Cisco Live 2016 – Las Vegas

So I’m finally off to Cisco Live! This will be my first time there, and I’m hoping to meet and speak to a lot of people I speak to online. So far my timetable looks like so: Monday 11th July Troubleshooting BGP [BRKRST­3320] ASR­9000/IOS­XR Understanding forwarding, troubleshooting the system and XR operations [BRKSPG­2904] Introduction to Segment Routing [BRKRST­2124] A Practical Introduction to DevOps Practices and Tools [BRKCLD­1003] Tuesday 12th July IP LFA (Loop­Free­Alternate): Architecture and Troubleshooting [BRKRST­3020] How to write an IPv6 Addressing Plan [BRKRST­2667] Addressing Networking challenges with latest Innovations in IPv6 [BRKRST­2616] Wednesday 13th July Troubleshooting End­to­End MPLS [BRKMPL­3124] Hitchhiker’s Guide to Troubleshooting IPv6 ­ Advanced [BRKRST­3304] High Availability in the Access [BRKCRS­3438] Thursday 14th July Building a Software Defined Service Provider [BRKSPG­2001] The Future of SP and Your Role in It [INTGEN­1007] Advanced ­ Scaling BGP [BRKRST­3321] That’s it so far. I may change things around, but should be a lot of fun! ...

29 June 2016 · 1 min · 156 words · Darren O'Connor

One Million Views

It’s hard to believe that my blog has just surpassed 1000000 views! I started this blog out just on the side to go over things I was learning. I’ve learned a lot in the process, and managed to bag myself two CCIEs, a JNCIE-SP, a job at Google, and the opportunity to write a book for Juniper. There were times I almost completely lost my blog in the past, but I’ve learned how to make good backups. My site has been reachable over native IPv6 for many years, and I moved it all to HTTPS over a year ago. ...

4 December 2015 · 2 min · 300 words · Darren O'Connor