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• Cisco Technical Design Days

  I attended a Cisco event yesterday titled "Cisco Tech Days." It was an all-day seminar by Cisco SEs on two areas of technology: Advanced Campus Topics Branch-WAN Topics It was a good day of presentations (I stuck with the Advanced Campus track... Posted Jun 11 2008, 10:10 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: cisco, network design, Tech Days, Networkers, high availability

• A suggestion for the CCIE written test program

  In Brad Reese's Cisco Subnet blog , Robert Williams of CertGuard commented on the article about my recertification: I'm sure many "professionals" in his position would have opted to take the easy road and just "study to pass"... Posted May 28 2008, 10:02 AM by tslattery with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ccie, cisco, Brad Reese, ccie written, Cisco Subnet

• Cisco releases CCDE certification

  Cisco announced the Cisco Certified Design Expert today. This is an excellent program that extends their certification programs. The Design Expert program is more about understanding network designs than about the nitty-gritty of network operations, which... Posted Jan 22 2008, 10:22 PM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: Netcraftsmen, ccie, ccde, cisco

• The history of the Cisco CLI

  I don't think many people know the history of the Cisco CLI and the impact it has had on the industry. Other companies are emulating it, as evidenced in recent articles on the topic. Network engineers typically become experts in the Cisco CLI first... Posted Oct 28 2007, 09:10 PM by tslattery with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: cisco, command line interface, CLI

• Good network design

  Good network design follows long-established principles like hierarchical design and information hiding. Basic network protocols exhibit this through data encapsulation. Lower layers hide their operation from the upper layers, allowing changes in the... Posted Aug 15 2007, 09:18 AM by tslattery with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: network topology, cisco, network design

• Understanding Spanning Tree

  I’m studying for my CCIE recertification and was reading up on Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) operation. Cisco has a really nice white paper on its operation, with a lot of good pictures and excellent description of how it works and how it interoperates with... Posted Jul 02 2007, 09:16 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: ccie, cisco, stp, mstp, mist, rstp, srnd