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

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CCIE Party 2008 Recap – Cisco Live Networkers 2008

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CISCO, Networkers

Yesterday evening, a scary realization came to me as I was heading to the CCIE party at the Nascar Bar and Grille. The realization was, that in this ratty shuttle van, there was 26 CCIE certifications, and if we crashed we would take out a significant portion of the engineering leadership in our billion dollar [...]

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

June 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments · CCDE, CCIE, CISCO, MPLS, Technology, consulting

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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Simplifying remote site security with Cisco’s new video surveillance modules on the ISR

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · 4s ranch rancho bernardo san diego witch fire evacuated, CCIE, CISCO, Technology, security, sun

One giant pain I have always faced when working with high security environments is dealing with surveillance systems. They are a necessary and required part of your security infrastructure. However they just never seem to integrate as well as your network, storage, or server devices.
When I work with data center infrastructure I expect the following [...]

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