Enterprise Communication Networks Oscar Villar, Senior Network Engineer Posted by June 28, 2018 Enterprise Communication Networks Operational Highlights Secure Internet access and secure access to the information in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD’s datacenters are two increasingly important services which are protected by CFISD’s Fortinet infrastructure. Fortinet is a leading network security company that builds some of the most effective high speed UTM (Uniformed Threat Management) NGFWs (Next Generation FireWall) on the market today . With CFISD’s current Fortinet infrastructure, CFISD enjoys high speed and secure Internet connections to each of our ISPs (Internet Service Providers). Additionally, students, teachers & administrative staff access the CFISD datacenters via Fortinet UTM firewalls. Oscar Villar Andrew Tran Wes Ballinger Dan Korstad Elizabeth Montes On June 26, 2018 and June 27, 2018, Fortinet sent Wes Ballinger and Dan Korstad to meet with members of CFISD’s ECN team. Elizabeth Montes, Andrew Tran, David Deitsch and Oscar Villar discussed CFISD’s current and future network security infrastructure with Dan and Wes. Dan shared several recommendations to further enhance the Fortinet security fabric and conducted some high level training for Elizabeth, Andrew, and Oscar.
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Enterprise Communication Networks
Oscar Villar, Senior Network EngineerPosted by June 28, 2018
Enterprise Communication Networks
Operational Highlights
Secure Internet access and secure access to the information in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD’s datacenters are
two increasingly important services which are protected by CFISD’s Fortinet infrastructure. Fortinet is a
leading network security company that builds some of the most effective high speed UTM (Uniformed
Threat Management) NGFWs (Next Generation FireWall) on the market today. With CFISD’s current
Fortinet infrastructure, CFISD enjoys high speed and secure Internet connections to each of our ISPs
(Internet Service Providers). Additionally, students, teachers & administrative staff access the CFISD
datacenters via Fortinet UTM firewalls.
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Andrew Tran
Wes Ballinger
Dan KorstadElizabeth Montes
On June 26, 2018 and June 27, 2018,
Fortinet sent Wes Ballinger and Dan
Korstad to meet with members of
CFISD’s ECN team. Elizabeth Montes,
Andrew Tran, David Deitsch and Oscar
Villar discussed CFISD’s current and
future network security infrastructure with
Dan and Wes. Dan shared several
recommendations to further enhance the
Fortinet security fabric and conducted
some high level training for Elizabeth,
Andrew, and Oscar.
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Operational Updates
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Andrew Tran, Senior Network SpecialistPosted
by
June 29, 2018
• Worked with John Crumbley, Richard Crishock and Tod Sepulveda on
CFISD Prod AWS migration
• Worked wit Fortinet SE’s Daniel Korstad and Wes Ballinger as they doing
overall assessment on CFISD firewalls
• Worked with Anthony Melton to resolved Trendmicro issue
• Worked with Neetha Chada on VPN issue
• Cleaning up Firewall policies
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Operational Contribution
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Elizabeth Montes, Network AnalystPosted
by:
July 6, 2018
On Tuesday June 26th Elizabeth Montes
and David Deitsch were contacted by
Marvin Banks because he was having
problems with the Panic Buttons that were
recently installed through the entire school
district. This equipment is very fundamental
for emergency situations. After looking into
the configuration, Elizabeth noticed why
they were having problems and she went
ahead and configured approximately 60
ports in the 4500s throughout the school
district. On Wednesday June 27th,
Elizabeth and David met with Max
Churchman, a low voltage tech from
Facilities, at Sampson Elementary to test
the Panic Button. The test was a success!
Max was able to test 48 schools on Friday
and he will continue testing the rest of the
schools until the project is complete.
Facilities 2018 Renovation Office Space
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Janette Martinez, Network Infrastructure and CommunicationsPosted
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June 28, 2018
On Tuesday, June 26th, Paula Ross, David Deitsch, Michael Raspet and Janette Martinez
met with Paul Roome and Debbie Garcia from Facilities along with the PBK architects to review
the proposed plans to renovate the Network Infrastructure and Communications area that is
planned for later this year.
Facilities 2018 Renovation Office Space
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Paula Ross, Director of Network Infrastructure and CommunicationsPosted
by:
June 28, 2018
Debbie Garcia showing Mike Raspet a carpet
sample of what will be installed in the office
space.
During the office space renovation, Bobby
Galvan joined meeting to discuss renovation
status of Langham Creek HS.
2018 Network Closet Summer Project
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Paula Ross, Director of Network Infrastructure and CommunicationsPosted by: June 28, 2018
Elizabeth Montes, Bradley Mulligan, and Janet Martinez met with Paula Ross to review plans for
collecting data on all network closets, devising a schedule for completion, then how to incorporate the
maintenance of all closets into the Service Technician PAR Reporting for Fall 2018.
2018 Network Closet Summer Project
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Paula Ross, Director of Network Infrastructure and CommunicationsPosted by: June 28, 2018
Bradley Mulligan is working with Rock Valentine, Art Ramirez, Chris Roberts, plus the ECN quadrants, to
collect and organize all campus networking information (sample data above). The team also consulted with Larry
Barrios to ensure that all PAR data is being incorporated into the plan. A schedule for this activity will be
published soon.
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Operational Contribution
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Michael Raspet, Network AnalystPosted
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June 26, 2018
Michael Raspet and Kenneth Gibson visited DataCenter4 last week to conduct a site survey in
preparation for the relocation of eFinance servers the week of July 9th. Available rack space, power and
connectivity issues were addressed and found to be adequate for the relocation.
Enterprise Communication Networks
Operational Enhancement
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Sani Saqr, Network AnalystPosted
by:
June 29, 2018
On Wednesday June 27th, ECN Team
members Sani Saqr assisted Anna Senties
and Tony Rogers, as well as school
technician Robert Rader, with installing 4
new switches at Cy Ridge for security
cameras that will be needed in the near
future. All of these switches had to have the
IOS downgraded on them before they could
be added to the current stacks.
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Operational Enhancement
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Anna Senties, Network AnalystPosted
by:
June 29, 2018
Last week, ECN Team quadrant leader Anna Senties is pictured above working with Robert Rader,
installing additional switches at Cy Ridge, Cy Creek, Cy Fair and Campbell for the Security Camera
Project. The ECN Team is doing their best to stay ahead of the Security Camera Project rollout.
Unfortunately, there is not an official schedule for the camera project rollout and the ECN team learns of
the switch needs with very little time to respond.
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Operational Updates
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Tony Rogers, CFISD Network Administrator Posted
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June 29, 2018
The ECN team called AT&T and PS Lightwave to
investigate the issue. Gamma construction
Superintendent Doug Lancaster was instrumental
in helping to determine the correct action of
resolution. In the end, AT&T fixed the cable cut.
Summer is in full swing along with normal operational
duties of keeping facilities and summer schools up.
Renovations are also underway and this week Thornton
Middle School (pictured above) lost communications