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Another technorati convert...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:07.A useful marketing and blog distrbituion tool?
I'll keep you posted once the pudding has been proven.
Network Nugget #2 - Cisco Branded Power Tools !
Monday, 15 June 2009 09:00.Ever wished you had an automated Cisco power budget calculator for the following devices?
Cisco Nexus 7000, Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series, Catalyst 4500-E/4500 Series, Catalyst 3750-E/3750 Series, Catalyst 3560-E/3560 Series, Catalyst 2960 Series, Catalyst 2975 Series, Catalyst Express 500 Series, and the Cisco 7600 Series Router
EFM - It's not as rude an acronym as I first thought.
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 15:39.I've been working on a large hosted services project for SME business use, and the network architecture supports a variety of CPE access technologies. Unsurprisingly for the lower end of the access scale there are the xDSL variants that we all know and love, but bridging the bandwidth and performance gap between xDSL and fibre-based Ethernet access technologies is the Ethernet First Mile (EFM) service (802.3ah). I'm putting this through integration test at the moment and I think it’s a really interesting niche tech for those wanting a value SP access service at around the 2Mpbs to 10Mbps mark.
Accelerating your WAN
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 12:46.I still remember the delight when my dad upgraded our dusty 9.6Kbps modem to a 56kbps. At the time it was a massive improvement and websites seemed to fly down to the PC, but then as links became faster, the websites became richer, embedding audio and video and soon it seemed as if the Internet had ground to a halt again. The same can be said of many corporate WAN links. That 1Mbps leased line may have seemed to be lightning fast at first but as more and more files and applications are migrated to the data centre to save operational costs, the users begin to complain again of poor network performance. Files that were once held locally are now hundreds or even thousands of miles away and having to contend with a much smaller amount of bandwidth and higher latency. Consequently, that word document that was once so quick to open on the local file server now appears to freeze and all you can do is bash the keyboard in frustration.
Network Nugget #1: Using the pipe "|" option in Cisco CLI
Friday, 05 June 2009 15:57.Every day is a school day and in the midst of my blog entries I thought I would include some technical bits and pieces that I've either gathered along the way, or hot off the press tips that I think are worth passing on. Some may seem obvious, others maybe not, but I hope all of them might make someone's life a little easier.
