<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Time to get out the old crimping tools... </div><div><br></div><div>Some good local supply chain opportunities here, though parts will be an issue!</div><div><br></div><div>Narelle</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 12:31, Bradley Amm <<a href="mailto:brad@bradleyamm.com">brad@bradleyamm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Or we won't be able to get techs out to replace gear. EG Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:33 AM Matt Perkins <<a href="mailto:matt@spectrum.com.au" target="_blank">matt@spectrum.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Im waiting for the Telstra/Optus/AAPT
Embargo. Once they start to loose staff to self isolation it's
just a matter of time. <br>
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<div>On 10/3/20 6:39 am, Nikolas Geyer
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Yep, we’re struggling to get a lot of cabling (100G and 4x25G
breakout DACs, AOCs, transceivers) as of today and have been
informed by most hardware vendors to start expecting supply
availability problems in the coming weeks.
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<div>Fun times ahead, we want to be spending money building
infrastructure but if we (and others) can’t get the hardware it
will just exacerbate the slow down of the financial markets. <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 9, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Bradley
Amm <a href="mailto:brad@bradleyamm.com" target="_blank"><brad@bradleyamm.com></a> wrote:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Just noticing a lot of
suppliers are out of things. Laptops, switches,
monitors, routers etc</div>
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long wait for gear. </div>
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<div>Gday, for you contractors out
there, double check your Insurance’s, just cover
off some risk exposure you may not be aware of.<br>
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> On 9 Mar 2020, at 3:20 pm, Matthew
Moyle-Croft <a href="mailto:mmc@mmc.com.au" target="_blank"><mmc@mmc.com.au></a> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
> If your workforce is not used to working
remote then:<br>
> <br>
> - ensuring they know how to and who to
contact for IT support? (Is there an external
number for that?)<br>
> - ensuring you have things like
Zoom/BlueJeans/Webex setup for people to use *and*
that they have the things they need to drive them
(eg. Working headsets)<br>
> - do they know how to use it, schedule
meetings using it etc?<br>
> - ensuring that any communication apps (eg.
Slack) works for people and that they have
appropriate groups setup.<br>
> - ensure you have a working/upto date
contacts list? Not all companies have a nice, easy
to use website for finding this. If people are in
offices all the time they just may not have
workmates/managers mobile numbers.<br>
> - if people need things like laptop chargers
to work then can you get them delivered? Do they
have a suitable space at home? (This is OH&S
stuff).<br>
> - if you have a time clock based work force
(eg. They need to show hours) then have you
allowed for the reporting of work?<br>
> - What do you need to teach managers to help
them manage their staff, conduct meetings etc?<br>
> - do you need some quick guides?<br>
> <br>
> Some of this is basic stuff, but, if you’ve
got a work force who’s not used to it then think
about how to enable to the workforce and make it
less scary for them and enable their productivity.<br>
> <br>
> MMC<br>
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>> On 9 Mar 2020, at 2:29 pm, Robert Haylock
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>> Hey all,<br>
>> <br>
>> Hearing a few IT related plans crop up,
especially around VPN concentrator capacity and
external capacity to handle the additional load of
a much greater than normal percentage of employees
working from home.<br>
>> <br>
>> Obviously, if you are lucky enough to
have many services moved to the cloud (Office 365,
GSuite, etc) then the load is a bit more
distributed and the load moves to the residential
broadband networks, but I am interested in any
other IT related things to prepare you may be
recommending to your customers/employers/bosses?<br>
>> <br>
>> Rob<br>
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