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I am really thankful to IT KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE for providing me an opportunity to blog with them; it’s my privilege to be associated with IT KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE. I learned a lot while blogging to this wonderful knowledge portal. It’s the vigorous support and guidance from the team of IT KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE encourages any individual to be the part of this great portal. I would siege this opportunity to thank Brent Sheets the community manager, Jenny Mackintosh  and Sean Brooks.

I hope to be continuing my journey with IT KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE.

Cheers

Yasir Irfan

I started my career as a Structured cabling Designer, I am certified Systimax SCS guy, for me there is no better product than Systimax. I was literary addicted to the products from Systimax. I know Systimax since the days of AT&T, then Lucent Technologies, Avaya Systems and at this stage a Comscope company. No doubt Systimax SCS products are great. By it was my friend working as Area Manager R & M Saudi Arabia changed my perspective about R & M SCS products.

R & M happens to be Swiss cabling Specialist Company, which recently launched the new generation of its LC Duplex compact fiber-optic connector system. For the first time ever, this system has integrated laser protection and a lock for the connector. With these safety features, LC can now be used more easily in office buildings, residential buildings and highly com-pact computing centers.

According to the press release from R & M

“A laser shutter provides integrated protection against laser beams, an international first in this product category. A flat spring in the adapter opens when the connector is unplugged and covers the fiber stub. No laser beam can escape from the adapter. Any danger of injury is therefore ruled out, allowing the LC to be utilized risk-free in publicly accessible applications such as Fiber-to-the-Desk and Fiber-to-the-Home. R & M  also offers a semi-transparent dust cap that enables the connection to be visually checked safely.”

We are working on building a new Data Center for our Organization, mean while I did lot of research and gathered some information on what standards the data center to be established. These days everyone is talking about the green Data centers, which triggered me and I was just thinking about our planet. Yes we will plan a green data center, but to do so we need some guidelines and standards.

 I figured out an ideal data center can be only established if we follow the TIA 964 standards. Following resources helped me to come out with an ideal RFP for the tender which we are releasing soon.

First and foremost the document published by Search Datacenter is good you should have a look at this document and the website has many valuable information related to data centers.  

APC does have lot of documents, the white paper published by APC by the title “Data Center Projects: Standardized Process” did help me a lot to draft the RFP.

Cisco Systems even though they never build data center but they do provide solutions and does have a dedicated section called Cisco Data Center 3.0 where you can find lot of valuable information.

Other web site which really amazed me was of Panduit, they really have data center solutions, especially the cable management stuff and the specially designed Net Access cabinets for the Cisco Nexus 7000 series Switches.   

Hopefully we try to establish our data center based on the TIA 964 standards and ofcourse it will be green.

It seems that everyone is busy this time making their trip to San Francisco to be physically there at Cisco-Live, 2009 which starts at 27^th of June. It’s amazing to be there but for the folks who cannot be there physically don’t panic, the technology helps you out to be there virtually. You can experience the Cisco Live Virtual in multiple ways.

Cisco Live Virtual offers you the opportunity to gain knowledge in a powerful way. Whether you are planning to attend Cisco Live 2009 in person, or you will be participating as a virtual attendee, Cisco Live Virtual is a new and innovative way to experience Cisco Live from all angles – including session content, networking with your peers, and getting the latest information on technology solutions from Cisco and our partners. View a quick demo of Cisco Live Virtual.

There are multiple ways to experience Cisco Live Virtual:

• Cisco Live Virtual: Free
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Finnish firm Nokia Siemens Networks announced Tuesday that it is to work with Juniper Networks a specialist networking Technologies Company, to create an end-to-end solution to enable interoperation between IP and optical networks.

The companies said that they will work together to develop cost-optimized 10G, 40G and 100G IP over DWDM solutions with management integration and GMPLS control plane interworking.

 For more info do check the press release by Juniper Networks

Once you are done with the CCNA 640-802 Network Simulators , it’s a good idea to have more preparation and practice, if you are confident then don’t wait for anything just register yourself for the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams and best of luck , yes you can do it.

If you think you need some more practice and brush up it’s always a good idea to follow your folks at the Cisco Learning Network , which is full of resources, with some practice exams, presentations and videos.

Start Here: CCNA

For a General Overview of CCNA, View the Syllabus.

Also CCNA 640-802 Cert Flash Cards Online can provide you some value added experience and confidence. The CCNA 640-802 Cert Flash Cards Online  is a online exam preparation tool consist of a custom flash card application loaded with over 300 total questions that test your skills and enhance retention of exam topics.

With this kind of vigorous practice and study nothing can stop you from achieving the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams. More over you are preparing with the number one CCNA selling titles. Wish you the best and hopefully this will help you to pass the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exams

It’s my habit to always  try something new or some interesting. As we have a huge project coming up, hence  I am in the process of testing many windows supported netflow analyzers.  Since I am aware of Manage Engine Netflow analyzer I thought for a change let me start over with Scrutinizer netflow analyzer.

I just went to the Scrutinizer web site and downloaded the latest Scrutinizer netflow analyzer; there support seems to be good, the moment I downloaded the  Scrutinizer netflow analyzer;  I received an email offering a trial key with few faqs of the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer.

Some of the key features for which I got interested in the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer are

• Captures all the flows, all the records, all the time. It supports Cisco Net Flow, sFlow and other flow technologies and uses that data to monitor the overall network health.
• Identifies which users, applications and protocols are using the most network traffic. It is not limited to the Top 10! All of the flows can be viewed and exported.
• Custom Net Flow Reports help visualization of which routed ports on the network are the most congested.
• Provides long term trending details for overall LAN and WAN bandwidth usage, so bandwidth needs can be accurately gauged.
• Enhances network security by alerting network administrators of suspicious or potentially hazardous network behavior patterns.
• Central Interface offers a distributed solution that scales to enterprise level networks.

 Scrutinizer netflow analyzer is very easy to install and configure. The dash board is customizable and the most attractive part of the Scrutinizer netflow analyzer is the reports, you can generate customized reports which can be based on protocols, IP address and many other parameters. One more advantage of using Scrutinizer netflow analyzer is you can monitor the hosts which are accessing you tube as well. Worth trying the trail full version you can always request for an extension for the license key.

http://www.plixer.com/support/faq.php