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First Step Down - Written Complete

2011-04-05 Certification Kurt Bales

I havent blogged at all for March (and this is only a very brief one) because I have been very busy studying and it seems to have paid off! I managed to get the first step towards my CCIE R&S exam out of the way last week - I passed my CCIE Written exam :)

I made the commitment back in December to sit the exam while I was at Cisco Live Melbourne 2011. If you have been following any of my tweets so far this year you may have noticed that I have spent nearly as many days out of the country as I have in. My work travel schedule was pretty hectic for January and February and I didnt have as much time dedicated to study as had hoped.

Multi-Vendor Networking - The Two Edged Sword

2011-02-21 Rant Kurt Bales

A couple of weeks back, when we recorded Episode 33 of Packet Pushers Podcast, one of the items we had on the list of topics to discuss was that of multi-vendor networks and the recent Gartner report on the topic.

Due to various reasons this topic was taken off the list, but I still had a few thoughts on the topic so I decided to write this blog post to discuss some of them.

First dive into Storage Networking

2010-09-04 On the Job Kurt Bales

When I started this blog last week, I certainly didn’t think my first post would be on the topic of Storage Networking. My background is R&S / SP more than it is storage. I work as a consultant building ISPs in Australia (and occasionally across Asia Pacific).

Some of my customers are End User ISPs, others are Content Providers, so I often get thrown at interesting new projects (sometimes at the whim of engineers on a tech-fetish, sometimes from the buzzword bingo of Sales and Marketing).