Cisco CEO---John Chambers’ Almost Excellent Adventure
Cisco CEO John Chambers had a very active week this week, making the rounds with the daily business press to address such topics as his retirement, rival HP and suggestions for the next President of the United States. His week ended with the disclosure...
Cisco Celebrates Ongoing Role in Australian National Broadband Network Build
September 25, 2012, Cisco announced that it has been selected by NBN Co to provide equipment for its national data connectivity network. Established by the Australian federal government, NBN Co will design, build and operate Australia's wholesale-only,...
Cisco delivers new wave of security solutions to defend fast-evolving data centers
Cisco introduced a set of security solutions designed to protect data centers in the Middle East against the threats they face in moving toward more consolidated and virtualized environments, while also enabling businesses to take advantage of new cloud-based...
Huawei Previews Cisco-killin' E9000 Modular System
Chinese telecom giant and increasingly important server player Huawei Technologies is moving from racks and blades into modular designs that use a mix of both approaches – and look very much like modular kit from Cisco Systems, IBM, and Hitachi, as well...
QoS Classification and Marking Configuration
In this article we will share the details for proper QoS Marking and Classification configuration. As discussed in the VoIP Quality of Service (QoS) Basics article, the first thing that must be accomplished when configuring QoS is the classification and...
Basic Overview of Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) QoS
Basic tips of configuring Quality of Service (QoS) with VoIP, including the high level QoS methods available to achieve quality voice traffic. One of the most important things that must be configured in concert with available VoIP solutions is Quality...
Cisco 2960s Switches Can Route
As Cisco user know, Cisco 2960s can route now. As of 12.2(55)SE, Cisco 2960s switches are layer 3 switches (with some limitations mentioned later). Configuring 2960s to route is pretty simple. The Switch Database Management template (SDM) needs to be...
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series-Understanding the MET Reserved VLAN Range on IOS 15
We deployed some new Cisco Catalyst 6513 with Sup2T supervisor engines as access switches several days ago. During the initial configuration, we realized that Cisco had introduced some new reserved VLANs on IOS15 for internal usage: switch(config)#vlan...