Reading Time: 4 minutes At the end of Cisco Live! this year I saw a tweet from @ccieby30 that she was organizing a #100daysofcode learning group on Slack. I decided with the advent of the Cisco Certified DevNet certifications that it was time to dust off my coding skills (Ada95, Perl and PHP) and learn a modern language. As […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The second day of Cisco Live 2019 brought the Technology Keynote and a few more announcements. Technology Keynote Meraki First, Cisco Meraki showed off their new fisheye 360 degree MV32 camera. The wide angle lens gives the camera a unique field of vision. During the demo they showed a single camera covering the Cisco Store […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Another Cisco Live is now history, but there is a lot to discuss. As usual tens of thousands of geeks descended on San Diego last week to learn new things, share things and meet new people. Cisco made several new announcements during the conference as well. Opening Keynote It’s traditional at Cisco Live! that the […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today during the opening keynote of Cisco Live 2019, new announcements about Cisco Certification were made. Fasten your seat belts, we’re going for a ride. One CCNA to Rule Them All The first major part of the new certification program is that the CCNA is just the CCNA again. There will only be the one […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post was originally posted to my old blog January 25, 2012. In previous posts, I’ve explained terminology, color coding, and how to trace cables. Now it’s time to actually connect something. As I showed in the first post of this series, there are two styles of punch down blocks for telephony, the 66 block, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This article was originally posted to my old blog on January 23, 2012. One of the first things that I learned in my foray into the world of telephony was how to effectively use a cable toner. Although I had used a toner before to trace network cabling, it was a different ball game using […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This post was originally published January 19, 2012 on my old blog. Telephony is definitely not an area for the color blind. Telephone cables and wires are all color coded to help with pair identification. Mainly in older installations you will find the Bell Company solid color code which was as follows: Pair One Green […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is the first of a multipart series of articles on Telephony from my old blog that I’ve decided to recycle. It was originally posted January 10th, 2012. My last post generated a lot of comments about what I would call traditional telephony or what VoIP (IPT) installers refer to as Analog, Public Telephone Switched […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is the time of year where network geeks everywhere start to get excited. Cisco Live US 2019 is less than two weeks away. The closer we get the more I get distracted by trying to cram the most stuff into the week of summer camp for geeks. Here are some of my tips and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes This article was originally posted on July 8th, 2013 to my old blog. I thought that it was still interesting and relevant enough to be recycled. The Symptoms So last week was a short one for me with the combination of the 4th of July holiday and some vacation time. Unfortunately, the last working day […]
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