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Bloggin’ from Brisbane – Cisco Networkers 2008
From Ben Erwin
It’s not all vegemite and tim tam slams. Network managers from all over Australia decended on Brisbane to discuss their network management challenges and business goals with NetQoS.
--Source: Network World Cisco Subnet Blog -- Credit: Brad Reese/Network World
The NetQoS booth was busy during Cisco Networkers Brisbane 2008, with network managers from financial institutions, universities, and service providers looking for a monitoring solution that closely aligns with their Cisco infrastructure. Several service providers stopped by to say their end customers are clamoring for performance-based network management capabilities, especially around existing deployments of VoIP. Without a doubt, VoIP was the most heavily discussed technology at the show.
Everyone else has two things on the mind: QoS and WAN optimization
Attendees asked for an enterprise dashboard to manage their QoS deployment, instead of relying on SNMP-only statistics, command line interfaces, or free tools. They wanted to understand how NetFlow can be leverage for QoS, in addition to understanding the QoS impact to end-to-end response times of mission critical applications. Everyone claimed that configuring QoS is a challenge and more visibility is needed to validate QoS configurations and their impact on the network. For WAN optimization, attendees looked for reporting solutions that better integrate with Cisco WAAS from device performance of the WAE appliances to their impact on optimized applications. Similar to QoS, attendees clamored for WAAS dashboard that can report on all aspect of WAN optimization in their environment.
We spent much of our time at the NetQoS booth discussing how you can manage your network for application delivery… and setting up attendees up with a neat flashing guitar pin.
That’s all for now – time to readjust to the home time zone.
Video Thrilled the Networking Star
From Brian Boyko, Editor, Network Performance Daily
I know you guys love the Whiteboard Series, and we’ve always wished we can do more of them – well, now we can.
By day, I’m a blogger – but by night, I’m a video geek, making indie movies, that sort of thing. So in addition to being the guy people go to when they ask me what blogging platform to use, I’m also the guy who gets a lot of video questions. And, as it turns out, we’ve been using my personal video camera and equipment in order to do much of our Whiteboard Series videos as well as some internal training videos.
And so we’ve been doing more with video as time went on, it was about time for NetQoS to get its own high definition video camera. We went with the Canon HG10, for those film geeks who care enough. Yeah, the HV20’s probably got better picture quality, but the tapeless workflow is going to be a timesaver, not to mention that compared to the HF10… crap, I’m filmgeeking here.
Point is, what we are hoping that readers of the blog could do is – now that we have the fancy new camera – if you could send us your ideas for Whiteboard Series videos that we can then film, put up on the blog, and justify the money we spent on the new film equipment. Thanks!
