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Cisco Live 2012 Wrap Up

Tue, 2012-06-19 07:18

Well, Cisco Live 2012 in San Diego has come to an end and most people have likely returned to their homes and daily routines. Personally, I have caught up on email and am now taking on the deluge of tasks at work head on.

I've got some notes from my last session, but they need some clean up before I can post them. Also, I've got a couple pictures that I'll try to upload this week. 

All in all it was a great conference this year. I learned a lot and should have enough material for a few solid blog posts in the weeks ahead. If anyone has any links to stuff they want to share from CL 2012 San Diego, feel free to post them in the comments below. Thanks!

Frame Relay for the R&S CCIE Candidate - Session Notes

Wed, 2012-06-13 09:52

Attended the Frame Relay Session for R&S CCIE Candidates Wednesday morning. The instructor, Johnny Bass, is fast becoming one of my favorite teachers of CCIE material. His no-BS straight to the point style is great for covering CCIE material. Like yesterday’s IPv6 session, I jotted some notes and wanted to share them here.

Key points about LMI
Three types of LMI –
Gang of four, then ANSI (T1.617 Annex D, and then ITU (Q.933 Annex A)
LMI type needs to match Frame relay switch

Virtual Circuits
    Switched Virtual Circuits (SVC) – temporary, like a phone call. Setup then torn down
    Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVC) – nailed up, appears like a permananent connection

Layer 3 to layer 2 mapping

Networking Nerd

Tue, 2012-06-12 19:36

Just met Tom Hollingsworth randomly in the hallway. Here's a shout out to "the" networking nerd. Check out his blog: http://networkingnerd.net

IPv6 for the CCIE R&S Candidate - Session Notes

Tue, 2012-06-12 19:28

Today I attended the IPv6 for CCIE R&S session presented by Johnny Bass, CCIE #6458 and Cisco 360 master instructor. Totally awesome presentation! I jotted some notes and figured I’d post them here to share.

All the content in the session (BRKCCIE-9592) is regarding the R&S 4.0 version blueprint. “If it’s not in the blueprint, it’s not in this session”

Different Addressing Types

  • 2000::/3 – Global Unicast
  • FC00::/7 – Unique Local Unicast
  • FE80::/10 – Link Local Unicast
  • FF00::/8 – Multicast

Prefix Subnet Interface/Node ID
32 to 56 bits 32 to 8 bits 64 bits

Note: The interface ID can be either EUI-64, use Privacy Extensions (RFC 3041), or locally configured.

Cisco Live 2012 - First Day Review

Tue, 2012-06-12 08:31

The first full day at Cisco Live 2012 was a blast! I picked up quite a bit of info on MPLS (stay tuned for a future blog about that). Also, I met Terry Slattery who is a tremendously nice guy and for those who don't know, is a distinguished CCIE. 

The World of Solutions is great, lots of great vendors and booths. Tons of free t-shirts and trinkets. And of course the free food and beverages are nice too. The WoS is always well done and this year is spot on.

The wireless systems at CLUS have been plagued up to this point. They were working hard on it though and have said they've rectified the issues. We'll see how the rest of the week goes, hopefully a little smoother.

Cisco Live Lunch

Mon, 2012-06-11 12:00
Cisco Live Lunch

How to feed an army of networkers.

CiscoLive2012.com Down?

Sun, 2012-06-10 22:38
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Ciscolive2012.com down? I'm guessing everyone is trying to download their PDFs since we didn't get them on a USB flash drive this year...

The iPhone app isn't loading either. I tried to save some paper by just using the iPhone app. Hope it's up tomorrow, I'd like to get to my schedule so I know which sessions to go to. 

Update: Looks like they fixed the issue over night. Just in case it happens again, I've emailed myself the schedule.

Cisco Live 2012

Sat, 2012-06-09 17:33
Cisco Live 2012 Logo

I have arrived! Here's what I've got so far:

Registration is a breeze.

There are Cisco people everywhere directing traffic, even in the hotel lobby.

The bus is a little slow, but beats walking uphill.

Weather is perfect! Why don't I live here yet?

Keep checking back, more to come...

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