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

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Entries Tagged as 'certification'

Certguard, Ethan Banks, Network World and Common Sense

June 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Robert Williams, owner or Certguard is accusing Ethan Banks of cheating and calling for his CCIE certification to be removed.

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · Technology · Uncategorized · blogger · business · certification · consulting

Link Round Up - L2TPv3 FCOE Trill Wounded Warriors

May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I come accross alot of very interesting material each week, only some of which I write about. These are some links that I found interesting this week.
1. Layer 2 Tunneling Protcol (V3) static and hairpin configuration example - my buddy Rick was nerding it out in the lab and sent a great configuration doc for [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · DC3.0 · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · Green Data Center · MPLS · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · Technology · certification

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