4:36 - That was a Ubiquiti AirFiber 60 LR wireless backhaul. It primarily operates on 60 GHz but has a 5 GHz backup because millimeter-wave frequencies (like those used in 5G cellular networks and this one) are susceptible to rain fade, especially with long distances. You can manage these wireless bridges with the UISP software.
Wow! You’re covering a lot. At our org, facilities or internal cabling team would handle satellites, network team configures the bridges and firewall policies, director (me) handles vendor orders for increasing bandwidth, sysadmins manage VMs, hypervisors and various applications hosted, such as Citrix and VDI, security team handles defender and SIEM, regional technicians handle organizing cables and taking in shipment of new peripherals…etc. You’re definitely a jack of all trades. Excellent work!
Thank you! Our company is medium size, but our IT team is small - so I've had to learn many different aspects. I love it - it gives me a chance to gain experience and figure out what I would like to master.
Good stuff. I see that your client was migrating to Azure. Do you also have a background in AWS and GCP? Was the transition, for you, to learning the cloud fairly straightforward?
Thank you so much! I am transitioning from an on-prem sysadmin to a cloud engineer / cloud admin. I've been studying azure, AWS and Google Cloud. I'm still in the transition phase - it is definitely different and a lot of work studying and learning new things. With my background, so far the transition has been smooth. Just need to consistently learn!
Thank you for posting this video. When people ask me what I do, I tell them I am a sysadmin and get a confused look. I get tired of explaining it to them so I decided to look for one of these ‘day in the life’ videos and there are a ton of them but yours most closely resembles my role so now I just send them a link whenever I ask. BTW I never knew those type of wireless fiber antennas even existed. Good to know🎉
So you basically did Cloud and Ubiquity for the day...do you work with MDMs or Asset Management too or software licensing ?or are you just a Cloud Admin?
awesome Video Mimz, looks like you enjoy every bit of your Job. fellow Sysadmin here; so does it mean you also handle the Network aspect of things ? in my Orga we have a dedicated Department that handles Networking (which can both be a blessing a curse sometimes lol) looking forward to more Vidz as you transition to Cloud. def subscribing
50Mbps internet connection for an office setting? I'm in Spain and I got 1Gbps symmetrical connection for my home. lol My ISP offers 10Gbps for 5 bucks extra on my bill, but its wayyyyyy too much for me.
I agree. Although sometimes if its a smaller company, they may not have the money to pay for a faster connection. Or sometimes if that company has no IT team, the owner(s) may not really understand what speeds they need.
Yes, the reason for limiting down to 15 was the company did not want to pay for higher internet speeds. So 100 users and 300 devices all shared 50 Mbps up and down, which was brutal, as you can imagine! Some machines overpowered the internet, which would bring folks to 0.2 speeds at times, so i put a limit of 15 Mbps to try and help folks overall. Once higher ups started noticing the painfully slow internet, they upgraded to 500 Mbps up and down quickly!
Nothing was going to help that situation except upgrading. It bought folks a little more time, but it went from internet being slow at 11am to internet being slow at 1pm lol So the only option in that situation was to upgrade the internet speed.
@@mimztechritoryI see. I guess I'm a but confused and wonder why lowering the bandwidth was the right thing to do when the problem was that the bandwidth was too low to begin with. Thanks for responding.
Some folks were gaming, installing beefy updates and streaming, so it was consuming all of the bandwidth. So I set a limit to stop that from happening and share the little bandwidth that we had. It was a unique situation :)
I'd say so! An AA gives that basic knowledge that allows you to jump into an entry level and continue moving up. You just need to find the right place!
Hello everything is fine ? Your videos are really cool, congrats. Sorry for my bad english. What program do you use to create that timeline for your projects? Greetings from Brazil. Thank you very much
Quit my career from a biology research background. I made a terrible career choice thinking the pay would be great in biology but is the complete opposite …. currently changing careers into python coding and hope to land a job in help desk to start out and move into syst admin. Studying for compTIA A+ and Linux+ I just really want to make sure I expand my skills so I can be guaranteed a job I can’t wait to make that very big money 😊
Those won't be enough to make you big money off the bat. Make sure you get the Network+ and at least one Microsoft cert as well. Cisco certs are also good.
@@ericsmith6996 yea, I know :/ I am currently finishing an associates degree in coding while studying for A+ It’s a little exhausting but will do those in the future The more certs one has the better
@@Po0pypoopy okay if you get an Associate's degree in codingm that will definitely be enough to land you a job in the 75k to 100k range right out of the gate. :-) Network + is pretty critical foundational stuff though. You should watch Professor Messer's series. I used it to pass the Network+
