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Electronic village of Abingdon "91st Day" Subcommittee MINUTFS 3 May, 2000 12:30 PM The
scheduled meeting of the Electronic Village of Abingdon "91st Day"
Subcommittee held in the Johnston Memorial Hospital Cafeteria was opened by
Dr. F. H. Moore, Jr., Chairman. There were ten participants present. These
included:
The
minutes of the 29 March 2000 meeting were approved as presented. The
next item for review was the status of new connections, including:
This meeting was postponed from its originally scheduled meeting date of 26 April, 2000, due to the Governor's Conference on "Technology as a Tool to Empower Individuals and Communities" held on that date and which many of the E V A group wished to attend. The first agenda item was a discussion of the
Governor's Conference held on 4/26/00 at the Southwest
Virginia Higher Education Center. It was noted that in attendance at this
conference were Donald W.
Upson, Secretary of Technology, and Claude A Allen, Secretarv of Health &
Human Resources. Dr.
Moore also discussed the proposed development of properts' adjacent to the
Higher Education
Center bv the Town. The next agenda item was the reconfiguration of the
E V A trunk system betv~'een the Sprint Central Office and Highlands Union
Bank. A memo dated 1 May 2000 from Mathew Matt was included as follows: We
have made some significant changes in the fiber on Friday and Monday and I
believe the change will please most everyone. Originally, the idea was to
change the current backbone that we had from the CO to HUB from 10Mb/s to
100Mb/s via the new Nortel switches that we had. This worried me a little due
to the fact that if something were to happen with the new,
untested
switches we would be out of luck.
Eric Schuler (from the Library and Berkana Graphics) helped me considerably in
the upgrade we
performed.
Below is how everything is now done. I have also attached updated EVA network
documentation to reflect the changes made. 1.
Joe McCann and I recently moved a bank of media converters from the
hospital to the CO. 2. We (Eric and I) set up the new switches with an IP address to make them manageable from almost any location. 3.
The Berkana Graphics run had originally been set up to go through the
bank. over fiber. to the CO. We
switched them over to go straight into HUB's fiber hubs. 4.
We then kept the current backbone in place that currently runs through
the 3com switches that are already there. 5.
We used the Berkana Graphics fiber that ran from HUB to the CO to make
a 100Mb run. (i.e. into media converters, then to the Nortel switches) 6.
For
future reference to anyone involved, the Nortel Switches and the Allied
Telesyn media converters will not auto negotiate. We had to go into the
switches and manually set the links to 100 Mb. full duplex. 7.
The links immediately came up and all seems well. 8.
Berkana Graphics was kind enough to volunteer to be put at 100Mb
(seeing as how they were originally a 100Mb customer), for testing purposes. 9.
We tested the throughput and got over 10Mb/s, meaning that we were
definitely going through the new equipment. 10.
To be sure. we took down the 10Mb link temporarily and all still worked
fine, meaning that the 100Mb link was up and running well. I have some cleaning up left to
do, but we seem to be up and running with a 100Mb backbone as a result of this
work. An added bonus that we didn't foresee, is that we also have a redundant
10Mb backbone if the 100Mb line or equipment should fail. I may offer to hook
up the other 100Mb customer. Linux Capital Group. and do some throughput tests
throughout the week to see if we are indeed running at capacity. Our next step in all of, this
will be to upgrade NetAccess to 100 Mb so that the 100 Mb customers can
actually reap the benefits of their greater connection speed. I hope to do
this in the next week to week and a half. I will leave this up for at least
that long to see if it will truly work for our purposes. Thanks to Net Access (Bob
Franklin and Jason). Sprint (Joe McCann, David Taverner, and Matthew Hill).and
Berkana Graphics WCPL (Eric Schuler). for the help in making EVA a constantly
changing (primarily for the better) effort.
Thanks, Mattx3 The
final agenda item was that of notice that the Town had issued Purchase Orders
to Sprint for the extension of the E V A trunk along Trooper's Alley and for
electronic equipment to be installed at the Abingdon Fire Department at 316
Park Street. Jeff
Webb handed out materials pertaining to the Youth Technology Corps sponsored
by local businesses and the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center that
will continue this vear. The
date of the next meeting was changed from its normal fourth Wednesday meeting
date to the last Wednesday in May, or 31 May. There
being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 1:50 PM. Respectfully Submitted, Albert C. Bradley, Secretary |