[Chicago-announce] UniForum: Business Linux Routers

Andy Lester andy at petdance.com
Tue May 19 20:52:25 PDT 2009


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               Implementation of Business Linux Routers

                              Joe Flasch

               Tuesday, May 26th, 2009, 7:00-9:00pm
Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus, Wheaton, IL, Room 103

Abstract
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When it comes to routing and networking, Cisco is huge, but there is
a new kid on the block that has many of the features that Cisco has
for a fraction of the price.  This is not something that the mid-size
businesses have taken advantage of, but you can inexpensively build
yourself some fully redundant machines that can route, firewall, and
load balance 100-400 mbps with ease, and have the potential to do much
more.  In this presentation Joe will show what you need to start and how
to configure and implement hardware and Linux to be mid-range routers,
firewalls and load balancers for a mid-size business.  Cisco and others
have some serious networking competition from Linux.

Speaker Bio
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Joe has been working with TCP/IP and Linux for the last 17 years for
companies like Sears, Advantis, IBM Global Network, AT&T, LIDP and
Encyclopaedia Britannica.  He has been programming mainframes, and Unix
and embedded systems, along with playing system administrator for OS
and hardware.  Joe's experience with network communications ranges from
serial to ISP to large web shop environments.

As Director of Operations and Networking Lead at Britannica, he has led
the charge to replace an aging group of 7500-7700 Cisco routers,  
RainWall,
Cisco ASA firewalls, and F5 BIG-IP equipment with off-the-shelf Tyan 1U
machines running Linux for a cost savings of over $100,000 with better
performance and uptime.

Getting There
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The next meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Rice campus.  The address of the meeting facility is:

         IIT's Rice Campus
         Room 103
         201 East Loop Road,
         Wheaton, Illinois 60187

Take I-88 west to the Naperville Road exit (Note: this exit was recently
reconfigured).  Turn right at the stoplight from the exit ramp going  
North
on Freedom Drive.  Turn right again at the next stoplight (which is  
only a
few hundred feet away) going East on Warrenville Road.  Move immediately
into the left lane and turn left (North) at the next stoplight, which
is Naperville Road.  Go North on Naperville Road to Butterfield/Rt. 56.
Turn right on Butterfield and proceed East to the next stoplight East
(East Loop Road).  Turn north onto East Loop Road (Big Bowl/Cozymel's
Restaurants and Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corners); the campus
will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road.  Park in
the student parking lot behind the building.  Room 103 is the first
room inside the north entrance.

More detailed directions and maps are available at:

         http://www.rice.iit.edu/directions.html
         http://www.rice.iit.edu/floorplan.html

All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of  
charge.

For additional information contact president at uniforum.chi.il.us, or  
visit
the UniForum Chicago web site at:
	http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/



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