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BruceW

BruceW

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Member since Dec 2, 2017

‎03-22-2018

Connecticut

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruceswinters

Husband of 27 years | Father | Full Stack Solutions | Wired and Wireless Networking | Meraki | HPC | IoT | 30 years of experience | Network and System Management | CNC | Manufacturing | R&D | I am a self starter and learner. When I started my career at UTRC as an electronics technician the Internet did not exist. There was no book on how to connect the VAX to the Internet. When the World Wide Web started, Gartner told us that the Web was a flash in the pan and advised us to deploy Lotus Notes. Did we listen to Gartner? No, instead we deployed NCSA Mosaic browser on 800 PCs over a weekend. I enjoy dogs, specifically German Shepherds. A dog can teach you much about life. "A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog."-- Charles Doran

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Re: Can I Merakify and manage "legacy" Cisco IOS devices with the Meraki da...

by BruceW in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
‎12-28-2017 12:43 PM
‎12-28-2017 12:43 PM
Shut the revenue stream down.  You will see some action.   ... View more

Re: Can I Merakify and manage "legacy" Cisco IOS devices with the Meraki da...

by BruceW in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
‎12-22-2017 06:15 AM
‎12-22-2017 06:15 AM
We will have to see how this pans out. All we need is a customer with a $1M deal to ask for the enhancement. (I have one in mind).   You will be surprised how quickly Cisco will make it happen. ... View more

Re: Can I Merakify and manage "legacy" Cisco IOS devices with the Meraki da...

by BruceW in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
‎12-21-2017 08:27 AM
‎12-21-2017 08:27 AM
The next time you make a Meraki purchase tell the sales team you will only buy Cisco Meraki if you can manage your legacy Cisco (pick one device that you have the most of) with it.   Ask them for a roadmap as to when it's going to get done and when the rest of the portfolio will be included.   This is not a technical issue it is a political issue.     My prediction The "Meraki Child" will end up eating the Cisco parent.   This is and excerpt from "Growth by Acquisition: The Case of Cisco Systems" https://www.strategy-business.com/article/15617?gko=3ec0c   JOHN CHAMBERS:   We have a philosophy that we will eat our own young before somebody else does. In Internet years, things change at a much faster pace than you realize and we get surprised periodically. Here's an example. We acquired a company called Lightstream in 1995 for its high-end A.T.M. [asynchronous transfer mode] capability. When we acquired it, it had only about $1.5 million in hardware revenue. We paid $120 million for it. One year later, its run rate was $45 million. It was well on the path to being a success, perhaps even a home run. But then we began to notice that wide area networking and local area networking were coming together more rapidly than we had thought. Customers were telling us they were going to make buying decisions that were going to be implemented in the next year or two based on technology that was available today. In essence, they were telling us that while they liked our direction with Lightstream and liked our next-generation product, we were not going to have the market share that they needed to feel comfortable with in the next 12 to 18 months. So even though Lightstream was on a tremendously successful run rate, we literally ate our own young and acquired StrataCom for $4.5 billion -- getting a much bigger player in the A.T.M. business -- because the market changed quicker than we thought.   ... View more

feeds and speeds chart

by BruceW in Wireless LAN
‎12-05-2017 11:24 AM
‎12-05-2017 11:24 AM
Anyone have an updated feeds and speeds chart that includes wave-2   ... View more

Re: Please introduce yourself

by BruceW in Community Tips & Tricks
‎12-05-2017 08:56 AM
1 Kudo
‎12-05-2017 08:56 AM
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Welcome to the Meraki Family! ... View more

Re: I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 05:42 PM
‎12-04-2017 05:42 PM
Thank you CJ!    Don’t take me the wrong way.  I enjoy working with Meraki products.  You get the best feedback from customers that are passionate about your product.   😁 ... View more

Re: I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 04:46 PM
‎12-04-2017 04:46 PM
I feel if you expose more people to a good product it gets a wider exceptence and use. If everyone used it to manage there home or small business devices they would use it in work as the paid version. Just my two cents. ... View more

Re: I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 02:04 PM
‎12-04-2017 02:04 PM
Oh, so you where the one!  (just kidding) ... View more

Re: Before and After Pictures

by BruceW in Off the Stack
‎12-04-2017 01:40 PM
‎12-04-2017 01:40 PM
    Any volunteers to help with this one?  I have a couple dozen to clean up by July. 🙂     ... View more

Recycling the power cord bags

by BruceW in Off the Stack
‎12-04-2017 01:35 PM
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‎12-04-2017 01:35 PM
13 Kudos
Don't throw away the bags that the power cord come in.   Put your surplus rack screws and hardware in them and hang them in the rack.   ... View more

Re: Poll: "Water Cooler" board?

by BruceW in Community Tips & Tricks
‎12-04-2017 01:26 PM
‎12-04-2017 01:26 PM
We could call it the coffee shop! ... View more

Re: I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 01:20 PM
‎12-04-2017 01:20 PM
Trials end.  😞       A couple of years ago Meraki was giving away the first 100 users.  I like the model because it you could get your feet wet and get hooked on the dashboard.  Maybe 100 was too generous.   25 sounds about right.   🙂   @PhilipDAth wrote: You can sign up for a free trial. https://meraki.cisco.com/form/systems-manager-signup   ... View more

Re: Can I Merakify and manage "legacy" Cisco IOS devices with the Meraki da...

by BruceW in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
‎12-04-2017 12:27 PM
‎12-04-2017 12:27 PM
Grasshopper, that is just because Cisco has not allowed you to replace IOS with Meraki OS.   We need to ask Cisco for this capability and it will happen.  Cisco will listen to it's customer base.    🙂     We just need to keep asking.   Ask your salesman before you place an order, ask them when they call on you to sell you more gear.  Meraki OS could run on any white box gear.  You just need to ask, and when they say no, ask again.   The hardware is a commodity, the software is the key to the future.  🙂     If Meraki doesn't do it, then open source or another company will.     https://www.cio.com/article/3040853/software/4-principles-that-will-shape-the-future-of-it.html @PhilipDAth wrote: You can't manage "classic" or "enterprise" Cisco devices from the dashboard.  You can only manage devices that have a "Meraki" badge on them. Your best bet would be as hardware comes up for replacement to replace them with Meraki badged kit. Also note "Meraki OS" is not a replacement of IOS (which is in itself being replaced by IOS-XE).   ... View more

Re: I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 12:08 PM
‎12-04-2017 12:08 PM
When the child goes to school the and the geo mapping welcomes the child, the school could take management control of the devices when trusted by the parent.   Hmm,  kind of like a "it take a village". ... View more

Re: I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 12:05 PM
‎12-04-2017 12:05 PM
thanks, I will look into that for the lab, but for the great good of mankind....Just think, a parent could add all the devices that his or her family has and could keep an eye on them.  If they were lost, they could be wiped.   🙂    ... View more

Re: Please introduce yourself

by BruceW in Community Tips & Tricks
‎12-04-2017 12:01 PM
1 Kudo
‎12-04-2017 12:01 PM
1 Kudo
I worked with a former DEC field service engineer in the PDP 11 days.  He was quite a character.  His DEC employee number was quite low in the 100's I think. @JohnStephen wrote: YES!  I used to work on the network group at Digital.  I remember the first coax and taps and I worked on the first ethernet bridge and then terminal server management (TSM) software.   ... View more

I wish I could have free Device Management for 25 devices.

by BruceW in Mobile Device Management
‎12-04-2017 11:40 AM
‎12-04-2017 11:40 AM
What ever happened to the free first 100 device in device manager?    Am I dreaming or having a nightmare? 🙂 ... View more

Can I Merakify and manage "legacy" Cisco IOS devices with the Meraki dashbo...

by BruceW in Full-Stack & Network-Wide
‎12-04-2017 11:31 AM
‎12-04-2017 11:31 AM
I really love the Merki dashboard.    How can I Merakify and manage other Cisco devices with the dashboard?  Is there an upgrade path to the Meraki OS? I hope it doesn't take as long as it took to switch from CATOS to IOS as it will be for IOS to MERAKI OS. 🙂         Bruce ... View more

Re: Please introduce yourself

by BruceW in Community Tips & Tricks
‎12-04-2017 11:26 AM
1 Kudo
‎12-04-2017 11:26 AM
1 Kudo
The caption on the picture should read 10base5 not 10base2  ( I am getting old)   The DEC transceivers where added to the coax with a "vampire" tap,   We used to have to drill a hole in the coax and be careful not to short the shielding out with the center conductor.   The good old days!  🙂 ... View more

Re: Please introduce yourself

by BruceW in Community Tips & Tricks
‎12-04-2017 09:56 AM
1 Kudo
‎12-04-2017 09:56 AM
1 Kudo
Hello Merakifiers!     I am new to the community, but not new to Meraki.  I look forward to sharing information with you now and in the future! I wok in in the aerospace industry and have been in IT too many years, anyone remember thickwire ethernet?     10base2 Bruce Winters   Linkedin profile    ... View more
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