Back to the Real World...

Back from CiscoLive! (formerly known as Networkers) and it was a great experience! San Francisco is ok and just ok, too many strange people on the streets. A great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

Learned a great deal, what with all the tech sessions and all but I would have to say the best was the closing keynote given by Guy Kawasaki. He's a managing director for a venture capitalist firm, former Apple evangelist, and author among other things. He's a captivating and entertaining speaker but he's also very interesting. He spoke about the Art of Innovation and highlighted 10 and half points (his slides got misnumbered). If you ever have a chance to hear him speak or meet him, I wouldn't pass up that opportunity.

I think the event overall was great and would recommend every "cisco" guy to go once in their career.

Back to the real world in my real small and dark cube...

Cisco Live!

Anyone attending Cisco Live in San Francisco in a few weeks? I'll be attending for the first time and thought I'd get some feed back..

Is it a worthwhile experience?

What's the best and worst things about Cisco Live?

Any "must see/do" things in San Francisco?

I've never been to San Francisco nor Cisco Live... don't know what to expect :)

Everything but CCIE Service Provider.

So I'm going to keep this blog going for the time being (minus CCIE SP content which can be found at blog2.netengineer.org).

My recent activity, passing the JNCIE-ER, has posed a question. While I blogged about this on my other blog (blog2), I just wanted to ask... Is Juniper the Apple of the Networking world?

Does anyone see Juniper seeing the growth Apple saw/sees in the PC world? I'm not saying that Cisco won't be the dominant player but what I'm wondering is if Juniper will be the Networking equivalent of Apple? Will they see fast and big growth? Will enterprises as well as service providers start to adopt Juniper... How does cost and support factor into a company's success?

Look what came in :)

Follow me as I try for number 2! blog2.netengineer.org