Network Dictionary - Appsellation

Term to describe the “add on selling” of Network Management applications as an upgrade to your network.

Approximately the equivalent of asking “would you like fries with that” when ordering network equipment with the same outcome - you can’t really eat that many fries and sugary drink, but you can’t help buy it when you are hungry.

In the same way, you always want Network Management to work, but it always gets thrown out in the trash.

Network Dictionary - Process Humping

Process humping: The act of implementing and then following process for the sake of having a process. Usually done by people who want to make it look like they’re doing something, or are too stupid to work out what needs doing anyway.

With thanks to Sean who sent it in. Good one.

Network Dictionary - Workshop

Correctly, a buildings where tools and materials combine to demonstrate human male mastery over his environment by creating “stuff” or fixing “stuff”

Otherwise corrupted by middle management and marketing droids to describe a meeting where nothing actually happens, but the delusion that something did happen occurs.

Network Dictionary - Paperweight

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Network Dictionary - Sycophant

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Network Dictionary - Pain Relief Technology

Pain Relief Technology - term used to describe certain products or technologies that are typically only understood, or perceived as useful, when you have a problem. When used, they ‘relieve the pain’.
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Network Dictionary - NAT’D

NAT’d - when indicating that a flow has undergone Network Address Translation, abbreviated as NAT, it is NAT’d. Read more

Network Dictionary - Magic Hand Wave

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Network Dictionary - Resume Generating Events

Resume Generating Events - “Some failures are spectacular - you turn up a new link, bring up the routing protocol, and then the core crashes so hard, the lights dim in the data center. The industry term for these sorts of failures is RGEs, or Resume Generating Events. ” As defined by Ethan Banks at CCIE Candidate.

Network Dictionary - Freelance

Freelance - the term for a Knight of honour that is not pledged to a Lord. Modern Use: person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to an employer

On the contest field, each Knight would pledge his lance to the Lord who owns his fealty. A Knight with no such pledge was Free Lance. Free as in freedom to choose his contest and the nature of the fight.
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Network Dictionary - Insufflate

Insufflate

1 - to inhale, typically a powder (drug).
2 - to absorb technical information.

Thus, Dilbert started a new project that was using the Cisco Guard DDoS technology. Not having worked on this before, he got the manuals to insufflate some knowledge.

See also grok

Network Dictionary - Acronyminy

acronyminy - (akkro - nim - ih - nee)

The disjointed sensation of knowing what an acronym means, but not remembering the exact words because you have used it so often you no longer think of it as an abbreviation.

aka, “What does the acronym OSPF stand for ? Uh, protocol 89, uses multicast on a broadcast networks, has 5 message types, classless routing protocol ”

“I can’t remember what is stands for though!”

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 - 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 - 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 - 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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