| More from Cisco Subnet: $8M Cisco SMARTnet scamster faces 30 years in prison Cisco blade to feature BMC technology; marriage in the air between Cisco, BMC? Cisco to pay $5 million settlement to former reseller Cisco wants a piece of the blade server pie but would it cope with the slim margin? Is Cisco bidding for Nortel's Metro Ethernet business? Threats originating from legitimate domains grow 90%, says Cisco Podcast: Cisco aims to recognize wireless experts with new CCIE Wireless designation (4:07) Best of 2008: Quiz: How much do you know about Cisco? From our bloggers: Brad Reese on Cisco: The long and bumpy road to the Brocade/Foundry merger
The most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time - Duane Eddy, had a 1959 top ten hit song titled - Forty Miles Of Bad Road (a genuine personal favorite of mine which peaked at #9), and today it could very well be the "theme song" for the long and rough road to the finish line that has become "di rigeur" for the Brocade - Foundry merger. Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: 2008 IPv4/IPv6 Update | NetworkWorld.com Community
2008 was sort of a milestone year for IPv6. Foremost there was the much-touted US OMB Mandate which everyone got excited about back about 2005: By June of this year all federal agencies ’ “infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 and agency networks must interface with this infrastructure. ” In the years between that mandate and the deadline, however, the language and requirements slipped significantly. Michael Morris From the Field: The Twelve Days of Cisco
(Come on! You all know the song...sing along with me) On the first day of Christmas, my sales rep sent to me A router in a juniper tree. On the second day of Christmas, my sales rep sent to me Two redundant ... Jimmy Ray Purser: Networking Geek to Geek: Tool Review: Maltego
I just read about Roelof Temmingh's data mining tool; Maltego that took Microsoft's Blue Hat summit by storm last October. You may have one of ole Roelof's books on your bookshelf. He co-wrote "Penetration Testers Open Source Toolkit" back in '05. The write up was interesting, so I went to his Web site to have a look around... Jamey Heary: Cisco Security Expert: Quantum Encryption VPNs - Totally Unhackable
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with funding from DARPA, has successfully tested a multi-node, 1.25Gbps active network that uses Quantum Encryption. Quantum Encryption, formally known as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), is considered the first truly unbreakable and tap proof encryption technology on the planet. Sure AES 256 in practice is unbreakable today, but it remains mathematically crackable and it certainly can be tapped. Wendell Odom's Cisco Cert Zone: Fun with OSPF Type 5 LSAs
Well, at least one of you asked... and I did promise! Next we'll move on to Type 5 (external) LSAs. (yeeha!) But if you didn't yet vote for your top requests from Santa for this year, at least relative to Cisco certs, pop back to Tuesday's post to weigh in. This topic will take me a few posts, so let's jump right in. Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: Clustering over the WAN
A CUCM cluster consists of one publisher server with a read/write (R/W) copy of the database. CUCM 5.0 and later uses an IBM Informix database server. The publisher database is then replicated to the subscriber servers as read/only (R/O). CUCM 6.0 added user facing features (UFF) which allows the subscriber R/O database to have limited write functionality for the following critical features to function while the publisher server is down ... Cisco Knowledge Share with Avner Izhar: Network assessment basics
How can you know if your network is doing fine? Should you worry about upgrading your backbone next year? Do you get slow responses because your network is not up to what you do with it? Those questions are a common concern for many of the customers I got to know along the way. So how do you know if your network is doing fine? What are the vital signals of a functioning data infrastructure? Hot discussions among Cisco Subnet readers: Top 10 Coolest Hacking Moments in 2008 Peeling the OSPF LSA Onion Paying for Certifications hits Guru.com Dear Santa – Cheap Used L3 Switches, or a Global Economic Recovery? Quantum Encryption VPNs - Totally Unhackable December freebies and giveaways: Win free books: Win one of 15 copies of the Cisco Press book Cisco Voice over IP (CVOICE) (Authorized Self-Study Guide), 3rd Edition by Kevin Wallace. Deadline for entry is Dec.31. Plus, read Chapter 3: Routing Calls over Analog Voice Ports
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