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

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Entries Tagged as 'MPLS'

Passed CCDE written and Recertified my CCIE - Killed two birds with one stone

June 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Today was a good day, I knocked two major items of my todo list. The first, was passing the CCDE written.

This is the first step towards sitting for a practical examination that will hopefully be released this October. And, in response to Micheal Morris’s blog post - Yes Mike, I can pass the CCDE written.
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Tags: CCDE · CCIE · CISCO · MPLS · Technology · 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

Cisco is using Linux virtualization and 40 core CPU’s for its next generation routers

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted as a single chassis solution for what is called the “triple play” - Voice, Video, and Data. More accurately it can [...]

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Tags: ASR1000 · CCIE · CISCO · IOS-EX · IOS-XE · MPLS · linux