February 6, 2012

Cisco Live: Monday Recap

Well Day 2 of my trip is over and the official Day 1 of Cisco Live is underway. Here are some recaps:


The kickoff session was at 4pm. They had a table of glow sticks at the entrance. My intial question was..What are the glow sticks for?

Turns out they have do do with the Cisco Live theme. Notice the light streams in the opening pic of this post.

Once things got kicked off they opened the World of Solutions. The group of folks waiting to get in was insane.

Yep, 11,000 people at once is a really good idea! Actually it wasn’t bad. Once in It was a little push and shove to get the free t-shirt:


I opted to wait until tomorrow. Instead I swung by the Ascolta Booth and ran into Fred Cutaran, VP of Sales and my good friend Eric Kelch hard at work.


After that the free beer was flowing, food was out and there was a buzz about the room. I had an opportunity to meet up with Wendell Odom, Scott Morris, and Leah Lynch. Many more were there but I only had two hours and spent a bit in the Certification Lounge. I can’t wait for the Tech Sessions tomorrow and another full day.

Frustrations at my hotel

So here I am at the EconoLodge in Orlando which used to be the Best Western. I have to say that the internet connectivity here is the worst I have EVER experienced.

NEWS FLASH: Id rather pay 10 bucks a night for good internet access versus getting Crappy access for free!!!!

Well, If this post makes it I’ll be amazed. I have much writing to do tonight and Ill get my day 2 Cisco Live Recap up soon!

Gotta love Spaghetti (Contest: See details below)

I remember growing up with my cousin Ryan. He was a very picky eater, whose menu consisted of hot-dogs, mac-&-cheese, and of course, spaghetti. It's become obvious to me that spaghetti is one of those foods that everybody likes. We'll you are in for a real treat. Here is a five course meal prepared just fo you that starts with Spaghetti, then moves on to Spaghetti, then more spaghetti, and well….you get the picture.

Here is the setup:

I have been hooked on failblog as of late and in the spirit of failblog I came across a data center that was, well, failing at being a data center. Here are just a few of the PICS I took. I'm curious to see if any if you can top it.

We begin with what appears to be a normal rack. These are some older Cisco 3000 Series VPN concentrators along with a few ASA 5520s loaded with the AIP-SSM modules.


Next we have a rack of 2600's and some PIX 515s. Still doing pretty good right.


Then the cable contractor took the day, neigh- the week off.


Here it starts getting good:


How about this?


and of course there is this:


And finally this:


And this is all in one room! Think you can top this mess? Lets see you try.

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Now get to cooking!