Entries for December, 2008

New Cisco Certification Logo’s

Cisco are deciding to update their certification logo’s; below the proposals:
First logo
 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Fabio – The admin

How to create a VPN server using SDM

As I explained in the article “Security Device Manager aka SDM“, SDM is a Web-based device-management tool for Cisco routers that can improve the productivity of network managers, simplify router deployments, and help troubleshoot complex network and VPN connectivity issues.
What is a virtual private network?
A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network in which [...]

Cisco launches dedicated channel with green.tv

Cisco has created its own channel on the green.tv platform. The channel launches with a series of films focused on Cisco’s Connected Urban Development initiative, which looks at how to reduce carbon emissions through improvements in the efficiency of the urban infrastructure made possible by information and communications technology (ICT) such as Cisco(R) TelePresence.
Future programs [...]

Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report

The Cisco® Annual Security Report provides an overview of the combined security intelligence of the entire Cisco organization. Encompassing threat and trends information collected between January and October 2008, this 49-page document provides a snapshot of the state of security for that period. The report also provides recommendations from Cisco security experts and predictions of [...]

IOS Scripting with Tcl

Discovered during Cisco CCNP course, Tcl (originally from “Tool Command Language“) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout and introduced from IOS version 12.3(2)T.
But what is Cisco Tcl?
The Cisco IOS Tcl shell was designed to allow customers to run Tcl commands directly from the Cisco IOS CLI prompt. Cisco IOS software does contain some [...]

What do you want for Christmas?

Surfing the web, I have found this video. It’s quite old, but… no comment -.-”

And you, what do you want for Christmas?

Cisco C-Scape 2008

Cisco’s C-Scape Global Forum 2008 brings industry analyst and press communities together with John Chambers, his executive team and guest technology leaders for discussion, debate and dialogue on the industry’s prevailing issues and trends.
This year’s interactive forum will focus on the process of building the Next Internet – a much richer user experience on a [...]

Ciscozine.com down for 2 days :-(

Due to Raid hardware damage, I have lost all data of Ciscozine.com (web, mail and settings).
I have restored Ciscozine.com using the backup of one month ago; the remaining articles are been recovered using google cache… but the comments are permanently lost.
Sorry for the inconvenient
The admin – Fabio

Cisco introduces new CCIE Wireless Certification

Today Cisco has officially introduced the CCIE Wireless Certification. So, at the present time, the expert certifications are 7: CCIE Routing & Switching, CCDE, CCIE Security, CCIE Service Provider, CCIE Storage Networking, CCIE Voice and… CCIE Wireless.
The written exam for CCIE Wireless will be made available through Pearson VUE on February 17th, 2009. The lab [...]