11th February 2012

My Twelve Networking Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my Project manager brought to me:

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On the second day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me:

Two Supervisor Modules

On the fourth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me:

Three Fabric Modules

On the fourth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me:

Four power supplies

On the fifth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me:

Five Racks in Row

On the sixth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me

Six Hundred patch lads

On the seventh day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me

Seven cable management rails

On the eighth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me

Eight NEMA power connectors and leads

On the ninth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me
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The nine o’clock pre-deployment crisis meeting

On the tenth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me

Ten Ten gigabit line cards with 32ports each

On the eleventh day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me

The final design document

On the twelfth day of Christmas my Project Manager brought to me:

The notification of the Christmas Change Freeze.

Wait, What ?

Bugger.

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About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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