We will have some short form, simple but direct content coming out soon - modeled directly after some videos that Jimmy Ray did for our SMB group a number of years back. I wanted to embed a few samples here along with the view counts as of this posting...it blew my socks off.
What is a VLAN? (51,867 views)
What is a Router vs a Switch (51,417 views)
What is the Ethernet (22,836 views)
What is a Firewall (25,114 views)
What is NAT (23,206 views)
What is Multicasting (18,136 views)
We don't want to do the old topics that have already been covered - so we started a list that JR wanted to cover moving forward. The first four are:
- Data Deduplication
- Virtualization
- Cat5e/Cat6 cabling
- Port/Socket
Look for these to come out shortly. What are your thoughts on the topics? Do you have ideas for valuable quick hit topics we could cover? Let us know in the comments!
UPoE, or Universal Power over Ethernet, is the latest innovation from Cisco with broad, positive implications for many enterprise operations. We are not new at this. Cisco has been pushing the standards since 2000 for the incorporation of electrical power running on the same cable as data. UPoE is a big milestone as we can now consolidate 60 watts on a single CAT5E cable.
The flexibility that this enables cannot be overstated. Multiple third party vendors are jumping into the ecosystem here as dynamic environments using Virtual Desktops with integrated monitors, IP Turret systems for trading floors, not to mention building management, physical security and host of networking devices such as AP’s and compact switches that are often installed in very obscure locations.
The Catalyst 4500E is the initial beneficiary of this industry first for Cisco and this episode of TechWiseTV covers not just the use case and deployment examples as we go hands on with the big switch, but also a unique deep dive into understanding just how this works. A full appreciation for the engineering talent behind this innovation is warranted on this one when we go beyond the power negotiation and get into the physics of heat dissipation and other hurdles that had to be overcome. It's the action packed TechWiseTV you have come to expect!
Jimmy Ray is taking us ‘inside the cable – make sure we can appreciate just impressive this is electrically
Nikhil Sharma is our guest engineer with a UPOE demo from the CiscoLive show floor and right here with us in the lab as we go hands-on the Catalyst 4500E
Thank you for watching! Stay tuned for more shows!
Originally released back in January of 2011, this was a segment inside a security special show we taped at the end of 2010 doing a deepdive on the Cisco Annual Security Report. I wanted to write something a bit snarky....I like the way it turned out. The jokes may only be obvious to security folks.
My script:
SCENE: 3B - VO Package - Open Letter to Koobface LOCATION: Discussion Area TALENT: Robb
(ROBB)
Dear Koobface. Can I still call you Koob?
You have been a wonderful friend, I remember how we first met.
Got a message from one of my old friends…click here ‘can’t believe your face in this video’ or something…you know me, I love seeing myself on camera, … wait. I am apparently missing a required component… a ‘video codec’ I think it said..well I’m this far, I like video stuff…lets get that sucker loaded.
Wow. I did not realize what had happened right away….but I was bitten. ‘Socially Infected’ if you will.
To be fair, your not a one friend kind of friend… Social infection has taken on a whole new meaning in the last year thanks to this ‘Gratuitous link-sharing behavior’ I have heard it called. Social Networks are the Place to be! And you my friend, are the expert at making money on this! Hats off to you Koob!
Well that video component you said I needed was actually an executable file that kicked off a whole bunch of activities.
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Can I be honest? You had me at ‘click here.’ But you were not done were you?
At first I thought you were just bragging - “Gotta check in” you said I should have seen the signs - Command and control, a central feature of every budding botnet. Turns out you were just casing my place, logging my social activities and sites, I know I made it easy, all those cookies laying around - fair enough.
You were measuring windows and checking out the floor plan…making room for your tools.. Very specific tools it turns out. Now, I appreciate the effort actually, no sense hauling in tools you don’t need - you could see what I was doing. Now, my friends are your friends! And convenient too, since they now think all these new messages from you are coming from me.
****
With no extra work on my part, you even helped me become a webserver. I’ve never been a webserver! Now I got to act as proxy or provide relay services for all our little koobface friends - in fact, and I love this one, I did not even have to break my own CAPTCHA’s anymore. I never liked those things! I mean why prove I am human if I have friends that will do it for me? Great little service. And downright neighborly!
Thats when things started to go wrong Koob. You know why. It was the money. I was already impressed with your social media propogation parlour tricks…but you showed your true colors. You know money is what ruins most relationships.
Your modularity should have tipped me off - the fact that you could sell yourself on a ‘pay per infection’ basis to those suspicious looking friends of yours - SEARCH HIJACKERS - ready and willing to lead my browsing preferences right into those worthless click-fraud sites…DATA STEALERS…what kind of friends are these? Nice try convincing me it was just a creative back up strategy. But the final straw, the ROGUE ANTI-VIRUS INSTALLERS…those guys are so old school….I can’t believe you still hang with them. ‘Click here to protect yourself’. It does still pay I guess.
You know Koob. Enough was enough. You are who you hang out with.
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:16PM 
