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

I was putting together some presentations this morning and found a joke hidden inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture. Can you find it?

If you are from the San Francisco bay area you will recognize the towns of Los Altos and Los Gatos. In  this diagram, the chipsets are Altos and Gatos. But where is [...]

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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.
The [...]

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Jayshree Ullal anounced today that she will be leaving her post as Senior Vice President in charge of Data Center, Switching, and Security groups. Jayshree has earned a reputation inside and outside of Cisco as a person who could take charge and get things done. First coming to Cisco as an engineer with the crescendo [...]

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