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CCIE Numbers nearing 58xxx

As the slightly annoying cyber November draws to a close we would like to offer our congratulations to our recent passing students who are proud owners of a brand new CCIE Number. Our recent bootcamps students did really well and this reflects in the number of folks in the late 57xxx CCIE Number range. We are hoping for great things for the 58xxx series of CCIE Numbers, fingers crossed! Don’t wait too long, the world is going to change in 2018 when it comes to CCIE Collaboration. Get your name on our list of successes by signing up for a class.

  • Jonathan Unger – CCIE #57829 (Collaboration)
  • Joel Murphy – CCIE #57723 (Collaboration)
  • Will Nelson – CCIE #57722 (Collaboration)
  • Brad Hacker – CCIE #57659 (Collaboration)
  • Dan Writz – CCIE #57612 (Collaboration)
  • Samuel Baxter- CCIE #57573 (Collaboration)
  • Daniel Chaves – CCIE #57565 (Collaboration)
  • Davide Marazza – CCIE# #57550 (Collaboration)
  • Ivan Alexander Alves – CCIE #57485 (Collaboration)

Thanks to Joel for the following:

My CCIE journey truly began five years ago when I joined my current employer. I was incentivized to pass the CCIE Voice written. Continue reading CCIE Numbers nearing 58xxx

Student Testimonial- Daniel Chaves CCIE# 57565

Thanks to Daniel for the following testimonial. Some very good advice for any CCE wannabes out there. We believe the follow-up after class, assessment & grading, ongoing feedback and mentorship to our students is what sets us apart and is the reason why CollabCert students do so well.

I am going to start by saying that I was hesitating about taking the class with Vik, all of the folks that I know who have passed the test and have taken the class were strongly recommending it but there was a financial aspect to it as well. In the end I decided to give it a try hoping that it would give me the final touches I needed to pass.

I got real serious about studying about 4 or 5 months prior to the class, Continue reading Student Testimonial- Daniel Chaves CCIE# 57565

CCIE Collab- Fall 2017 Passes

It’s been a great few weeks for our CCIE Collab students sitting the Lab. Here are some of our passing students from recent classes. Huge congrats!

Please see our latest testimonials here.

  • Daniel Chaves- CCIE #57565 (Collaboration)
  • Ivan Alexander Alves- CCIE #57485 (Collaboration)
  • Davide Marazza CCIE# #57550 (Collaboration)
  • Aaron Dailey – CCIE #56797 (Collaboration)

Thanks to Aaron for the following testimonial:

As you can read from the many testimonials, Vik is the real deal. Continue reading CCIE Collab- Fall 2017 Passes

Understanding the 5 uses of Calling Party Transformation Pattern in UCM

Full Disclosure: this is not for the faint of heart! And unless you are trying to wrap up your CCIE Collaboration then you are probably not going to be overly interested in this article.

This method of transforming the Calling Number within UCM has rarely been fully understood by candidates pursuing the CCIE Collab certification. The aim of this somewhat lengthy blog is to provide a use case for every possible scenario where the Calling Party Transformation Pattern provides some value. In total there are 5 completely different situations where Calling Party Transformation Pattern comes into play, although I doubt one would ever encounter a real-world situation whereby all the different scenario’s would be in used at the same time.

Before we begin, let me stress two things. Continue reading Understanding the 5 uses of Calling Party Transformation Pattern in UCM

CCIE Recertification changes

Prior to June 6 2017 a person with a CCIE certification had been required to pass any CCIE Written exam every two years in order to re-certify and keep their CCIE active (excluding Emeritus). Cisco have announced an alternative method to re-certify which allows for an existing CCIE to avoid sitting another Written exam for the purpose of re-certification.

In a nutshell there are Cisco-approved training courses that can be taken that count for credits and if you get enough credits by the time you are due to re-certify, then you are good to go and don’t need to pass a Written exam. There is an administration fee of $300 in order to do this.

For full details of the “Cisco Continuing Education Program” click here.

What does this mean? Continue reading CCIE Recertification changes

Jan/Feb 2017 CCIE Successes

As we all hold our breath in anticipation of a new blueprint update for the CCIE Collaboration track, plenty of people have had great success on CCIE Collab v1 in the first two months of 2017. Here are some of our passing students from class. Huge congrats!

Please see our latest testimonials here.

  • Ollie Young – CCIE #55836 (Collaboration)
  • Ahmed Al-Khadar – CCIE #55833 (Collaboration)
  • Bill Donovan – CCIE #55817 (Collaboration)
  • Francisco Fossa – CCIE #55749 (Collaboration)
  • Wisam Ismael – CCIE #55720 (Collaboration)
  • Continue reading Jan/Feb 2017 CCIE Successes

All CCIE Written Exams change in 7 days

This is a quick note for all folks out there who are planning to sit a CCIE Written exam in the near future, you may want to consider sitting the test within the next 7 days!!!!

This is because all CCIE Written exams will include a new section called Evolving Technologies as of July 25 2016. Please see here for more info.

The new section will account for 10% of every Written exam. The blueprint for the new section is shown below:

Evolving Technologies Domain

1. Cloud

1.1: Compare and contrast Cloud deployment models
Continue reading All CCIE Written Exams change in 7 days

Top 10 IOS Troubleshooting Commands for the CCIE Collaboration Lab

#1 show call active voice compact

Use case: We have an active call through the CUBE and we want to see the codec that is being used along with the media ip addresses and RTP port numbers.

R2# show call act voice comp
 A/O FAX T Codec type Peer Address IP R:
 Total call-legs: 2
 307 ANS T13 ilbc VOIP P2001 192.102.64.50:24818
 308 ORG T13 ilbc VOIP P3001 192.102.65.50:31562

#2 show call active video compact

Continue reading Top 10 IOS Troubleshooting Commands for the CCIE Collaboration Lab

Unified Mobility and Mobile Voice Access

Mobility and Mobile Voice Access

Single Number Reach/Mobile Voice Access

In this article we will discuss the concepts and configuration behind Cisco Unified Mobility in UCM 9.x. Cisco Unified Mobility can be broken down into two main functional components- Mobile Connect (Single Number Reach/SNR) and Mobile Voice Access (Direct Inward System Access/DISA).

Assumptions before we begin

  • Before we dive into Unified Mobility specific configuration, we need to (as always!) make some assumptions.
  • Firstly, we assume as have a fully configured dialplan in UCM using an H323 gateway (no you are not mistaken- it is 2016). The DID range allocated to the site from the PSTN is 9723033XXX.
  • Secondly- we have a device registered and working. This deskphone has been allocated the DID 9723033001.
  • Thirdly- we have an End User created- this end user is called “sitebone”.

Single Number Reach

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policing phone traffic on Catalyst 3750

This video covers how to police voice, signaling and video traffic from phones on the Catalyst 3750 . It is one of a series of videos taken from the CollabCert LMS self-study product.

Vik Malhi, CCIE#13890
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