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New CCIE Collaboration Videos Have Arrived!

Attention all CCIE Collaboration candidates!! We’re excited to announce that Andy Vassar has been tirelessly working on new videos, and we have a brand new CCIE Lab Video on Demand playlist available!

Andy has gone through and broken down all the technologies to make sure that you have the most up to date information to help you effectively prepare for your CCIE Collaboration Lab Exam. In this playlist you’ll find 48 videos, broken down by blueprint section and technology, with the need to know information and topics covered in the lab exam.

All of this is in a high quality HD format that is clear and engaging to watch.

Stay tuned to see what other great video updates we’ll have in the coming days and weeks for our Collaboration track, as well as for our other tracks and certifications.

Make sure you swing by your Member’s Area today to check out this new playlist! We’re pretty excited about it, but don’t just take our word for it… have a look for yourself.

Can You Answer Correctly? BGP Dual-omed With Different As-Path

R23 is configured with maximum-paths 2 and, as you can see, is in the dual-homed topology. All of the attributes are 100% identical with the exception of what you see listed in the picture below. R23 has 2 paths listed in its BGP table for all prefixes being advertised from R15 yet, only installs 1 into its RIB, why does this happen? In addition, what command can I use to fix my problem.

I know the answer but, do you? Leave your answer in the comments!

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iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 9/18/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Ajay Edara, CCIE #36424 (R&S & Wireless)
  • Shiv Shankar, CCIE #43675 (Routing & Switching)
  • Andy Harrison, CCIE #50052 (Routing & Switching)
  • Mike Burk, CCIE #50207 (Wireless)
  • Tony Ilorah, CCIE #50210 (Security)
  • Ahmad Nawid Azizi, CCIE #50254 (Routing & Switching)

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 9/11/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Hesham Abdelkereem, CCIE #40790 (Dual, Wireless & Collaboration)
  • Nadeem Akbar, CCIE #11610 (Wireless)
  • Hugo Dantas, CCIE #49174 (Collaboration)

This Week’s Testimonial

Hesham Abdelkereem CCIE #40790 (Wireless & Collaboration)
The product that helped me was Video on Demand.

Nadeem Akbar CCIE #411610 (Wireless)
The CCIE Wireless Bootcamp helped me pass the exam.

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 9/04/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Eric Williamson, CCIE #49880 (Collaboration)
  • Paul Raffles, CCIE #49941 (Data Center)
  • Fabien Roulette, CCIE #49854 (Collaboration)

This Week’s Testimonial

Eric Williamson CCIE #49880 (Collaboration)
I would absolutely recommend IPexpert and Andy Vassar for CCIE Collaboration training. One of my favorite parts of the new blueprint change was that the rack rentals went to four hours and the labs increased but they were able to be done in smaller sections. As a person who travels on the road almost every week it was important to have a phone control/view option when coming in on a software VPN. This helped me to keep on track. Thank you Andy for helping me in so many instances, I will be eternally grateful.

Fabien Roulette CCIE #49854 (Collaboration)
Thank you very much for the quality of your books and pods on proctorlabs

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

MPBGP Configuration

Hi everyone, JP here. You know as CCIE candidates, we are faced with one of the most difficult, and grueling, exams the networking world has to offer – the CCIE lab exam. As you may or may not be aware, Frame-Relay was replaced with L3VPN and DMVPN in the R&S Version 5 blueprint update. This means not only will we need to understand our IGP’s, MPLS, and VRF Lite, but we will need to fully understand how to configure MPBGP in order to transport our VPN labels and prefixes across the service provider’s network.

Using a topology from one of our mock labs, let’s have a look into the configuration of MP-BGP and make sure we understand it. Preview the diagram in HD here.

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In a Layer 3 VPN we are driven by the need to advertise customer prefixes across a service provider network, while keeping these customers isolated from one another. To do this using L3VPN, we need to carry more than just the IPv4 unicast address, which is all standard BGP is capable of. Additional information like the MPLS label, VPN label, and route-distinguisher need to be carried from one point of the network to the other. Let’s Continue reading

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 8/28/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Mohan Mayilraj, CCIE #49942 (Data Center)
  • Zahari Georgiev, CCIE #49996 (Wireless)
  • Mohamed Enassiri, CCIE #46237 (Collaboration)

This Week’s Testimonial

Mohan Mayilraj CCIE #49942 (Data Center)
Thank you very much for help reach my goal. Your video and training and Boot camp helped lot and your proctor lab is gem and very much useful and I used your lab most of time and workbook.This is my first attempt on CCIE. I got through it .

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

Codec Negotiations in Your CCIE Collaboration Preparation

Codec negotiation is a topic that gets glossed over without much consideration in the studies of most students. There’s really not much to it, right? All we have to do is slap a couple of Regions on two different system endpoints and…voila, we have successfully negotiated a codec! Can it be that simple? Like most answers to rhetorical questions in the tech world, “It depends.” A simplistic approach like the one just described above is a great place to start, but it doesn’t take into account key call flow elements such as early/delayed offer, Audio Codec Preference Lists, or call routing across CUBE, CUCM or CUCME. What if the codec should be different based on the originator of the call? These are all examples of key issues involving codec negotiation that we must wrap our mind around if we are to be successful in our CCIE Collaboration endeavors.

Let’s examine the requirement of routing a call between a 9971 Phone registered to the HQ CUCM cluster (HQ Phone 1) and a 7965 Phone registered to the SB CUCM cluster (SB Phone 1). In this example, consider that a SIP Trunk is configured directly between clusters in order to route Continue reading

Announcing Some Exciting Updates to Our Data Center, Routing & Switching, and Collaboration Materials!

CCIE Candidates! We’re excited to announce a few updates to our CCIE Data Center, R&S, and Collaboration product portfolios!

Data Center:

1) Our Volume 1 WB (and DSG) has been overhauled. Jason now has all labs that can be done on our Technology Racks covered in this book. It’s very thorough and covers everything you’ll see on the lab from a technology basis.

2) Our Volume 2 WB (and DSG) has had a MAJOR overhaul. Quite a few updates, changes and we’re happy that all 5 labs are very up-to-date. This workbook consists of 5 Mock Labs that must be done on our Full-Scale Mock Lab Racks – which have been booked solid for several months.

3) We have just finished the addition of 5 more Full-Scale Mock Lab racks! First, they’ve cost us a fortune, but our commitment to you is to have the resources you need to prepare for your lab. There are timeslots ready and open NOW if you need time on these Full-Scale Mock Lab racks.

Routing & Switching:

1) JP has finalized an updated R&S V5 Volume 1 WB (and DSG), and it’s posted and available now.

2) We anticipate having our R&S V5 Continue reading

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 8/17/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Alemneh Nigussi, CCIE #28272 (Data Center)
    (He’s a 3x CCIE! He also has Voice and Routing/Switching.)
  • K.G. Pramod, CCIE #49662 (Data Center)
  • Mohamed Ahmed Ali, CCIE #34760 (Security)
  • Muhammad Adil, CCIE #49605 (Data Center)

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

Purdue Research Park tenant offers Cisco certification prep classes

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. – Networking engineers in all industrial sectors who are preparing to take the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) exam may benefit from a Purdue Research Park tenant that offers products and monthly preparation courses.

iPexpert Inc. is a tenant in the Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana that helps its clients prepare to take the CCIE Collaboration certification exam. Andy Vassar, senior technical instructor, said the prep courses are suitable for all networking professionals.

“Today, almost every company will have a networking engineer design and implement computer networks, and almost everyone runs Cisco Systems equipment in their network,” he said. “A CCIE certification is the most respected, sought-after certification in networking and there are many opportunities to use it. Those who earn it are considered the top experts in their profession.”

CCIE certification is available on several subjects including Routing and Switching, Data Center, Wireless and Security. Vassar said iPexpert classes at the Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana prepare attendees for the CCIE Collaboration certification, which covers communication via telephone, instant messenger and video.

“CCIE certification exams have two parts: passing the two-hour written test makes you eligible to take the eight-hour lab exam,” he said. Continue reading

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 8/7/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Jaffar Nassiry, CCIE #49339 (Wireless)
  • John Meachum, CCIE #49353 (Wireless)
  • James Wheat, CCIE #49400 (Wireless)
  • Brian McPhail, CCIE #49246 (Route/Switch)
  • Abdelfattah Ali, CCIE #48195 (Route/Switch)
  • Daniel Lucas, CCIE #49361 (Route/Switch)
  • Ding So, CCIE #40685 (Wireless)
  • Leonardo Henrique, CCIE #49208 (Collaboration)
  • Thomas Bryant, CCIE #49458 (Collaboration)
  • Ramcharan Arya, CCIE #28926 (Data Center)
  • Muhammad Adil, CCIE #49504 (Data Center)

This Week’s Testimonials

Ramcharan Arya CCIE #28926 (Voice/R&S/DC)
I would like to say “Thank you”, I have passed CCIE Data Center Lab exam last week. Your training material is outstanding for beginners to become an expert in DC technology. Your workbook and proctor lab racks helps in gaining hands-on experience and prepare for lab exam.

Thomas Bryant CCIE #49458 (Collaboration)
Studying for the Collaboration Lab takes years of experience among actual lab study. As most voice focused engineers know, time is extremely precious and dedicating study time is not exactly easy. I took the 10 day boot camp near Chicago to solidify my knowledge and ensure I knew all of the technologies on the blueprint backwards and forwards before my attempt. I can Continue reading

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 8/1/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Victor Yin, CCIE #49618 (Collaboration)
  • Christopher Bacon, CCIE #49617 (Route/Switch)
  • Majed Al-Logman, CCIE #49639 (Wireless)

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

Router IP Traffic Export

Router IP Traffic Export (RITE), or simply IP Traffic Export, is a method of copying traffic directly from a router to an external device, such as a Protocol Analyzer or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). This feature can be used to replace SPAN/RSPAN configurations deployed on L2 ports/VLANs. Two main benefits of RITE is, first, the ability to duplicate the traffic received on a WAN interface, such as Serial port, and second, granularity of our configuration – we can be very selective in what traffic will finally get copied from the network.

Before we discuss the configuration of RITE, just few words about limitations of this feature :

  1. The device receiving the exported traffic must be in the same L2 network as the router’s interface (e.g. must be directly connected). This interface is known as “outgoing” in the RITE’s terminology
  2. This (outgoing) interface must be an Ethernet port. Incoming interface(s) (where the traffic is received and optionally sent through) can be anything (e.g. WAN/LAN)
  3. Traffic generated by the router configured for RITE cannot be exported

A sample topology for RITE may look like one below. Our monitoring station (PC) is directly connected to R2’s RITE outgoing interface, Gig0/0 Continue reading

iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 7/3/2015

Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!

This Week’s CCIE Success Stories

  • Adrian McCaskill, CCIE #48071 (Wireless)
  • Hugo Dantas, CCIE #49174 (Collaboration)
  • Jocelyn Hamryszak, CCIE #49036 (Collaboration)
  • Ehsan Emad, CCIE #28551 (Data Center)
  • Jeremy Porter, CCIE #16273 (Wireless)
  • Filipe Gaspar, CCIE #48503 (Wireless)

We Want to Hear From You!

Have you passed your CCIE lab exam and used any of iPexpert’s self-study products, or attended a CCIE Bootcamp? If so, we’d like to add you to our CCIE Wall of Fame!

Preparing for the CCIE Wireless v3 Diagnostic Section

I had the pleasure of attending the CCIE Wireless tectorial at Cisco Live in San Diego this year. One of the topics discussed was the new diagnostic section of the lab. Jerome Henry gave us insights into what the section would look like as well as some examples of the types of things that we can expect in the section. I wanted to pass on some of that information along with a few insights about how you should prepare for this section since it’s quite different than what we’ve seen before in the lab.

What is the Diagnostic section?

Starting in v3 of the wireless lab, each lab will begin with a 1-hour diagnostic section. This section has no configuration task associated with it. Instead, you will be playing the role of TAC, or a senior level engineer. Your job is to look at information gathered from a client by a first-level engineer and analyze it so that you can answer questions related to troubleshooting an issue.

It sounds like you can expect maybe 3-4 separate troubleshooting scenarios with approximately 10 questions to answer across those 3-4 scenarios. So that means there will probably be 2-4 questions per scenario. All Continue reading

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