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Cisco, NASA ally on environmental monitoring

By On March 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco and NASA this week said they are collaborating on an online global monitoring platform to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.

Called “Planetary Skin,” the project will involve NASA and Cisco working to develop the online platform to capture and analyze data from satellite, airborne, sea- and land-based sensors across the globe. This data will be made available for the general public, governments and businesses to measure, report and verify environmental data to help detect and adapt to [...]

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Cisco: How to configure simple IP SLA monitor

By On December 16, 2008 · 12 Comments

Before we begin let’s see what is this SLA term, for those of us who are not very familiar with the Service Provider terms. IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs) enable customers to assure new business-critical IP applications, as well as IP services that utilize data, voice, and video, in an IP network. With Cisco IOS IP SLAs, users can verify service guarantees, increase network reliability by validating network performance, pro actively identify network issues assure an easy way to deploy new IP services. Cisco IOS [...]

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Cisco: Packet sniffing

By On November 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The official term of Cisco for Packet sniffing is  SPAN ( Switched Port Analyzer ) also called sometimes port mirroring or port monitoring and it’s purpose is to select traffic from a source and send to a destination with a network analyzer tool. You can find out there terms like RSPAN, PSPAN, VSPAN, ESPAN, but this are at their basic functionality nothing more than SPAN with some enhanced features ( e.g. ESPAN – Enhanced SPAN ) or describing their primary functionality ( e.g. VSPAN – [...]

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