So all this pile of networking gear here is actually going somewhere so While it's going somewhere. We decided to do a video before it all gets deployed So I'm gonna do kind of an in-depth video on the Unify But I thought why not take it another step further and build it all out and mount it all the things in yeah Plug all the things in we'll show you how it mounts how it works and kind of do a detail of you So once I get this mounted I'll show you kind of what it looks like physically Then I'll do a little network map of how we're going to do this and then I'll show you how we deploy a unified network So I do this in a way that gives you an idea of what it looks like Install but then we're going to get into the software details But I've done reviews in detail on these switches specifically. This is what they look like mounted We didn't put all the screws in it. So someone points out that I missed the screw I know these are temporarily sitting in our studio here. Anyway, so we can get that out of the way This is a feed line from my lab that's going to feed the internet to our USG That's the head end of the system is going to be the USG after the USG. We got the 24 port switch So we come out of the LAN port on the USG go to port one on the 24 port switch And we're going to cover this with a whole schematic when we're done one where you actually see how the software is set up Then out of here we got port 24 We got this red wire and we fished it down here and it comes back up here I would have loved to use the SFP ports on these. I just don't happen to have any handy right now So we're out of port 24 and into port 48 These other two lines that you see were one here and one here go to power bricks on the back And these power bricks on the back power these two unifies. So we have an slightly older. This is your standard AP LR Unify and then this is the APAC LR right here. This is the newer APAC model This is the older one. We plug both these in. This is all part of our demo and we show you how we hook all these up I mean ideally these things would be installed at different points in an office But we're doing this all in my lab in my studio here, but I just wanted to mount it all It's also keeping it off the table while you all this testing because there's some other stuff on a table Going on so figured to put it up here and we have this APC rack that we had laying around so I mounted that up here But it kind of give me an idea of what it looks like mounted up I mean normally we'd have a bunch of stuff in this 48 port I'm not gonna run a punch a bunch of wires for the demo But I think a few of you asked and maybe we're gonna do some videos like in our lab to kind of walk you through How you set up a patch panel you normally have a lot of patching in between here I'm just gonna plug a handful of devices in around the office for some of the demo purposes as we dig into how the software works Now all these are factory reset fresh with the latest firmware So the next thing we do is start with how we load the unify software And they go from how to load the unify software to set up the USG to set up the 24 The 48 and then the subsequent Unify Wireless and how we set all this up and we'll go over how the v-lands gets set up and how the separate networks get it's up So now that we've looked at this whole rack Here where it'll sit Let's jump into the software side of this and show you how to actually all the configuration works Okay, everything's plugged in everything's hooked up and because I wanted to Do this review as a full top-to-bottom review The first thing we do is install the unify software so the default IP address of the USG which is the head end of this network is 192.168.11 You can go to it, but you can't really do much other than get it online and It wants you to install the unify controller software to manage the gateway It links here and we're gonna be loading version 5.6.22 my preferred way to do this is in a Small virtual machine on the same network It has to be on the inside same network as you're setting network on for setup purposes and for the purposes of this video Yes, you can use external controllers. Yes, there's other ways to manage it Now you have separate videos on that you can find in my unify list But this is specifically setting up a top-to-bottom network and you're controlling it Let's say you're the only one network not a multi-hosted system externally. So we have the DB and controller it is version 5.6.22. So it's the latest version of the software I've already got it here. Now something interesting whenever you download the software Clear this real quick It always calls it unify underscore sysv in it underscore all dot deb when you're downloading it no matter what version It is so just a little side note when you it will tell you what version one is installing But it will when you download it always call it the same file name So let's run the installer real quick I'm logged in as root And I've done a video on how to install this, but I'll still walk you through it Unpacking and it should give me an error and it did now It's just telling you that there's a few things and dependencies and that it needs. This is my reason for Loving Debbie and then I switched to it like 17 years ago because I can do this after get installed as chef It's gonna find those dependencies. Yep. I'm just gonna press enter. Whoops I need to add DNS to this my bad. Let me fix that real quick. I Booted this up. It did not this is actually the config didn't have a DNS setting So he's gonna add that into this particular machine one second app get installed a chef just says find all those dependencies and Loads all the extra things needed to get the unify system up and running and after a few seconds here with this small vm It'll be up and running now. It doesn't take a lot of power to run the unify controller software this vm has a Giga RAM dedicated to it and like a single processor.  So you want something rot moderately fast We're gonna play with some of the more advanced stuff in here, but it really is not much of a processor hog It's a it's a pretty small system here. Okay, we have the machine up and running like I said it's barely using anything we're about to go through the setup it runs in its own Java VM and It's using all of about 500 out of the gig a ram. I have assigned to this virtual machine So it's like I said not real and pretensive processor wise. All right, let's jump over and start logging in Now no matter what you install the unify on the IP address You want to go to is whatever the IP address of the server as you load it on colon H443, but don't forget to start with the HTTPS So here we are first time logging in Gonna get the error from the self sign certificate and we're gonna run through the wizard Now it's what it finds all the devices that we have plugged into the network and wants us to say hey Do you want to adopt these in we're actually gonna go ahead and skip this and we'll adopt them once we get into the system itself We'll skip the Wi-Fi setup as well. We'll do that all inside the system now I use a so-so password that was easy. I guess I won't let me even do a so-so password That's actually a nice feature. I didn't know they added this We mostly have been upgrading our in-place installation and I use last pass, but apparently with this It's won't let me just use a bad password. So come up with something a little better. There we go finish and Should bring me to the login page I'm not we're not gonna do the cloud access. I may do a separate video on a cloud access, but I don't really use it What it does is allows you to tie into their cloud systems I click to keep everything self-contained and self-hosted which is one of the reasons I really like the unify software You can host your own cloud controller and server, which is exactly what we do All right logged in with the good password I had And it's not gonna have much in here because now we could start adopting devices Now I'm not gonna save that devices Now there's some firmware updates, which is cool. So we have some firmware we can load on here We have found in the past most of these can be updated to new firmware without doing the Adoption process, but I go ahead and adopt them first unless there's a problem I was we've actually run into with the USG where it does not like to do an upgrade not adopted But it's not a big deal. We're just gonna start adopting them and setting up the network in here So first things first get this done Now something I'm gonna change in here. You can change your preferences and I'm gonna add a feature Enable the refresh button Save and close and This refreshes by itself on its own timer, but this is how you can actually say update this page now There's not always a need for it But if you want to know if it's only refreshing every two minutes and it's done You have to wait another two minutes for it shows something on here You just go here and you can set preferences on a per-account basis So right now it's going through the provisioning mode so we'll refresh it again All right It has been adopted now where I'm gonna go and adopt all the other devices and then we'll start rolling through the upgrades adopt adopt adopt and Whoop adopt So now it's adopting and provisioning all of those Now you may have noticed down here into my wired connection deactivated When it provisions these which is also why I don't want to do the upgrades You wanted to stage the upgrades based on this when it's provisioning it restarts each of the switches the 24 port switch and a 48 port switch are gonna get restarted and that's what I'm plugged into So obviously I don't want to be pushing firmware to devices connecting to them while those are getting provisioned and restarted So now this one's connected and provisioned this one should come next and then these should be provisioned now when I do the Firmware upgrades.  We're gonna start with the peripheral devices I'm gonna update this and then this particular APC LR needs an upgrade and then lastly I'll do the switches All right now I have all the units adopted and I realized I made a mistake and I'll actually cover it in videos when you first Seen me adopting them you seen them all require an upgrade and I wanted to upgrade them and they wouldn't upgrade That was completely my mistake because I had statically assigned the name server when I loaded the Debian virtual machine so when I loaded it it was on one network and when I moved on this network It was looking for the wrong name server And it turns out because it didn't have the right name server when you logged into it It couldn't go to the internet and make sure each of these had the latest firmware so just by putting in the right DNS server they all have the new firmwares I thought they did and Now it actually has the option except for this one we for unit one does need an upgrade So I'm going to go ahead and upgrade this one and go ahead and hit confirm and it'll provision the upgrade on there so we have Everything adopted everything is up to date all the latest firmware versions and the network is Fully connected, but we haven't set up anything else. Let's start diving into the unified software and kind of walk you through how it works Now this is the latest version as of December 1st, which is 5.622 We were on the device manager, which is where we adopt and get everything set up and now we're going to jump over here to the Dashboard So here's how it looks from the dashboard We have One active way in here land device land device and what we're actually seeing is the layout of the network is how this is too So here's another land device. Here's the one in here And let me just jump over to the map and show you how that worked This is the mapping function now the maps interesting because this is the default image that they throw in here and what we can do is Drag where they are in your office and say all right. We have this switch This maybe this is a room. There we go Maybe we have another switch in this room over here And we have one of the Wi-Fi's we'll put it in this little conference room put another one over here and We'll say that this one's in this room here Now this is kind of neat because what they're letting you do is Map out where things are physically this is a default image But you can add a new map and edit the map and upload different images for different floors and zoom in and out and Lay out all your devices in reference to where things are so you up you have a drawing every building you can upload it on there and It will then you know overlay these this makes it really easy We've done this with like I said a lot of deployments in schools And if we have a schematic of the school we can put it on there and we can drag all of them And a nice thing is the controls to can do things on these is actually going to be right here to get Statistics to get information on them and how it's set up Topology this is so cool that it does this It says okay internet comes in from the USG here and I can move these around it goes into the 24-part switch Here's the one Wi-Fi unit plugged in a 24 per switch like we showed you at the beginning Then the 24 per switch goes into the 48 port switch, and then we have another Wi-Fi unit plugged in This system will actually show you all the devices as they get connected like this. It's really rather clever Right now I click on 2g coverage 5g coverage or nothing here And we're going to jump real quick and just add a network to this to show how that works So we're going to go over here to settings Wireless networks and so far I've left everything at default. These are still out of the box things everything is very customizable in here All right now we can create a new wireless network We'll call this one studio network one and we're going to go ahead and set it to WPA personal security key We can set to where we want and nice thing is you can click here. I Decided to be password 123 for this demo and we're going to leave everything at a fault But you do have advanced options and we'll get into that in a second here so hit save and Now we're going to jump over to devices to show you what's going on These have now switched into provisioning mode and only takes a second and what they're doing is they're provisioning out these settings So these are in provisioning, you know, so there's no options to click on anything All right, so now that we're back over here at maps I Refresh the page and you can see here's my 5g coverage because only this one's 5g this one's not here's our 2g coverage Now granted it's making Estimations based on size as you put into the building to try to determine the coverage and of course with any Wi-Fi We can't determine what's in the walls and what the penetration level will be whenever we do Wi-Fi testing We literally bring these units onsite set them in the offices where we plan to use them and see how far the reach is That's a separate video for Wi-Fi deployments but there's no magic sauce that will determine the exact construction of a building and Absolutely give me a clear picture without taking a Wi-Fi unit there to just how far the reach is so these are best guess estimates Now granted if you are doing the estimates in an open area and open field You obviously get a lot better coverage and you can kind of estimate those But how often are you deploying Wi-Fi in an open field? Not that often usually you're dealing with buildings and everything else But what this does is gives you kind of like a heat map to where the coverage should be estimated to be and you can Change and adjust the receiver sensitivity over here. This is the physical map though for how we can take a look at things and look at the Devices, let's jump over to the other type of map that's in here, which is a topology map And while we showed that you can see the linking between the devices This is a visualization for the linking between devices So right here's the Wi-Fi there Wi-Fi there and then we can also hit show clients So there's the unify controller the virtual box. There's my laptop And how it's connected currently we have nothing connected through here and here and the nice thing is if I move my laptop and I plug this in To this switch within about a minute or two it will re-update and show my client going that way also by clicking these You can expand and contract things Now i'm going to go ahead and connect my phone to This unit right here All right, so now I connected my phone. So here's my phone and it just has an id there now if we go over here to the clients Here it is studio network one And how it's connected overview of it statistics Packet inspection with nothing's available yet But you get the idea that each of the devices plugged in Whoops go to the map here again Change it to topology And you can see how the clients connect Now like I said this updates about every two minutes and you can get insights into each device connecting Now that's really nice because if you're trying to trace out problems It lets you go there and when you double click on any of these devices and we'll go over here For example, let me close these real quick so you can see what pops open So we'll click on the unify controller here It brings up these property dialogue boxes and we can pop them out just like we did with the switches And you can also name them if you want so you can get statistics on them what they're doing where they're going Information history of when they connected if it has any of that information And then you can give them an alias so you can understand Where they are or even create groups that they belong to And this is where you can assign a fixed IP address now because of the way the unify software works It's kind of nice But maybe a little bit different because you're used to going to everything to a series of tables They have this design concept because you everything through here that okay. I want to assign a fixed IP address 249 is what I want to assign to this save now. I've statically assigned that device to that address So it's almost a little bit confusing how it works But it's also a little bit more intuitive if you're you know, if you're used to doing networks It's hard if you're not used to it You're like, oh, I just click on it and assign an address and hit save right It's it's a little bit different how some of the network works But it's also really convenient once you're used to it and it makes managing things, you know, really And while we're here, we'll name this this is actually my laptop Tom's laptop Notes if you want to put them in there Tom's think pad save close Refresh this I think it should actually change it in here as well I think to jump to in our page or it takes a second because it's probably versioning some of that information There we go. Now it's refreshed And we can see Tom's laptop right here now. We'll go a step further because it says 24 port switch in rack number four What this is actually telling us And you can see which on the rack I'm plugged into port four so I can actually then go and name port four as well Tom's laptop apply Yeah, I'm updating the same port the controllers in because it realizes the controllers in this port It does give you a warning which I think is really smart because if you were about to block this port For example, because one of the other options we're going to get into here is how you can change Vlands and ports if I were to block this port I would have a real big problem because I would be blocking the port that the Unify controller itself was plugged in you don't get that message on any other port But only if unify a sense is that this but what your changes could possibly disrupt it Not that the change I did was disrupting But when you're making a change to a port for example turning the port off That would actually be the last thing you did and you'd have to plug into a different port to get back on the network Uh, so you don't want to do that especially because we manage a lot of these remotely I like these little warnings so they make me go. Huh, hold on before I change this Let me make sure and double check all the settings because you can't switch it back because it's the controlling port So Kind of that's kind of the rough overview of how things are connected Let's get a little deeper and show you into the settings. So we already seen the wi-fi up here So we're going to start with this is the wireless network And this is where we created one and we'll get into creating more of them But we've got to do a few other things first I haven't any problems doing it But there is a warning because it's some some of the stuff's in beta like the speed tests and some of the port remapping features And what this actually lets you do for example, like there's three ports on The usg this allow you to take a port labeled as void and turn it into like a second wan port for example And this actually would also allow you to have some of the automatic uplink failovers And what this is a really weird but neat feature If you have a device a wireless device that gets broken off from the network But it's within range of another wi-fi device that it is on the network Which means it got disconnected from network, but it's still powered on and of course their poe That doesn't usually happen, but he can it can then identify diagnose and then set to a bridge mode across the antennas Just keep extending the wi-fi network without a physical network connection. It's kind of like a mesh system It's kind of clever that they built these in I find it really interesting I don't really I haven't really used the feature. I do like it though that it monitors them And what happens is and actually I'll show you this as a test that tells you that they're in working That the unit is still working, but it's in isolated mode and we'll we'll simulate that failure here During this tutorial So here's all the if you want to enable ssh you can set an ab in a password for that I believe the password default is the password. I just set for the system Anytime I change anything here. I have to click apply and then it provisions out to this particular usg Let me close this on the side. It's not relevant Jump back over to the wireless networks Now I deployed a wireless network and it seamlessly deploys it across as many devices as I have connected So we have two of them here for this demo, but if I add another network setting I can force it to only be on one or the other But the default is to create a seamless network across all of your sites So we called this studio network one and we're going to go ahead and create a new wireless network And cleverly name it studio two Set a password for it Now here's where the advanced options come in we've got More fine control like if you want to put this on its own vlan Enable fast roaming some of the devices This helps enable like the handoffs between devices when you're wandering around it'll jump over them You can by default it's aes cmp wp2 you can control and if you had to Unfortunately, we have a client even though it's broken They have to run things in tkip because of the old devices they have on a network So we created a separate network Just for those devices to be on It's a it's all we can do because they can't afford to buy the devices that are on this because it's a big industrial controller But you can also roll back to wp1 but by default good news that's disabled You can also prevent the ssid from being broadcast here These where you can start applying groups to it I haven't really tested the power saving but uh the schedule is really clever because you can Schedule what time you want your wi-fi to turn on and off. We actually did our store When we're not here, we just have the wi-fi We have multiple networks, but we have one of the networks that's generally our customer side network land we just have that turn off and Keeps things separated and no one even knows the wi-fi's there once you're Once it's after hours, then you have all kinds of rate and beaking controls whitelist blacklist mac filtering so you can create Mac filters and say only this type of filtering and that's not a per network not a per device So as I create each network I can create a mac filtered network If I want more security where only allow these mac dresses on yes I know you can spoof a mac address, but it adds another layer of Trouble it is to jump on that network so you can keep it very filtered It also has radius authentication support. So you can use radius authentication to determine what is going to get on there With with an actual level of security Now let's look at the networks themselves. So we're going to create a new network is here, but we're going to go back I'm just going to go back and edit the existing when we have so the land corporate You want it to be a guest and you can't really choose these other options vlan only remote user site to site You have to do all that within The next ones it needs a primary land and this is where you're going to set the settings and this will cascade all the settings across now I've headed assign the manual that's not the 999 server. You can leave it to auto For testing I was putting in here, but you just took just auto it'll act as a dns forwarder Uh, you can set the domain name whether or not you want igmp snooping on It does support dhcp relay is a beta feature, but I thought that's kind of nice that had it in there I've had not often, but I have run into times when we need that If you want to enable upnp on the land you can do that Not usually in a corporate environment, but if you happen to be using a usg at home If you're running gaming systems, especially like the xbox or the playstations Their popular need is having that on there then set your lease times and you know, what do you want things just to be as they are So let's go back over the networks. Let's create a second network cancel Create new network some guests will be what we'll call the network and There's one physical port. So we're actually going to go ahead and give this a vlan id of 10 And when you type this in it let me automatically update to dhcp range and just follow the suit here and then I'm going to customize it 100 to 200 And what I did here was vlan id 10. So it's going to have physically the same interface <IP_ADDRESS> would be the IP address. It's a slash 24 network. You just type it in Put the notation in there We'll call it guests as the domain And I'm going to leave everything else as is hit save vlan id 10 And we should go back over here to devices And it's provisioning it out right now And now it provisions it out to all the other devices that need to have provisioning All right, so everything's provisioned and we have that second network recreated on vlan 10 Now let's talk about actually how we push that across the network So let's go over here and look at the clients because I plugged another laptop in And It's called the name of the system happens to be equal top And it's 48 port switch Studio rack number six now. Let's just jump over here to map real quick and I was going to show you that the way the clients look Topology So it comes from the usg goes out of the 24 goes here. So this is where it is and we can get statistics what it's doing configuration network and Jump over here to clients And we can see the ip address 192 168 106 It's still on the dot one network and we want to get this over on the dot 10 network So we're going to go click on the switch here And it brings us because I clicked on it here right to the port that this is in so we're going to go here And it's actually steve's laptop I took Steve's laptop and we want this to be on some guest 10 And what this let me know gives me a warning It's going to be overriding any of the customizations I had to this and I covered this in the full switch review It just real quick you can edit any individual port to Function differently a mirroring port an aggregate port manual link You can go in new and you know get all the details set up for each of these ports But we're taking this and we don't care about the profile overrides We want that port to be long to the some guest vlan 10 that we created Now all we had to do is create that in the network if this Option to change any port to belong to a vlan is universally everywhere. It's All the switches if we had 20 switches it gets deployed That's what the provisioning was when you change a network is pushing all these configuration settings So when I want to create a new vlan I go ahead and create the vlan and all of my network that's on this network all the devices on this network get that vlan information now obviously it's tedious to Edit individual ports one at a time But yes in case you're wondering you can select multiple ports like this And select them An edit group supports at a time like this And assign those groups of ports to a particular setting So that is that is an option Just so you know if you're don't want to go through tediously doing it Especially if you have like 20 or 48 port units You're like, okay these group this way these group that way You notice how when I selected these it lets you select groups of ports That is an option when you're doing it, but we set that one. So now that laptop I may have to refresh the IP address on it All right, just took a second to refresh here in our network So now we can see equal top is on the 192 168 10 network The connection is the some guests so instead of studio one network or just our standard LAN It gives the vlan name Pretty straightforward to follow and now I can move anyone I want now this also applies to wireless Let's go back over and look at our topology again And so we still see the same connectivity Physically where he's at so it's going from equal top to the 48 port switch to the 24 port switch to the usg But when we double click it we can see that it's on the some guests network So we can still it picked up the name of it and we can still rename it and call it something else Different friendly name, whichever we want to group Name it to for convenience and follow that device now. Please note because the naming is tied to the MAC address Whenever it moves to another port it will Move the name as well. So if I move my computer to a different port It'll move over and my name because it's named based on MAC address will follow suit And that took about less than a minute From when I moved to maybe almost two minutes I'm unplugged of mine from the 24 plugged it into the 48 port switch And you can see where my system now moved over. I kind of like the animation for when things are moving over As you get a larger network, it's crazy how this looks Because you can drill down a lot. That's also why you have the Show clients and not show clients on there now We also have the ability to have link labels on here. So when I add the link labels, it gets that much more interesting It's equal top port number six into the 48 tom and the unify controller because it's actually running on my laptop And a virtual machine are both plugged into port 32 So it very cleverly lets you know which network that the device is connected to And how it's connected So and then it then lets you know that this goes from 48 to 24 And then this goes into one and goes here now Let's take a look at the switches real quick and start looking a little bit in the details of how those Switches appear the switches are smart and they know Which ports are for what? So it realizes and it's kind of small, but it's got a little up arrow. This is the uplink port So it knows that this is where the port is uplinked to the other switch And then the green ones represent other devices we plugged in And the orange just means things connected but because that wi-fi unit's older It only links at 100. So that's the label right here That's the 100 meg versus a gigabit connection. Let's take a look at the 24 port switch Same thing different though because it realizes that the uplink ports here to the usg And now this is kind of neat It doesn't give a symbol for the downlink port, but it has it here It lets you know the uplink and downlink for it now So right here's the downlink to the 48 port switch It knows that's the next device in the network So you can look at it from a non-graphical version by opening up each switch and determining this But I just really love the way it maps things out for you as all the devices get plugged in Because if you're trying to trace things out on a network that becomes a really handy thing to do So let's go back over to the network settings again down here at the gears Wireless networks Studio network one let's go ahead and create one Call it studio network two We didn't hit save last time. That's why it wasn't there from before advanced options We're going to use a vlan and we're going to put this one on that vlan 10 that we created save Now we have two separate networks and this one's on vlan 10 Look over here at devices and you'll see the wi-fi units provisioning Any provision really fast now there is a slight disruption every time you provision a wi-fi unit because it adds a setting So the wi-fi units do drop and disconnect briefly All right, so my phone's reconnected and I realized I called it studio network Not I forgot the kian network, but it's on vlan 10 And it's getting the dot 10 address which is the network we assigned for that particular vlan So we jump back over to the map again And there it is connected studio network two And that's what's kind of clever is it shows which wi-fi network you're connected to so you have each one And now we see on this one now. Let's talk about the failure mode. I wanted to show you kind of an interesting demo of So this unit right here is connected. This is wi-fi unit one and here's wi-fi unit two And this is this is a feature of the newer wi-fi units I mean, I don't know that all the the early models are supported in this particular feature And what it did is it realizes that this is isolated right now And what that means is it's on but not connected to the network. It's disconnected So it was plugged into right here But then it's unplugged because I physically reached over and unplugged it. So by doing that It just goes into an isolated mode because the other wi-fi units can see it But it can't see the network So this is a really helpful diagnostic tool because there's disconnected as in you don't see it And it'll give you an error for that until you missed heartbeat and it says, you know devices offline But this one it realizes the device is on the network in terms of power But not on the network in terms of connectivity. So it sees its broadcasting But it's not actually connected to the network Now this is where it gets another step of cool to me is if you wanted to bridge this and create like the mesh network You can actually have the units talk to each other and then create a uplink between them By selecting this And now it's going to attempt to create the bridge for you So this device will still work kind of like a repeater mode I've actually done very little testing with this because generally I'm not the biggest fan of mesh networks I've worked with them a few times and we've been called in to replace them Because I've never seen one that works as seamlessly as I think it should and generally hardline to each one It's just way faster and less prone to problems Especially because most of these networks that we put in have a lot of users So handing things off from mesh to mesh becomes kind of tricky It says not available target. I have a feeling it doesn't want to work because it's the Two different models. I'll have to try this sometime as a separate video with two new models I just don't happen to have any in stock right now. So I'm going to plug this wi-fi back in and we'll get to some more settings The nice thing is it's pretty fast from the time I plug it in until going back to connected and back up and running Now a couple side notes here as I had said you can custom config each one This is where you can override what the radios are doing And which WLANs are on there. So by default it gets each one of these I can edit and override so this particular one does not get a particular wi-fi setting I usually don't have a lot of use cases particularly for that But definitely an option if I wanted to where I can customize each one generally when we put these in We assign a couple different networks, maybe a couple different VLANs to them And disperse them throughout the companies or the areas we're putting them in And we want them all to be on the same network. So generally that's the deployment But you can override that configuration and change things around All right, so let's go back into the network settings here I will cover a couple things that I'm not going to do in depth today But this does have the option if you've seen it in there And I'm going to do separate videos because I've just not real adept at the VPNs I've not actually done I've had a few friends who have but I have not done anything with the VPNs on here for remote user VPN I was told it's pretty straightforward on these I'm going to do a separate video on how to handle the VPN So it does have a remote VPN site to site VPN or acting as a client. I've been told It's fairly straightforward to do but I have not actually tested it So I'm uh, I can't comment on that at all at this moment Any of the deployments we have for VPN as you may know if you watch my channel at all I'm a huge fan of PF Sense and that's where I always deploy my VPNs We put these in some clients networks that don't need VPN We primarily use these in small business networks Where VPNs rarely even something they're talking about They mostly just need connectivity and a nice interface for us to manage things So I'll close this one Now we'll get to the next part of networking because this is something we do a lot of Creating firewall rules and port forwarding This was confusing if you look at my previous usg video I think someone commented that it didn't have a lot of features That video is also old The nice thing about the way Unify works They get the product out there and they kind of listen to people Which is rare for a technology company And they look at what features we're looking for and start adding them in In the latest version of the Unify software I believe it's the first time they moved it to here They moved all the port forwarding rules to a Place that makes more sense to me It was a little different the way you did it before Now it's nice because we can just go create port forwarding rule And we're going to have a pretend camera Well we'll put camera system from any one port number 7443 if you didn't know that's the one for there That's the one for the Unify cameras Forward to IP 1, 2, 1, 6, 8 dot We'll say 1.10 We're making it up because it doesn't exist 7443 TCP UDP And whether or not you want logging turned on Save And we go over here to devices You can see it's provisioning that port forward to the USG And provisioning happens fairly fast And as you can see we jumped over here And it provisions fairly fast when you make a network change like that Doesn't take long at all It doesn't disrupt the system while it's doing it It added the port forwarding rules they're added So back over here to the rules Port forwarding And you're done now If you wanted to create a restriction And we'll edit this rule real quick again To say limited and only allow from a certain IP address That's easily achieved in here This makes so much more sense And I don't recall exactly But I remember being a lot more complicated The way they had it before And kind of buried in some menus This is a really simple port forwarding system It's not as advanced as some of the other firewalls But it gets the basics done So a lot of times it's all we have to do The most common deployment we see Is maybe a camera system Or a couple little things in there Now the only thing I'm not as clear about Is will it let me forward to the other network Or will it ask me questions And does it do that automatically So let's test this real quick If I hit 10.10 Anywhere Okay, let me do that Now let's try this If we put it in the .20 network Well, it should give me an error Saying that network doesn't exist It does not So I wish it was a little bit more A little bit smarter And would actually allow me to forward Something to a specific network And actually ask me what that network was But it doesn't appear to care It'll let me type in whatever I want For the forwarded IP Save Now if you want to see if the rule actually works We're going to do a quick test here Something simple So I'll create a test rule And we'll create a port number 12345 Put in the IP address of <IP_ADDRESS> Happens to be my laptop's address And hit save So there's a rule we're going to provision To my laptop Which is the .66 Now a couple of side notes So you notice I gave my laptop a friendly name Those friendly names don't work or show up When you're doing port forwarding rules It would be kind of nice if they would So if you would name the devices It would be nice if they showed up here So if Unify is listening or watching my video Maybe this is something that they'll do But it does not autocomplete So you don't have that really as an option in there So that's provisioned Let's look at the devices And we need our WAN address here So we're going to go over here to our USG Expand out the WAN address And we see it's <IP_ADDRESS> And like I said this is not really a WAN address And we know that's actually in a private range We're going to do hostname That One, two, three, four, five As the port And this is part of my lab So it's going to be the I call it VLAN69 lab It's a VLAN I have just for doing this We're going to go over to my system We're going to do a netcat Dash L for listen <IP_ADDRESS> My IP address One, two, three, four, five port You can see I've tested this before I said it hit up arrow Test And test port was successful And we look back over here And when it sends the command It actually closes it So we can see the netcat is done listening So definitely it works It's an easy way to test it real quick And kind of get an idea But obviously it doesn't care If I put in a different IP address It doesn't give me a warning I'm sure it cares And it won't go to the right address But that is kind of an interesting thing About the way the port forwarding works Let's back over your settings And let's talk about The firewall So the firewall itself Has a couple of its own rules To accept and drop And you can create each one of the rules That's WAN out WAN in LAN in LAN out LAN local guest in Guest out And guest local So if we go to WAN in And here is the rules auto created For the camera and the test rule So we can't actually edit those But we can create new rules And this is a nice thing about the port forwarding Is that it does allow For automatic rule creation of firewall So I only had to create it once Under port forwarding And it automatically creates A matching firewall rule To allow the traffic But if you wanted to do everything More in a manual way You can go through here And do more detailed work For distant destinations As your address group destinations Different types of filtering Drop except reject And another thing that's kind of neat You have over here More detailed tuning Of like state timeouts Protocol options If it's SIP Whether or not you want ping Or receive redirects Or send redirects Or send you can They have some decent firewall rules in here Now I have not messed much with it But if I understand correctly Because these are all built on A custom Linux kernel You can get in there And start manually writing And mainly editing firewalls So you can go beyond what the interface here Will let you do Goes beyond the scope of this talk here In this tutorial But to give you an idea Definitely if you have Those advanced skills And you want to do it Yes, you can override what's in here By logging in directly to the unit itself So it kind of gets over there And this of course is where You can just add some static routes This is the final thing In the routing firewall So if you had some custom routing options You can add them here And create static routing Now guest control This is interesting Because if you wanted to create As the guest portal, guest network That's actually an option on here So people can get on And it will create this Now this applies to the Wi-Fi rules So you start with I want to create a guest Wi-Fi Or even a guest network And I want people want to get on the network To have to log in There's an entire module here And it's kind of cool It actually gives you some editing options So you can put what you want to have in here And you can edit this And it has a mobile preview What it looks like on phone What it looks like on desktop And what it will show them When they get on the network And this is where you would upload Or add your own terms and conditions to To determine it Also where you're going to set your guest network So your guest network can be separate And the default guest rules Keep the network off of your other network So if you create another Wi-Fi Or you apply a LAN rule Or a port rule Or a separate VLAN for all of your guests You can funnel all of it right here And it's pretty straightforward to do So we jump over here to wireless Create a new wireless Network advanced And we'll call it the guest And then we check the box It says apply guest policies And I'm just going to You don't need to go to any of the advanced options At nothing unless you have something More advanced you want to do So we're just going to apply the guest policies It's provisioning it And this is back to where we finished Setting all that So we just created an open network We're going to go ahead and enable the guest portal Do you want no authentication Simple password, hot spot Now I have not tested this And I'm going to do a separate video Just to test this Because I was told it's still a little buggy And of course it is in beta right now But they have the Facebook login So one of the options is for guest options You can force them to log in to Facebook I'm not as clear Someone said it's not working well with the iPhone Based on whatever it informs I will do my own testing with this At a separate video Because it's a beta feature It was just introduced in this version of the software But once they put this in here They're going to work on it Listen to feedback And this feature is kind of up and coming So we're going to enable guest We're going to hit apply changes Also, because of things like this This is also why I've mentioned a VM You may not want something too slow as a VM Because these are moving reasonably fast But if you ran this on a Raspberry Pi as a back end And you want it doing guest authentications This all runs inside the VM module That is the Unify Controller software And I will note You don't need the Unify Controller software Running 24-7 Unless you want it gathering statistics and everything else These machines, if the Unify system goes down Or you're upgrading that particular virtual machine It goes offline Wi-Fi and everything still works You just don't get to provision anything new And nothing changes And you're not collecting any statistics Also, the guest portal runs inside of this So the guest portal will go down though If the Unify Controller software goes down So I'd sign my phone into the guest network And this is a quick screenshot I just grabbed from my phone And it says sign into guest So pretty straightforward there And once again, we can look at my phone We see the link labels And we see it's connected to the guest network All right So you're given a big overview of all the settings And getting a Wi-Fi deployed And some of the changing of port Creating a VLAN Moving things to that VLAN And how you deploy the Wi-Fi across multiple women Including how we do a guest network Now let's get into the insights Because that, of course, is really important When you're trying to diagnose a larger network Is what are the insights of things going on? So we go over here to insights And because we just did this We're going to actually switch to something simple first Before we cover what all this is And we'll start with past guest authorizations Now we just loaded this right now And for this whole video So there's not a lot of data But you get all these statistics and data inside of here That allow you to determine Like, you know, I can look at history Of when guests logged in And when things started happening So close that out Here's the guest Here is me doing the authentication there That I'm online So you can see which are the guests But there's a lot of information in here So this is really novel as well This is the neighboring access points And what the Wi-Fi units do Is they look around and go, what's around me? And they see all the different Wi-Fi access points This one's actually interesting Derek Silverado I'm guessing someone's vehicle has an access point in it Like a mobile one It sees different things that come by So this can give you access information And statistical information about things it sees in the area And it's grouping someone together Then you can also go here and pull down Known clients Here's some of the ones that are known on our network And once again, you can filter this for Different time periods Pass connections Things that were connected Now this is interesting to get a history Of what was connected when Has all the date and timestamps in there Switch statistics And what's in there This is really neat Because you got the information About what's going on in each switch port A history of it What was plugged into it If you have PoE None of these are PoE that we did in our test here But those are options in there So it would give you the PoE information It can give you the counters for statistics And then we can say link status Only show me connected devices So we can filter this real quick And make it a lot cleaner And I like the way they do this Because it's now giving me a lot of information And I can really start diagnosing the network And this is the beauty of the way Unify works One dashboard that consolidated If I had two switches like I have here Or if I have 20 switches or 200 switches I have all these different informational things I can do to start diagnosing and digging things And here's we didn't do anything This is our pretend port And this is the one we tested So we got eight packets that went through From that test that we did And go back over here to known clients Actually to show you a little bit more data Let me jump over to our network So here's a look at the stats for our network And you can see different connections And the amount of data going across Which is of course a whole lot bigger And if we do things like pass connections There's a lot of information here And then we can jump backwards for different time periods And show what was connected for that So we can drill down and see the different IP addresses That were assigned based on the different networks And trace things out Also I have my networks up a little different Because I don't have all unify switches So unify does something a little bit different When you don't know when you have some dumb switches In between so we're going to go to maps And I have only one unify eight port switch In our network and then some dumb switches But they're VLAN off So I'm using this to zoom in and out Here's some of the wifi clients But it thinks they're all connected directly to the Obviously you can't have this many devices On the eight port But switch But port number two is connected to the dumb switch So it sees all those devices And it says they're all on port number two Now my network is headed by PF Sense Which means I have none of the deep packet Inspection features you get with the USG at the head end But what it does do Is it still has the switch Tracking all the MAC addresses And the assignments through the switch And through the wifi unit To understand where my phone's physically connected Because it can see the MAC addresses that pass through The unit Kind of clever the way all this works And yes, in case you're wondering Our wifi name for our business wifi is notice me senpai So we'll go ahead and close this out And we'll finally take a look at The dashboard, what that shows us And the deep packet inspection system Now the deep packet inspection system By default is turned on So we're going to actually jump back into here Deep packet inspection And it allows you to create categories And restriction groups Based on the categories and restriction groups They came up, for example Social networks Enable restrictions You can block everything on there You can add, let me add a social network People who bypass proxies We're going to go ahead and hit save on both of these Actually, I forgot to check the block matching traffic And we'll go ahead and log it So we hit save Now this is where you can choose Where that rule gets applied So I want that rule applied to the guest network Or the LAN network Or the wifi networks You can apply this rule to that We're going to apply it to the LAN Default You can create more groups And get fine grain control and segment this out So in theory, this should And I haven't tested this And we're going to test it live here Once this is done provisioning I should no longer be able to get to Facebook on here Across this network Provisioning And here we are stuck Establishing secure connection I can get to Google Not that I ever use it But I wonder if I can get to plus.google.com Or if it restricts that I guess they don't see Google Plus as a social network So I am online And Facebook is timed out So they have decided to block it So when we take a look now I can't get to Facebook And I see Facebook's in red here So I'm guessing that means it's blocked I'm at the read a little more On the deep packet inspection I haven't really used it much Because we don't deploy a ton of USGs Out there Nor do we really get into the filtering like this Like I said, mostly PF senses are head end Sorry about that Last thing I guess I probably should have covered here Is the events thing The events list that are over here Sorry, I called it a thing The events list here And this actually gives you some Warnings errors in history of the events But it gives you all the events that occur So you can kind of track out the history of things And it actually logs all the different settings That were done Was adopted Provisionings When we add different things in here So you actually get a nice history That's searchable And we can search for example Of everything about the 48 port switch that was done Errors with it Warnings Or back to just general We'll close that I guess the last one other thing Is the maintenance on it These are fairly maintenance free You can do things like Download the backups from here So once you get it all configured and all set up The backup is really straightforward to do Download backup Not much to that And if you ever have to move this to another controller You just go to restore Or if something happens to this one Choose file, restore It restarts And everything just goes right back to normal And it has some data retention Because obviously when you're not just backing up the system You're actually backing up the data The logs and everything else So there's some options in here to determine that part of it All right, so hopefully this was helpful And getting you set up with Unify And if like I said There's something you want me to cover Something more in detail I'm overall really happy with the Unify devices I think the USGs are getting a lot better Especially since the first time I reviewed them But on the bigger side of it They're not really in-depth in features Like I said that the firewall It'll get you going But the firewall rules aren't very advanced And obviously it didn't even give me an error When I try to drop something on a network That doesn't exist And not that that's necessarily a deal breaker at all But it's something to keep in mind And it's something they could improve on But overall the system does work very well And you can't beat the price point of these You're the USG I mean I'm not going into it a little bit But you're also talking about a device That's only, you know A little over a hundred dollars To purchase the basic USG model So you get a lot of features for a hundred bucks That is for sure The Wi-Fi and the switches All working together with this software Outstanding Being able to track your packets And figure out where everything's going And how everything's getting there And the auto drawing of the topology Being able to trace out a device That's just, I love that Being able to map these out Being able to see the connections over You know this map here So laying it out over a map here building Or being able to do the topology And have it drawn in real time To go okay this is my network connection That's some amazing stuff right there That's, that's gold as far as I'm concerned So as much as I'm mediocre on the USG A lot of times we have a PF Sense firewall Because I love all the features and VPNs That come with PF Sense So that's often ahead of a network But the rest of the network we love deploying Unify Because this system works It works really well It's really solid But for the price point I don't think you can really beat the USG And if the client doesn't have a lot of Crazy firewall configuration rules That you need to do The USG works really good for dropping it in And just needs to route traffic It will do that excellent And that aspect of it I think it's great So hopefully this was helpful If you like the content here Like and subscribe If there's something you want me to go more in depth on Let me know If it's the VPN That's going to be a separate video I don't know when I'll get that done I want to, I got to get more than one USG in here And I'm not the biggest fan of them So I don't know when I'm going to do that But if someone wants a mail you want I'll definitely do it I just don't know if I want to buy one right now Alright Thanks for listening If you liked the content here Like and subscribe


My experience of teaching one student and a group in France. Teaching is a very rewarding experience when you have enthusiastic and motivated students, regardless of teaching one student or a group of students. However, in my opinion, only very young learners seem to have the enthusiasm teachers crave for. Conversation practice I have been teaching English in France without a qualification due to the great demand for English teachers and in my personal experience, one-to-one lessons have been difficult as I came across introvert adults and unmotivated teams. I have struggled to make them talk and engage in conversations so I ended up doing all the talking which wasn't at all good for neither of us. Teaching groups offer a chance for student interaction therefore, even the introverts get to communicate with their fellow students and quite often they tend to motivate each other in the classroom. Different tactics and techniques are needed when teaching one student or a group of students. In both cases, you have to prepare a lesson plan in advance, adapt and evaluate it according to student abilities. Student personality For instance, teaching a single student means that we go at a faster pace even if the student has problems learning a new language because we are able to go back to a grammar point later in the lesson, identify the student's specific difficulties and find the solution to the problem, we can do two or three different talking activities or grammar games which will help implement what has been taught so far. With introverted and, or unmotivated students you have the chance to get to know them first and then work around their interests and needs even with the most difficult students. The trick is to show them that you are determined to help them learn and progress in English without patronizing them. To show the student, especially a teenager that you are on a journey together is very important and being able to speak English is really an advantage in the global world of today. They eventually end up enjoying the lessons. Mix of abilities and interests Learning groups is a different can of fish because of the variety of personalities and characters. There are a few obstacles such as time and classroom management. To be able to go through the lesson plan is important but not obligatory since you need to make sure the students understand the subject being taught and that they are able to show it through activities, verbal and written, which, will assure you that you are on the right track. Being able to use class activities where students talk to each other and discuss ideas is very enriching to them and the teacher as we are able to learn from each other. If for some reason you run out of time and don't cover all the teaching points because activities went on longer than expected then you can continue in the next lesson by linking two lessons with common points and features. The secret lies in creativity and resourcefulness. Being a bit out of the box in order to find solutions that will work for everybody is crucial in any profession. Teaching bigger classrooms I have never taught large classes that is with more than 15 students so I believe it will be a challenge to keep in mind because at some point two classes may end up being taught together due to teacher absence and I will have to improvise and do the best I can without losing focus and track of the lesson plan. Student management may become a problem in such cases but I guess assertiveness will be needed for such situations. I have to start searching for tutorials and possibly some training for such scenarios. Learn how to approach groups and individual students taking your TEFL course right now. Now that I have completed two TEFL courses I feel better equipped than before to teach and I have been able to pinpoint with clarity what I was doing wrong all this time and I also know what to do to further progress in my teaching career including joining professional associations. All in due time. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


And you got fired because of being too funny? Not for being late, not for smoking, not for cussing too much. You know what gave me the most rules? As a headliner, don't do this, don't say this, don't do that. T.K. Kirkland. Really? T to the mother dutton K. Why he do that? Why? Well, because a lot of comedians, headliner comedians thing is they don't wanna work hard. Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. If I wasn't gonna make it doing this, we're gonna make it doing nothing else. Then I get a phone call from my man, Derek Kenner. Shout out to Derek Kenner. He say, hey man, I'm writing for WBLS, for Earthquake's radio show, cause he was featuring for Earthquake at the time. Got a radio segment, and they need some quick little one-liners. I know you good at them. Send me a couple of them. I just text about four or five of them, send them in. Turns into a writing job for Earthquake's first radio show. Big. Quake comes to Dallas, Derek can't make it. I fill in for Quake. Right then at that same moment, Derek stops featuring for Quake. Quake needs a feature. You. Proved myself that weekend.  Three years in a row, I'm on a road with Earthquake. Wow. By featuring for Quake, I meet all the OGs. But by also, Earthquake was the first time, cause everybody else, I got fired. I would do two or three shows and get fired for being too funny. They don't want you to take their spotlight. You're not here to be funny. Faizon Cat, I mean, Faizon say Cat Williams pushed him away from the show because he thought he couldn't, he could come behind Faizon. Faizon tells me this, and I understand what you saying now because he's saying, he can't go behind me. Our shit came from us trying to put a tour together and him thinking that I was not going to be funny. So where Amber is, he's like, okay, I'm gonna put, I'm gonna say okay, but I'm okay, yeah, but I've been doing this before you. Okay? Yeah. I can tell you I was on stage with Robin Harris, David Wains, we had to bring it. And what happened was I was smashing him. You know what I'm saying? He couldn't follow me. For sure. So that's where it really came from.  I'm like, no, you're not gonna do that either. You're not gonna do that. He didn't know what he was dealing with. The first comedian to ever give me love for being funny was Rodney Perry. The first comedian to promote me from the host spot to the feature spot because the host couldn't even get his credits right was Lil Rel. Those were the first two dudes to actually give me a stamp of validation when it came to working at the white people comedy clubs. So the white comedy clubs would never book me because I wouldn't go through their process. That's what I said. I don't encourage nobody to take my route. What is their process? I did it to bar and grill legends, real time, Brick House Lounge. I'm going to the black clubs. I'm doing black comedy. The white club comedy route. But isn't that normally what black comedians normally do? That's what black comedians normally did. Okay.  That's why you'll have black comedians that you've never heard of take off because they were mainstream comedians. They worked the white rooms. They went to the white clubs. So when you go to hyenas or the improv on open mic night, they have a sign-up sheet about 40, 50 names long. No matter what time you showed up, the person there decides where you're going.  They're gonna put you on fourth block, which is the last 10 names. So you might get there, 7 p.m. to sign up. You ain't going on to one in the morning. And I did this week after week, even though I'm the funniest dude in the room. Another thing they would do, the gatekeepers.  She just couldn't joke their way out of a one-star bathroom.  Absolutely. He been booed off stage. No. He bummed. Yes. But not booed. But not booed.  No, that's given up. That's real. That's given up. And I'm gonna do my time.  I would never let the boo. I would never let the crowd ruin my check. I'm booked to do a certain amount of time. I'm gonna do my time. Now you're not, I wasn't booked for you to like me. I was booked to do my time. So the only way I can get my money is if I do all of my time. Oh, okay. That's real. So I'm learning now. Let's go. So that's when you start to get afraid. Because it's all about paying bills.  It's bad enough that you don't play their game because you realize that it's rigged. So you making a name for yourself and you going around the country building relationships with these comics without doing it the white folks way. So then when these headliners come to town, they telling the club, no, I want Black Run to feature for me. So now the club gotta break down and call me. Which is why I would be fourth or fifth or sixth on the call list when the headline was out. I need a black comedian to open for me. Even though black is my first name and my stage name, I'm number six or seven on the list even though I'm at the top of the heap as far as skill. Is that why you named yourself Black Run? Well, yeah, because I'm proud of myself. But I named myself Black Run because when I was in the hood, living my hood life, everybody called me Black. Okay. And then when I would be doing my corporate life, everybody would call me Run. So my dichotomy is both of those. So I'm Black to some and I'm Run to others. I'm Black Run to everybody. Got it. So working with Quake, Quake see me on stage half-stepping. He pulled me to the side in the dressing room. He said, hey, young, when I first saw you in Dallas, this ain't what I saw. I said, well, OG, I was doing a guest spot in Dallas. I never thought I would be working with you. He said, you say that to say what? I said, man, I'm just trying to play my part. He said, I ain't one of them cats. I didn't bring you here to pity pat the room. I didn't bring you here to pacify the audience. I brought you here. Because of what had happened previously? Yes, ma'am. When you got fired because of being too funny? Not for being late, not for smoking, not for cussing too much. You know, it gave me the most rules as a headliner. Don't do this, don't say this, don't do that. T.K. Kirkland. Really? T to the mother doesn't K. Why he do that? Why? Well, because a lot of comedians, headliner comedians thing is they don't want to work hard and some of them don't want to overrun the room.  He going to do a whole bunch of... He don't want you to do the same thing. He don't want you to do it too, because now the crowd has ran down, they've heard too much of that. So his jokes lose, they sting if that was your material too, especially if you're going to be on stage for 30 minutes before him. But do you think that makes sense? It makes a whole lot of sense. But at the same time, it also comes from a place of fear if you ask me. Because if your material was strong, it don't matter what you was talking about on stage before me.  The minute the song plays, and I go up there, I'm from the race that hold chalkboard and teach a new lesson. That's just my take on it. And I learned that from the OGs and the dogs that I worked with from quake and then from then on. Quake said, man, I didn't bring you here to push it for it. I brought you here to push me. I'm trying to work a new special. I'm trying to get a new hour together. I need you to push me. So then I started going on stage, dogging it. So then I'm sitting in the back and because I'm an earthquake fan, I'm watching his show every show. And you saw the way how you pushed him. You saw that. I saw where I pushed him. And then I also saw ways like, oh, OG, if you didn't say it like this, but if you said it like that, I think you might have a stronger response from the crowd. So you were helping him. Because I'm a student of the gang.  And at first he like, young nigga, who are you to give me a punch up? And then he said, I'm, I tested to him. He said, spit it to me. You know, don't, don't write it to me. Say it to me how it should be said. And I told him the joke the way he should say it. And he slapped the steering wheel. He said, boy, you got something. And that night in his set, he told the joke my way instead of his way. And everybody cracked up. When he got the response, he looked off stage and looked at me and nodded his head. I didn't know I had just got hired. I just thought I got validated. Like, yeah, that was funny. From that moment on, then I became a trusted counsel. So when he would write a joke, he, young, what you think about this? And that's validation right there. When the OG, a man who been doing this long, as long as you've been alive, but who been professionally doing this, as long as you've been knowing what standup is, now values your opinion. All the rest of you local niggas can't tell me nothing. So from that out, when he would introduce me to people, this is my young gunner. He right for me. And you know, a lot of comedians won't even tell that. No. Just like musicians and entertainers, according to them, they write everything. That's ego. So. True greatness has no problem acknowledging the people who helped you be great. Henry Ford had that concept. That's right. I'm going to put myself in a room full of great people and what comes from that, we are going to be, you know what I'm saying? That's what they say. The sum is greater than its individual parts. If you surround yourself with great people, y'all going to make something that's greater than any one of y'all could have ever did individually. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk.


yet it's recommended against their use it minimizes the efficacy of the warning label so this is an area that we continue to prioritize for our organization and we would welcome additional support as well as the agency who I know has supported this idea of opposing increase OHV use on roads and also Ms. Weintraub you do make an observation that several other witnesses have made and will make about saferproducts.gov I think that was a major step forward it's not as big a step as we need which is to repeal this horrendous provision called section 6B of the Consumer Product Safety Act but I was struck by this report that was done by CFA and other groups called saferproducts.gov five years live and one of the data points you cite is the number of complaints that have been received by two agencies CFPB and CPSC because we both set our databases up roughly the same time they got 622,000 complaints and we've had according to this time frame and it's gone up a little bit 29,000 do you have any idea why the discrepancy between the number of complaints coming in to CPSC versus CFPB? There's certainly some things we know some things we don't know financial products tend to hit at the core of consumers personal finances and especially when they involve a lot of money it could be devastating for consumers so I think there is one inherent difference between financial products and consumer products however the CFPB had prioritized communicating about this database they did monthly reports sharing what information they had trends they could see from this data slicing and dicing the information in very useful ways for academics consumers the media so I think that has gone a very long way in terms of making their tool much more well known in the broader consumer and academic community and I think I know when the CFPB database was created they really did look to CPSCs because it was a few steps ahead in terms of how it was created and the CFPBs includes narratives which are incredibly important which CPSCs does as well but I think we do have a lot to learn and we need to do a lot more and with our report we've been trying and we pretty much as a rule always mention the database when we communicate to the public in reports and press releases because we think it is so important that consumers consider saferproducts.gov to be an important safety tool just as they do with a lock on a cabinet that it's incredibly important to share information and use the database as a resource. Thank you. I don't know if I can get this question in but Ms. Gardner you cite all the groups that are supporting TB117 you left out one group that does not and that's CPSC staff and one of the points that staff makes is it's difficult to move from the mock-ups of furniture to large scale real furniture and that seems to be in their view one of the defects of the safety standard. Do you have any comment at all about TB117 that would address staff's concern? Feel free to submit the comments. I have to admit that this isn't the freshest in my mind right now but I do recall two or so years ago commission staff issued a briefing paper that explained why they did not support TB117 2013 as a national standard and I think many groups pointed out that briefing paper had some serious errors in it and the folks at Bear Hefti, the agency in California that adopted and implements the California standard felt that it seriously misstated what was happening in California and I believe that as a result of that some conversations were instigated between CPSC staff and Bear Hefti staff and I have to admit that I don't I have lost track of where that ended up and you may know but I do think that the Bear Hefti staff really felt that the concern that CPSC staff flagged was not a genuine concern and they're the ones who are actually implementing it so I think it would be worth revisiting this question. Thank you. Thank you Commissioner Adler, Commissioner Robinson. Ms. Gardner I just want to follow up on what Commissioner Adler was saying because I certainly am one and I think I won't speak for anybody else but I was hoping that TB117 was the answer because it seemed like a pretty simple answer if it was appropriate but because our staff raised the objections that they did I think my recollection is that it had to do with test method and that the supporting data required under our act wasn't there but my recollection is exactly the same as yours that we got to a point where there were conversations and I don't know what happened after that so I think revisiting this and bringing up again is a great idea. Thank you and I will commit to checking in with Bear Hefti staff and seeing where we are and reporting to the commission and see if we can jumpstart this. Great, thank you so much and I just want to thank all the other panelists too for your presentations and for the efforts that you're making on behalf of consumer safety. A number of witnesses have talked about these dangerously unstable dressers millions and millions of them that are in our homes and I just wanted to address this hidden hazard that exists in so many homes that's lurking there just and the statistics on the numbers of children that are killed and injured from these dressers is absolutely outrageous and I agree with those who think that we should be doing more as I prepare to leave I confess that one of my biggest disappointments is that I have not been able to do more this has been a big focus of my office and trying to force industry to eliminate this hidden hazard this should not be up to parents to find out about it and to anchor the furniture it should be up to industry to make furniture that's stable and safe and I fear that whatever progress we were making with a lot of effort from my office is now being undone and we are not being aggressive about it and I encourage you to continue to really really press the CPSC to get aggressive about getting stable furniture and I let me just start by saying I worked very hard on the anchor at campaign but I am absolutely convinced that that is not the solution for a number of reasons Ms. Weintraub you pointed out a number of those but you start with this is such a hidden hazard I mean people just don't know about it as Ms. McGee has told us as somebody who is so educated listens to the news people just don't know about it and even if they do know about it there are so many reasons they can't do it as you pointed out that some people can't put holes in their walls there are cement walls and so forth and I would add to what you said that anchoring is not easy to do you got to find a wall stud there are an awful lot of people in this room if they were honest don't know how to find a wall stud and you also have to have tools that many people don't have and I have to say as somebody who has looked at our investigations even when the furniture is anchored it frequently will cause an injury or death because the child will step on the drawer and the anchor will pull out of the wall because it's either not properly put in or for whatever reason it says it's pulled out of the back of the furniture so it's simply not the answer and I am quite appalled that that seems to be the only communication coming out of my agency right now is that anchor it anchor it anchor it and I just don't think it's the answer and with respect to our recalls I have to say that for many years and I was appalled to find this out back in 2015 that for many years all we required of the manufacturers of furniture was that they offer people free anchoring devices and we didn't require refunds we didn't require a large and effective communication strategy we didn't require an offer to have a professional come in and anchor it if you wanted to keep the dresser and no commitment by the manufacturer interestingly enough that going forward they would manufacture furniture that met some minimum standard so my office put in a huge effort to try to change that and I have to be honest with you Ms. McGee it was the it was your son's incredibly tragic death that was the turning point we finally started focusing on we have to start getting industry to do more I remember vividly the moment I heard about this tragic death our compliance staff started doing what we should do we started examining different manufacturers dressers to see if they met stability standards and if not we were recalling the furniture and we developed a template which was terrific of the requirements for those recalls and we weren't we weren't willing at that point to say there are lots of old dressers out there and focus on the just the anchor it campaign but we were trying to get them out of people's homes and we had the template full refund we'll send a professional in and going forward to manufacture compliant dressers but all of that has changed in the last year and in the past year we've seen that CPSC has retreated from this strong pro safety approach of recalls of unstable furniture I can tell you that a number of companies that I thought recalls were going through have simply disappeared from the report we've stopped the number of recalls being processed of those recalls we've done we've gone back to the cheap anchoring kit without the requirements that we had in our previous template for manufacturers and it just when you look at and I have to say also that even the recalls that we did before the change of leadership I'm very disappointed in the follow up and the pushing we're doing with those companies to make sure they're doing all they can do to get those dressers out of people's homes they're just they know they don't have to and CPSC is not going to force them to so they're not doing it so I very very very strongly believe this should not be on the parents that we've got to make the furniture companies do something and I'd like to say that as much as we have made some movement toward a mandatory standard it became clear to me during my time as a commissioner in the last five years that the mandatory standard probably wasn't going to happen on my watch so we've really focused on trying to do something about the voluntary standard and to say that it's been disheartening would be a gross understatement even with the welcome new leadership Rick Rosati's been doing a great job from BV but there's such pushback from industry because it's more expensive to make dressers that are stable and our staff engineers concluded long ago that the standard now is not adequate it's very simply you have to be able to pull out all the drawers and the dresser won't fall over or pull out each one individually and put a 50 pound weight on it and boy do they put that on gently not the way that any child is going to step on the drawer of a dresser and our staff has been pushing very very hard for let's increase the weight because kids are bigger now and let's replicate real life situations where we've got clothes in the drawers and the weight goes on the way a child is really going to step on a drawer but that has just not happened and I will just tell you one thing that really really ripped me apart in terms of what industry is doing to play games with this standard they have recently added outstops to drawers now what the heck that is I don't know I mean we all pull out drawers we put our things in take things out and put it back but they've added outstops from what I can see for the sole purpose of the weight with the drawer not pulled all the way out so that's a kind of gaming of the system that we're seeing and we also have as we know from numerous reports from CPSC thank you consumer reports thank you kids in danger and UL also for doing these studies of what kind of compliance we have and we just have really low compliance we have really dangerous dressers out there and I just have to I admire CPSC staff they've just been amazing about being patient and trying to get in industry to do something but I just have to say in terms of the hope for the future there are two things that I'd say someday we're going to have future leadership that's going to go back to trying to really make industry make these dressers safer but we also have the sturdy act that's sitting there I don't know if it's going to get through in this congress maybe there will be a change in the congress come November but the sturdy act basically was the CPSC standards Casey Klobuchar and Blumenthal and representatives Shikowsky supported an act that would basically lift the requirements on the CPSC for a mandatory standard that are in place now and make it more like a 104 so we should be able to to pass that rule so I'm I still I'm one of those always looking for a reason to be optimistic and so I'm hoping that we're going to see some action on that I have 48 seconds left so let me just say that I hope to address with the next panel the concerns that have been raised by many people about 6B and I hope to do it in a way that's not as repetitive as all of us have been about the onerous requirements by congress but then we've added to it by our regulations and it's being interpreted in a way that's way too restrictive particularly when it comes to the consumer groups and the the groups that you represent adding information out of the agency which under the freedom of information act you have every right to and the idea that you should get reports that are heavily redacted information that is not proprietary is pretty outrageous and so I will finish that up on the next panel thank you again so much thank you excuse me thank you commissioner k thank you madam chair Miss Gardner I'll start with you I want to just follow up my understanding of the conversations between the CPSC staff is that unfortunately I don't think that they ended up in agreement across the board on those technical issues and the challenges that we face just as you reported that the bear hefty folks looked at the CPSC report and found that it was technically lacking in some areas it was the same with CPSC staff looking at the bear hefty work and finding that it was technically lacking in some areas and we're in a tough spot because we're not fire scientists as far as I'm aware and so when a CPSC staffer says I've been spending 17 years studying charlains and I can tell you bear hefty did not apply the proper methodology that's a very difficult thing to disregard and that's the fire hazard obviously and we take the fire hazard seriously and so I think all of us up here have wanted to find a resolution to that issue but if there is if there's some way that more technical discussions can occur if there's some way there's some way to break that tie I think we're all open to it I do think that it's also complicated by the fact that what we often don't talk about is the second half of what California did was that they want to study large open flame and whether or not they need to make further changes and so I'm not aware of why there's an urgency to the commission to lock in TB 117 right now because I think that California already by its action made the changes and you're saying 25% don't comply and that's obviously an issue and that may not change if CPSC made it a national standard because it sounds like what's being sold in California one fourth is violative that's a California issue but my larger point is that if we're going to go in the direction of adopting this in California ends up modifying it based on its open flame study I don't know how we've achieved anything I think what we want to try to do or at least I would like to see happen is that these issues get put to bed for good both on the fire hazard side and on the chemical exposure side but if there's anything else you want to add please go ahead thank you yes and I I really appreciate all four of your openness to trying to get to the bottom of this and which obviously we share and I think this is encouraging me to go back to this and try to see if we can get to the bottom of this in terms of what violates doesn't violate California standards I think the key is that the flammability there's a the flammability standard as far as I understand is being I have no evidence that people aren't complying with the smolder standard but one can comply with the smolder standard and in addition add toxic flame retardants even though those flame retardants aren't needed to comply with the standard and I think that's why our petition the organic halogen petition is so important because because there's nothing that prohibits the use of flame retardants it's just that they're not required any longer right California and so that it sounds like that would not get addressed if CPSC adopted as a national standard TB 117 the point that you just raised that's right and that's why our petition is so is so critical but if there were a national standard it would mean that no other state could adopt for example the old version of the California standard that essentially mandated which I'm not aware anyone's actually stampeding to do that are you there are there were bills introduced this year in Hawaii and New Jersey at a minimum I don't believe that they're moving but there are always efforts that you know we believe are being pushed by the chemical industry at this at the state level okay thank you for that Miss Cleary I wanted to follow up on the topic that Mr. Adler had where Commissioner Adler had raised there is a precedent obviously at the commission in the last few years about trying to provide relief on GCC's in the event that there's no safety issue and so certainly willing to continue to explore that issue with you I know you guys were in recently and we didn't really talk about this topic but certainly if you guys want to set up something with my office happy to look at that and I think that for us we're going to want to just have you know absolute certainty that it wouldn't raise any safety concerns that I think that as Commissioner Mohorovic had demonstrated and what he had done with GCC's that he found an area where it truly was unnecessary everyone agreed across the board and so if that can be a similar situation we're certainly open to working with you on that thank you the only other question I had that related to it is do you have any sense as to what percentage of refrigerators the United States are sold by AHAM members meaning are there folks outside of the scope of AHAM membership that are selling refrigerators in the US there may be a few but not many okay great thank you Dr. Denny thank you again for coming back I wanted to ask an express appreciation for the window blind cord work that AAP had done I was curious to know why a study on that like what led to that and why is AAP working on that particular issue so thank you for the question Commissioner the AAP did not conduct the study it was conducted by Dr. Gary Smith at the Center for Injury Research and Policy I'm sure you're familiar with his injury work it why he chose that particular topic I'm unclear the reason why we again I know we bring this up in our testimony each year we bring it up is because it does continue to be an issue and we want it to continue to be one of the priorities you know we did see that movement related to the stock blinds but do think that it should be applied across the board to all blinds and thank you for that clarification that Gary had done the work and that AAP had just published it the reason I ask about it is that my good friend to my immediate left has accused me in the past of working on that issue not for data driven reasons but for political or emotional reasons is AAP is this a political or emotional issue for AAP is that why AAP has taken it up or do you feel that there is a legitimate child safety data driven reason for this to be a hazard addressed as a priority thanks for the question the really great thing about being a pediatrician is it's not politics at all it's all about the health and safety of kids and all the issues that we bring to the table related to injury are very data driven great so you do feel there's a solid data foundation for this issue to be a hazard priority for the commission correct and Ms. Kern I know that we've been overwhelming you with our questions but I was curious to know if you can give me a sense I know that the staff had looked at some of the information that you had provided on the Spandex testing has there been an ongoing dialogue because the last of that it's been a while but the last that I heard from staff was I think that they may have been would have been able to benefit from additional data can you give me a sense of where that is please this is a priority for us and for our members in the industry and so we just want to continue to flag that as far as where the process stands the ball is in our court right now so we do intend to follow up with you in the near future to continue that dialogue great and obviously if my office can be helpful in any way as I'm sure all the offices would you know please let us know because it's certainly something that we're happy to stay interested in thank you and then finally Ms. Wynne-Trabbe and everybody in lunch but I'll keep it brief you've obviously been an observer of the commission for a long time and have seen the commission go through many different waves and different philosophies for addressing consumer safety from your perspective do you feel like the commission can achieve its mission effectively by categorically downplaying or ruling out using any of its tools I think that the commission is the most effective and historically I think it's proven that the agency is the most effective when it uses all of its tools obviously in combination depending on the specific circumstance but the CPSC has numerous tools that Congress gave it and those tools make products safer for consumers create an equal playing field for manufacturers who comply with the law and make clear how incredibly important CPSC's laws are and so do you it sounds like what you're encouraging the commission to do is to make sure that we continue to robustly use all the tools that are available to us and not to predetermine that we're just not comfortable using certain tools and so therefore we're just not going to use them correct I think it's very important for the agency to be legally driven and data driven looking at the particular circumstance whether a particular usually there's a voluntary temporary fix first whether that's working looking at its statutory authority what it's capable of doing legally and if it is you know legally able to take particular action which usually it is then take action to more effectively eliminate if possible minimize in some circumstances if elimination isn't possible the particular hazard great and the last topic that might circle back as well to Dr. Denny is laundry packets which the chairman raised I think at the time of the publication of the standard you and I may have been the two people who were most skeptical hopeful but skeptical that this is going to work and it has been very disheartening to hear about how long it's taken to get to the point where people don't even agree on the proper methodology for data collection I was very grateful Dr. Denny for your answer to the chairman's question for the chairman for asking that but how do we move forward I mean it sounds like there's only a certain subset of legitimate method methodological ways to address whether this is being effective and you're suggesting it sounds like that some of the folks are offering suggestions for areas that are outside of that proper way of measuring it how do we get past this and actually because that was really supposed to be just the first step we weren't supposed to be bogged down this long in this question so what do we need to do to move past this and make sure that we're doing the proper methodology and does because this started sorry if you can just know me for one more second because this started as a chairman's effort by my predecessor chairman Tenenbaum I think there's a precedent for a chairman's office at CPSC to continue to play a leadership role can the chairman get involved and step in and say look we need to get moving and pick legitimate methodological approaches and get this thing moving is there more that can be done I would say yes there is and the role of the agency is entirely critical I honestly think that the standard was as effective as it was because of the role that the CPSC played and I think that has to continue I think one potential solution is and this seems to be where we're going is sort of agreeing to disagree about what the exact methodology is putting all of the potential methodologies out there both the public health preferred as well as what a number in industry have preferred but really to get the data out there in the most transparent way possible and evaluate all data sets and move forward because it's incredibly important to make sure that you know ultimately we want the data to be decreasing ultimately we want there to be fewer incidents of course even though we may have been skeptical ideally we want these incidents to be decreasing so if this voluntary standard is working that's great but if it isn't we need to take stronger action we need to figure out why it isn't strengthen the standard or perhaps put for a mandatory standard that builds on the voluntary standard that we're working on thank you this concludes our second panel Ms. Weintraub, Ms. Kern Dr. Denny, Ms. Clary and Ms. Gartner thank you all very much for your time and attention this morning at this point we are going to adjourn for one hour for lunch and we will resume in one hour and I look forward to seeing you all back here thank you all very much


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