver Working with Fotinet TAM ( Lee Vang ) and Oscar Villar troubleshooting management VLAN access Configured the Fortigate to allow deaf teacher at CyRidge to make phone call. Configured the Fortigate to allow SuccessEd to connect to espprodsql Working on blocking Psiphon Working on blocking student access to Youtube Bloced d.net per Kim Osborn request.

Posted by: Elizabeth Montes, Network Analyst SolarWinds Implementation Last week Elizabeth Montes and Josh

continue tweaking the software to optimize performance.

10 Posted by: Elizabeth Montes, Network Analyst SolarWinds Implementation Last week Elizabeth Montes and Josh Zhang added two additional pollers to SolarWinds to support all the devices that the ECN team is adding to monitoring. With all the devices discovered into the Network Performance Monitor module, Elizabeth and David Glennon continue tweaking the software to optimize performance. This week Elizabeth installed and set up the Network Traffic Analyzer Module, with this tool the NIC team will be able to monitor and analyze the network bandwidth for the school district. I want to thank Josh for all his support during this implementation!!!

Posted by Andrew Tran, Senior Network Specialist April 5, 2018 Cisco Connect COLLABORATION: Unified Collaboration Architecture - The Cisco PA for Enterprise Collaboration provides end-to-end

The consistent user experience provided by the overall architecture facilitates quick user adoption DATA CENTER - the compute, storage, and networking components are discrete and can be separated.

11 Posted by Andrew Tran, Senior Network Specialist April 5, 2018 Cisco Connect COLLABORATION: Unified Collaboration Architecture - The Cisco PA for Enterprise Collaboration provides end-to-end collaboration targeted for deployments larger than 1,000 users. This architecture incorporates high availability for critical applications. The consistent user experience provided by the overall architecture facilitates quick user adoption DATA CENTER - the compute, storage, and networking components are discrete and can be separated. In a hyperconverged environment, the components can't be separated; the software-defined elements are implemented virtually, with seamless integration into the hypervisor environment Security - Cisco Stealhwatch provides pervasive network visibility and sophisticated security for advanced protection across the extended network and cloud. Security - Cisco Ransomware Defense calls on the Cisco security architecture to protect businesses, using defenses that span from networks to the DNS layer to to the endpoint.

12 Project Overview POTS Line / SRST Replacement Project Goals Replace SRST routers due to bad clock chip. Ensure that SRST functions correctly at all sites. Verify that SRST phone lines are configured with the correct addresses for 911 purposes. Ensure all district POTS line needs are met, standardized, and accountable. Remove all Plexar lines from service. Ensure that CFISD is only paying for services that are needed. Project Schedule Start Date 90% Completion Date Pilot 9/29/ /7/2017 Phase 1 12/11/2017 1/25/2018 Phase 2 1/5/2018 2/9/2018 Phase 3 1/26/2018 2/23/2018 Phase 4 2/9/2018 3/9/2018 Phase 5 3/2/2018 3/30/2018 Phase 6 3/16/2018 4/13/2018 Phase 7 3/30/2018 4/27/2018 Phase 8 4/13/2018 5/11/2018 Phase 9 4/27/2018 5/25/2018 Phase 10 5/11/2018 6/8/2018 Total 9/29/2017 6/8/2018 Posted by: David Deitsch, ECN Manager

Phase Project Tracking POTS Line / SRST Replacement Due to an issue with a clock chip inside of

While visiting every campus we have also taken on the task of standardizing the POTS lines

This project is expected to save CFISD over $10,000 per month in PSTN connectivity charges.

13 Phase Project Tracking POTS Line / SRST Replacement Due to an issue with a clock chip inside of Cisco routers, most of the SRST routers throughout the will have to be replaced. While visiting every campus we have also taken on the task of standardizing the POTS lines configuration at each campus. This project is expected to save CFISD over $10,000 per month in PSTN connectivity charges. POTS/SRST Project Completion GRAND TOTAL PILOT 0.00% 14.29% 53.97% 76.23% 91.21% 95.24% 98.21% % % % % % 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Percent Complete For last week s update please refer to: Posted by: David Deitsch, ECN Manager

Campus Renovations Restoring Network Connectivity

Campus Renovations Restoring Network Connectivity Campus 2018 Summer Campus Renovation Projects Schedule for re-installing the Network Equipment Technology Quadrant Lead Facilities Project Manager Network