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

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The latest product to make its way from the storage networking arena into the data center networking arena is Cisco’s new NX-OS, next generation network operating system. Cisco has taken the highly succesful MDS line of switches, and  expanded on their success by taking their core operating system - SAN-OS and expanding it to provide [...]

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Data Center 3.0 has arrived with Cisco’s Nexus 7000 Data Center switch. I hope I am not to sensational in saying this, but the Data Center as you know it has changed drastically.

Highlights of the the Nexus 7000’s features are -

15 Terrabit per second backplane
Support for 40 and 100 gig ports in the future
Seperate control [...]

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I ran accross this series at laughing squid called I suck at photoshop. You need to watch them, it will totally make your day.
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 Today was the official release date for the CCDE exam. To quote Cisco -
“CCDE Assesses advanced Network Infrastructure Design Principles and Fundamentals for large networks. A CCDE can demonstrate an ability to develop solutions which address planning, design, integration, optimization, operations, security and ongoing support focused at the infrastructure level for customer networks”
For the engineering [...]

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