I’ve been involved with a huge network rollout project these days.  It is honestly the biggest endeavor I have been on.  We are re-architecting a global network for a company that has 67 offices in over 21 different countries.  There are over 500 telecom closets that we will touch and …

How Can a Juniper Networks Infrastructure Benefit My Business? By Derek Rogers Does your company need a computer network infrastructure? If so, then you should consider Juniper Networks. Their products can create an environment for hastening the installation of applications and services over one network. Juniper can create outstanding solutions …

Top 5 Reasons the Used Technology Industry is Evolving By: Darwin Redshield Buying used products often comes with a negative connotation.  For example, used car sales  are often seen as a ‘shady’ way of purchasing a reliable vehicle. Horror stories of rip-offs, unanswered calls and pressure cooker sales techniques are …

By Joe Spoto Step 1: The first step is to enable the service on the Cisco Router Router(config)# service dhcp This command enables the Cisco service on the Router and relay features on your router. To remove the command use the same command with no at the beginning Configuring the …

RFC 2131, DHCP offers IP address and other parameters to IP hosts. DHCP is a server/client setup where clients are given network addresses and other configuration parameters to dynamically configured hosts. DHCP supports three mechanisms for IP address allocation: Static/Automatic allocation – Server leases a permanent IP address to a …

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Well its seems that, in their constant efforts to improve the certification path for candidate engineers, Cisco has once again changed up the requirements for CCNP and CCNP re-certification. From the press release Cisco states: Cisco has updated its Cisco CCNP® certification for network engineers through a comprehensive process involving …

Learning and understanding policy routing is crucial knowledge for any good network engineer. You’ll find quite a bit of policy routing going on in today’s production networks.  But what exactly is policy-based routing? Policy routing Policy-based routing, generally referred to as “policy routing”, is the use of route maps to …

It never fails, you can never find a cable when you need one. For setting serial connections like for frame relay having the right DCE/DTE cable is a necessity! DTE/DCE cables are used to connect two routers via their serial cables. If you are planning on using a frame relay …