Archive for 2009

Cisco announced through their LearningNetwork webpage that the topics (blueprint) for the Cisco Certified Architect have been released. The exam is scheduled to be available February 2010 and qualified candidates will be provided the information as it becomes available. It will be quite a challenge among...

Important change in all CCIE labs exams. Finally the attendees for CCIE RS Lab will now feel discriminated by the Core Knowledge Questions, as starting with next year, this will become mandatory for all CCIE Lab exams. Interesting is that they say for all CCIE Labs exam, but below the Security and Voice...

I have found this great video material from RouteHub Group regarding IP routing overview. It contains basic about IP routing, why it is needed, how to implement and so on. This material will be really apreciated by the beginners in this area as the explanation is straight forward without using fancy...

Ivan Pepelnjak, proposed on his blog, some reduced budget training. For now, the prices on his blog shows: €30 ($45)/hour/participant (two attendees @ 2-hour presentation = € 120); €200 ($300)/hour for a private on-line workshop (up to 10 participants). According to his statement this training...

After my last post, some readers were asking what tool did I used for testing the QoS and how satisfied I’m with it. The name of the tool is Packgen. According to its developer developers, “Packgen is a simple network packet generator handling diffserv markers, useful for testing network...

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QoS – one of the most interesting and challenging part of the network engineer’s life. I think I’m not wrong when I’m saying that most engineers that hear the word QoS, react somehow like “ah, that ugly stuff…” I have to be honest and say that QoS is not one...

Maybe one of the biggest loss of mine when I switched from PC to Mac, was the Microsoft Visio is not available for any other platform than Windows OS. Now, I’m not a big fan of Microsoft products, but I have to admit that they have some good products, and one of this is Visio. Like it or not, more...