I arrived at Cisco Live (Networkers) yesterday in Orlando and attended my first techtorial on Wireless. Very interesting topic. We getting ready to do a large WLAN upgrade so I've scheduled a whole week of wireless training.
Here are some of my first impressions of Networkers this year:
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Michael Morris is a communications engineering manager at a $3 billion high-tech company. His background is in enterprise WANs working with telcos, and developing large-scale routing designs. He has worked on networks at government and corporate organizations, including networks at two Fortune 10 companies. In his current role, he leads large-scale IT networking projects and develops and maintains architectural standards for data networks, storage area networks, IP Telephony, and security. Michael is a CCIE and has 11 years experience in networking and communications, including four years as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army. He has a bachelor's degree in MIS from the University at Buffalo. Recently, he was awarded the Network Professional Association® (NPA) Professional Excellence and Innovation Award for his work on network architecture, templates and enterprise MPLS design.
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Cheap
Is the Continental breakfast new? I skipped 2007, but I don't remember the breakfasts being quite so sparse.
BTW, do you know if there is transportation to the CCIE party tonight, or are we expected to find out own way to Universal Studios?
RE: Cheap
Breakfast went continental last year...yeah, it does suck.
Transpo to CCIE party is on your own.
Mike
Indeed
Mike,
You're absolutely right. The snacks are lame and miserly. And no cell coverage on the first floor is really really weak. You'd think a place like this would have it covered. On the other hand, the wireless networking is much better than years past.
And my colleague and I are eating breakfast at our hotel, which has free HOT breakfast. Continental breakfast is for the birds when you're paying big bucks these days for the registration.
I think the World of Solutions is a little too cramped though. The reception last night was way too crowded. But let's hope they make up for it all with a kick ass party tomorrrow!
Indeed
Not only are the snacks and breakfast lame, however Cisco seems to be caught up in making money off entertainment and games only. Not once did Chambers mention quality, customer satisfaction or stability of products. His only concerns appears to be to have more products to sell and let the customer figure out how to make it run and deal with the lack of quality control. I'm sure they're making record profits by finding the lowest bid for production but they can't make stable 6500 hardware any longer so try to cover this mess by changing their entire operation structure by forcing over use of any buzzwords they read in the rags. They're more interested in being "cool" in someones eyes than in being good.
New CTO
Seems like they now have a brainless CTO also who's worried about knowing all the toys to impress her children instead of being a CTO.
RE: New CTO
Now that's just being mean.
I actually liked her keynote today.
Honestly, how do you be the CTO of Cisco? That's not a "technology" job, that's a marketing job.
RE: Indeed
Ouch, that was a little harsh...but probably deserved. ;-)
To defend Mr. Chambers a little, he did mention at the CCIE NetVet Lunch that Quality is now a top 3 goal for the Cisco engineering organization with objective metrics for performance. All management and engineers now have compensation plans tied to quality. I think they've realized the need for stability over new features with some of the recent issues.
Mike
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