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Mike Smith’s Brain E17: The Phone Upgrade from Hell
Welcome to E17 of @mikesmithsbrain and in addition, welcome to The Phone Upgrade from Hell. This is every IT Guy’s worst nightmare…the boss wants to look into changing cellular phone providers for the company!! What will our sysadmin do?? Leave us…
Mike Smith’s Brain E14: IPsec VPN or MPLS? Answered.
Welcome to Episode 14! In this Episode, Mike is going to present the solution to the tech scenario presented from episode 13. In this scenario, should your company use MPLS or just an IPsec VPN for it’s WAN? See how…
Mike Smith’s Brain E16: Cutting Costs with ISDN PRI Phone Service
Welcome to Episode 16! In this follow up episode, Mike talks cutting costs with ISDN PRI T1 lines and scalability options. If you haven’t seen E15: the IT Guy yet, check it out here. Leave us a COMMENT or TWEET AT US to let us know…
Are Ethics Situational?
“Hello?” “Hi, this is John from Acme Software.” I just wanted you to know that my boss forwarded me your voicemail and I do not appreciate you going over my head. I’ve told you that we have not yet made…
Mike Smith’s Brain E15: ISDN PRI T1’s at Multiple Locations
Welcome to Episode 15! You are in for quite a ride as we follow a day in the life of an IT guy… Maybe you can relate to Steven Jones and his relentless workload. What can we do to help…
Mike Smith’s Brain E13: IPsec VPN vs MPLS
Welcome to E13 of @mikesmithsbrain. In this episode, mike proposes a tech scenario dealing with MPLS vs IPsec VPN WAN alternatives. Let’s see if your IT analysis skills measure up! Wich WAN technology would you choose to go with, given…
Mike Smith’s Brain E12: Faxes with VoIP – Answered
Welcome to E12 of @mikesmithsbrain. In this episode Mike is going to give you the 3 best solutions to the proposed scenario in Episode 10, regarding what to do with your fax machines, when your company moves to hosted VoIP.…
Mike Smith’s Brain 11: PRI T1’s vs. SIP T1’s
Welcome to E11 of @mikesmithsbrain. This time, Mike answers the hypothetical question that was proposed in Episode 9, “should this company (with nationwide locations and ISDN PRI T1’s), switch to SIP T1’s? You can TELL US what technologies you’d like to…
Mike Smith’s Brain E10: Fax Machine Scenario Challenge
Welcome to E10 of @mikesmithsbrain. How good are your IT analysis skills..? In this episode, Mike explains a hypothetical office scenario in need of some serious IT help! Under these circumstances, what should this company do with their fax lines?…
Mike Smith’s Brain 9: should this company choose PRI T1’s or SIP T1’s?
Welcome to E9 of @mikesmithsbrain. This time, Mike asks a hypothetical tech question regarding a national-level phone system. Should this company use SIP or PRI? Also, you can TELL US what technologies you’d like to hear about in the next episode!…