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Two workshops from Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Cisco Nexus Product Family are being organized in March 2010. If you are interested in attending any of them, read the details and register. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.

The workshops will be led by Mitja Robas, the lead developer of Cisco Data Center and Cisco Unified Computing System courses. Welcome to join us at these interesting presentations.

Check also newest courses from Nexus area (NIL Cisco Nexus 5000, Nexus 2000, and Nexus 1000v Implementation, NIL Cisco Nexus 5000 and Nexus 2000 Implementation) or choose among courses in schedule.

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The jungle of acronyms – from 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE) through 3G (UMTS) toward 4G (LTE), interleaved with Wi-Fi, WiMAX and similar terms – makes both potential users and specifically service providers offering first-mile wireless service rather uncomfortable. The January IP Corner article provides an overview of first-mile wireless technologies, their benefits and drawbacks, focusing on future trends in access, driven by the Video over Mobile Wireless environment.

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NIL is proud to announce that it is among the first Learning Partners in the world to deliver the complete Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) training. NIL actively participated in the development of this training and has recently been approved for the Cisco UCS Special Practice program, which recognizes NIL’s capabilities in the area of UCS and the Data Center in particular.

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For those who don’t follow NIL’s monthly published technical articles, just a short reminder. Tilen Mlakar in november article focuses on security measures of the unified communications traffic, network components and end points where the applications or their parts reside. For all data center engineers, Jaroslav Rajic in december article analyses the advantages and limitations of two distinct approaches of designing the Data Center interconnect.

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In past few months more and more questions from sales people, on how to offer and design the proper Data Center (DC) Solution, arrived to NIL’s inbox. Some of NIL DC experts now gathered the experience. On their behalf, a 3-day instructor led DC Sales training has been composed and this week also run for the first time in South Africa. The course combines theory and case-studies that support the gained knowledge.

If you’re interested in other DC courses or want to attend NIL training on other areas, check also our schedule.

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Setting up access to remote environments from a web browser can be difficult, unless you’re a sysadmin or you deal with this kind of problem in your everyday job. The process requires tweaking Windows registry settings to reenable the Telnet protocol handler that was disabled in Internet Explorer 7 or higher, enabling the Remote Desktop ActiveX control in Internet Explorer (or setting up the Remote Desktop Control in other browsers), installing the proper version of the Java virtual machine, and so on.

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The next day, He created the data center. Or at least it sounded that way, when somebody from my team who had already made up his mind stepped into my office and wanted me to buy his arguments. Then you hear giants such as Cisco screaming the same tune, and you’re puzzled: are the next-generation data centers just another new bunch of technologies, bundled into an appealing marketing package and overcommunicated enough to create hype? Or is there something more fundamental that we shouldn’t miss, no matter what the cost?

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For quite some time, NIL is one of Cisco partners who successfully set up a few Cisco TelePresence systems. From all the experience, one of our engineers tried to gather the crucial points of setting up systems on the high video level from the practical perspective. Read the newest article and find some interesting and useful information.

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Recently we had some problems with call disconnections at the location of the IP telephony integration in the communications network. Our client had switched from an analog system to the IP system and therefore had understandably high expectations.

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Today’s data center is the home to essential computation, storage and applications that support your business. Because of their key importance to the business, data centers are designed to be robust, fast and highly reliable.

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