Welcome to 2012, now if all the crazy folks are right this is the last year of life as we know right? Bringing in the new year this year also means the launch of a new online adventure that I’m working on along with a bunch of others. If you follow me on twitter, which…
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Wireless
Wireless Field Day 2: San Jose Jan 2012
Thanks to all the wonderful past Tech Field Day delegates and the great Gestalt staff I have been selected to attend the 2nd Wireless Field Day in San Jose January 25th to 27th. I’m really looking forward to this opportunity to see some of the products from some of the other vendors out there that…
I’m now known as a number!
Well the day has finally come where I regain a lot of spare time in my life, I no longer need to study for the CCIE Wireless lab. Yesterday I sat the lab at San Jose and finally got my digits. I was a little worried after my OEQs as I knew 2 of them…
CCIE-W v2 Written: Uhm, this is ready?
Cisco recently launched their beta for the CCIE Wireless v2 Written Exam and I figured what the heck for $50 I’ll give it a shot to see what happens. Now let’s clear some things up from the start, I took the v1 beta and got a 67 on it without much studying, then when it…
Cisco Live: Connecting Thousands
Recently 14,000+ technology geeks invaded Las Vegas for Cisco Live! 2011 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center. For me this was my 4th year in a row attending Cisco Live! and the 2nd in a row at Vegas. If you have never attending a Cisco Live! event in person I strongly suggest that you try to…
Cisco Live 2011 Day 1: CCIE-W Techtorial
Today marked the first official event for Cisco Live 2011 for me and it was a good one! I sat an 8 hour techtorial revolving around the CCIE Wireless program. I was a little bummed to hear that they were focusing on v2 which is out Nov 18th 2011, but by the end of the…
Cisco OfficeExtend AP600
Cisco recently announced their OfficeExtend AP600 which is expected to hit FCS in June ’11. I’ve been fortunate to receive one of these for testing and experimenting with and here are some of the things that I’ve learned about the AP so far. This is not mean to be an all encompassing post regarding OfficeExtend…
Cisco OfficeExtend – Always Connected
Over the past few weeks I’ve received a few tweet’s asking if anyone has setup Cisco’s OfficeExtend solution and what were some of the gotchas that you ran into. After this last round I decided I might as well blog about it, so here goes! What is it? The Cisco OfficeExtend solution does as its…
CCIE-Wireless Lab: What Did I Learn?
As you may or may not know I recently attempted the CCIE Wireless Lab in San Jose. I wish I could say as a result of that I gained those numbers everyone wants, but I did not. What did I learn from my experience in taking the exam? [list_3] Practice, practice, practice. Speed is key,…
Sonos S5 Now Shipping
Now that the Sonos S5 is shipping I can finally post about my experiences with it! Like any new devices there are pros and cons, but it seems that the S5 has way more pros than cons if you look at it in the right light. For those of you that don’t know what the…