Cisco Live: Lessons Learned as a First Timer
After around 12 years in the industry, primarily working on Cisco gear, I finally got to my first Cisco Live. I want to keep this fairly short so I’m just going to jump right in with my seven lessons learned. 1: Get in early. Get the earliest flight into town as you can. If you plan on taking a session or two on Day 0 make sure you are there the day before. My flight was pretty uneventful getting in on Sunday but there were a few stories of people getting delayed and showing up very late Sunday night. That…
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Third party visibility into your Wi-Fi infrastructure
Wyebot presents at Mobility Field Day 10 It has been over a month since Anil Gupta, CTO and co-founder of Wyebot, presented at MFD-10 and there’s a good reason why I haven’t posted about them quite yet. I didn’t really have the time to get my hands on the sensors and dashboard. Over the holidays I had some time to play around with the sensor on my home network and man, I really like what they have to offer. Let’s get into it. We’ll start out with the sensor. First off is the form factor, it’s about the same size…
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Cisco Presents at Mobility Field Day 10
At Mobility Field Day 10, Cisco presented on several new features and APs. It was a bit like drinking from a firehose. There are a lot of great things already in the ecosystem and a lot of exciting things to come. Rather than just recap the whole presentation (you can watch it here), I wanted to focus on one specific area. The Cloud-Enabled model of deploying wireless solutions. There is a big rush to cloud management across the industry. There are several big-name vendors that are cloud first or cloud only. This isn’t a bad thing or wrong by any…
Keep readingMike vs The CCNP ENWLSI 300-430
After reading and re-reading my post I want to add a little disclaimer. Even though I was pretty frustrated with the overall experience, I do recognize that Cisco Learning and Cisco Press are in a weird spot with wireless right now. They had to include two very different ecosystems in the exam and books when it was created over two years ago. They had to somehow figure out a way to assess engineers within those ecosystems with just ~60 questions. That’s a tall order. Yes a bunch of stuff on the exam is EoL and yes it is frustrating having…
Keep reading2022 Goals: Professional and Personal
Getting them on paper is half the battle right? Professional I bit off more than I could chew last year and ran into issues so yeah, gonna set the bar a bit lower this year and actually hit them. Since I landed a full time WiFi gig, I’m going to focus on more things outside of work/career development. That’s not to say that I’m not going to continue to press in. I’ve got quite a bit of training scheduled this year for DNAC/Spaces and Catalyst wireless gear. We’ll see where I’m at after the CWAP. If I’m feeling up to…
Keep reading2021: A Recap and Looking Forward
2021 was an interesting year to say the least. I had some big plans for career progression and a handful of certifications to knock out along the way. I wanted to get both CCNP-W exams done (ENWLSD and ENWLSI), start playing around with Python, and get the DevNet associate taken care of to launch into network automation. The CWAP was a moon shot target for the end of the year/early 2022. After that I would look to make a career move into WiFi full-time. As they say, reality gets in the way sometimes and only one of those goals was…
Keep readingA bit of background on me and my career
I figured I might as well kick this thing off with an intro post. I live in Phoenix, AZ with my wife and two kids. We have a son and daughter that are both in elementary school. We’ve been here for over a decade and although both my wife and I are transplants, we are fully rooted here in the desert. Most of that has to do with our amazing church community. That and it doesn’t snow. We are what you might consider “mildly outdoorsy”. We like exploring the parts of our state that we can drive to. If you…
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Wi-Fi at the Shore 