Hi people, I wanted to take this opportunity and share my toolbox and workflow with you. In case you don’t know who I am and what I do here is a quick reference note. What I do and who I am: I’m a Lead Technical consultant specialized in Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration (a mouthful, […]
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Liking the beginning of the document and some how knowing where the conversation will end up being….. “Cisco seriously evaluated RADIUS as a security protocol before it developed TACACS+. Many features were included in the TACACS+ protocol to meet the needs of the growing security market. The protocol was designed to scale as networks grow,
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Cisco Live 2014 – San Francisco Just wanted to take this time to talk about my experience at Cisco Live 2014, representing the Modcomp team. It was a great experience and a nice way to meet with people that is in the same boat you are, Engineers that are seeing the same issues you see
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So in the traditional Campus Design it used to be Layer 2 from the Access Layer to the Distribution and to the Endpoints, running Layer 3 on the Distribution and the Core, and in most of the cases, you will have a Core/Distribution approach called Collapsed Distribution Core. as shown in the example: Now
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Just wanted to share some knowledge about the locations on some useful resources: This document contains the topics that will be covered by the CCIE Collaboration exam, in my case I have been using an structured approach that goes from weakness I have. here are few (Just not to say all of them) SCCP Call
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Hi there, I have been looking at the new collaboration edge deployments, in order to support Jabber from remote networks without the need of using a VPN (What a relief!!! – I was actually getting slammed from customers because of the lack of options from Cisco). Doing some research I was able to find the
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So I stumbled into this topic with a customer and was having few issues to understand the mechanics of this simple step, my customer is having issues with quality on the music on hold. Here is what I did: Looked up in CUCM Flash and found a media file that I was going to use
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I was just reading the following Article and wanted to add few things that helped me solve my issue: #11 : SIP 9971 phone unable to complete PSTN calls *** bearer-cap speech *** This simple command also fixed an issue I had with Jabber clients calling from Softphone mode to cellphones, and they were getting straight
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Hi there, so today I wanted to bring up something that was very confusing to me long time ago. The concept of MGCP, H.323 and SIP. these 3 are very big and there is a lot of information about them, I just want to explain with my own words what every single protocol means for
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So today I was able to study for 3 hours, dedicated the first hour to read CIPT2 on Multi-site considerations, read about some QoS recommendations and also something about multi-site dial plans. I was also able to watch the demonstration videos on Media Termination Points (One of my weakest areas) from INE ATC for CCIE
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