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Decision Making Time! - CiscoLive 2012

What classes do I want to take this year? LISP? IPv6? Multicast? FabricPath? SDN? SBA?
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Thu, 04/19/12 - 8:04pm.

First, I have to lead off saying that I LOVE CiscoLive!!  

Yes, I work at Cisco...... Yes, I am a speaker at CiscoLive...... Yes, I'm even a Session General Manager for session groups RST (routing and switching) and IPM (multicast).   So this might all just sound like me just "drinking the kool-aid" or "marketing" CiscoLive to you.  But that is honestly not it. 

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Understanding the BGP Table Version - Part 2: More Introduction to BGP Table Version

More on BGP Table Version – the most unknown, unexplained, unloved, and unused BGP concept/value that I rarely ever troubleshoot without
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Thu, 03/22/12 - 6:38pm.

This is the 2nd post in the 3 part series of "Understanding the BGP Table Version".  Please visit http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80089 to review part 1.  

Last we left our network, we had the below 3 routers and a BGP table version of 4 in Router10.

 

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Understanding the BGP Table Version - Part 1: Introduction to BGP Table Version

BGP Table Version – the most unknown, unexplained, unloved, and unused BGP concept/value that I rarely ever troubleshoot without.
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Tue, 03/20/12 - 5:47pm.

I cannot honestly imagine troubleshooting BGP without understanding the BGP table version.  I use it all the time.  Sometimes it is just a quick "eyeballing" of it to check to see if all the BGP table versions are in sync.... or if there is work to be done.  I see people "eyeballing" the up/down time for a BGP peer when they are troubleshooting.  And sometimes I see them quickly eyeball the InQ/OutQ columns.  But I rarely ever see anyone using the BGP table version.

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Prepping for the CCDE Practical

One needs design “experience”, “exposure”, “breadth and depth”
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Sun, 01/22/12 - 4:32pm.

Ever since I passed my CCDE, I get emails from random people, some I know and some I don't know.  The wording can be different, but the essence of the email is always the same - 

"How does one study for the CCDE"? 

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Making My Amends

A Lab Rat apologizes for dropping off the face of the earth and not posting. ☺
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Fri, 01/20/12 - 2:03pm.
"Uh ... Err ... Hi again. It's me. So ... uh ... how's it going? What have you been up to? Err ... umm ..."

Ever had one of those times in your life that you just don't know what to say to a friend? You told them you would do something (call, write, return a call, keep in touch, call more often) but you don’t.  And then time passes.  And you think to yourself… "Man, I have to fix this."  But you don't.  And more time passes.  Now it is just awkward!

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The Cure for Network Downtime is Not Just Technology

Design and tune your network all you want. But if your company doesn’t also have a culture of high availability, your High Availability and Fast Convergence is not complete.
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Tue, 08/16/11 - 7:21am.

You just came back from CiscoLive and went to some classes (maybe even some of mine) and now you want to run home and start figuring out the alphabet soup of choices and decisions that is High Availability (HA) and Fast Convergence (FC) - NSR, NSF, GR, BFD, SSO... (the acronyms go on and on)

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I’ve got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it

What do you get a Lab Rat that already has everything? Give her WAN lab equipment and tell her she has a side project to build whatever she wants with it!
Submitted by Denise Fishburne on Fri, 07/29/11 - 2:36pm.

I’ve just had Christmas in July.  I’ve been given a whole list of lab equipment, so big that naming all the SIPs, SPAs, and line cards, would end up blowing my word count limit for one blog.  So I’ll just keep it at a high level.

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About Cisco Lab Rat

Denise Fishburne works in the Cisco Customer Proof of Concept Lab (CPOC)  in Research Triangle Park, NC.  In this role, Denise has the unique opportunity of helping customers see their network dreams move from conception to a reality.  Denise has been with the CPOC for over 10 years and has been with Cisco 15 years.  While she works on many technologies, her primary technical focus is in routing and switching - routing protocols, multicast, and MPLS.   Being a lab rat, Denise's passion and strength, however, is troubleshooting.   Denise loves to share her knowledge and experiences as a CCIE and CCDE with customers, co-workers, and as a regular speaker at CiscoLive.

 

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