Recent Posts - page 13

CCIE/CCDE Re-certification: An Opportunity to Learn and Grow

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on June 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

I did not pass my CCDE re-certification last week. Why write a blog about a “failure”? Honestly? Because I think we as an IT industry overly focus and give too many kudos to the passing only. Not to the hours… Read More ›
CCIE/CCDE Re-certification Time Again – Go for it? … or Emeritus?

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on December 9, 2016 • ( 2 )

It is “that” time again. Time to start studying for one of the CCxE (CCIE/CCDE) re-certifications. Got my 1st CCIE back in 1997. A couple years later my CCIE SNA/IP. Then back in 2009 I passed my “favorite E” –… Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: IWAN, LiveAction, Prime, UDP Director

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on September 30, 2016 • ( 0 )

Okay… so just some major geeky fun in the lab. I had lots of fun doing it… so why not share it with you and let you in on some geeky fun? Thirty-eight minute YouTube with a PDF guide book…. Read More ›
WAN Impairment/WAN Emulator with WAN Bridge

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on September 21, 2016 • ( 1 )

Playing in the lab and want to impair a link with delay or loss? 🙂 I use WAN Bridge – its simple and free. So say I’m testing an SD-WAN brownout/impairment avoidance solution in my lab. For example, Cisco’s IWAN. … Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 2 Licensing

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on August 4, 2016 • ( 0 )

When we left me at the end of Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 1 Prep Work …. (1) I had cloned an already existing CUCM VM and (2) I was stuck on the CUCM Licensing… Read More ›
Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 1 Prep Work

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on August 3, 2016 • ( 1 )

For those of you who know me I always kid that I’m afraid of UC. But a few things conspired together to make me decide to attempt the plunge.
Thinking Out Loud: My Career Planning

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on July 28, 2016 • ( 5 )

On average I usually think about my career at least 1 time every year and do an honest and deep “career inventory taking”. More often (sometimes 2-3 times a year) if my job or environment is changing a lot. Are… Read More ›