In the very last day of availability of the  CCIE v4 350-001 written exam I've renewed my CCIE for a couple of years more:

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Got mail from Cisco:

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In really enjoyed to read all the blog post of people passing the CCIE lab exam over the years. I've found the stories very inspirational so now it's time for me to give back.

I started working as a system engineer in 2001 supporting Microsoft Windows 2000 client and server for a bank. I had the opportunity to work …

I've passed the CCIE RS lab exam yesterday in Brussels, results arrived this morning:

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Cisco stopped to publish CCIE statistics some time ago but in Cisco Live presentations we can find some slides like this:

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A great blog and Youtube channel with a lot of resources for Cisco Wireless:

OSPF Forward Address (FA):

• works like BGP next-hop for OSPF external routes

• advertised only if next-hop is on a not-passive and multiaccess interface

• if there's not a route to FA address, route is not installed

• FA = 0.0.0.0 --> cost to ABR

• FA <> 0.0.0.0 --> cost to FA address

• NSSA --> FA is …

After the first week of the INE bootcamp I spent the weekend relaxing a bit and reviewing the topics on the doc-cd.

The second week confirmed the high level of this training, long hours and Brian Dennis showing us a lot of scenarios and how to spot a problem before it happens instead of just troubleshooting it later. …

I spent this week in London attending the first part INE CCIE R&S 10days  bootcamp with Brian Dennis. I stay in London for the weekend to review some topics and be ready for the second part next week.

The bootcamp runs from 9AM to 8PM and it's all hands on, no videos, no slides, no workbook to follow line-by-line, …

I didn't pass the CCIE RS Lab exam today in Brussels. This was my first attempt.

I have to improve my troubleshooting skills and go deeper in some technologies but I think I can do it.

I don't have plans for the next attempt yet, there're other personal projects that will take most of my free time in the next months. …