Inside Cisco's new CCNA exams; Cisco WAN gear preserves Nanometrics' VoIP quality

Cisco News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's Cisco News Alert, 07/02/07 Network World Video: Inside Cisco's new CCNA exams, 06/29/07: Cisco this week revised its Cisco Certified Networking Associate exam . In this video from Cisco Press, Wendell Odom, author of CCNA Official Exam Certification Library and a senior instructor with Skyline Advanced Technology Services, describes the new exams and the new editions of the books to help candidates prepare for the tests. YouTube video puts sharp focus on tech job ads, 06/28/07: Cisco placed a help-wanted ad for a network consulting engineer in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, June 3, and David Huber, a networking professional who lives in Chicago, was interested in the job. Cisco WAN gear preserves Nanometrics' VoIP quality, 06/28/07: Cisco’s Wide-Area Application Services modules integrated into Cisco Integrated Services Routers preserve QoS for Cisco customer Nanometrics' delay-sensitive VoIP traffic. Network World Storage Buyer's Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. From a tape library to an on-line backup service to a complete, drop-it-in-place SAN Solution, check out this Buyer's guide. With over 200 products divided into specific categories, you can conduct side-by-side comparisons and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Storage Buyer's Guide now. Today on Cisco Subnet: Blogger Brad Reese asks why was one U.S. job seeker responding to a Cisco ad told to follow-up with Cisco's immigration lawyers and not HR? Milw0rm.com publishes a paper describing the IOS vulnerability that got Michael Lynn into hot water. Blogger Jeff Doyle explains Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF), Non-Stop Routing (NSR), and Graceful Restart (GR). Meet the quadruple CCIE who has a $2.3 million lab in the basement of his home.

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