Unfortunately, we will not be having a User's Group meeting in July. I do apologize for the inconvinence, but I will be out of town working with a Customer. I am putting together some options for August's meeting any any input you have would be great. I haven't quite cocmpleted my whitepaper on QoS, but when it is done, I will post a link to it here.
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Unfortunately, we will not be having a User's Group meeting in July. I do apologize for the inconvinence, but I will be out of town working with a Customer. I am putting together some options for August's meeting any any input you have would be great. I haven't quite cocmpleted my whitepaper on QoS, but when it is done, I will post a link to it here.
Next Wednesday the Austin NEUG is getting together again. Below is the text of the invite. I hope to see everyone there!
Wednesday, May 13th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
LOCATION:
CALENCE
1130 Rutherford Lane
Austin, TX 78753
TOPIC:
Multi-Protocol Label Switching
This month we the user group will discuss Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology and configuration. Ryan Hicks will be presenting MPLS fundamentals from both the carrier and customer perspective. A MPLS core will be created to demonstrate the technology. Virtual router labs will be provided, so please bring your laptop! The following are some of the specific features/tasks that will be discussed:
• Overview of carrier switching technologies (MPLS, ATM, Frame-Relay, etc)
• Understanding of VRFs
• MPLS PE and P router configuration (Provider)
• MPLS CE router configuration (Customer)
There is no charge to attend and refreshments will be served. Meetings are open to anyone interested in discussing the network engineering industry in a vendor-neutral, education-focused environment.
We are a local community of network engineer professionals who come together to network and learn about engineer-related topics in a vendor-neutral, education-focused environment.
Meetings will be held the second Wednesday of every month.
If you know someone who would be interested in attending this event, please feel free to pass on this information.
I would like to thank everyone for coming to last night's user group meeting. For anyone that has missed it, We had Jeff Kline and Brandon Beck from Cisco presenting on SAN technologies. We discussed the advantages of Data Center Ethernet, Cisco's Virtual Switching System and Multichannel Ethernet, and various storgate technologies such as SCSI, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, FCIP, and FCoE. I will post a link to the presentations here as soon as I have them.
We started a discussion for future topics. It looks like we will be working through configuration and labs on Cisco's Call Manager Express product during the next two sessions. Please make sure to bring your laptops for these, as we are going to have virtual routers set up in individual pods. We will also have a limited number of physical FXO/FXS ports and phones available for testing.
After these two sessions we have options available for the next one. There has been discussions on having a troubleshooting session which I am thinking might be a Layer-2 troubleshooting primer, involving spanning-tree and other switch technologies. Other possibles are having Solar Winds demo/train on some of thier management tools or having Cisco back out to talk about WAAS or ACE. Please send me your feedback on what you want for the next session.
