Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , RHCE, GCIH, CCVP, GEEK

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Reader question - Why are corporations looking for BGP experience?

March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Mike, a reader of my blog, sent me an email last week with decent question for someone early in their career. Mike is currently looking for a new job. He was curious why so many corporate IT jobs were requiring BGP knowledge and experience.
Mike Writes -
“Hi Colin,
I’m an avid reader of your blog and [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · Technology · certification

Featured on Network World - 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I was featured as #11 of 20 in Network World Magazines 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals. Let me say thank you to the folks at network world for mentioning my little corner of the internet, and welcome to any readers that haven’t been to my site before. I hope that you [...]

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Tags: CCDE · CCIE · CCIE Storage · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · certification

Russ White - CCDE interview - Part 2

January 26th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: CCDE · certification

Cisco Certified Design Expert - CCDE - officially released by Cisco

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

 Today was the official release date for the CCDE exam. To quote Cisco -
“CCDE Assesses advanced Network Infrastructure Design Principles and Fundamentals for large networks. A CCDE can demonstrate an ability to develop solutions which address planning, design, integration, optimization, operations, security and ongoing support focused at the infrastructure level for customer networks”
For the engineering [...]

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Tags: CCDE · CCIE · Technology · certification