AHA Projects, Certifications

AHA – Cisco Re-Certification Journey

I’m sure you remembered a posting I did titled: ‘Probably the easiest way to NOT to lose you’re CCIE! I’m giving it a try.’,right? Well, I started that journey few months back.  The first thing I needed to do was to determine which courses I wanted to take to fulfill the re-certification requirement; but more importantly, how I wanted the course…

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AHA Projects

BGP and Static Route redistribution using HPE Comware

Very interesting situation I came across in recent days.  Let’s take a look at the diagram below: The diagram shows: An AGGR-switch which is an HPE Comware based switch. It has connections to the Core-X and EDGE-Switch(es) Core-X is the Core network, which are Cisco devices… [I don’t have Cisco devices at the moment, Comware is being used to illustrate…

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AHA Projects

AHA Project: Lab WorkBench

As IT Professionals (regardless of career level) we started – at some point,  by taking  a PC apart and putting it back together.. Including laptops, servers, etc.  We installed RAM, HDs, PCI card, CD/DVD drives, BIOS battery – you name it. For me it was fun sitting on the ground putting these pieces together. Hanging a spot lamp from nearby…

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