Archive for September, 2008

New course releases: MARS 3.0, SNAA 1.0, NIL_CSA 6.0

September 30th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin


Do you need to make more effective use of network and security devices by deploying the Cisco Security MARS system? Learn how to manage, monitor and mitigate security threats in this course. The Implementing Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) course addresses security management products for the Cisco Self-Defending ...

Internet bandwidth: Do you get what you pay for?

September 25th, 2008 by Andraz Piletic


Suppose that workers at your remote offices are experiencing slow and unresponsive network applications. When narrowing the scope of possible causes, you really have only a few options. You can run ping tests all day long to find the cause of the high latency. But how can you test bandwidth ...

Knowledge or recipes?

September 19th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


When I was teaching an advanced OSPF course more than a decade ago, I tried to cover the procedures used by OSPF in as much detail as time allowed, hoping that students would catch the "spirit" of OSPF. Those who were willing to invest their mental energy during the three-day ...

Lower prices for Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Track

September 11th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin


NIL recently reduced prices for CCNP certification track. If you need practice when trying to gain the Cisco CCNP certification, the following exercises can truly help you! You can utilize any exercise from the lab set as many times as you wish during the subscription period. Check the exercises beneath and ...

NIL in Serbia

September 9th, 2008 by Klemen Stular


It should be well known by now that NIL is determined to do some serious business in Serbia. Traveling to Belgrade the other day, I had some interesting discussions about IT business and opportunities in the region, particularly about who are the key players and the challengers in Serbia. It was ...

Pre-Shared Keys

September 4th, 2008 by Bostjan Sustar


While reading Jan’s blog entries about how public key infrastructure (PKI) is misunderstood and misused (Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3), I thought about the fact that many people decide against using PKI in IPSec solutions because they do not understand it and consider it to be too complex. ...

New course releases: IUWNE 1.0, SNAF 1.0, DDOS 2.0

September 2nd, 2008 by Bojana Stucin


Wireless LAN essentials? In today`s communications world this fundamental networking knowledge and skills are of utmost importance. Get them in this course. The Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Networking Essentials (IUWNE) course provides you with basic information and practice activities for designing, installing, configuring, monitoring and basic troubleshooting of Cisco wireless LAN ...

Secure Time Management

September 1st, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


The April IP Corner article It’s good to be on time describes how you can use Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize the real-time clock of your network devices with external time references. As soon as you start relying on your routers having pretty exact time, NTP becomes part of ...

End-to-end responsibility

September 1st, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


If you've ever had the "privilege" of buying equipment from a large systems integrator (or directly from a large vendor), you're probably familiar with this process: The salesman (politely called the "Account Manager") brings an engineer ("Sales Engineer") with him. Although they do some network design in the presales cycle, their ...