Cisco Systems emerged from the effects of global economic slowdown in its third fiscal quarter ended May 1 it announced President and CEO, John Chambers, said he probably was the company's best quarter ever.
Revenue rose 27 percent from a year earlier to U.S. $ 10,400,000,000 while net income increased 61 percent to $ 2,200,000,000, or $ 0.37 per share, based on generally accepted accounting principles. Excluding certain charges, Cisco earned $ 0.42 per share, well above the consensus of analysts expected $ 0.39 per share, according to a poll by Thomson Reuters. Analysts had forecast revenue of $ 10,240,000,000.
In a statement, Chambers said Cisco had registered a record revenue and earnings per share and returned to a balanced growth trend throughout the world had not seen since before the recession. He also said that Cisco is gaining market share and commanding a greater share of customer spending.
"The financial results were outstanding," Chambers said on a conference call with analysts after the report.
The strong growth spread almost all over the world, "said Chambers. Of the 15 largest country markets for Cisco, all but one showed an increase in orders and 12 were registered order growth of more than 20 percent, he said. All lines of the main company product also advanced, with revenues of switching up to 40 percent, 23 percent of routing and advanced technologies - such as storage networking, wireless, and security - a 18 percent the previous year.
Orders for consumer goods increased more rapidly, more than 50 percent worldwide, but the other categories also increased, including service providers by 30 percent and companies at 26 percent, the company said .
Cisco is convinced that this trend will continue, forecasting year on year revenue growth between 25 percent and 28 percent in the current quarter. "Technology spending is clearly in the fire," said Chambers at a time during the call.
The company also plans to continue hiring more employees, mostly in sales and in groups to fight the last markets in which Cisco is competing, he said. During the third quarter, the company hired 1,000 people as part of an increase of between 2,000 and 3,000 planned for the coming quarters. The company also received nearly 1,700 employees through the acquisition of Tandberg, a company video Norwegian company completed the acquisition last month.
The economy bottomed out early last year, during the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal 2009 and turned the next quarter, Chambers said. "Our initial optimism about the economic crisis ... proved to be very accurate," he said.
Even his concern about the debt crisis in Europe that have emerged in recent weeks have not dampened the growth prospects there, Chambers said. But he cautioned that economic conditions and markets could "jump" over the next year or so.
source: IT News
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
IP Telephony Why Go With Cisco
As a market leader in true IP telephony, Cisco is set to unmatched data end to end VoIP solutions to be delivered, and provides a complete, stylish, fully equipped with the portfolio for enterprise IP phone and Small and medium business customers. Cisco IP phones provide unmatched levels of integrated business functionality and converged communications features beyond today's conventional systems voice.
When communication is critical to your phone system is the choice of Cisco. Because this is not a partial review site, I would say communications systems cheaper, which for now is less ambitious, but nonetheless, the second class will. The recent increase competition in the sales market has drasticaly Cisco prices used and refurbished Cisco equipment.
I recommend that you always search for the equipment used first when you're locked into a contract with Cisco reseller, they can cancel their warranty if they find out you've used the devices in your system. The general equipment damage your system, but he wants to Cisco resellers to sell new devices, Cisco continues to make money. If you use a PBX system or SIP, we have completely
When communication is critical to your phone system is the choice of Cisco. Because this is not a partial review site, I would say communications systems cheaper, which for now is less ambitious, but nonetheless, the second class will. The recent increase competition in the sales market has drasticaly Cisco prices used and refurbished Cisco equipment.
I recommend that you always search for the equipment used first when you're locked into a contract with Cisco reseller, they can cancel their warranty if they find out you've used the devices in your system. The general equipment damage your system, but he wants to Cisco resellers to sell new devices, Cisco continues to make money. If you use a PBX system or SIP, we have completely
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Cisco 4500 intermittent high CPU utilization
We found more information. It turns out that the Router Alert packets not the cause of the use of loud, but mearly a piece of the larger puzzle.
The problem of CPU usage has become so unbearable that something had to be done, and unfortunately, the modification of all Macintosh systems on the network via mDNS was not an option. Some systems have been altered without significant impact, but it could be because the number of systems changed less than 1% of the systems formed in this campus. Instead something else could be tried ... Somthing on the web ...
Be certain that the previous repair was correct, and with the assurance that nothing but the production was GhostCast use of multicast, multicast routing is enabled on the switch-off. It was a bold and rather drastic, but it should solve the problem, right? Wrong. The number of packages to beat the CPU with the Router Alert option has remained constant, and the CPU usage still behave as if it was before. If I thought thiss a little more, I realized that the movement when used on the multicast address 224.0.0.x/24 area remain in place to ensure that trade will deteriorate further.
The next step was to access a list of this group to create blocks mDNS the destination address. After that is created, it added a LCD port on each switch port customer response. Suddenly, we now have a real change of status. CPU usage rose 100% to 21% if the serial interface command has been completed.
The big question here is why this work, and what has caused the bad performance switch? The 4500 is suited to a much higher volume of multicast traffic, and distributed processing hardware multicast. It turns out the area for the local 224.0.0.0/24 L2 multicast, such as routing protocols, routers, all the guests, etc. This fact has been reserved for 4500 to determine all multicast traffic to every email address in this field directly on the CPU, the weather, it is necessary / was fired or not. I think an incoming multicast filtering 224.0.0.0/24 should be a prerequisite for the security of each network to DoS accidental or deliberate cons infrastructure to prevent the weather is officially independent multicast in use on web!
The problem of CPU usage has become so unbearable that something had to be done, and unfortunately, the modification of all Macintosh systems on the network via mDNS was not an option. Some systems have been altered without significant impact, but it could be because the number of systems changed less than 1% of the systems formed in this campus. Instead something else could be tried ... Somthing on the web ...
Be certain that the previous repair was correct, and with the assurance that nothing but the production was GhostCast use of multicast, multicast routing is enabled on the switch-off. It was a bold and rather drastic, but it should solve the problem, right? Wrong. The number of packages to beat the CPU with the Router Alert option has remained constant, and the CPU usage still behave as if it was before. If I thought thiss a little more, I realized that the movement when used on the multicast address 224.0.0.x/24 area remain in place to ensure that trade will deteriorate further.
The next step was to access a list of this group to create blocks mDNS the destination address. After that is created, it added a LCD port on each switch port customer response. Suddenly, we now have a real change of status. CPU usage rose 100% to 21% if the serial interface command has been completed.
The big question here is why this work, and what has caused the bad performance switch? The 4500 is suited to a much higher volume of multicast traffic, and distributed processing hardware multicast. It turns out the area for the local 224.0.0.0/24 L2 multicast, such as routing protocols, routers, all the guests, etc. This fact has been reserved for 4500 to determine all multicast traffic to every email address in this field directly on the CPU, the weather, it is necessary / was fired or not. I think an incoming multicast filtering 224.0.0.0/24 should be a prerequisite for the security of each network to DoS accidental or deliberate cons infrastructure to prevent the weather is officially independent multicast in use on web!
CISCO 2010
Well, I'm finally, my service Techtorial first time this year the company is good. The long flights and a lack of sleep does not stop many from attending the pre-conference techtorials this year. Things seem relatively normal this year comapred to the last two, but some hunting sccavenger this year, it seems, tapes and certified Cisco Powered room (accommodation and coffee!)
What I miss most USB flash drives, Cisco has released last year. It was an enormous amount of information and participants do not have to go find him and waste precious bandwidth to download. for only 13 minutes from the end of the last 40% of the file is 100 MB!
What I miss most USB flash drives, Cisco has released last year. It was an enormous amount of information and participants do not have to go find him and waste precious bandwidth to download. for only 13 minutes from the end of the last 40% of the file is 100 MB!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Saudi man jailed for selling fake Cisco kit
A Saudi man has been jailed for four years in the US, for selling counterfeit Cisco networking equipment to the US Marine Corps, Arab News reports.
Ehab Ali Ashoor was found guilty of supplying fake Cisco gigabit interface converters, (GBICs) through his company, CDS Federal Inc, to fulfill a contract with the US Marines. The GBICs had been intended for use at a Marine base near Fallujah in Iraq, but US customs offices identified them as inferior fakes.
Ashoor, who is resident in the US, supplied 200 of the GBICs to the Marine Corps, charging $119,000 for them, but it was discovered that the items were actually counterfeits, sourced from an eBay vendor in Hong Kong for less that $25 per GBIC.
The case was part of an operation, codenamed Network Raider, to clamp down on the supply of counterfeit or poor quality computer supplies to US military and federal agencies, which has netted over $143 million worth of fake Cisco equipment in over 700 seizures, resulting in 30 convictions.
Ehab Ali Ashoor was found guilty of supplying fake Cisco gigabit interface converters, (GBICs) through his company, CDS Federal Inc, to fulfill a contract with the US Marines. The GBICs had been intended for use at a Marine base near Fallujah in Iraq, but US customs offices identified them as inferior fakes.
Ashoor, who is resident in the US, supplied 200 of the GBICs to the Marine Corps, charging $119,000 for them, but it was discovered that the items were actually counterfeits, sourced from an eBay vendor in Hong Kong for less that $25 per GBIC.
The case was part of an operation, codenamed Network Raider, to clamp down on the supply of counterfeit or poor quality computer supplies to US military and federal agencies, which has netted over $143 million worth of fake Cisco equipment in over 700 seizures, resulting in 30 convictions.
Cisco’s New Free iPhone App
Are you an Apple i-Phone user? Well this news is gonna make you love or hate the i-Phone in a new way. Cisco is extending its web conferencing and collaboration capabilities to the Apple iPhone 3G user experience, with Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. That simply means if you are on the move you can still chat with your buddies in a conference with the same comfort you share with them at home. The hated part is even if you are at home, your boss can ask you to have conference with clients no matter what. Lol, like this or hate it but you can not ignore it anymore.
Click and Collaborate
The new Cisco WebEx meetings iPhone application, which is available for free download from the AppStore, allows users to simply click to join and actively collaborate in CiscoWebEx meetings. With Cisco WebEx Meeting Center application on the iPhone, users can view what's being shared, see the meeting participant list, see the active speaker and chat with other meeting participants.
Online Meeting
The online meeting experience gives users the ability to take advantage of simultaneous web and audio conferencing capabilities from Cisco on both the 3G mobile and 802.11 wireless (Wi-Fi) networks.
Future Prospects
A future version of the solution will include Cisco WebEx Meeting Center as well as the ability to see meeting participants and the active speaker from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. Users will be able to move in-session Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace conferences from the Apple iPhone 3G to an office environment and back, by transferring the audio to a Cisco Unified IP Phone and the web conference to a computer for a rich collaboration experience.
[Source: biz.yahoo.com]
Click and Collaborate
The new Cisco WebEx meetings iPhone application, which is available for free download from the AppStore, allows users to simply click to join and actively collaborate in CiscoWebEx meetings. With Cisco WebEx Meeting Center application on the iPhone, users can view what's being shared, see the meeting participant list, see the active speaker and chat with other meeting participants.
Online Meeting
The online meeting experience gives users the ability to take advantage of simultaneous web and audio conferencing capabilities from Cisco on both the 3G mobile and 802.11 wireless (Wi-Fi) networks.
Future Prospects
A future version of the solution will include Cisco WebEx Meeting Center as well as the ability to see meeting participants and the active speaker from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. Users will be able to move in-session Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace conferences from the Apple iPhone 3G to an office environment and back, by transferring the audio to a Cisco Unified IP Phone and the web conference to a computer for a rich collaboration experience.
[Source: biz.yahoo.com]
Monday, May 10, 2010
Information About CCVP Certification and Its Requirements
CCVP can say as a Cisco Certified Voice Professional. This certification validates the skills and knowledge that are necessary for the integration of network architectures. This certification validates skills in the operation, configuration, troubleshooting and implementation of converged IP network. With the help of the CCVP certification, it can create a telephony solution that is transparent, manageable and scalable. The program focuses primarily on CCVP QoS (Quality of Service), Porter, gateways, voice applications, IP phones and utilities on Cisco routers, Cisco switches and analysts.
CCVP exam:
To obtain the CCVP certification to participate in an individual investigation. The review will be classified in two ways. Applicants may choose to attend any road testing. The following is the test to Route 1
Route 1:
1) CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP) and FVC (Cisco Voice over IP Fundamentals) or 642-436 CVOICE.
2) CIPT1 (implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager Part 1 CIPT1 or 642-446.
3) QoS (Quality of Service) or 642-642 QOS.
4) CIPT2 (implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager Part 2 or 642-456 CIPT2.
5) TUC (Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communication systems 642-426 or UTC.
Route 2:
1) Version 5 CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP) or version 6 FVC (Cisco Voice over IP Fundamentals) or 642-436 and CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP Fundamentals)-Version 1
2) QoS (Quality of Service) or 642-642 QOS.
3) TUC (Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communication systems 642-426 or UTC.
4) CIPT1 (Cisco IP Telephony Part1) and Cisco IP Telephony Part 2 or 642-444 ICTP.
5) GWGK (implementation of Cisco voice gateways and control) or 642-453 GWGK.
Candidates who work with the CCVP Certification CCVP Call Manager 4.1 should both complete and ICTP GWGK. If ICTP and GWGK exam is completed, applicants are then required to complete part 1 and part 2 ICTP.
CCVP Recertification:
CCVP certification is valid for a maximum of three years. To maintain this qualification, recertification by attending and obtain minimum criteria of marks in each exam 642 professional level or a pass examinations ACCF / CCIE written prior to the effective date.
Alina Michael CCNA and CCVP Certified Professional and currently working as Senior Network Engineer in London. She has helped thousands of IT professionals, CCVP certified by the CCVP certification exams practice with more money-back guarantee. You are invited to visit official ExamsExpert find full details on all training products and certification prices.
CCVP exam:
To obtain the CCVP certification to participate in an individual investigation. The review will be classified in two ways. Applicants may choose to attend any road testing. The following is the test to Route 1
Route 1:
1) CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP) and FVC (Cisco Voice over IP Fundamentals) or 642-436 CVOICE.
2) CIPT1 (implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager Part 1 CIPT1 or 642-446.
3) QoS (Quality of Service) or 642-642 QOS.
4) CIPT2 (implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager Part 2 or 642-456 CIPT2.
5) TUC (Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communication systems 642-426 or UTC.
Route 2:
1) Version 5 CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP) or version 6 FVC (Cisco Voice over IP Fundamentals) or 642-436 and CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP Fundamentals)-Version 1
2) QoS (Quality of Service) or 642-642 QOS.
3) TUC (Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communication systems 642-426 or UTC.
4) CIPT1 (Cisco IP Telephony Part1) and Cisco IP Telephony Part 2 or 642-444 ICTP.
5) GWGK (implementation of Cisco voice gateways and control) or 642-453 GWGK.
Candidates who work with the CCVP Certification CCVP Call Manager 4.1 should both complete and ICTP GWGK. If ICTP and GWGK exam is completed, applicants are then required to complete part 1 and part 2 ICTP.
CCVP Recertification:
CCVP certification is valid for a maximum of three years. To maintain this qualification, recertification by attending and obtain minimum criteria of marks in each exam 642 professional level or a pass examinations ACCF / CCIE written prior to the effective date.
Alina Michael CCNA and CCVP Certified Professional and currently working as Senior Network Engineer in London. She has helped thousands of IT professionals, CCVP certified by the CCVP certification exams practice with more money-back guarantee. You are invited to visit official ExamsExpert find full details on all training products and certification prices.
Cisco IOS 12.4(20)T Packet Capture Feature
Jamey Heary, CCIE No. 7680, who writes for Network World's Cisco Subnet, recently wrote about a set of new features in Cisco's IOS 12.4(20)T release. One of the features he describes is pretty neat: Packet Capture.
At times, the only way you can troubleshoot a network problem is to get a packet capture of some application or of the traffic on a suspect link. So you need to take your packet analyzer out to the site and capture data for this analysis. Distributed Sniffer and similar systems were created to allow network engineers to not always have to go into the field to capture data. With technologies like MPLS, remote sites will often communicate with one another without the data transiting a central facility where an expensive packet capture probe can be located.
So Cisco's new feature that allows packet capture within the router will help the network engineer perform diagnosis and analysis without having to go onsite. Also cool is the fact that this packet capture supports both CEF and process switched packets. One of the neat features is that the packet capture data is exportable in PCAP format, so analysis tools like Wireshark can import the capture data.
As with any new feature, it is only available on a subset of routers - the ISR and 7200 series routers, which are software based. I'm sure that the hardware based routers will follow in the future as new ASICs support packet capture.
Take a look at Jamey's article and its links to the relevant documentation for details on how it works.
At times, the only way you can troubleshoot a network problem is to get a packet capture of some application or of the traffic on a suspect link. So you need to take your packet analyzer out to the site and capture data for this analysis. Distributed Sniffer and similar systems were created to allow network engineers to not always have to go into the field to capture data. With technologies like MPLS, remote sites will often communicate with one another without the data transiting a central facility where an expensive packet capture probe can be located.
So Cisco's new feature that allows packet capture within the router will help the network engineer perform diagnosis and analysis without having to go onsite. Also cool is the fact that this packet capture supports both CEF and process switched packets. One of the neat features is that the packet capture data is exportable in PCAP format, so analysis tools like Wireshark can import the capture data.
As with any new feature, it is only available on a subset of routers - the ISR and 7200 series routers, which are software based. I'm sure that the hardware based routers will follow in the future as new ASICs support packet capture.
Take a look at Jamey's article and its links to the relevant documentation for details on how it works.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Cisco Certification Spotlight: CCNA
Cisco CCNA (Network Associate) certification validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size routed and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN. This new curriculum includes basic mitigation of security threats, introduction to wireless networking concepts and terminology, and performance-based skills. This new curriculum also includes (but is not limited to) the use of these protocols: IP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Serial Line Interface Protocol Frame Relay, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2),VLANs, Ethernet, access control lists (ACLs)
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Cisco ASA Firewall Introductory Description
The Cisco ASA 5500 series is the descendant of the older Cisco PIX 500 series firewall which was very successful in network security implementations. The ASA is not just a pure hardware firewall, rather is a full featured security appliance. What we mean by that is that the ASA hardware appliance, in addition to being a solid network firewall, is capable of working also as a content inspection engine, antivirus, antispam, IDS/IPS engine, VPN device, SSL device etc. The extra security functionality of the firewall is achieved with add-on module cards which offer the additional security features.
The Cisco ASA has one of the biggest market shares in the hardware firewall appliance market, together with Juniper Netscreen, Checkpoint, SonicWall, WatchGuard etc.
The ASA 5500 series is comprised from seven models, as we will see below.
Cisco ASA 5500 Firewalls
This webpage is focused on the Cisco ASA 5500 Series firewall. I have been working with Cisco products (especially network security products) for more than a decade. In my current work position I'm responsible for a huge Cisco network that spans the whole Europe, and the Cisco ASA firewall is the foundation of our network security. The intention of this webpage is to share with you some technical information, tutorials and configuration examples about the Cisco ASA 5500 Firewall.
If you want to learn how to configure any Cisco ASA 5500 model version 7.x and 8.x, you can Download the Cisco ASA Firewall Fundamentals ebook here.
If you want to learn how to configure any Cisco ASA 5500 model version 7.x and 8.x, you can Download the Cisco ASA Firewall Fundamentals ebook here.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Cisco 892 Series Integrated Services Routers
Cisco 890 Series Integrated Services Routers are designed to deliver secure broadband, Metro Ethernet, wireless LAN connectivity, and business continuity for enterprise small branch offices. These fixed-configuration routers also come with powerful management tools, such as the web-based Cisco Configuration Professional, which simplifies setup and deployment. The Cisco 892 model includes an integrated ISDN BRI S/T interface.
Cisco 892 Series Integrated Services Routers offer:
High performance for secure broadband and Metro Ethernet access
Business continuity and WAN diversity with redundant WAN links (Fast Ethernet and ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) )
Secure 802.11a/g/n access point (optional), which offers dual-band radios for mobility, and supports Cisco Unified WLAN architectures
Enhanced security, including:
Firewall with advance application and control
Site-to-site remote-access and dynamic VPN services: IP Security (IPsec) VPNs, Group Encrypted Transport VPN [GET VPN] with onboard acceleration, and Secure Sockets Layer [SSLVPN]
Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
Content filtering
Cisco® 890 Series Integrated Services Routers combine Internet access, comprehensive security, and wireless services onto a single, secure device that is easy to deploy and manage. The best-in-class Cisco 890 Series Integrated Services Router architecture has been specifically designed to deliver high performance with concurrent services, business continuity, and investment protection for enterprise small branch offices and service provider managed services applications.
Cisco 890 Series Integrated Services Routers are fixed-configuration routers that are designed for secure broadband, Metro Ethernet, and wireless deployments. They offer comprehensive security and threat defense, advanced Cisco IOS® routing, Metro Ethernet and network management. The routers provide business connectivity and high availability with integrated ISDN and v.92 WAN backup.
Cisco 892 Series Integrated Services Routers offer:
High performance for secure broadband and Metro Ethernet access
Business continuity and WAN diversity with redundant WAN links (Fast Ethernet and ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) )
Secure 802.11a/g/n access point (optional), which offers dual-band radios for mobility, and supports Cisco Unified WLAN architectures
Enhanced security, including:
Firewall with advance application and control
Site-to-site remote-access and dynamic VPN services: IP Security (IPsec) VPNs, Group Encrypted Transport VPN [GET VPN] with onboard acceleration, and Secure Sockets Layer [SSLVPN]
Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
Content filtering
Cisco® 890 Series Integrated Services Routers combine Internet access, comprehensive security, and wireless services onto a single, secure device that is easy to deploy and manage. The best-in-class Cisco 890 Series Integrated Services Router architecture has been specifically designed to deliver high performance with concurrent services, business continuity, and investment protection for enterprise small branch offices and service provider managed services applications.
Cisco 890 Series Integrated Services Routers are fixed-configuration routers that are designed for secure broadband, Metro Ethernet, and wireless deployments. They offer comprehensive security and threat defense, advanced Cisco IOS® routing, Metro Ethernet and network management. The routers provide business connectivity and high availability with integrated ISDN and v.92 WAN backup.
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