by cciefire | Oct 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
Disclaimer: This is a lighthearted blog post poking fun at everyone’s favorite employee, the technical marketer. Tech Marketing is an incredibly important activity, and when done right it can make the difference between customer success and failure. But when done...
by cciefire | Sep 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Truer words have never been spoken. Ethernet has proven to be one of the most successful and reliable technologies in history. Let’s have a quick history lesson for the youngsters. Ethernet was first standardized by the IETF in 1983 for speeds up to 10...
by cciefire | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Did you miss the beginning of this series?Part 1 – Part 2 Network experts (CCIEs, JNCIEs, people with IETF tattoos) are incredible interpreters. Whether they know it or not, they speak many different languages and can instantly translate very complex...
by cciefire | Aug 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s actually hard to fire a CCIE. And no, this isn’t a veiled threat to my boss. Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of management for a moment. The network is a scary black box, you can’t just plug a VGA monitor into it and see what is on the screen. There are a bunch...
by cciefire | Mar 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Last year I celebrated 20 years of CCIE certification. No one threw me a party, there was no ticker tape parade, hell, if I didn’t rescue the email from my spam folder I wouldn’t have known that it even happened. So I celebrated content that I no longer have to pay...
