Author Archives

• CCIE, to be or not to be.

  By Leonir Hoxha on December 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  As a CCIE myself and working for a leading Vendor in the IT Industry, I have been into situations where the value of a CCIE has been questioned by various reasons, personal or non-personal. And that is quiet obvious considering… Read More ›

• Segment Routing at PLNOG conference

  By Leonir Hoxha on November 14, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Just found out the video has been published by the PLNOG conference organizer. There’s still some room for improvement on my Public Speaking skills.

• Cisco Live Berlin 2017

  By Leonir Hoxha on November 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy to say that I’ll be speaking at another, this time bigger Tech Conference, the Cisco Live. I will be participating at Cisco Live Berlin, February 2017, as a Technical Breakout session speaker, and the session is, ‘Introduction to Segment Routing‘. This… Read More ›

• SSH with Paramiko

  By Leonir Hoxha on August 31, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Paramiko is a SSH module for Python, meaning it gives the developers the ability and same time the flexibility to write applications or scripts to connect to a device securely via SSH, and execute commands similar as if you were… Read More ›

• Speaking at PLNOG

  By Leonir Hoxha on August 30, 2016 • ( 0 )

  I have always considered that knowledge sharing is the best way to grow up professionally and create your brand. It’s excited when you are given the chance to talk to the audience of professionals in the IT industry, the opportunity… Read More ›

• The insights of Cloud based Services Platform

  By Leonir Hoxha on July 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Network Function Virtualization is one of the hottest topics nowadays in the IT industry, based on different researches it’s said that it is expected that by the next couple of years the industry of SDN/NFV will become worth Billions. Seeing… Read More ›

• Cisco CRS Multi Chassis

  By Leonir Hoxha on November 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Lately I have been working on setting up a Cisco CRS (16 Slot) Multi Chassis 2+1 system for one of my customers (a leading Service Provider in EMEAR). The activities lasted roughly a week, full of activities and challenges at… Read More ›

• CCIE #49534

  By Leonir Hoxha on August 11, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  I’m very happy to announce that I have passed the CCIE R&S lab exam 2 weeks ago. Time for some resting.. or maybe not!!!

• Generate dummy static IP Prefixes with Python

  By Leonir Hoxha on November 15, 2014 • ( 2 )

  This is my first but not last post on using some programming language to automate the way how I interact with a Cisco or non-Cisco network device. Imagine having hundreds or thousands devices making even a simple configuration change or… Read More ›

• Running CSR1000v on a VMware ESXi Hypervisor

  By Leonir Hoxha on October 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Being able to use Cisco Cloud Services Router CSR1000v in a stable Hypervisor and Physical machine is a key to the performance and stability of the CSR1000v itself. This time I want to share my latest set-up of the Cisco… Read More ›