Qualification Questions

Example Project Plan

Discovery

• Customer Location Details
  • Identify building access procedures and customer on site contact
• Identify which customer contact will approve scheduling and design changes
• Physical Topology
  • Identify where each switch stack physically located
  • Confirm sufficient power with compatible electrical receptacles available for the new equipment
• Routing Requirements
  • Identify static and/or dynamic IP routing needs
• Layer 2 Requirements
  • Identify existing and desired VLAN ID’s with associated IP subnets
  • Determine if Spanning Tree per port or per VLAN is required
• Network Services
  • Determine which network services is the core switch expected to provide (i e DHCP, DNS, etc)
• RADIUS Server IP addresses
• Determine Maintenance Window
  • Identify cutover scheduling constraints

Implementation

• Confirm proper physical switch uplink connections per design documentation
• AIS network engineer on site at customer location during cutover
• Unbox New Switches
• Rack Each Switch

Solution Design

• Layer 3 Configuration
  • Determine which management IP addresses should be used for each switch stack
• Layer 2 Configuration
  • Confirm per port switchport and trunk port configuration settings required
• Spanning Tree
  • Ensure consistent spanning tree protocol and root bridge configuration

Planning

• Coordinate and schedule maintenance windows and cutover with customer