Tools, Tips and Reviews for Network Engineers
If you’re like me your biggest tool that you use day to day is Visio. I use it constantly to create all of my network diagrams for every network I create. But what do you do if you don’t have Visio?!?! Visio isn’t cheap software and not every network engineer can afford to buy it… [...]
Well it was bound to happen. The CCIE has been de-throwned. No longer is the CCIE the pinnacle of certifications. There is a new cert in town and its name is Cisco Certified Architect. I’m actually kind of surprised its taken Cisco this long to come out with a certification that tops the CCIE. For [...]
Managing large network installation projects can be pretty daunting. Keeping track of your progress and making sure you don’t miss any steps along the way is crucial. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) as well as Cisco’s PPDIOO both provide a network services lifecycle frame work to help ensure that when the project is implemented the [...]
Need Visio Stencils? Have you ever been in the middle of a Visio diagram and realized you didn’t have a stencil for a particular Cisco network device? Or how about needing Visio stencils for a Juniper or F5 load balancer? Or any device in your data center? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to [...]
The Twelve Days of Christmas Vacation for a Network Engineer
The Twelve Days of Christmas Vacation for a Network Engineer