December 24th, 1990 I was twelve years old and twelve days away from becoming the BIG thirteen. This Christmas was very special indeed. I was getting a “combined” Birthday and Christmas present. Oh boy, was it special! I was sitting there with my family, my hands trembling because I knew exactly what lies beneath that red paper surface. Just a few hours ago I was playing 720 on the NES on a…
When a Legend becomes Real I’m still pinching myself. Last week I delivered my very first Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 1.0 demo to a customer. Overall, they were pretty darn excited, however there are some things that we need to address to make it a GREAT fit for their specific testing/validation environment. Let’s take a step back and talk high level about CML for a moment. CML is the Cisco TAC supported variant of VIRL. The FCS date for CML 1.0…
Today was a BIG day for us at Cisco. We announced our next wave of UCS products and continue building our data center innovation superhighway. Did we announce one product? NO! We announced four major UCS products today at #UCSGRANDSLAM and it was AWESOME! I knew about this stuff for months, but had to keep quite. As you can imagine, I was at the point of imploding because I just wanted to share this info with EVERYONE. Here is a quick…
Virtual Internet Routing Lab/Cisco Modeling Lab: UPDATE (08.07.2014): Cisco Modeling Labs 1.0 Corporate Edition Available August 11, 2014 This is an excerpt from an email one of my colleagues received today. “We are very excited to announce that Cisco Modeling Labs 1.0 Corporate Edition is expected to ship on Monday, August 11th (if this changes we’ll let you know). As you know, Cisco Modeling Labs 1.0 Corporate Edition is a game changing product with powerful virtualization features that provide corporations…
RGG, I like the sound of that! I just back from Cisco Live in San Francisco and what an AWESOME time it was. This year I was co-hosting a session with my homie Matt. The session title was “Software Hot, Hardware still Cool” and was SDN related. We had a blast working on this project together and aside from our session time going from 90 minutes to 60 minutes, it was an excellent experience. So, part of my shtick with “Hardware”…
It’s been roughly five months since I passed the v4 CCIE R/S and I’m starting to hear potential CCIE R/S candidates freaking out about the upcoming changes. I know this feeling all too well, because like many of you I started on v3 and passed on v4. I will never sugar coat this, it’s a royal pain in the arse when the blueprint gets revised, especially if you have been studying (really studying) the current blueprint. That being said, I…
Just wanted to post something quick with reference to my twitter feed. I now use this as my primary means of communicating technology news. Follow @Cisco_East
“It’s gonna take time, a whole lot of precious time, it’s going to take patience and time to do it right child.” “It’s gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it’s going to take plenty of money, to do it right” -George Harrison Song: I got my mind set on you I’m pretty sure George had something else on his mind and NOT the CCIE when he wrote that song. I can tell you no other lyrics resonate…
Prologue Hey fellow CCIE’s candidates and networking geeks. Today I want to step deep into the realm of PfR or Performance Routing. First let’s go back in time to the predecessor, Optimized Edge Routing or OER. As crazy as this sounds, OER came out in 2006 with IOS 12.3 . So, technically before all this SDN fanfare, Cisco actually decoupled the control (part of it at least) and data plane with OER/PfR back in the dizay. DID THAT JUST BLOW…
WOW! Being in the technology business for over 12 years, I admit it’s hard to get excited over new product announcements. Most of the time it’s minor tweaks and updates to the hardware platforms, faster processors, better performance, increased scale, new coat of paint and polish to the OS. You know the norm. I was thinking this would be the story for Apple’s WWDC today, but boy was I wrong about the Mac Pro. Apple went ahead and gave firm…