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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

• IPv6 Security

  One of the security factors I’ve heard espoused about IPv6 is that the large address space (128 bits: 64 bits of network and 64 bits of host address) makes it impossible to scan the network for hosts. On initial inspection, this seemed like a reasonable... Posted Sep 04 2007, 09:21 AM by tslattery with | with no comments Filed under: Network Topology Discovery, network discovery, security, network design, ipv6

• 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