Network Dictionary - Assonance

Assonance

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Network Dictionary - Pontificate

Pontificate - To express opinions or judgments in a pompous way.

I use this word when I am writing something where its mostly my opinion rather than factual or substantiated. This reminds me to be humble and gentle, not everyone cares about my opinion.

Network Dictionary - Application Delivery Controller

Application Delivery Controller (ADC) - Historically known as a “load balancer”, until someone put a shiny chrome exhaust and new buttons on it and so it needed a new marketing name.

However, the Web Application Firewall and Application Acceleration / Optimisation that are in most ADC are not really load balancing so maybe its alright.

Feel free to call it a load balancer when the sales rep is on the ground, guaranteed to upset them.

Network Dictionary - Mensch

Someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being “a real mensch” is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous.

As described by Guy Kawasaki How to be a Mensch.

Network Dictionary - Subconscious Study Avoidance (SSA)

Subconscious Study Avoidance (SSA) is well recognised problem during the early stages of commitment to the ‘Way of Study’. Typically, early stage candidates find that there are so many study options, that they start reconsidering their choice and think about studying Security or Voice, some even think about Wireless!

However. most people pass through this stage quickly and become Mendicants and really buckle down to serious, committed study plans. Stick with Routing and Switching, then you can build on those skills is my advice.

Network Dictionary - Mendicant

Mendicant ( Men - dee - cant) is a term I use to describe people who have chosen to pursue the CCIE study path. Although the dictionary refers to a Mendicant as a religious person who relies on gifts or begging for to survive, I like to use the extended definition from Wikipedia

” in order that all their time and energy could be expended on practicing or preaching their religion or way of life and serving the poor.”

While Cisco isn’t a religion, the study and learning process has some monastic qualities such as all time spent studying or practicing, poverty due to study and lab time.

Thus, a CCIE student, should be considered a MENDICANT.

Network Dictionary - Copypasta

Copypasta - describes the mistake that happens when you paste the wrong thing into a document, blog, email etc. aka

As in, “t is probably an unfortunate copypasta, since it is not present in the configurations at the end. ” Packetlife.net

Network Dictionary - Blessay

Blessay is a merger of the words Blog and Essay. It describes a longer form of blog posting that contains factual, researched information that is likely to bre presented in a coherent, educated fashion with supporting research, bibilographic details and so on.

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Network Dictionary - Fancy Ethernet

Fancy Ethernet - generalised term used to describe Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE). Also used for Cisco’s trademarked and proprietary superset known as Data Centre Ethernet (DCE).

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Network Dictionary - Mythinformation

Mythinformation is the term used to describe some form of knowledge that is based on apocryphal, false or old knowledge. A play on the the word misinformation.
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Network Dictionary - Distress Purchase

“distress purchase” refers a purchase made at some critical point, usually during a failure, traffic leap or other unplanned event.

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Network Dictionary - Grok

In networking, used to describe your exalted understanding of a particular network , typically by working on it for enough time to know all the areas of the network including memorising IP addresses, architecture, connectivity. As in, I grok my network.

Also used in reference to your experience of a technology, i.e. I know multicast but I don’t grok it.

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Network Dictionary - TLA and eTLA

TLA is a recursive acronym for Three Letter Acronym.

Which is pretty funny.

eTLA - eXtended Three Letter Acronym - used to describe four letter acronym.

Which is even funnier.

Note the use of best marketing practice with dropped ‘e’. Very kewl

Who said nerds don’t have any humour.

Network Dictionary - ASAi

ASAi - (ass-i) - The correct plural term for more than one Cisco ASA firewall appliances. Read more

Network Dictionary - Pixen

pixen - (picks-sen)

The correct term for a group of PIX firewalls. I have decided that the correct term is Pixen after banging my head on the desk for much of the day.

PIXen - derived from the term Vaxen The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers

Terms deprecated as a result of this advisory -

pixes	just looks naff
pixies	not usable in a corporate settings
pix	The plural noun form just doesn’t work. For example: sheep is one sheep two sheep etc. Problem is the people don’t understand or comprehend that term in a sentence full of other jargon.

Consider: So if we drop the ASA into VLAN for the VPN head end at the top of DC SONA chain, migrate the ACL and config ready for the flip.

Network Dictionary - iSCSI

iSCSI - (eye-scuzzee)

- a protocol designed to transport SCSI block data across an IP network thus allowing a single network infrastructure.

- a protocol used by networking teams so they don’t have to understand storage (thanks to Jeff Darcy at Pl.atyp.us)

compare with Fibrechannel

Network Dictionary- Human Remorse

Human Remorse

Descriptive name for Human Resource department of any company. Remorse means a sense of guilt or distress for past wrongs, and that pretty much how you feel after dealing with them. Having to deal with Human Resources just feels wrong.

Network Dictionary - Admintastic

Admintastic

1. Term used to describe a system that was otherwise straightforward and easy to use, after a Security Consultant has ‘reviewed’ it.

2. Describing the ease of use of a Checkpoint firewall cluster, deeply sarcastic and derogatory.

3. Term for Change Management excellence.

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