November 11, 2015

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Cisco Networking Academy Dream Team

2 min read

Each year more than 160,000 students enroll in the Cisco Networking Academy in North America alone. As a former academy instructor myself, and now a freelance technical trainer, I’m extremely interested in mentoring and learning opportunities that become available for up and coming network engineers, and this year something ‘new’ caught my attention. I was out in […]

November 9, 2015

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Interacting with Metapod from the OpenStack CLI (or Building your OpenStack CLI VM)

3 min read

Back in September 2014 Cisco acquired private OpenStack cloud service company Metacloud (http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=1489587). Initially known as Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud (COPC) and now known as Cisco Metapod®. Cisco Metapod represents one of most robust and scalable OpenStack-as-a-Service or On-Premise Public Cloud Experience offering in the market. With the agility and vision of a startup, the […]

November 5, 2015

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Recognizing a Good Network Design

5 min read

How do you recognize a good network or datacenter design? What contributes to a good design? How do you learn to do network design well, and then continue improving? Spotting design problems is key to the network assessments my employer, NetCraftsmen, does. There are other important aspects of assessments: network configuration (execution of the design […]

November 3, 2015

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 41: Being a Cisco Champion

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today Cisco Champions share their experiences as  team members and talk about how the program benefits them professionally and personally. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episode in iTunes Cisco Champion Contributors […]

November 2, 2015

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Getting Started in Cisco’s DevNet

7 min read

Mark Watney is “The Martian”, in case you haven’t heard. In the movie, he’s a Botanist stranded on Mars. But in the book, he’s first a mechanical engineer, and a botanist as his second skillset. It’s hard to if he’s an engineer-botanist or a botanist-engineer, but he’s a pretty cool guy. Think McGuyver with better […]

October 26, 2015

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Using Cisco VIRL with Additional Components

3 min read

One of the things we tend to do as networking people is test configurations to see if things work the way we think they will. Case in point, I just had a talk with a fellow Champion, Teren Bryson (@someclown) and he was telling me how he used VIRL to prove a concept to a […]

October 21, 2015

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 40: How SDWAN and NFV are changing the MSP world

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re talking about SDWAN and NFV with Cisco Product...

October 20, 2015

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 36: stuff that makes your network life easier

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re talking with Cisco Champions about their favorite gadgets and networking tools that help them at work.* Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episode in iTunes Cisco Champion SMEs Korey Rebello, […]

October 16, 2015

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Zombie and Non-Zombie Technologies and What We Should Be Teaching in Basic Networking Classes

3 min read

In the networking field, there are a number of technologies that should be dead but that still linger on, at least in our folklore and training, if not actually installed in modern networks. There are also concepts and technologies that are extensively used in modern networks, but that aren’t taught in most basic networking classes.

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