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INE published a great info-graphic on the earning potential of Cisco's certifications and I felt the need to share it here. It covers a range of topics from average salaries on all three tiers of proficiency, to top locations for positions, always … [Read more]
In situations where service providers want to offer transparent LAN services that preserve a customers VLAN tags across your Layer-2 network, this amendment to the IEEE 802.1q standard, often referred to as QinQ, allows us to use a single VLAN to … [Read more]
Since I've recently had some fun working with the Cisco 5585-X and the IPS blades, I wanted to document some of the information I learned while getting them online. Some of this came from various sources around the 'net including the TAC IPS group, … [Read more]
As a follow up to my blog post covering Vim on the PacketPushers blog, I wanted to share with you another time saving tip for getting our jobs done not only quickly, but helping to remove one of the tedious steps in firewall maintenance. Today, I … [Read more]
Recently I've been lucky enough to be challenged with learning a bit about Fibre Channel Switching, but I'm even luckier in that I'm getting to know it on a set of MDS switches running NX-OS (previously referred to as SAN-OS). So far, I've learned … [Read more]
Our second visit on day 2 of Network Field day was Brocade, who incidentally supplied us with a great lunch! We spent a little time going through the expected marketing presentation, fortunately they kept it short and to the point... Next up was … [Read more]
The second day of Network Field Day 2 started early at the Juniper EBC, luckily Abner Germanow was prepared with breakfast for the weary and slightly hung over delegates. He gave us an overview of Juniper Networks as a whole including some back … [Read more]
I could've just as easily called this article Gigamon... fixing problems you didn't know about or Why Gigamon scares the crap out of me -- but I wont, because they already did! But what I will say, is that Gigamon has become a very interesting … [Read more]
NEC is currently the only Vendor that is shipping an OpenFlow enabled product today. So naturally, their presentation led off with a message about what they're bringing to the market. If you don't know anything about OpenFlow, please read my previous … [Read more]
During the coarse of NFD2 I found an iPhone app called Halftone, and later, one named ComicStrip that allow you to add some fun effects and speech bubbles to your photos... So, I started in on some of the photos that I took during the trip. After … [Read more]
