u/TheLostITGuy

I know little to nothing about this stuff. I just need someone to point my in the right direction. Currently have kantec and uppers want something else. 1 sliding gate, two barrier arms, probably less than 100 doors.

I'm aware that my post is probably lacking enough details. Please tell me what you like.

A new office building is currently under construction, and we'd like to get the conference rooms right this time. Ideally, that means outsourcing this but let's pretend that doesn't actually end up happening.

We will have conference rooms of all sizes: Breakout/Huddle rooms, medium to large conference rooms, and even a training hall that might end up being the size of a school auditorium.

What are some things that you think most, if not all, IT departments overlook?

 

Edit: Brining in an AV expert was discussed at our initlal meeting. My bad for leaving that out.

Based on the docs, it seems that you can easily build or buy a system that ticks all the boxes for their "recommended" specification without spending a whole lot of money. That sems like it would fit our needs but we're looking for some insight from people who have actual experience. We might replace our firewall with OPNsense altogether if we like it enough...but for now, we're just concerned with VPN performace.

Ideally, we want max performance...MAX SPEED!

• ~30 VPN users in total
• Its very rare to have more than 5-10 connected at the same time, especially all day. There are only a handful of full-time remote users...like 3 or 4 of them. With the way things have been going, I can see that easily growing to 10-15.
• We have a 1Gbps pipe (500 up/down). Networking for the core and all servers is 10G...1G to office endpoints.
• Most users are remoting into their office computers to do their work. The few full-time remote users actually perform their work on their (company issued) computers from home while connected to the VPN.
• Workload isn't anything crazy...Mostly accessing PDF/CAD drawings on network shares.

The VP2440 with 8GB or RAM and a 250GB NVMe from Protectli seems sufficient. Thoughts?