CCIE Quest

Since Cisco has announced upcoming changes to CCIE Voice Lab Exam and Lab Exam Blueprint 3.0 has been published, Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.0 has become focus of attention for many.

CUCM 7.x is not much different from 5.x and 6.x versions and can be installed natively in VMWare for lab purposes.Cisco has done a great deal in making CUCM 7.x installation totally hassle free.Its a (more…)

In one of my previous tutorials, i had used Putty Connection Manager for Console Access which helps centralizing all your consoles into a single window with easy tabbing in between different router consoles. This tutorial shows yet another way of achieving same functionality.This time, i  will setup an Access Server/Console Server/Terminal Server, whatever you name it in order to access all lab devices from a single console.

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This tutorial will help those who are having problems with insufficient flash disk capacity in Cisco Call Manager Express (CUCME) configurations. In order to copy files e.g Music-on-hold files, GUI  files, Basic-ACD scripts and prompts to your flash, you need to have considerable amount of disk space to house all stuff there.

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This tutorial will demonstrate process of setting up a Session Initiatition Protocol (SIP) trunk on Cisco Unified Express Communication Manager Express (CUCME) to SIP Voice Over IP (VOIP) Service Provider. It will be divided into several parts. This is first part in which you will learn to setup Basic SIP trunking with VOIP service provider. This will be followed by a more Advanced  configuration tutorial which will (more…)

This tutorial will walk you through the process of settting up a distributed GNS3 topology where you can use different external hypervisor engines and run GNS3 topology in much easier and smoother fashion.This helps you utilize resources at hand in an efficient manner by distributing processor load across multiple hardware platforms. Most people use WindowsXP / Windows Vista on their laptop machines. However, for GNS3 and dynagen to perform at their peak, i would recommmend you to use a flavour of Linux which speeds up things to greater extent.

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In this tutorial, i will demonstrate configuration of IPv6 addressing in both Windows XP machine and Cisco Router (GNS3).One of most flexible migration approach to IPv6 will be  “Dual-stack” approach which means that network devices will have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneosly. Both TCP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6 protocol stacks will work together seamlessly for quite some time.

IPv6 is also called IPng “IP Next Generation”. IPv6 offers exciting (more…)