[mdlug] Speaking of networking and job opportunities....

[Stuart Munro]

Quick and easy look at ring central, for phones.
http://www.ringcentral.com/

if not use cpmcast for internet/ wide open west for voice.

here is a also a company out of southfiled I use for colocation
123.net and they just bought this company

http://getzing.com/

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Jim Broughton <jbroughton at twmi.rr.com>wrote:

> Ken Siersma wrote:
> > I have a friend who is thinking of starting up a small print shop in the
> > southern Oakland county area, and needs some help getting it up and
> > running.  She's looking for a (cheap) freelance IT person who could setup
> > her network, which would include ~5 Macs, a print server, phones, etc.
>  Any
> > advice on who to contact?
> >
> > -Ken
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>   I have extensive print shop experience (30 years). Being employed in
> one currently.
> I am the Sheet Fed pressman as well as the resident IT tech.
> We have a diverse shop including Macs, Windows PC's and 3 Linux boxes.
> Being a print shop we have a diverse selection of print and copy
> equipment that
> is interfaced to the shops computer systems ie they all just look like
> printers to any
> computer on the network.
>
>  I have an outstanding record for intrusion mitigation and prevention
> with only
> 2 virus's and one nasty piece of malware making it to the internal
> windows computers
> in over 7 years and those only because of faulty user internet
> interactions.
>
>  The number one Linux box is a network firewall/web server with a custom
> written
> (by me) iptables firewall that has yet to be penetrated in 7 years.
> Linux box 2 is a file server
> for the entire network although it is currently used primarily by the
> Mac's as a
> pre backup storage system and as a method of keeping the Mac's hard
> drives from
> filling up as graphics files can sometimes become quite large.
> Linux box 3 is a custom web server utilizing a external vendor provided
> proprietary
> web server system with online ordering and back end production control
> system
> with external traffic from the internet routed to through the firewall box.
> All the Linux boxes have in excess of 99% uptime (power failures
> notwithstanding).
>
>  The Phones part is my one area of weakness. I have no VOIP experience
> other
> than using Vonage for my home service. VIOP routing through a Linux
> firewall box
> however is not a problem should they choose a VOIP router solution from
> Vonage
> or some other vendor.
>
> Contact me off list and I'll see what I can do for your friend.
>
> Jim
>
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