Re: something to look forward to?

From: MADMAN (dmadlan@qwest.com)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 11:07:49 GMT-3


Marko Berend wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what was the lab like ten years ago :)
>
> If you can shed some light without breaking the famous NDA...

  I think there was a lot more testing on the desktop protocols. Back
in 96 many calls were SNA, IPX and even quite a bit of Appletalk. I see
little of that now. There was no DLSW yet, ATM was just coming into use
and frame relay point-to-point interfaces were fairly new. I think the
lab IOS was 10.0 - 10.3 and they had a stack of manuals to use, no CD's
or CCO which was CSO at that time. There was one lab in San Jose. EIGRP
was pretty flaky and there were about 25K routes on the Internet:)

   The one constant was the failure rate was bout 80% and it was a
(inject word for female dog:)

   Dave

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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Skinner [mailto:stephen_ski@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:29 AM
> To: dmadlan@qwest.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: something to look forward to?
>
>
> Dave ,
>
> has it really been 10 yrs since you passed....
>
> doesn`t time fly...
>
> my self i will have to wait until 7th may 2014 ....i hope ... i really
> really hope ..i REALLY REALLY hope
>
> cheers
>
>
>>From: MADMAN <dmadlan@qwest.com>
>>Reply-To: MADMAN <dmadlan@qwest.com>
>>To: cisco <cisco@groupstudy.com>, "'Ccielab (E-mail)'"
>><ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>>Subject: something to look forward to?
>>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:12:11 -0600
>>
>> A peer in the next cube here just recieved a congratulatory letter
>>and a
>>nice CCIE Ten Year plaque.
>>
>> Dave
>>--
>>David Madland
>>CCIE# 2016
>>Sr. Network Engineer
>>Qwest Communications
>>612-664-3367
>>
>>"Emotion should reflect reason not guide it"
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Qwest Communications
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"Emotion should reflect reason not guide it"



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