Spend 10 minutes of your life learning about the 403 Forbidden response. The good people who are studying for CCIE Collaboration will most likely have run into this time and time again- enjoy!
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We would like to congratulate Marcus Lundbom (CCIE # 45333) on passing his CCIE Collaboration Lab exam. Marcus attended our bootcamp at the end of June. Cool CCIE Number by the way!
Once again congrats to Chad Alder (CCIE # 45276) from the October class and thanks for sending through the following testimonial.
“It is my happy and humbling pleasure to announce that I have successfully completed the CCIE Collaboration Lab. CollabCert and Vik Malhi has put together an exemplary level of experience and support for the CCIE Collaboration that will help anyone from first timers to seasoned exam takers to achieve his/her goal in becoming CCIE Certified. There are CCIE companies out there, but CollabCert provides a culture that can be described as a family to all candidates committed to build quality and experienced Collaboration Engineers.”
Hopefully we will see you in one of our Collab bootcamps in 2015.
We would like to congratulate two of the delegates from our September bootcamp on passing the CCIE Collaboration Lab exam.
Awesome achievement and we are happy to have played a part in helping you achieve your goal.
If you are interested in obtaining the CCIE Collaboration certification contact sales@collabcert.com or register now for a seat in a bootcamp or workshop in 2015.
Vik Malhi, CCIE#13890
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For those of you doing CCIE Collab- you do not have access to the DSP calculator tool during the lab exam and so you should be aware of how to work out how many transcoder/conference/video conference sessions are available with the different types of PVDM3 modules. Enjoy watching- you might need to take notes during this video.
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After several months preparation of CCIE Collab racks and class material, it came as a relief to finally be back in the classroom talking to humans again! Our inaugural bootcamp took place in our San Jose training center week beginning June 23, 2014- this is just a quick overview of what to expect when you come to a CollabCert bootcamp.
It was a mad rush to get this classroom ready in time and we just about made it (minus one essential item- the coffee machine). We invested in some purpose built desks large enough to fit 6 endpoints and a computer. We have some really good views of Silicon Valley (not that there was much time to look out of the window). Here are a few snaps from the inaugural class!
The downtown location is 5-10 mins away from San Jose airport with plenty of hotels walking distance away from the facility. I’m really excited that our future customers will enjoy the experience.
Our racks are local to the classroom- if there are any issues with hardware/cabling/etc it can be resolved there and then. We have built the racks in an almost identical way to the testing centers. Each student has access to the 9971 and 7965 endpoints on the desk, ISR-G2 gateways equipped with PVDM-3, CUE installed on the SRE and a hypervisor more than capable of running the appliances and Windows servers.
You never really know the format of a class until it has been taught and I was relieved to find that the material could be covered in 5 days. The format of the Instructor Led Bootcamp is very much focused on the hands-on aspect of learning. The instructor demonstrations and whiteboard chat accounts for about one third of the class with the remaining two thirds open for hands-on lab time. Our labs are delivered using our new web-based Learning Management system and every question that is asked in the lab has a full explanation. The topics covered in the class as well as the topology can be found here.
The class has a big emphasis on call routing- so knowledge related to the building blocks of the UCM namely Call Routing and its associated features is essential. SIP trunking and SIP Troubleshooting formed a big part of the class- I would say that a third of the time in class was spent troubleshooting SIP signaling and making calls through SIP Trunks. You must have decent working knowledge in SIP Call traces before attending the class. The CollabCert LMS (Learning Management System) and CollabCert Workbook contain particularly large sections related to SIP.
Familiarity with IOS gateways, dial-peers, SCCP media resources is (as was the case with CCIE Voice) another essential part of the course.
You will spend some time on new introductions to the blueprint which include distributed call processing features such as InterCluster Lookup Service (ILS) and Extension Mobility Cross Cluster (a beast!). The more preparation you can do in these areas the better.
Hope to see you in a class soon!
Vik Malhi, CCIE#13890
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