Monday, December 17, 2007

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How much do you know about Cisco? Cisco Subnet has been with you since February watching Cisco's every move and along the way have met some great individuals who operate in the Cisco industry (some of whom are blogging for us on a regular basis!). Take this multiple-choice answer quiz of Cisco happenings over the past year and let's see how much you know about Cisco.

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Blog: Demanding business applications have Cisco and rival HP ProCurve featuring their network behavior analysis strengths
In today's networking environment companies that purchased Cisco switches 5 to 8 years ago are usually not upgrading to newer switches for more bandwidth. Instead, they are upgrading to deploy features which will allow them to better manage the traffic utilizing their network infrastructure.

Blog: Preventing IPsec VPN failures: recommendations (part 2)
In my last blog post, I recommended a number of ways to avoid the first five of my top ten reasons why IPsec VPNs fail. As promised, in this blog post, I'll finish this particular topic by explaining how to avoid the final five in my top ten, as well as describing one or two other things to look out for.

Blog: Shooting Holes in my QoS and CIPT Time Estimates
Today I'm going to begin taking a stab at estimating the time it takes to prep for both the QoS and CIPT exams. I picked those 2 CCVP exams because they sit at opposite ends of the skill spectrum for CCVP. I'll give a little of my rationale, and a few perspectives on self-study resources. Your job will be to tell me where you think I'm off base on the estimate and where you think its pretty close.

Blog: Look Like My Blog Got to Cisco....
Last July, after arriving at Cisco Live (Networkers) and picking up my much anticipated, but subsequently inferior conference bag, I wrote a blog complaining how cheap they were. It seems like I got to Cisco.

Up for grabs: 15 copies of CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets
Enter to win one of 15 downloads of Cisco Press' CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets by Mark Lewis. Check out Mark's blog for Cisco Subnet here and an excerpt of the book here. Last month competition winners here.

Cisco opening up IOS, 12/12/07 Cisco plans on opening up its venerable IOS routing software to third-party developers, company officials at this week's C-Scape conference said. (Plus: What Cisco Subnet bloggers have to say about Cisco's plan to open up its crown jewels: Michael Morris. Brad Reese. Joe Chapman.)

Cisco’s virtualization a multiyear investment
Customers should count on spending three years to completely implement Cisco's Data Center 3.0 architecture, company officials said this week at the C-Scape 2007 conference.

Cisco to accelerate shift to software and data center in 2008 Cisco is expected to make much bigger and more dramatic moves into software in 2008 as it fleshes out its strategy to make the network the key enabling platform for all IT operations

Cisco winning big in conferencing, 12/12/07 Cisco is running on all cylinders selling its Telepresence high-definition conferencing system, according to a top executive.

Cisco's EOS online-content platform coming next year, 12/12/07 Cisco will introduce next year its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), a platform for delivering multimedia content to online ...

Chambers: Older workers, don't despair, 12/11/07 Social networking is coming to enterprises, but that doesn't mean the twentysomethings are taking over, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday.


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12/17/07

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

  1. Xbox signal jamming WLANs
  2. Trojan robbing online bank customers
  3. '20/20' peers into 'Tank on Empty'
  4. Cisco opening up IOS
  5. Microsoft early with public virtualization beta
  6. The nine worst Microsoft products
  7. Cisco: the new software giant
  8. Open source and the corporate elephant
  9. Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa
  10. AT&T employees, others discuss telework cuts


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