Simple Ideas Create Great Realities

December 19th, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic No Comments »

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Jimmy Wales.
All the great achievements in human history began as a simple idea in someone’s head. The above statment is no different. The above statement was nothing but the vision of Jimmy Wales the [...]

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Cisco or Juniper, Which one should I choose?

December 3rd, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in Network Design, Off Topic 6 Comments »

Being in charge of choosing the right boxes for a service provider network is definitely a hard task specially if it is a large network migration and this is exactly what we were doing in the past few months. The challenge here is that your are faced with a lot of choices that will affect [...]

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Where have we been?

October 21st, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic No Comments »

It has been about five moths now since I wrote my last post here. I am really sorry about that but we were too busy doing a lot of things which may provide a rich content for our posts on the next few months. Actually we were consumed preparing for exams, big backbone network migration [...]

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Eman in Cairo

February 28th, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic 1 Comment »

On March 17th the CCIE Agent Eman will be arriving to Cairo.  He will be in Cairo for a Cisco sponsored HR Talent Forum and Job Fair.  He will be interested in hearing from those CCIE and Network engineers who would like to meet with Cisco Channel Partners for interviews on [...]

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Interview with Emmanuel Conde

February 10th, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic No Comments »

Today I have a special treat for you — an exclusive written interview with the CCIE Agent Emmanuel Conde.

Eman (Emmanuel Conde) has the distinction of being the only CCIE recruiter promoted by World Wide Channels of Cisco Systems.   Eman earned this distinction because of his tireless efforts on behalf of CCIEs and developing Cisco talent.  [...]

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WISB Free Telnet Tool

January 16th, 2009 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic 3 Comments »

WISB is our first free application to the networkers community. The application is used to simplify mass configuration tasks on multiple devices, by automating the telnet connectivity and applying the configuration provided in the configuration files.
Currently it is supporting IOS devices only. After stabilizing this beta version we are going to support other devices and [...]

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I woke up in the morning and the internet was not there

December 25th, 2008 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic 1 Comment »

It was Friday 19 Dec, exactly 9:30 in the morning when I got a call from our NOC team informing me that our BGP peering session is in idle state with our main provider; idle means that the router is not even trying to establish a connection and since this is a direct connection I [...]

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Real job description for a Network Architect

November 26th, 2008 Wael Osama Posted in Off Topic No Comments »

Guys, I would like to share with you the real description of the Network Architect job. Enjoy reading

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