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We returned to record our sixteenth episode on Sunday January 29, 2017.

Interesting News and Events

• Avaya Chapter 11
• Avaya Engage (formerly Avaya Technology Forum)  February 12-15 2017 in Las Vegas
• Cisco Live EMEA February 20-24 2017 in Berlin
• Tech Field Day Extra Cisco Live Europe 2017
• PacketPushers: Show 324: An Introduction To Docker Networking
• Sorting Through SD-WAN by Tom Hollingsworth
• Is It Really Always The Network? by Tom Hollingsworth
• Solarwinds

Roundtable Discussion – Vendors / Value Added Resellers / Manufacturers

• How should you prepare yourself for a vendor meeting ?
• What is the interest of the manufacturer ?
• What is the interest of the value added reseller?
• How to pick the right solution for your environment ?
• Long Term relationship and support models
• Why are Vendors trying to push you into a product or technology ?
• Pursue a VAR that is interested in a long term relationship

What tools are you using?

Perl – I‘ve used Perl for the past 20+ years to help automate various small tasks and to help gather data for reporting purposes across a large number of devices (switches, routers, access points, etc)

You’ll find a few very detailed examples on the Perl Scripting section of my blog.

Cheers!