Benjamin Bartsch Email & Phone Number

United States

ePlus acquired CCI NSG in May 2023.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Cisco route / switch design, validation, testing, implementation, integration, support - IOS-XR, IOS-XE, IOS, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, fast-convergence (sub 50ms failover), MPLS (VPWS / Xconnect / pseudowire, VPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN / MP-BGP), PIM-SSM, PIM-SM, HA (MC-LAG, LACP, bundle-ethernet, LAG, cluster), IPv4, IPv6, security (ACL, LPTS, CoPP/MPP, AAA, TACACS, RADIUS), QoS, BNG (including geo-redundancy), Layer 2 (STP, VLAN, BVI, SVI, bridge-domain), OS selection / installation / upgrade / patching (RPM, ISO, GISO, TAR, PIE, SMU), ASR-9901, ASR-9906, NCS-540, NCS-57C3, NCS-5011, NCS-4201, Nexus 9k, ASR-9001, ASR-9006, ASR-9010, ASR-920, ASR-903, ASR-901, ME-3600x, Nexus 3k, ME-3400, Catalyst 7600, 6500, 4948, 3750, 3560, 3650Third party vendor integration - Calix, Tellabs, Zhone, Juniper, ExtremeService validation and testing - RFC 2544, failover / restore time, OTDR, CMD / PMD, span lossCisco Optical - DWDM - M6, M12, ONS 15454; Packet optical - CPT, CNS

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

I'm back at LSU working for LONI (under the LA Board of Regents). Our group is currently in the middle of a massive network and photonic transport overhaul. We are replacing aged Cisco 6500 Layer 3 switches and Cisco 15454 optical nodes with a mix of Juniper MX routers, Ciena photonic transport, and Ciena aggregation / CE devices. We are also rolling out new 40 and 100 Gbps services in several major Louisiana metro markets utilizing our newly constructed, state owned fiber optic cables connecting sites in a Clos architecture served by Dell whitebox layer 3 switches.We are embracing SD-WAN through projects that call for 100Gbps commodity hardware with a centralized, highly-available, offloaded control plane. We are migrating from a traditional Layer 3 / MPLS LDP core to a Data Center Interconnect model that will use 1 RU, purpose built MUX/deMUX boxes to combine several 100Gbps interfaces into a multi terabit per second super channel. We are reducing our operational complexity by collapsing routers and utilizing optical transport to backhaul layer 2.I'm hoping to gain a thorough understanding of the optical / layer one realm as well as pick up JunOS and Ciena OneControl / Site Manager / Blue Planet / SAOS.Versa SDWAN FlexVNF devices - 110, head-end (director, controllers, analytics engines)Juniper JunOS route / switch devices - MX 480 and 960, EX 3300 and 4300Ciena Carrier Ethernet devices - 5960, 3916, OneControlCiena photonic devices - 6500, WaveServer, SiteManagerDell ToR switches - Z9100-ON, S4048-ON, S3048-ON, Dell OS9, IPInfusion OCNosCisco photonic devices - 15454, CTCCisco IOS and related devices - Catalyst 6500, ASA 5520Management systems - Intermapper, Statseeker, NetBrain, OpenNMS, xWiki, FootprintsProductivity applications - MS Office (Outlook, Skype, Word, Excel, Powerpoint), MS Visio, Putty, SecureCRT, MTputtyFiber testing, circuit activation testing - PMD, CMD, OTDR, RFC2544, Exfo FTB-200

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Cisco route / switch design, validation, testing, implementation, integration, support - IOS-XR, IOS-XE, IOS, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, fast-convergence (sub 50ms failover), MPLS (VPWS / Xconnect / pseudowire, VPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN / MP-BGP), PIM-SSM, PIM-SM, HA (MC-LAG, LACP, bundle-ethernet, LAG, cluster), IPv4, IPv6, security (ACL, LPTS, CoPP/MPP, AAA, TACACS, RADIUS), QoS, BNG (including geo-redundancy), Layer 2 (STP, VLAN, BVI, SVI, bridge-domain), OS selection / installation / upgrade / patching (PIE, SMU), ASR-9001, ASR-9006, ASR-9010, ASR-920, ASR-903, ASR-901, ME-3600x, ME-3400, 7600, 6500, 4948, 3750, 3560, 3650Third party vendor integration - Calix, Tellabs, Zhone, Juniper, ExtremeService validation and testing - RFC 2544, failover / restore time, OTDR, CMD / PMDCisco Optical - DWDM - M6, M12, ONS 15454; Packet optical - CPT, CNS

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

LONI / LA Board of RegentsCisco WAN backbone for higher education - support, design, implementation, testing. 6500, 3560, 4948. Routing (OSPF, ISIS, BGP), MPLS, IPv4 / IPv6, PIM-SM / MSDP, perfSONAR, SDN (OSCARS / DYNES - Internet2), NetbotzCisco optical - ONS 15454Ciena 3916 - G.8032, Layer 2 VLAN

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Cisco LAN and WAN operations

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

NOC

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Directional drilling - long bores

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Small business consultant - Cisco and Microsoft

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Installer - cable modems, cable STBs, C-Band satellite dishes and STBsCollections - make contact with delinquent account owners, attempt to keep customer as subscriberStructured cabling - pre and post wiring, low voltage RG-6 and CAT5/5e/6 installation and termination

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Network Specialist, A

Network Specialist program