Originally Posted by DFW_Andy

The setup is finished - that was some L O N G hours, building out the 5 servers, all the patching/cabling/etc - then going up and physically setting up all 55 desktops each with 2 LCD's, etc. That's all behind me - now it's maintaining said equipment. Even the patch-closet where our floor jacks are patched into the switches is about as optimized as it's going to get so no real issue there if I'm off for a couple of weeks. Our main issues now is dealing with the backbone of the network which is seated in the U.K. Don't know if you have any experience with their infrastructure but it is a PAIN because of their limitations on bandwidth across their nation...so I battle with them on a regular basis to get our tools working to where we need them.

It's frustrating watching the traffic do MPLS hits from Texas, to Alabama in the low single-digit milliseconds then it hops 'across the pond' and hits the UK border and it's like it hits a brick wall (in comparrison). Then our support takes most of the traffic right back over to the US to our end users. I have yet to figure out who designed and approved such a foolish model!

(Sorry for going way off-topic there, those that are non-techies - I'll stop!)