19 inch rack example - Ontario High Speed Inc 2010-2016

I figured I would do an example post, I don't have more pictures handy right now but here I go.

I don't know exactly when this was taken but probably 2014 or 2015 judging by the lack of 10gig interfaces on the core switch.

This badboy was an old Sun Microsystems rack.

-There are two HP servers at the top.

-One of them was DNS1, the one below was Radius2

-In the back was a Cisco 7206 VXR I think that had an NPE G2 when this was taken. It had about 3 gigabits of PPPOE capacity it was strictly operated as a layer 2 broadband access-server. (BAS) we also had a few remote Broadband Remote Access Servers in the field that were low capacity units without ASIC's. (Typically ISR's).

-The Core Router was a Cisco Catalyst 6500 layer 3 switch, it featured a Cisco Supervisor 720 with a 3B policy feature card.

-This routed everything in the network, also did MPLS everything was entirely done in ASIC's.

-The hypervisor is at the bottom of the rack, ran things like DNS2, SNMP monitoring, syslog server, Radius 1 , TACACS+, TFTP and other internal support services.

-I had a mirrored switch port of the wan going to it too for IDS purposes we were able to automate blocking out inbound attacks to reduce the frequency of our customers NVR's getting impacted. As well as inspect for customers who were infected with virus's with known command and control servers.

It ran the internet for well over 1000 subscribers between my ISP Ontario High Speed Inc. And another I sold internet service too.

Customers had speeds as slow as 5/1 on the slowest package and speeds as fast as 150/100 for some of the fiber customers in the same building as well as one next door.

There were a few test 60ghz wireless clients as well that had 400/400 they were not PPPOE like the rest of the network. (We had the first mmwave test network in Canada in 2015).

Was a blast but the operating cost were too high for our profit margins. We sold to Vianet.ca.