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On March 1, 2013 I blogged that I intended to start a series of CCIE R&S Written exam prep blogs. This is the first of those, IPv6 Part 1. Just for the fun of it! See my prior blog for the ground rules and some general discussion, at http://netcraftsmen.net/blogs/entry/ccie-ras-written-review-blog-series.htmll. I do recommend…

Moving vSphere from a rack-mounted server solution to Cisco UCS? That’s smart. It won’t take long to find out why so many organizations have embraced the technology. Log into UCS [...]

Yesterday, I sat for the CCIE Voice lab in RTP.  This morning I received the news that I passed the exam and am now, officially, a CCIE Voice. I have [...]

VMware’s vSphere HA can be found in nearly every data center. In short, HA provides a means for virtual machines to restart on functioning hosts in the event that their [...]

I’ve been mulling over the SolarWinds presentation at here. A summary follows: SolarWinds provided an update on their products. They talked about the SWIS, which is their API. They then reviewed [...]

I was going to blog on the topical theme of "March Madness" and then was somewhat put off by all the topical / timely Cisco blogs with "March Madness" in their title. I'm not going to let that stop me from following the crowd, however. I have a March Madness…

This blog is about all the varieties of Cisco WLAN right now — the Cisco WLAN Landscape. If you have been paying attention, you will have noticed the Cisco announcements about [...]

For premium licensed Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX), one of the most powerful features is database queries allowing applications to access data based on user inputs or call contact [...]

The first day of onePK. onePK is a Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows developers to build software that can programmatically control and configure Cisco network devices. Customers want to [...]

Some time after writing the prior blog about Ruckus Wireless, a thought hit me about some commonality in testing WLAN and Network Management products. Which is the subject of this [...]

The Ruckus Wireless Sunnyvale location. The presenters did a fine job. G.T. Hill, Director of Technical Marketing, did a fine job presenting with whiteboard, a storyline, good analogies, and lots of [...]

We had the pleasure of visiting Ruckus Wireless at NFD5. Visiting them was a little out of the ordinary, because there is a separate Wireless Field Day event, however, it [...]