network engineer

How much do you #LoveWhereYouWork?  For me, I could share story upon story of why Cisco has my heart.  I am so immensely proud to see our children running around in Cisco t-shirts and love watching my daughter save book reports to her Cisco UBS drive.  There have been many moments that mattered to m…

Air Traffic Controller. Military Policeman. Psychological Operations Specialist. Fire fighter. Network Engineer. I used to think that these jobs had absolutely nothing to do with each other and that they were too different to have any connections between them. It wasn’t until I became all those thin…

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing what DevNet can do for Network Engineers with Cisco expert Chris Oggerino. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episo…

First lets talk about what a Network Engineer is. According to The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Retrieved April 27, 2015, from Dictionary.com website a Network Engineer is: “A high-level LAN /WAN technician who plans, implements and supports network solutions between multiple platforms. A n…

I don’t think that anyone can deny that being in the IT industry at this time is exciting and interesting. It’s also exhausting. There is a ton of hyperbole floating about on Twitter and the Blogosphere concerning the need for network engineers to become programmers, and that ‘whatever’ technology d…

I’ve been thinking about what to write for a while now.  I’m involved in some really cool projects right now, pervasive wifi in a theme park, using CMX with many zones at that same theme park and upgrading some public schools to newer equipment with full coverage wifi in the classrooms.  I think eac…

A subject very close to my heart at the moment is what skills I will need to have in order to support the Next Generation of Software Defined and Application Centric networks. It is of no surprise that Networking like most other towers in IT has embraced abstraction as the way forward to provide lev…

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Joe Rogers, Associate Director of Network Engineering for the University of South Florida (USF). Hear Joe speak about his experiences with next-generation wireless in high density environments on next Tuesday’s webinar:  “Migrating Enterprise…

By now you’ve probably heard quite a bit about the newest generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac.  I’ll save you the gory details, just know it’s about 3x faster than 802.11n and will help to improve the capacity of your network. Jameson Blandford and I were recently guests on the No Strings Attached Show po…