March 11, 2011 – Tick-tock goes the clock
The clock is ticking and time is running out. Just submitted my CC to Cisco for the CCIE SP Lab payment. Guess it only a few months until I see San Jose, CA and the Cisco campus. Tick-tock.
The clock is ticking and time is running out. Just submitted my CC to Cisco for the CCIE SP Lab payment. Guess it only a few months until I see San Jose, CA and the Cisco campus. Tick-tock.
It should be safe to say that most of us have had a tough time these past two years, no matter what our view of things – the world has changed around us. We all have been learning to adapt, understand, and cope with what has happened. I am sure that we are all looking…
Well, today we can welcome the Cisco Nexus 7009 to the Nexus family. It joins its big brothers the 7010 and 7018 as you can see below. So, what does this new chassis give us over its bigger brothers? Well for one thing, SPACE! The Nexus 7009 is only 14RU compared to the 7010 at…
Next Hop Resolution Protocol comes in two fashions on the IOS XR. The first is Cisco proprietary and called Hot-Standby Router Protocol or HSRP and the other is the industry standard called Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol or VRRP. This is something that many customers use in order to maintain the availability of a default gateway…
We have all been hearing about IPv6 for a few years now. There have been numerous white papers published, blog posts, audio podcasts, as well as the normal twitter chatter on the topic. Lately this topic has come to the forefront more and more since the RIR have handed out the last of the IPv4…
Well, the week has finally come and the hours are ticking until Tech Field Day #5 in San Jose, CA begins. Tomorrow will be a fun filled travel day for me (ABE – ORD – SJC) and then then the real fun will begin that evening. Cannot wait to see what the the vendors have…
A few months ago I did a quick post on the Nexus 7009 when it was pseudo announced (here ). When I was attending Cisco Live 2011 last week in Las Vegas I found out that they had a Nexus 7009 in their Data Center booth in World of Solutions for all to see. …