//Usually big companies with large network have a dedicated department which deals with all the network configuration.  The problem that I have in mind is when this department is splitted over large geographical areas (e.g. some colleagues in Europe, some in Asia and some in America) it may happen...

I know, it’s not technical or related to Cisco, but it has everything to do with the industry in which we are network engineers are working. I found this great article by Justin James about the top 10 excuses a boss does not want to hear and I think it’s a good opportunity to share if with...

It seems to me that Cisco want to compete with Apple on the touch screen devices market. The Cisco Cius product confirm this. OK, skipping the funny part of this story, honestly I believe that Cisco is making efforts to take the (still) open part of the tablet devices market that is not so developed...

Today I’ve received an e-mail with the following content: Dear Cisco Certified Colleague, CCIE certifications are as popular as ever. A recent publication has listed both the CCIE and the CCIE Voice certifications in their top 10 IT networking list* and has cited both as highly sought-after...

Considering the same environment like in the post Cisco: Policy Routing with IP SLA, there is another way to achieve the same behavior using again IP SLA and EEM (Embedded Event Manager). For those of you who are not so familiar with EEM please read http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6815/products_ios_protocol_group_home.html....

Let’s assume that you have a Cisco router with 2 ISP connection. The first one it’s a 10Mbps connection with a decent latency and the second one it’s a 2Mbps connection with quite high latency. Since you don’t want to load balance over this 2 connections for the obvious reasons...

In one of my previous posts I was explaining how to mark packets closer to network edge. Starting from that point, we are sure the packets are market with the correct value, so on the router device we can directly match those packets and prioritize using Low Latency Queueing. I believe you already...

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch series of products and they are related to processing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) messages. SIP is a popular signaling protocol used to manage voice and video calls across IP networks such...