Rohan Karamandi

Today (May 21st), I was lucky enough to participate in the Cisco Networkers Solutions Forum. It having being my first “tech conference”, I have to say that I thought it was pretty good. I learnt quite a bit from the Systems Engineers from Cisco, as well as some of the partners that had booths set up.

Cisco seems to making quite a bit of headway with their products, like with the Nexus switches for datacenters; working to eliminate technologies such as Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), and by adding tagging for Virtual Machines (VM) frames.

Also, it’s nice to see how much is going into becoming “green”. Even small things like the shirts we were given to wear for the Cisco Academy were “eco friendly” using bamboo; same with the hats that were given out to everyone. Companies like Fluke were concentrating a lot on temperature gauges, power efficiency meters, etc. 

Cisco has teamed up with CBC to come up with “One Million Acts of Green“. Basically, it’s an initiative that Cisco came up with for the average person to be more eco-friendly. From the One Million Acts of Green website:

It’s not about overhauling your life; it’s about one act from each individual amassing to a million. It can be as simple as switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs, starting a recycling program, or walking to work. You can do one act – or you can do all one million! It’s up to you. 

One resource that I wasn’t made aware of until today is Cisco’s Design Zone . Apparently it has a lot of interesting content, such as best practices. I haven’t verified this for myself, but it’s still worth a looking into.

I’ll throw a picture of something from the forum later.