Recently another blog post came up discussing the issues with surveying for a Cisco Catalyst 9120. I too had to go through the pain of trying to survey with it as I had to figure out how do I get a Catalyst 9120 online as well as a 3504 WLC. This setup was certainly not…
Many of us in the industry have gone through many of the various certification programs out there and many of us started with the Cisco CCNA. I remember back to 2008 when I first got my CCNA, it took me 2 attempts to pass and I was impressed with the knowledge and confidence that I…
Cisco Aironet Developer Platform A few months ago I had heard about a solution Cisco was working on to provide developers access to the modular interface on the AP3800. Cisco, for awhile, has had some sort of modularity in their high end AP but it was reserved for future standards or Cisco specific solutions. The…
In case you missed it Learning@Cisco as finally announced their plan for Continuing Education Credits as a way to renew your CCIE instead of having to take an exam. You can read all the “official” stuff over at this link but let me break some things down as to why this is the dumbest implementation…
What Is Mobility Express? Cisco recently introduced a two new AP models: the 1850 and 1830. The purpose of this article is not to discuss the exact technical specs of those two models, but I will say they are 802.11ac Wave 2 APs. What I really want to focus on is a new “controller” that…
Tom, aka Networking Nerd, recently made a post about Meraki not being a large enterprise solution so as a fan of the “Tenth Man Rule” I’ve decided to write about why Meraki CAN be used in a large enterprise. What defines a large enterprise network? Is it 10 infrastructure devices? 20? 30? 100? It’s hard…
Well, I had this GREAT idea and I was working on the blog post and all when I see a tweet from @lauren, she stole my idea! It’s all good, still love ya Lauren! Anyways, Cisco Live is always a fun time and a couple years ago I pulled off a pretty darn good selfie/photobomb…
It’s a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it! This years keynote speaker is the ever so awesome Mike Rowe who has shown us there’s a million jobs out there that nobody wants to do, but somebody does it for us. If you’ve never heard Mike talk about his thoughts on working and earning a…
I’ve been fortunate to be a part of an awesome group called Tech Field Day which has given me some amazing opportunities, one of those was being able to attend #CLEUR Milan this year. I’ve been attending Cisco Live in the state since 2008 when it was in Orlando. I was able to join by…
It’s the biggest party of the event and we finally know where it is and who will be providing the entertainment. Are you ready to rock out at AT&T Park with Lenny Kravitz and Imagine Dragons? 2 years ago in San Diego we took over Petco and it was an awesome place to have the…