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 ›
General Networking
The insights of Cloud based Services Platform
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
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
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!!!
Running CSR1000v on a VMware ESXi Hypervisor
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 ›
CSR1000v on GNS3
It has been quite some time since the Cisco’s Cloud Services Router CSR1000v was publicly released. CSR1000v is a virtual router or in other words it run’s the IOS software inside a Virtual Environment (in a Virtual Machine), and that’s… Read More ›
Internal VLANs
All of us or most of us are aware of the famous VLAN types, the Standard and Extended VLAN’s, which to some extent makes sense. The Standard VLAN’s have a range starting from 1 up to 1005 including the last… Read More ›
Transit AS with no full-mesh BGP
This time I will try to explain how to achieve passing the Transit traffic without affecting our internal domain of having all the externall routes, at least from the Control Plane point of view, because the Data Plane traffic however… Read More ›
Dynamic Multipoint VPN – DMVPN
Dynamic Multipoint VPN is a technique and answer to the huge increase of Enterprise or Corporations remote sites or branches connecting to the HQ offices while in the same time maintain low costs (no need to purchase MPLS VPN services… Read More ›
CCIE R&S v5.0 Announced
As we were expecting, the CCIE R&S v5 was officialy announced this week by Cisco. For some this might sound like a hammer hit in the head, but looking from other perspective sooner or later this was expected, the old… Read More ›
CCIE #49534 