From: Dana.L.Steffey@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 11:51:20 GMT-3
Dibyendu -
Have you been to any WAN training yet?
I had some classes from Sequoia and thought they were not bad but a little
out dated (Slides were 2-4 years old. Might be better now, I had it two
years ago). I think they are one of the only places you can take StrataCom
classes. Probably wrong though.
http://www.sequoia-networks.com/
I took two classes.
ICWS - Installing Cisco WAN Switches (This is the CCNA - WAN in a book
- not a bad test), Cover's all or most of the StrataCom product line.
MSSC -Multiband Switch Service & Configuration (This is a pure IGX
config Class - If you have not had it - you need it.!!!!!!!)
Most of your initial questions can be learned through these two.
WAN Manager basically provides me with a pretty picture of my network. It
also is a image store which I use for upgrading the individual cards &
switches. I do not use it for much else because I can do what I need to
much faster on the CLI. I am always looking for better ways to Manage my
switches. Had heard that RME2000 has hooks into the IGX world?
On planning the PVC for data & voice - typical design answer is "it
depends" - Load models can be tricky. Do you want voice & data to re-route
with an outage, or just data? Are you running ATM, Frame or Leased?
Public or Private? All of this criteria matters for when you adjust
PIR,QIR,CIR,MIR - or if you are on the ATM side PCR, SCR, MCR. and how you
create and tune your conns.
Finding info on this stuff is painful - most of it is learn by fire -
If you have specific stuff you want to ask I'm sure Scott or myself can
answer it, if not there is always TAC. But in my experience - I have to
esculate 2-3 times through TAC before I can get a guy who can spell IGX.
Beyond that they usuall only know one side, Voice or Data - not both.
Don't have that luxury here!!
Probably better take it off line - unless the other guys/gals are
interested in CCIE WAN type questions as well?
Dana Steffey, CCNP, CCNP-Voice, CCDP, CCNA WAN Switching, MCSE, MCT, CNA,
Electrical Engineer
Lab: 1 November, Halifax (2nd R/S Attempt)
Seagate Technology
Minneapolis, MN
DIBYENDU NAHA <dibyendu.naha@tatainfotech.com>@groupstudy.com on 09/01/2000
02:08:08 AM
Please respond to DIBYENDU NAHA <dibyendu.naha@tatainfotech.com>
Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
To: Scott Morris <smorris@mentortech.com>
cc: Dana_L_Steffey@seagate.com, ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: CCIE WAN
Hi Scott and Dana
'am being quite late to get into this dialogue.
Well I have failed in my first R&S attempt.Thrown out in the second day in
the month of march.Have'nt worked out the next attempt.
Well , I am looking for some IGX conf related stuff because I am about to
land into an new IGX base thru my employer. After a painful search thru
entire Cisco site 'am not at all comfortable with the available info.Could
u suggest some good source? How do I plan my PVCs for data&voice? Does WAN
manager help me to do the planning and then config ?
After some time in IGX base Can I try CCNA WAN ?
over
Dibyendu
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Scott Morris wrote:
> heheheh.... Best of luck to ya! Just remember to upgrade the standby
cards
> first, and do it s-l-o-w-l-y. :) Also, check the release notes to make
sure
> there aren't any issues with certain revs of firmware on cards you may be
> using (AT&T's problem).
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana_L_Steffey@seagate.com [mailto:Dana_L_Steffey@seagate.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 10:15 AM
> To: smorris@mentortech.com
> Cc: jsapiro@wnmail.wndev.att.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: CCIE WAN
>
>
>
> I guess I did hear about that - but everyone including Cisco was being
> hush-hush.
>
> I'm about to go from 9.109 to 9.2.33 on my IGX network - so if you hear
> about Seagate blipping off the scope, it's because I didn't read the
> manual.
>
> Dana
>
>
>
>
> "Scott Morris" <smorris@mentortech.com> on 07/25/2000 04:37:27 PM
>
> Please respond to <smorris@mentortech.com>
>
> To: <Dana_L_Steffey@Seagate.COM>, "'Jeff Sapiro'"
> <jsapiro@wnmail.wndev.att.com>
> cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>
> Subject: RE: CCIE WAN
>
>
> No, AT&T has a good-sized StrataCom network, hence the large outage in
> their
> frame network last year. :) Badly implemented software update (someone
> didn't read the manual).
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Dana_L_Steffey@seagate.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:46 PM
> To: Jeff Sapiro
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: CCIE WAN
>
>
>
> Everything on the WAN track is awful - Their are no books, and the
> documentation sucks after you get past IGX/BPX 101. I have been waiting
> for a higher level troubleshooting class for years. The last one they
had
> was in the IPX days.
>
> >From what I hear you have to not only know how to configure all of the
> StrataCom stuff, but multi-vendor PBX's as well. They tell me you have
to
> also setup Cisco WAN Manager on a Solaris Platform (what they used to
call
> SV+ - there are some tricks to this one from personal experience, you
need
> to be somewhat UNIX savvy)
>
> >From the last stats that I saw dated 4/30/00 their were only 59 in the
> world with a 5:1 ratio on passing the lab - the R/S is about 3:1
>
> I had also planned on getting the WAN CCIE after my R/S, due to the fact
I
> support a pretty good size StrataCom network.
>
> That is if I ever pass the R/S lab.
>
> Dana
>
> P.S. I was under the impression that AT&T only had Ascend? not
StrataCom.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeff Sapiro <jsapiro@wnmail.wndev.att.com>@groupstudy.com on 07/25/2000
> 12:02:41 PM
>
> Please respond to Jeff Sapiro <jsapiro@wnmail.wndev.att.com>
>
> Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
>
>
> To: GroupStudy CCIE <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> cc:
>
> Subject: CCIE WAN
>
>
> Anybody out there know what to do to prepare for this? 2 MGX8850's have
> recently become available to me - the docs are awful though.
> -Jeff
>
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