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IN THIS ISSUE
-- MPLS certification - Lesson 1
-- Managing spam
-- MPLS case study: Kodak
-- Managing a network
-- Cisco Spotlight Series: Security outside the silo
-- Info Quest: New book giveaway contest
ADVICE
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MPLS CERTIFICATION - LESSON 1 | Robbie Harrell
MPLS can be tricky since it involves different protocols and diverges a bit from other types of VPN technology. That makes working with it, as well as proving you can work with it, that much harder. This article represents the first in a series of articles all tailored towards certification skills required for the MPLS portion of the Cisco CCIP certification.
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MANAGING SPAM | J.C. Cannon
For many organizations, spam is a huge burden on their IT staffs as well as a large budgetary expense. This week we bring you a nine-part series on managing spam. It covers such topics as privacy issues, the cost of spam, spam litigation, fighting spam and antispam approaches and solutions. Each section is excerpted from the book, 'Privacy:
What Developers and IT Professionals Should Know' by J.C. Cannon, Microsoft's top privacy technology strategist. (This series is reproduced with permission from Pearson publishing as Addison-Wesley Professional. Copyright 2005.)
MPLS CASE STUDY: KODAK | David Jacobs
When the need for increased bandwidth and improved quality of service
(QoS) compelled Kodak to transition to MPLS VPNs, the company was able to meet its goals by closely supervising and cooperating with its ISPs and maintaining the final responsibility for meeting business data with the network staff. Kodak's experiences can provide sound direction for others transitioning to an MPLS VPN.
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MANAGING A NETWORK
With this chapter from the book 'Introduction to Networking' by Rich McMahon you will learn about managing your network. You'll learn how to describe Windows network management tools and implement Windows and NetWare network management. (Reproduced from the book 'Introduction to Networking,' ISBN 0072255609, Copyright 2005, The McGraw-Hill Companies. Reproduced by permission of McGraw-Hill Professional, Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121. Written permission from McGraw-Hill is required for all other uses.)
CISCO SPOTLIGHT SERIES: SECURITY OUTSIDE THE SILO Cisco senior VP Jayshree Ullal explains the vendor's unified security initiatives, plus details Cisco's security strategy regarding XML, end points and Microsoft.
INFO QUEST: NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY CONTEST
In our LAN administrator guide, we provide a humorous survival guide for network administrators. (See the bottom hyperlink on any Task.) What's the #1 reason why users don't like LAN administrators? Tell us
(mailto:editor@searchnetworking.com?subject=week_3) and we'll enter your name in our random drawing for a copy of 'The Internet and its Protocols' by Adrian Farrel, courtesy of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Congratulations to Kevin Basler, senior network engineer at Maritz Inc., for winning our second Info Quest trivia contest. Kevin correctly answered that the last item in the 'Disaster Recovery Plan'
was to test the disaster recovery plan and schedule to update and maintain the plan on a routine basis. We've got a copy of 'Windows XP Networking' courtesy of Addison-Wesley heading his way.
