Hi everyone, I have some exciting news to share with you. I’ve been working on a book lately together with Russ White. It’s called Unintended Features – Thoughts on thinking and life as a network engineer. The book is partly
CCDE – I passed the CCDE Practical in Madrid!
Hi everyone. I’ve not been posting lately because I have been studying very hard for the CCDE practical. Passed the lab in Madrid? Isn’t this guy from the North? I was supposed to take this exam in Frankfurt on Tuesday
GENERAL – HOW TO BUILD A NETWORK PT.3
In the previous posts I talked about why it’s important to build a network and how you can do it but there is still one component missing. Any guesses? How do we maintain our network once we have built it?
Network Simulation – Cisco VIRL Increases Node Count
Great news everyone. Some of you might have seen that I created a petition to increase the node limit in VIRL. I know there have been discussions within Cisco about the node limit and surely our petition wasn’t the single
Blog Migrated!
Hi! I have decided to migrate my blog from wordpress.com to a private environment. The main reasons being that I felt that I had outgrown the normal wordpress.com site. I wanted to be able to install plugins and get more
CLUS Keynote Speaker – It’s a Dirty Job but Somebody’s Gotta Do It
Did you guess by the title who will be the celebrity keynote speaker for CLUS San Diego? It’s none other than Mike Rowe, also known as the dirtiest man on TV. Mike is the man behind “Dirty Jobs” on the
Network Design Webinar With Yours Truly at CLN
I’m hosting a network design webinar at the Cisco Learning Network on Feb 19th, 20.00 UTC+1. As you may know, I am studying for the CCDE so I’m focusing on design right now but my other reason for hosting this
Cisco Live in San Diego – Will You Make It?
“Make it” was one of the first singles released by the the band Aerosmith. Since then these guys have been rocking away for about 40 years. What does this have to do with Cisco Live? Aerosmith will be the band
Noction Intelligent Routing Platform (IRP) – What is it?
I was contacted by some people at Noction and asked if I was interested in writing about their platform, the Intelligent Routing Platform (IRP). Since it’s a product that uses Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), it peaked my interest. First let’s
Cisco Reveals New Products – The Time of Multigigabit is Here
Wireless networks are becoming faster and faster. With 802.11ac Wave 2, wireless networks will be capable of achieving speeds up to 6.8 Gbps. This creates challenges when connecting APs to switches which normally run Ethernet at 1GE or 10GE. To