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Show 8 – Something on the Light Side – Part 1

20th June 2010 By 2 Comments

We cover a number of shorter stories this week and chat around various topics:

  • Supply problems on Cisco hardware causing delays with projects
  • overview of videoconferencing still not working well
  • Cisco IOS Licensing and issues around feature identification
  • The value of Emulators such as Dynamips in corporate networks for change control, feature testing and proof of concept
  • Where Huawei doesn’t work well and the discussion on the NSP mailing list. Leading to how some equipment isn’t as good as it looks on paper.
  • And we wrapped with a discussion on whether we were nerds when growing up and what our children will be like – geek or not ?

We had some sound quality problems which I’ve tried to edit around. I’m on holidays this week, so don’t have enough time to check the edit. Please be nice if it’s not completely OK. Look for Part 2 to publish later in the week.

Links from the Show

Jeremy Stretch can be found his excellent blog and his Twitter is here

Amy Arnold can be found on Twitter with large helpings on snarky comment.

Aaron Conway on Cisco Exam questions quality.
Licensing Q&A Cisco.com

Routing Poster

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  • PatG

    Not sure why you have so much trouble with VC. I don’t do VC deployments myself but have a number of customers using it and the last Cisco Gold Partner I worked for did a lot of it as well.

  • PatG

    Licensing – Ethan mentioned having issues finding code with the features you want. There is a tool on CCO called Feature Navigator which allows to search based on feature, technology, platform etc. – http://www.cisco.com/go/fn

    Emulators – Greg mentioned the change control issue and that you can’t emulate a Nexus 7k network for testing your changes. Actually you can – that’s one of the great uses of Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs). The N7k is totally virtualised above the kernel so you can create a test lab in another VDC, use the same VLANs/IP addressing/routing and test your changes there.