Dennis caught our eye creating Visio versions of the best-selling Volume 1 workbook network topology for his fellow students in the IEOC. Thanks again Dennis and enjoy your $50 Gift Certificate for Amazon.com. The files that Dennis created for his fellow students can be found by clicking here. Here is his story... In 1991, I began my official work life as a Customer Service Representative.  I repaired all manner of equipment for many well-known small to medium sized retail chains and large... Read More

Many times, students believe that they could use a bit of a boost when it comes to solving the very complex and difficult Practice Lab Exams featured in our famous Volume II workbook here at INE. To respond to this, Keith Barker and I came up with an idea for a new INE product unlike anything that had been created before. We created a fully interactive video guide to lab exam strategy and actual solutions for the first five labs of the workbook. But we did not stop there. We also recorded bonus... Read More

If you have spent any time in the R&S forums in the IEOC, you have seen the username Deepak Arora. Deepak has achieved Elite status in the forum and is always challenging and helping his peers with his excellent posts. Thank you so much Deepak, and we look forward to celebrating your number soon. We are placing 100 GradedLabs rack rental tokens in your account as a small gesture of our appreciation. I am sure many are interested in Deepak's story...here it is: I started my career in mid 2003 as... Read More

Cisco originally promised us a new CCDP exam (version 2.1) on Nov 8, 2010. Read More

We have some exciting free vSeminars on the way. More details will follow, but I wanted everyone to mark the dates now. These events will be recorded and added to: Read More

October 20-22, 2010. Book your seat now! Click here! Cannot make those dates, purchase now and receive the on-demand version the week following the live event. Module 1 IPv6 Addressing and Basic Connectivity Address Types IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Basic Connectivity Module 2 IPv6 Protocols IPv6 ICMP DHCP for IPv6 IPSec in IPv6 QoS for IPv6 Read More

For success designing and implementing Cisco Wireless solutions, a CCNA Wireless student needs to be familiar with the options for various wireless topologies. Two were defined by the 802.11 committees, while others were made possible thanks to excellent developments by wireless vendors like Cisco Systems. The 802.11 Topologies Ad Hoc Mode While not popular, it is possible to have wireless devices communicate directly with no central device managing the communications. This is called the Ad Hoc... Read More

One of the features students love in the INE 5-Day CCNP bootcamp is the frequent Exam Challenges that are presented to students. Have fun with this sample from SWITCH. Read More

In the first part of this series, we subdivided the processes of EIGRP into four discrete steps, and detailed troubleshooting the first two. This is taken from the 5-Day CCNP bootcamp: Discovery of neighbors Exchange of topology information Best path selection Neighbor and topology table maintenance Let us now discuss path selection and maintenance troubleshooting. We should all remember that we can view the topology table of EIGRP with the command show ip eigrp topology. Here we can see the... Read More

We are so excited here at INE for the live, online 5-Day CCNP bootcamp that starts Monday, August 16, 2010 . I look forward to seeing many of our aspiring CCIE candidates in this course. These students realize that they really need to improve their foundation Tier 1 knowledge as they seek to conquer the Lab Exam beast. In this blog post, we are going to provide a sneak peek into some of the awesome information shared in the TSHOOT section of the bootcamp regarding the Troubleshooting of EIGRP.... Read More