OpenGear presented at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live this year and showed off ways to use their OOB tools on the first day, every day, and the worst day.
Category: cisco
I’ve never done a post on Forti-anything, but I’m really appreciating the products Fortinet is putting out lately. They’re transitioning from “run your SMB off of our stuff” to “actually, we’re pretty good for larger companies”, so their GUI lacks features to keep the SMB…
It’s been a very busy month or so. June is always like that, it seems. There’s ARRL Field Day, which is always the last rainy weekend in June. This year, Cisco Live was in June, and that typically includes Tech Field Day activities. Right before…
I feel like a teenage girl with a fashion blog who hasn’t posted in 6 months and comes back with “I know I haven’t posted in a while…” Sigh. It’s been right at a year since I actually published a post, so I figured I…
For the last couple years, on the Saturday before Cisco Live US kicks off, we like to go and do something in the host city. Nothing big. Nothing fancy. Just something we aren’t going to be able to do once the conference gets going. In…
Put it on your calendar. Cisco Live US is June 25 – 29, 2017, in Las Vegas. This is the largest conference I go to every year, and it’s the highlight of my professional year. I’ve been going for a few years now and enjoy…
Check out this advisory from Cisco that came out a couple days ago. I’ll summarize for you : Thanks to a faulty clock signal component, certain Cisco devices will stop functioning after about 18 months and become really expensive bricks! If you read through it, you see phrases like “we expect product failures” and “is not recoverable.”
Yes, really. QoS has actually gotten some attention this year. After how many years of living in the dark and being feared by junior and senior engineers alike, we’re seeing some really cool technologies coming out for it.
It seems that Cisco Live is about the only thing I blog about in the last…well, few years. At least I’m still writing, even if it is twice a year. 🙂
I love going to Cisco Live every year. Without question, it’s my favorite event of the year. It’s a great event with great people and great things to do. With that said, let’s look at what could have been a bit better this year.