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

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Entries Tagged as 'certification'

Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000

Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward  in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network.
What does this mean?  In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, Fibre [...]

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Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS

My experience taking the CCDE Practical Beta

October 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments · CCDE, CISCO, certification

To answer the question that everyone is bound to ask -  “did you pass?”. The answer is, I’ll tell you in 6-8 weeks. The CCDE Practical Beta is just that, a beta. From what Dr Sarah and Russ White have said, there will be many iterations of psychometric analysis, as well as throwing out certain [...]

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Tags: CCDE·CCDE Practical·certification·Chicago·CISCO

CCDE Practical – Beta candidate deadline August 1 2008

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments · CCDE, CISCO

I just received an email from Cisco finally revealing what benefit the CCDE beta program members will receive for being good little test subjects.
As a CCDE beta participant on the qualification exam, you have given us your time and feedback and have made a significant commitment to making this a valuable program in the market. [...]

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