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

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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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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I have been learning all the right ways to build a website that Google can understand. Along the way I set a couple of goals.

The first and foremost goal is to only use “white hat” or legal ways of increasing her visibility
Get Ashley on page 1 for four target keywords
Get An indented listing

Well, it looks [...]

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I have been learning many of the guidelines of being a good site for Google lately. Man has it been an eye opener. As part of that eye opening, I updated some pages on the wifes site. I found this cool tool called a sitemap tool that creates a list of all [...]

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CCIEs Worldwide

Though CCIEs are members of an exclusive group, they can be found in countries on every continent. Use the map and tables below to discover your peers around the world.

Americas
EMEA
Pacific Rim
Africa
Asia
Cana
Europe
Middle East
Pacific [...]

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I got a question on groupstudy about my background, and why I chose Storage as my first CCIE. It seems like a good idea to post it here also.
My background is all over the place. It goes from running a small ISP when I was 18 to managing international CallManager clusters, to enterprise data center [...]

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