On a Jet Plane
June 27th, 2009 at 23:58 by Eseell in Cisco Live and Networking and w3rk
In 12 hours I’ll be on a flight to San Francisco in order to attend the annual Cisco Live conference (formerly Cisco Networkers) until Thursday. Should be interesting, I’ll be attending seminars on IPv6 security, MPLS traffic engineering[1], multicast routing, and a CCIE Routing and Switching lab tutorial. On Tuesday afternoon I’ll be taking the CCIE R&S written exam.
I’m taking my Eee in addition to my work laptop, so I’ll try to blog frequently, there should be plenty of network coverage. . .
- I couldn’t find any good articles to explain MPLS traffic engineering simply. Basically, it’s a way to implement end-to-end QoS and policy-based path selection using label switching. In other words, it’s faster and less CPU intensive than true packet-switched QoS. However, it’s only useful in high-bandwidth, large-scale networks. The benefits are negligible in smaller networks. [↩]