Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category

Use Your Routers as Traffic Generators

July 7th, 2010 by Andraz Piletic


While I was testing some new Remote Labs for a renewed CCNP curriculum (for a TSHOOT course, to be precise), I came across a very interesting but undocumented command that turns a router into a traffic generator. Even though this command was introduced awhile ago, in IOS version 11.2, please ...

Improving WebEx VoIP audio quality

June 7th, 2010 by Andraz Piletic


In recent weeks, I have participated in a few WebEx conferences. While those organized by Cisco mostly relied on traditional telephone connections for audio delivery, others used an integrated VoIP solution, which has a more attractive price. While good old telephony works pretty well no matter where you are or what ...

Service Control Engine (SCE) Portal

March 29th, 2010 by Milan Jelicic


NIL has developed a policy management server that enables service providers using the Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) to monitor and control subscribers and their quotas on SCE devices. For each subscriber, the policy management server maintains the quota amount and keeps track of quota usage. Each subscriber's quota is ...

Trends in Service Provider Networking – virtual classroom

March 23rd, 2010 by Bojana Stucin


Have you recognized the opportunities as well as the challenges that emerged as the Service Provider networks had transitioned from traditional TDM environment into IP-only? The 2-hour presentation, organized in April and June, explains the transformation process and addresses the business shifts that followed. Choose a date and attend any ...

FREE WebEx sessions

February 12th, 2010 by Bojana Stucin


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, ...

First-Mile Wireless: Which (G)eneration?

January 8th, 2010 by Robert Lesar


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, ...

IPcorner technical articles

December 4th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


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 ...

NIL Data Center Sales Bootcamp

November 18th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


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 ...

Data center: Hype, or a big story?

September 1st, 2009 by Klemen Stular


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 ...

Cisco Telepresence – A Practical Deployment Guide

August 19th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


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 ...