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I am trying to step into more of a manager role with some project management. We have are almost finished with our project for new wireless access points. There have been some hiccups but it got me thinking. With projects like this where you can do some testing to see what the devices are capable of, how do you really test to prepare for Go Live?

For example, our SAP team has multiple instances of SAP so that they can thoroughly test any scenario they can think of before going live. With things like switches, servers, and WAPS there is only so much testing I can think of to do. And I don’t have a spare building to test with. By myself, I am incapable of putting the same load on the devices as the company does during a business day.

Do you have any recommendations or are there some industry standard ways of testing hardware before project go lives?

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Some you just have to take on faith and warranties. Do some research, buy quality reputable products from quality reputable vendors.
Be wary of the newest latest greatest! (Prefer the dull edge of stable over the bleeding edge of new)
Redundancies where practical on critical systems.

Spares if possible.

Any new network devices for me go through isolation, routed through a device trapping traffic to see that they only talk to who they are supposed to.
(Think IOT, gadgets, gizmos, cameras, etc)

Stuff like server/workstations get ground up installs, network equipment gets fresh firmware flashes out of the box, from manufacturer with verified checksums.

Watch a quick demo like this and tell me you trust what your order online…