@nateevs,
"I don't think Cisco's goal is to focus on the Layer one technology."

I agree with you on that. I attended Cisco Academy and i discovered that not much is said about cabling, moreover, there is more to networking than cabling issues .

@routerman,
That your friend cannot make cables is his or her problem and not cisco's fault. I can make cables and i actually  learnt  most of the basics from the Academy and the rest from my personal conscious efforts. So, u see, it is probably that your friend jst don't want to learn.

       Anyway, does anybody know if there is any version of ccna dumps newer than 3.22. if there is, hw can i get it.
        Thanks guys for your help.

@ Nateevs,

What a good thread, i must comend you for your effort. Does anyone know where i can tain for CCSP in Abuja base on part time (i.e. weekends). I will quite appreciate it if i can get contacts.

routerman:

we all know most orgainisations uses the normal routers and switches , only few uses the cisco thing so thats why most of my guys and even me are attending the workshop coming up on feb 28, its a 100% practical training on wired and wireless routers ,let me know if ure interested

Pls i will like to attend the workshop,hope its free and where is the programme holding?

@nateevs,

I'm talking about CCNA (Routing and Switching). I'm aware of the reversion in the certification and the ccna concentrations stuffs. I intend to go into security, but we all know dt i must pass CCNA(Routing and Switching) before i can talk of CCNA SECURITY.
Thanks all the same, i'll just go ahead and use the 3.22
I hope this thread lives!

from cisco jp here.

we are working on data transmission at zerabyte speeds. remember giga & terabytes?? well 1000giga x10 gives u a zera.

thanks

Hello People,

I just passed my CCNA exam and I hope to advance in the nearest future with other Cisco certifications but before then, I need an institution here in Lagos I can go in for practical networking and have hands on experience on what I have been reading from the books. Anyone with answers should please send me a note.

Thanking you all in advance.

@ nateevs

actually, its in test run mode. it is freakin fast i must say ie at the local area connection level. ofcourse its

still has its glitches but those glitches will be solved soon. 

a satillite was drafted into space recently (last year i think)

delivering internet speed at the rate of 100Gbps. i suspect this has smt to do with the new innovation from here. more of those equipments will

be drafted and at some point on our lives, we will be sending and receving data at 1Gbps/sec.

pls note that this innovation supports both intranet & Internet data transmission.

i look forward to rubbing minds with you guys.

@Moonraker,
Did i hear u say or did i just read "at zerabyte speeds?? hmmmm , interesting. Pls i would really like to know what comes out of this project and all that was involved. Good luck to you all the same.

@03,
Congratulation!

@nateevs,
Unfortunately, i don't hv access to a life router (I'm not blaming it on Nigeria factor ooo), so i just make due with packet tracer for now.

Nice thread nateevs, but pls i'm not certified or a cisco person. It would have been nice to give the title a more embracing term. like networks and internetworking, anyway and anyhow, it's ok.

@moon, pls which organization do is employing the zetrabyte data transmission on a LAN and what does the org do

nateevs:

The guy "routerman" has had his posts removed. . . . . Was he banned? Now I going to look like an idiot quoting someone who doesn't exist.

For the record, there was some funny fella in here that had his posts removed. . . just incase anyone is wondering what went wrong.

I was thinking what the hell is he on about, why is he chatting to himself!

Im not into computers but one thing I noticed is that everyone especially nigerians or should I say on this forum
is chasing some sort of certificate, Prince2, pmp, sap, cfa, acca nothing wrong with that BUT when you consider
about 60% of these people making enquiries don't have any sort of practical experience some are graduates but
will probably be looking to add it on their CV without real life experience
When you look through most threads you see people just pop up from no where asking where they can do this or that
without saying anything about their background or personal goal/interest

I think there's too much emphasis on certification in the nigerian job market

Dis Guy:

I was thinking what the hell is he on about, why is he chatting to himself!

Im not into computers but one thing I noticed is that everyone especially nigerians or should I say on this forum
is chasing some sort of certificate, Prince2, pmp, sap, cfa, acca nothing wrong with that BUT when you consider
about 60% of these people making enquiries don't have any sort of practical experience some are graduates but
will probably be looking to add it on their CV without real life experience
When you look through most threads you see people just pop up from no where asking where they can do this or that
without saying anything about their background or personal goal/interest

I think there's too much emphasis on certification in the nigerian job market

9ce post!

@nateevs, we are at your back! Good thread Cos we all are learning everyday

Guys I am new to this forum,, in Japan and working for a used to be No 2 investment bank in the world,, that is old story with this Credit crunch.

@moonraker I would like to know you,, I work and live in Tokyo. Let have coffee.

@Toya ,, I can help you with a router I used for study,, a 17XX series.


@Djcn,. There can be better solutions to that,, Like we can have a dedicated site for Network Engineers,, We need 8 dedicated guys and we can kick it off. 3 outside Nigeria and 5 in Nigeria. I already can come up with the guys not in Nigeria.

@Dis-guy,, I totally agree with @nateevs.

@nateevs Please let me know if there is anything I can do. And keep up the good work.

@nateevs anyhow, anyway just keep us going on. Pls which is the best routing protocol for now?

@stevetokyo, nice seeing fine people with fine ideas, i'm think of a project and still in the drafting phase. are u actively involved with networking?
pls what is the relevance of certifications in japan and on what broadband speed is your network connections to the internet?

@ nateevs

no prbs. will keep u posteD.


@ Djcn

Actually, a japanese company called NEC has drafted this innovation. Nec is into a lot thing. eletronics, data management etc.

@ stevetokyo

hello, are u nigerian?? i stay in osaka prefecture.

@ Toya_tc

Yep, i have to admit. its interesting, its the future.

@moonraker
Yes I am a Nigerian,, Cell phone,, 090-6187-8110. Please call. I work for Morgan Stanley,, What do you do in Osaka?
Lets keep in touch. I know about 2 other Nigerians that work in multinational banks in Tokyo too. Hope to hear from you soon.

@Djcn
Everyone in Japan has been upgraded to fiber,, for homes!!! 100mbps ~ 30mps that is Fiber & Cable.
Some companies use dedicated privates lines,, example Bloomberg, Reuters and Major Financial Companies connect to Tokyo Stock Exchange(TSE). This is an Open forum I can not disclose anymore,, you sign this Non-Disclosure thing when you work for multinational financial institutions and I assure you,, they will sure your ass off,, Please let me stop here.
For my work description,, I provide IT solutions. I will say somewhere around Service delivery/ Network and System Engineer in the level 3 infrastructure end. I hope you can deduce what I do from my explanation. But to cut the story short,, I have to know more of everything. Can I stop with my Non-Disclosure thing?
On the issue of relevance of certifications in Japan,, I will quote nateevs "The issue of only certs in Naija will soon become a thing of the past. When the economy opens up or perhaps when Globacom complete their Fibre back bone, it will present the opportunity to companies to inter-network their sites through an ISP. The internet will become truly public and cheap. Network Professional will become sought after like precious stones.
However, the ills will come with it. Fraud, soiling and Network Intrusion. That is where true Network Professionals will be separated from those that only chase certs. At that stage it will really become about what you know rather than what you have.
While what you have will be a massive pre-consideration for what is to be done, there'll be more emphasis on thorough interviews from the point of view of a bank that just lost 2million debit card records becos their network was compromised." It is the same everywhere,, follow his last words,, "I believe we are slowly getting there. . . and we surely will take the world by storm. . . but we need to be ready and that's what this thread is about. " I did the same when I came to Japan first. Invested in education and building my own lab,, It all paid off. So I would say to you too,, Decide what you want to do,, look at it in a long term and start planing/investing,, and let the work begin.
On the project,, let me know when you feel like sharing your idea or when you get out of the drafting phase.


To all the other guys here,, let's make it rock!!!

@nateevs, thx for the articulate answers. Actually, i had the LAN in mind, and that would most often lead us to EIGRP and OSPF.
With EIGRP, as u've said u'll have to think the cisco way as this protocol is limited to cisco routers, OSPF provides an open standard.
The Cisco syllabus deals more with EIGRP and so cisco people are more farmiliar with that standard, not knowing much functionality of the OSPF, especially when using different routers from multiple vendors. I had wanted to know the limitations of both and to some extent, u dealth with that.

@moonguy, I quite know of NEC, an Electronics firm, i think they make Japan's top 100 after some consolidation stuffs, i was only wondering, why they will be implementing such a bandwidth on their LAN or they are only thinking of creating such stuff as a backbone for the internet.
If all their staff were to be streaming a HD DVD content at the same time, they will stiff be using an infinitesimal of the network bandwidth when operating on zetrabyte.

@st, good to know that tokyo still leads to a large extent in broadband for home users, just wanted to confirm what a friend passed across. I'm hoping the UK and US will gear up the wheels. You can stop with non-disclosure thing cos i gat no work for you if you are fired.
On, the project stuff let me ascertain the reality and functionality, and once that is done, i'll do well to make the necessary contacts.

@ Nateevs,

Thank for your reply. I'm sorry my message came late, i was actually busy. The major problem is hardware and access to materials. Is there any assistance/support you can give? Hope to read from you soon.

Regards

@NiceSoul

I saw one of your posts talking about Dynamips. Do you not use it? The only thing Dynamips can't emulate is switching. I am going to begin a series on how to run Dynamips for those of us on this forum who want to feel what a router looks like. I will probably make a video and upload on Rapidshare or something. I am trying to make some time.






@Steve.

30Mbps to your doorstep? . . . kidding right? I am here feeling funky about an 8Mbps ADSL connection to the internet. I think Virgin media are still the only ISP in the UK implementing Fibre to the Neighborhood.
We'l get there soon.

@ nateevs

actually, i have a 160Mbps download and 10mbps upload link in my house. ofcourse, when yu do a lit math and take

some technical terms into consideration like how close one is to the grid, modem used, ethernet adapter etc, then u

will discover that its a little bit difficult to get that true speed but at least its far far better than whats obtainable in nigeria.

@nateevs
buitifl thread and i like the fact dat it doesnt towards just certification alone but content.

as to the invicible dude wu blames cisco for layer 1 stuff-i bow for yu o! but i gess its cisco's fault (surprised guys) y is becos they lay dis inadequate foundation of layer 1 in dia discovery materials-which is actually nursery ryhme in A+ n N+ world. i feel cisco in dia discovery manuals should exclude the layer 1 revision and move on dirictly to routing and switchin. all sed and all, nothing in IT is instructor led or inparted, self study is wat makes yu an IT person. i can tell you from experience becos after i went instructor clasis for a yr and a half i had to go start teaching in one of the IT schools in Abuja-Aptek not becos of anytin but to understand IT more. presently i teach ccna for almost nxt to notin not becos i nid it(heck i dont almost even av the time) but becos of the fact dat i want to lern it well before i muv up to ccie(since we dnt av d luxury of routing n switchin production-training environment). i had to go lern A+ N+ with a guy by workin wit him for free on sat's(though i hate it so much-i use to think its a labourer job) and it was so gud wat i got out of it. so bros in IT yu must be willin to study on yur own to muv up in IT.

@nateeves
i came accross an emulator while surfing dat cld convert ones pc into a router but yu nid to hav a valid IOS running on it(which makes alot of sense cos a pc is more like a router to me). i would really like us to exploit dis angle hia and see ow we can make it live in our varios communities to help intending ccna-routin networkers to av a feel of real routing(cos i feel for my students-always lookin for ways to better teach em which takes lots of my only free time on sat. an emulator wld make tins really easy). bros lets work on it.

@ Nateev

Nice thread u have here. How is chelsea naw it seems they wore their shirt upside down right now.(joking)

@predi
The layer 1(Network Fundermentals if itz what u mean) is necessary to understand the Routing and Switching part of Cisco. You will find Cisco more difficult without the fundermentals.