Archive for October, 2008

Thanks for testing our remote lab exercises!

October 29th, 2008 by Milan Jelicic


We were overwhelmed by your response to our offer of free-of-charge testing testing of our remote lab exercises (IINS, IIUC). The promotion codes we provided for free-of-charge access to the labs were gone in a couple of hours. Also, the response we got from the testers on the labs proved ...

Are You Becoming a Spammer?

October 27th, 2008 by Andraz Piletic


In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of monitoring trends in your network. Now it’s time to show you the first one in a series of interesting examples that the NIL Monitor group has come across in recent weeks. Memory usage is normally very stable on routers. An alarm ...

Who is an associate?

October 23rd, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


One of my readers made an interesting observation in response to my "Knowledge or recipes" post: maybe network associates need recipes more than knowledge. My first reaction was to disagree; in my understanding, technicians work with recipes, engineers need to know what they're doing and why. But then I tried ...

NIL awarded for excellence of operations in the public sector

October 21st, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


Cisco Systems, the world's leading manufacturer of communications equipment, selected NIL as its Partner of the Year for 2007 for operations in the public sector. At its VIP partner summit, the American corporation Cisco Systems selected NIL, a leading communications technology company in Slovenia, as its Partner of the Year for ...

Free testing of IIUC remote lab exercises

October 17th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin


From today on, the free-of-charge remote lab exercises for Implementing Cisco IOS Unified Communications (IIUC) are available. Only the first five students, who will register with C85E1A as a promotion code, will get access to all 9 IIUC remote lab exercises. The exercises will be available until October 24th. After each ...

The Trend is your Friend

October 16th, 2008 by Andraz Piletic


While hunting down the cause of a malfunction or network outage, you commonly gather large volumes of data. Information gathering is not difficult, but analyzing data and figuring out something useful can be very hard. Take CPU utilization, for example. Determining whether 40% utilization is a highly unusual condition for ...

New course realeases: DMPS 1.0, IMPS 1.0, SNRS 3.0, IIUC2 1.0 and Remote Lab Exercises SNAF 1.0

October 15th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin


You need to design the Cisco MeetingPlace solution? Find the guidelines and case studies in this course. The Designing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Solutions (DMPS) reviews and enforces the system architecture of MeetingPlace and how those components integrate into an enterprise network. Use of the MeetingPlace Configuration Tool and other tools in ...

Gaining Knowledge – what’s the best way to do it?

October 14th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


A few days after my “Knowledge or Recipes” post, Greg Ferro started his “Experience or Certifications” series with a radical “I would always choose certification over experience” approach that quickly moderated into “Knowledge is more fundamental than experience … but you need both”. It’s nice to see someone else thinking ...

NIL has been re-certified as a Cisco Gold Certified Partner

October 13th, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


NIL announced it has achieved Gold re-certification from Cisco Systems. Cisco Gold Certified Partner is the highest title Cisco awards its partners for the level of expertise and services they have achieved. The Gold Certified Partner designation offers the highest level of credibility in the marketplace. Gold Certified Partners are recognized ...

Don’t despair, vote!

October 10th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


Several comments I've received in response to my "Knowledge or recipes" post were slightly resigned, leading me to the unfortunate conclusion that you all gave up and decided to live with the current state of the IT training business. But you can do something about it - go out and ...