Twice a year, I get to experience a peculiar mix of stress and satisfaction that comes from participating in the design and operations of internal networks for the (US and European) CiscoLive – networks these events depend upon. My role is vital to the efficiency of the whole system, but certainly not glamorous. If I were to compare the CiscoLive network with a dental office, I’d be the technician that only fixes the upper-right tooth – and ensu…

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Tags: CiscoLive Network, DHCPv6, IPv4 on IPv6-only SSID, IPv6, SSID, WLC

We had so much fun last year…and so far, they are letting us come back.  We had fun doing a little promo for the trip…an excuse really…to let Jimmy Ray play dress up, let me work on my Alfred Molina impression and most of all…let Producer Steve Ewertz loose so he can shoot/edit/compose the way he likes! Are you going? Let us know…we are planning the agenda now! Robb…

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Tags: ciscolive, data center, mobility, Techwise, TechWiseTV

Just a few more hours until CiscoLive! London kicks off! We’ve got some great talks, challenges (competition where you can win a variety of prizes), and new solutions being launched.  In Lauren’s Borderless blog, she highlights a few of the activities and events that will be the most fun/cool/educational/tasty. <SIDENOTE:> If you’re skipping CiscoLive then you’ll want to head right over to register for our live webcast, “Get Your Net…

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Many of you have asked me and my team about the session codes for the new Manufacturing Industry Industrial Intelligence day on 12th July 2011 and how to register for the exclusive sessions if you’re attending Cisco Live! So here’s the scoop: Since many of you have a full conference registration package, you have access to Industrial Intelligence Day as part of your pass. Yes — we made it possible! You can game the system. We made i…

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Tags: aeroscout, automation, Borderless Networks, Cisco, cisco live, ciscolive, collaboration, Common Industrial Protocol, Energy Management, industrial, Industrial Automation, Industrial Intelligence, industrial networking, industrial wireless, innovation, librestream, Manufacturing, mobility, Panduit, partner, Rockwell, security, video, virtualization, wireless

This week was Cisco Live 2012 in San Diego and I had the pleasure of being able to present to our customers, clients and partners on the topic of FCoE.   There’s probably quite a few blogs and tweets about product launches, announcements from all parts of the ecosystem.  Any many of you, my readers probably sat in quite a few sessions  and walked the World of Solutions.  In this entry, I’m not going to talk about what I presented on,…

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Tags: Cisco, ciscolive, humor, information, networkers, presentation, Presenter's View