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Show 287: Handling Business Divestitures
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2016-05-09 11:48:43
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Many network engineers have been involved in network mergers. That is, your company bought another company, or your company was bought. And now there s got to be a squishy merging of IT staff, network connections, address spaces, firewalls, WAN connections, and so on. In fact, we talked about network mergers in Packet Pushers Weekly Show 234.

A less frequent occurrence are business divestitures. That is, a company you re part of gets rid of some part of the business, selling it off or otherwise separating it from the main body. How does the network engineer deal with that situation?

Joining us to share his lessons learned in separating networking one from another is Jeremy Filliben, who s been on the show before. Jeremy is a network engineer for a Fortune 500 insurance company and owner of a networking training company. You can connect with Jeremy at his blog, and on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Show Notes:

  1. Tell us about a business divestiture you were a part of
  2. Describe the people aspect of a divestiture project
  3. Why isn t a divestiture as simple as, Here s your drop-dead date. Be sure to be off the network by then ?
  4. Concerns that would be a part of divestiture project:
    1. Internet connectivity inbound / outbound
      1. Firewalls
      2. Circuits (and related infrastructure, like routers)
      3. Public-facing services (and related infrastructure, like load balancers, proxies, etc.)
      4. DNS & address space
    2. Private WAN infrastructure
      1. Circuits
      2. Routers
      3. Carrier contracts
    3. B2B infrastructure
      1. IPSec tunnels (and related infrastructure)
      2. Other remote VPN access for 3rd parties
    4. LAN infrastructure
      1. How are facilities changing?
      2. Access layer
      3. Dist layer
      4. Core layer
    5. Security infrastructure
      1. Access control systems
      2. Logging systems
    6. Operations infrastructure
      1. Monitoring systems
      2. Logging systems
  5. Is there a general template you can follow during a divestiture project?

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