From the yearly archives: 2009

Cisco, EMC unveil data center joint venture

By On November 4, 2009 · 2 Comments

Cisco and EMC this week unveiled their anticipated collaboration, which will provide integrated products and services for customers building private cloud computing infrastructures.

The partnership, which also includes virtualization software vendor VMware, is set up in two parts: one is a Virtual Computing Environment coalition to develop the new products; the other is a joint [...]

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Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing

By On November 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Birth of the Internet

By On October 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Even this post has nothing do to with Cisco, Juniper or other great products, I strongly believe that has to do with the idea of “network”. I don’t know how many remember that on 29th of October 2009 we celebrate 40 years from the birth of Internet. I have to admit that I didn’t remember, [...]

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Cisco released second generation of ISRs

By On October 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco Systems announced another major step in its quest to create “borderless” networks that allow organizations and individuals to communicate anytime, anywhere and in any way they wish.
With the public launch of the second generation of the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR G2), the company is making it far easier and more affordable [...]

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Cisco announced multiple security advisories

By On October 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week, Cisco announced more security advisories regarding multiple possible vulnerabilities for range of it’s product. I will post here just a short summary about this advisories and provide you with the links to the full descriptions of the possible problems:

October 14, 2009 – Cisco Unified Presence Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

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Cisco SRW2008P 8-port Gigabit Switch Video Data Sheet

By On October 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide, 4th Edition

By On October 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I just received the news that Cisco Press will release on 19th of November 2009, the 4th edition of  CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide by Wendell Odom, Rus Healy and Denise Donohue.

A brief description from the Cisco Press [...]

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Cisco acquire TANDBERG (for $3 billion)

By On October 1, 2009 · 1 Comment

Cisco today announced a definitive agreement for Cisco to launch a recommended voluntary cash offer to acquire TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL).  TANDBERG, based in Oslo, Norway, and New York, is a global leader in video communications, including a broad range of world-class video endpoint and network infrastructure solutions with intercompany and multi-vendor interoperability. With this proposed [...]

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Cisco: How to configure HSRP

By On September 25, 2009 · 3 Comments

In this post I proposed to discuss a little bit about Hot Standby Router Protocol and how it can be configured on a Cisco device. For this I have chosen the following topology:

I had in mind this scenario due to the fact that the traffic can take [...]

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A world without wireless

By On September 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Funny video about a world in which wireless would not exist. Sometimes I’m also complaining about slow access over wireless, errors or possible security holes, but looking at this material I realized that even with this gaps, this technology is doing a great job. I cannot imagine a world without it.

This video appear in [...]

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