Re: Cisco specializations - Which?

2000-08-01 Thread Oz 

VPN's  and firewall are hot and an easy sell. Easy to sell when you mention
security and or lack thereof.
Wireless at the moment I see as  speciality deal the same with phones  many
big corps already own private phone networks  so  they are not ready to jump
into the VOIP  deal.

Oz
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Cisco specializations - Which?

2000-07-31 Thread Chuck Church 

Hopefully this won't cause a huge thread, but my company (a reseller)
naturally want's to sell everything Cisco makes, so I'm being asked to learn
the Aironet wireless, VPNs and firewall, and IP telephony.  This is all in
addition to my current pursuit of the RS CCIE.  Since it's pretty hard to
be an expert in everything, what's the consensus on these three product
categories?  I've done some VPN and Firewall with PIX, but haven't really
touched wireless or VoIP.

Thanks,
Chuck Church
CCNP, MCNE, MCSE

P.S.  Today diagnosing a frame internet connection, I saw packets with an IP
protocol number 89 and multicast destination 224.0.0.9.  Any idea what these
were?  I didn't get a capture, saw them in a 'deb ip pack det'.

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Re: Cisco specializations - Which?

2000-07-31 Thread Adrian Chew 

Chuck,

I'd say go for the VPN/PIX...  and the LocalDirector too.  You might want to
check out the Cisco/ArrowPoint products, VPN 3000, 7100 series too.

Aironet shouldn't give most people much trouble...  though I haven't touched
these.  Have used both the Lucent's Orinoco and Jaguar's Waveaccess (Lucent
bought this company out, obsoleting their entire product line!).  Basically
think of it as a wireless hub with a bit more configuration required.  You
shouldn't need more than a day or two of playing with them.

Voice can be a total pain - especially if you have to integrate with old
PBXs, and deal with telcos, etc.  Most voice people don't have a clue when
it comes to VoIP and interfacing with other vendors products.  And if you
ever though IOS can be a bit cryptic...  wait till you see PBX commands...
you might not need to actually know these, but its enough to tell you what a
PAIN it will be working with the voice folks.  I'd personally like to try
out the Cisco IP telephony total solution sometime - but few companies are
going to jump in right now.  Give it 2-3 years, and Cisco might put the old
PBXs out of business.

Regards,
Adrian

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 Hopefully this won't cause a huge thread, but my company (a reseller)
 naturally want's to sell everything Cisco makes, so I'm being asked to
learn
 the Aironet wireless, VPNs and firewall, and IP telephony.  This is all in
 addition to my current pursuit of the RS CCIE.  Since it's pretty hard to
 be an expert in everything, what's the consensus on these three product
 categories?  I've done some VPN and Firewall with PIX, but haven't really
 touched wireless or VoIP.

 Thanks,
 Chuck Church
 CCNP, MCNE, MCSE

 P.S.  Today diagnosing a frame internet connection, I saw packets with an
IP
 protocol number 89 and multicast destination 224.0.0.9.  Any idea what
these
 were?  I didn't get a capture, saw them in a 'deb ip pack det'.

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