After achieving my CCIE and watching the success of my personal blog grow, it seemed like a good idea to have a web magazine dedicated to the pursuit of the most prestigious Cisco certification, the CCIE. Here you’ll find a ton of great news, reviews, interviews, and media to help you on your path towards CCIE. And so today I’m happy to be launching ccieMagazine.com! Here at ccieMagazine.com we’ll be tackling pretty much any subject to do with obtaining your CCIE including:
- Complete step by step tutorials, including video tutorials
- Interviews with key CCIE industry figures, and instructors
- Books & Training Product Reviews
- Groupstudy and Online Study Lists Round Ups
- … And Industry News
I’ll be using everything I learnt running ardenpackeer.com, to make ccieMagazine.com a success. I’m going to have a slow start to the site with just one or two tutorials a week and then ramping up over a few months to daily tutorials and a membership system. So today there isn’t much to see, but bookmark the site, add the feed to your RSS reader and get ready for a whole new series of step-by-step tutorials!
A word about me
I started working with Cisco equipment about 8 years ago when I worked for Ericsson Australia. Back then I taught myself and fumbled about with our 2500 series routers and 1900 series switches. It was a start and frankly its a bit embarrassing now thinking about all the mistakes I made. But I learnt quickly. I taught myself routing protocols, switching and eventually got my CCNA. I eventually graduated to rolling out network management systems (NMS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS) for telecommunications operators and service provider networks in the Asia Pacific region including StarHUB Singapore, IndoSat Indonesia and Digi Telecom Malaysia. At Ericsson I also helped design, test and deploy configuration management software that looked after one of the largest ATM networks in the world at British Telecom.
These days I’ve focused on translating my hands on technical experience into something I love doing: teaching. I spend most of my time delivering quality Cisco courses covering Routing Protocols (EIGRP,
OSPF, RIP, BGP), Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS), IP Quality of Service, Security and VoIP. My hope is that the tutorials and articles on this site help you on your own path to CCIE!
Contribute to ccieMagazine.com
If you are interested in joining the crew and writing for ccieMagazine.com, please send an email to
write@cciemagazine.com outlining a little bit about you, what topics you would like to write about, and possibly a sample article or two to give us a better idea of your writing style.
How you can help ccieMagazine.com
Happily there are a couple of really easy ways that you can help us out on the site. Whenever a tutorial is posted, you’ll see three buttons underneath for Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon. We’d really appreciate it if you’d vote for the tutorials on any (or all!) of these three sites. A few tutorials have been Dugg so far and it brings lots of traffic and means more and more people benefit from them (which is nice not only because we get to sell more ads, but because they take quite a few hours to write!)
