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Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series Switches Debut at Cisco Partner Summit

Posted on June 7, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

On June 4th, 2013, Cisco announced that it upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance at Annual Cisco Partner Summit event.…

Cisco ASA Firewall can be Used as a Router?

Posted on June 6, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The ASA 5505 has 8 ports, but in the base license only 2 vlans can be created. The other 6 ports are simply switch ports that can be placed in…

Internet of Everything, SDN Hot Topics in Cisco Partner Summit 2013

Posted on June 4, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco Partner Summit is the event of the year for the global Cisco channel community, and it gets mighty busy and collect most Cisco participants. With Cisco Systems’ Partner Summit 2013 coming…

Cisco Predicts Massive Data Networking Growth by 2017

Posted on June 3, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

M2M ramps up, helps contribute to zettabyte era. There are three sure things in life – death, taxes, and the insatiable hunger of people for more and more bandwidth. By…

How to Connect to a Cisco Standard Console Port (RJ-45)?

Posted on May 31, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Step1. Connect laptop serial port to Cisco device’s console port. Below are two examples. Figure1a shows laptop with DB-9 serial port connected to Cisco device console port. Connect the RJ-45 to…

Using the Cisco 5500 Series Controller USB Console Port

Posted on May 30, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The USB console port on the Cisco 5500 Series Controllers connects directly to the USB connector of a PC using a USB Type A-to-5-pin mini Type B cable. Note1: The…

Cisco USB Console Port

Posted on May 29, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Due to the high prices of the USB To Serial cable converter used to connect to the console cable of CISCO devices, CISCO has recently added a new USB console…

Cisco Router with Cisco ASA for Internet Access

Posted on May 27, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

A classic network scenario for many enterprises is to have a Cisco border router for internet access and a Cisco ASA firewall behind this router for protection of the internal…

Site to Site VPN between ASA Firewall & Cisco Router

Posted on May 23, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Here, in this article we will tell that how to configure Site-to-Site IPSEC VPN between a Cisco IOS Router and ASA Firewall. ASA configuration is not much different from Cisco…

Networks in 2020: More Traffic, Less Energy

Posted on May 23, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The GreenTouch industry consortium says new technologies could cut power consumption by 90 percent. Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they’ll be carrying much more traffic,…

DHCP Relay on the Nexus7000/NXOS Vs. IP Helper on the 6500/IoS

Posted on May 20, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

IP helper (now DHCP relay) works differently on the Nexus 7000 than on the Cisco 6500. The N7K imposes a VACL to filter local DHCP broadcast traffic, under the assumption…

How to Configure site-to-site IPSEC VPN on Cisco ASA using IKEv2?

Posted on May 17, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The scenario of configuring site-to-site VPN between two Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances is often used by companies that have more than one geographical location sharing the same resources, documents, servers,…

How to Troubleshoot and Verifying OSPF Configuration?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

There are several ways you can verify and troubleshoot OSPF configuration and operation, listed below are the necessary command to do this: How to verify OSPF Configuration: Show IP route…

EIGRP on a Cisco ASA Firewall Configuration

Posted on May 14, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance is an integrated security equipment that can perform a variety of functions like firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN, content security, unified communications, and remote access. Among…

What is Cisco ASA CX Security Module?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The new series of Cisco ASA devices (ASA 5500-X models which include 5512-X, 5515-X, 5525-X, 5545-X, 5555-X and 5585-X) have the capabilities to support Next Generation Firewall Security Services. They…

How to Set up a Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall with a Wireless Router?

Posted on May 9, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

This article is written by Lauren Malhoit talking about setting up a Cisco ASA 5505 firewall with a wireless router focuses on things you might encounter when doing the setup…

Cisco ASA5510 Vs ASA5512-X or Cisco 5515-X

Posted on May 8, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco released its announcement of EoL and EoS dates for the Cisco ASA 5500 Adaptive Security Appliances, including Cisco ASA 5550, Cisco ASA 5540, Cisco ASA 5520, Cisco ASA 5510…

Configuring a Cisco Wireless Network

Posted on May 6, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In this article it will walks you through how to configure a Cisco wireless network. Modern business wireless networks are complicated, so configuration of the actual network should happen after…

How to Reset a Cisco Router Back to Factory Defaults?

Posted on May 3, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

There are two main methods to return a Cisco router to its original factory defaults. These two methods are described below. First Method This method uses the config-register 0×2102 command in global…

Use Layer-3 Switch or Router?

Posted on May 2, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In general, you want to use a router when most of the time the device does routing. Likewise, you want to use a switch when when most of the time…

Most Frequent Interview Questions for Network Engineers

Posted on April 28, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In the last article we listed 100 interview questions for network engineers. May be some of them are not often asked. Again, here we gathered most frequently asked interview questions for network engineers…

Cisco, Google Top Greenpeace IT Ranking 2013

Posted on April 27, 2013 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

In the middle and late of April (April 22 is the Earth Day) is every year, Greenpeace will release the latest version of its Cool IT Leaderboard, which remind us…