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BGP Communities has to be one of my favorite features added to the BGP protocol. As you should know by now, BGP passes several attributes between peers that help influence the BGP best path selection algorithm. One of these is the BGP Community … [Read more]
Yes, you heard me right. Aerosmith! One of the most looked forward to social events for Cisco Live has always been the Customer Appreciation Events (CAE). Cisco rarely let's us down when throwing this shindig, and has amazed us in the past with … [Read more]
Thank you Ed for sharing the video the led me to find this... … [Read more]
After much waiting from all of us, Cisco has released, on "cyber Monday" no less, VIRL. As you may remember, VIRL was the talk of CLUS 2013, and many of us have been eagerly waiting for this tool ever since. For those of you out of the loop, VIRL … [Read more]
Some of you may have heard that Jeff Fry has published his Unofficial JNCIE-ENT Prep Guide, but how many of you have purchased it yet? I've had the opportunity to look it over as he was completing it, and I must say it is an impressive collection of … [Read more]
Before we get into the how, let's talk about the why. According to the CIDR Report, the global IPv4 routing table sits at about 525,000 routes, it has doubled in size since mid 2008 and continues to press upwards at an accelerated rate. This … [Read more]
Since the dawn of time people have skirted best practice and banged together networks, putting the proverbial square peg in the esoteric round hole. For example, new vendor XYZ's solution has brought in new requirements for deployment. While it may … [Read more]
This week at Interop NYC, Cisco launched it's ISR 4000 Series. This is a new approach for them focused on delivering services to your branch offices. Cisco has dubbed this new approach the Intelligent WAN (IWAN) -- but before we talk about that, … [Read more]
I generally try to avoid oversharing when it comes to my thoughts about presentations, but I have to mention that after sitting down with Glue Networks and their "SDN" presentation, it was truly a breath of fresh air to hear from HP. They went into … [Read more]
As of ACS v5.4 Cisco has finally included VMware tools for their ADE OS. Unfortunately, when you upgrade, they do not get installed automatically as the installation is triggered during the initial install. This post is for those of us that have … [Read more]
