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Episode 17 – Avaya Sale | Cisco Live | Tech Field Day Extra

We returned to record our seventeenth episode on Sunday March 12, 2017.

Interesting News and Events

Cisco Live 2017 Berlin

  • New ACi deployment Option Multi-Site Controller (Stretched Fabric >> MultiPod >> Multi Fabric, Multi Data Center)
  • Python runs on IOS 16 natively
  • Catalyst Digital Building Series Switch CDB-8U
    • Cisco Catalyst Digital Building Series Switch Highlights
    • 8 fast Ethernet ports and 2 gigabit copper uplink ports, with line-rate forwarding performance
    • Universal Power over Ethernet (Cisco UPOE) and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) support with up to 480W of power budget.
    • Support for Layer 2 features, optimized for robust connectivity to lighting and other building IoT devices.
    • Silent operation due to fanless design, which enhances reliability
      Enhanced Limited Lifetime Warranty (E-LLW)
    • boots in 5 seconds
  • IR829
  • Cisco Configuration Professional express
  • UDAP 1.1 ASIC Review (Peter Jones) – Catalyst 3000 Series Switches
    • Dual Core 500Mhz,
    • 256Bit MACSec Encryption,
    • 24k x2 Netflow Records
    • 240G Stacking
    • 6MB x2 Packet Buffer
    • 148GE Bandwidth
  • Tetration Analytics
  • Cisco Spark Board 55
    • Screen: 55” edge LED LCD
    • Camera: +/- 86 degree viewing angle
    • Capacitive touch
    • 12-element microphone array
  • ENCS 5400
  • FirePOWER 2100 Series Hardware
    • 6.2 FTD release
    • Clustering
    • Flex Config

What tools are you using?

Ansible – From Networklore; Ansible is an open source automation platform. …Ansible can help you with configuration management, application deployment, task automation. It can also do IT orchestration, where you have to run tasks in sequence and create a chain of events which must happen on several different servers or devices.

Cheers!

Episode 16 – Vendors VARs Manufacturers

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

Interesting News and Events

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!