Cisco enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Picture 1. Ivan and Cisco fault tolerant 1Gbps switched L2 network based on Catalyst 2960G; 2 Cisco 2600 Routers and Cisco ASA 5510 Cisco and Ivan. Since 2000 I am implementing server based infrastructure. I was always interested in the Microsoft Windows client and server technologies and after getting familiar with a roll out of a world wide Cisco LAN and WLAN network infrastructure I started to learn the basics from Cisco. In combination with open source tools like Nagios and Cacti I have been successfully managing and monitor the world wide network based on Cisco equipment. This page is dedicated to Cisco related topics and like other areas on this blog I will publish and share my experience and best practices which worked for me. In 2007 I passed for the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam. Links:

• Using low end Cisco equipment and connecting to Pix