If you're studying for Cisco exams and just about to tear your hair 
out, don't fret, there are many others in the same position, and many of them are writing up their experiences in their blogs and passing along hints and tips. Even if you're a CCIE pro, there's always room for personal improvement and expansion. With that in mind we've scoured the Web to bring you our top 20 most useful Web resources for Cisco networking professionals. Of course, we don't want you to forget the resources and blogs of Cisco Subnet and our own bloggers, so we'll give a recap of our own Cisco resources and bloggers at the end of our top 20 list. Compiled by Jim Duffy and Linda Leung
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Great List
Nice list of Cisco and networking-centric sites. Keep up the good work guys. I heartily recommend the Networking Forum, containing the most helpful group of network professionals that you'll run into on the Internet.
Also, my site didn't make the cut, but you may find it useful!
http://blog.humanmodem.com
Thanks Phillip
Thanks Phillip and thanks for including a link to your site. There are many great sites out there for Cisco networking folks and unfortunately we couldn't include them all in this list. The list is definitely not exhaustive, so if anyone else has URLs of other useful sites for Cisco networking folks, please respond! I'm sure there are sites that neither Jim Duffy nor I have come across!
Linda Leung
Cisco Subnet editor
One more site for the List
My site didn't make the list as well :(
No worries though, maybe it is a bit too specialized.
UC500.com is focused on Cisco's SMB voice products such as CallManager Express and the UC500 series. The discussion forums make for a pretty active group of enthusiasts.
Regards,
Ted
seriously, 20+ small paragraphs in 20+ pages of ads?!?
I never made it past the first three pages, btw. A list of 20 good sites shouldn't take more than a page. I don't have enough time to flip through 20+ pages of short blurbs along with adds and commentary, looking for the "meat" of the article and hoping to bookmark a few of them. So I don't know if the article is good or bad, in the long run, but it is counterproductive to break it up into such small chunks.
Thanks for including sunpenguin.net in the list!
Also Buffalo is not that bad ;) As long as you can handle the drama with the sports teams you have it made.
What does that mean?
"So the site claims??" What does that mean? I once talked to one of their sales engineers and even verified with some colleagues that they only place names of people on their site who specifically request it. So I'd say that their numbers are pretty darn accurate.
Facts, not claims.
I'm not sure what you mean by "so the site claims", but feel free to ask around for reviews yourself or contact the people that are on that list. They are all 100% legitimate and have used Internetwork Expert's products to pass the CCIE Lab Exam (R&S, Security, or Service Provider). I can understand the skeptics though as the number of people that are successful using our instructor-led and self-paced products is on average 200 - 300% more than our competition. This is why we are the world leader in CCIE preparation. Also the list hasn't been updated today yet with the three students that emailed me this morning that passed their labs within the past two days ;)
Agreed
I am a client of InternetworkExpert ("the Brians") and "came up through the ranks" with many of the people currently listed on their site. While the numbers may appear too good to be true, we're all legitimate CCIEs, I assure you...
Cheers,
Scott
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Your website...
Brian, why don't you guys make your blog work in something other than Windows IE? It breaks in Firefox (at least on Mac) thanks to the way you've coded it.
100% sounds like false advertsing to me
There is a problem with ethics of your logic. No single person is ever going to contact you and ask to be placed on your site as a failure. The very model of your 100% success rate seems disengenous. Unless you have reporting/feedback from 100% of your students' pass/fail rate you cannot know if 100% pass or not. This is basic mathematics, you have to know the numerator and denominator. You are claiming 100% based only on the numberator. If you are aware of any failures and do not report them, that would be even worse ethics. This seems me to be false advertising and may open you up to legal actions from someone who takes your class and fails, or even a class action from multiple people who have taken your class and failed. A competitor could also report you to local authorities or Better Business Beureu/FCC, without having taken your class.
Even if there is no substantial legal threat, this type of chicanary tells me that your organization is more interested in tricks and image than actual substance.
For example of the 3 that e-mailed you this moring, how many were expected to take the test that day? Do you even know when (or if ever) they take the test after your class is over, if they don't report a "sucess" back to you? I would reconsider this business model, not only will the market grow wise and discount you, but as a school your long term income depends upon the reputation which is measure by the quality of your graduates, and how they represent your training to the rest of the networking world through their actions in their workplace.