Throughout this series I will leverage screenshots and other source material that Cisco provides for the solution, including product documentation and Cisco Live sessions as well as material from the dCloud demo we are using for this series. Whenever I Read more…
Disclaimer: I work at Cisco for the Customer Engagements Center of Excellence, which includes dCloud. Among other things, I am also a dCloud developer. dCloud is a sales and training enablement platform that allows Cisco, Partners, and Customers to demonstrate Read more…
Just a quick post to link to the DevNet lab that I built around setting up Ubuntu Desktop as a development environment. I had posted a few previous blog entries around adapting the DevNet CentOS learning lab for Ubuntu, and Read more…
What is Cisco SD-WAN? At its heart, Cisco SD-WAN is about ensuring that business applications leverage the optimal transport, aka ‘intent-based SD-WAN’. Intent-Based SD-WAN is about leveraging business use cases and business outcomes as the basis for WAN design, rather Read more…
Sorry it’s taken so long to finish this out. I’ve been incredibly busy with work, learning Cisco Viptela SD-WAN, SDA, and attending GSX (Global Sales Experience). Just after I got back from Las Vegas, I had to leave to go Read more…
I was recently a guest on Zigbits Design Podcast, covering a DCI design I worked on with a customer which was a little non-standard but a good use case. ZNDP 034 – Data Center Interconnect Design Use Case with Read more…
If you’ve come with me this far, thank you, and get ready to go a little further. If you hang out until the end, then hopefully there’ll be some good takeaways and advice. So That’s What Failure Tastes Like After Read more…
The First Lab Attempt I felt really good. I was consistently doing well on INE full-scale labs. I could answer questions in our RouterGods CCIE study group without any trouble. I had taken a hit to my confidence by failing Read more…
I’m working hard on learning Python, and while learning my new job at dCloud I was able to inspect some other scripts to perform some network automation created by Dustin over at packetsmurf.org. Pulling it apart I noticed a library Read more…
Last time, we covered the CCIE R/S Written exam. This time, I’ll explain how I approached preparation for the CCIE R/S Lab Exam. In this post, I’ll cover how I got started with the lab exam preparation, what worked and Read more…