David Bombal

Is the CCIE still relevant? Are CCNA, CCNP and CCIE certs even worth it? Surely SDN and Network Automation are replacing certifications? The CCIE is no longer worth it as networks will be automated. Right? With SDN and network automation, there is no longer a need for CCNA, CCNP or CCIE certifications. Jeff McLaughlin, Director, Technical Marketing at Cisco tells us his thoughts on this. He also explains SD-Access (SDA) and other Cisco SDN technologies. Menu: Who is Jeff: 00:24 The CCIE is dead: 2:20 Is Networking still a good career? CCNA or Python? 8:05 Open Source tools? 11:00 What is SDN? 13:17 Does Cisco support OpenFlow? 16:34 What is Intent Based Networking? SD-Access / ACI / SD-WAN 18:30 What is SD-Access (SDA)? 21:46 What is the advantage of SD-Access? 27:46 Can ACI and SD-Access work together? 32:38 What is the best technology to study as a new person? 33:48 Jeff's details: Blog: http://www.subnetzero.info/ INTERVIEWING #1: How I got my first networking job: http://www.subnetzero.info/2019/03/15/880/ David's details: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal #devnet #ccie #sdn

Don't be scared! You too can learn to code networks like Adrian did! Network Engineer becomes a NetDevOps engineer and improves his life. No, your job will not be taken away, but your life will get better. Menu: Why did you create this SD-WAN solution? 0:20 Network Engineer creating software? 2:30 What to download the code and see for yourself? 3:45 Network Person can develop their own code 4:30 Demo of the solution: 4:58 What was it written in? 7:25 Network Engineers becoming developers 8:48 How has this changed your life? 9:53 Will it take our jobs away? 11:00 Don't be scared! Get help: 12:45 DevNet is free: 13:20 Get the code:http://bit.ly/2ItmeGK DevNet Main Page: http://bit.ly/2WRvXQI DevNet Start Now: http://bit.ly/2XsY4CQ Adrian's Details: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aidevnet David's details: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: https:/www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal #devnet #sdwan #ccie

Need help with your company's Network Automation? Come and discuss your projects with the DevNet team! Meet the developer and get help from the DevNet stars! Whats new and exciting at Cisco DevNet this year? Hank Preston tells us all about it! Menu: Hank's personal experience: 00:53 How to get started? 3:25 Meet the Developer - get help with your automation projects: 4:05 Exciting new things happening: 7:46 DevNet Co-Creations: 11:10 DevNet Takeovers: 11:57 Sandbox Challenges: 13:10 Come and meet us: 15:30 More information here: https://developer.cisco.com/ciscolive Meet the Developer: Get mentored to get started with programming... Your journey to becoming a developer begins here! Cisco Design Thinking Experience the power of the end-to-end flow of Design Thinking. Get tips on running Design Thinking activities or workshop sessions with your team and customers. Start Now Come check out the beginning 101 courses on GitHub, Python, Coding, Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, Cisco ACI and more… Save your spot to get hands-on with iOS, Swift and much more.. DevNet Co-Creations Discover the art of possible when you partner with the DevNet team to customize your innovation. Check the latest innovative demos with various partners.... DevNet Takeovers Join us for snacks, drinks, giveaways and product specific content with various Cisco groups. Sandbox Challenge Play the DevNet Sandbox Tablet Teaser Challenge. If you get the fastest time of the day, a great prize will be yours! #clus #devnet #clus2019

Career advice: Is your Resume good enough? How to ace the interview! Job tips from Jeff McLaughlin, Director, Technical Marketing at Cisco! Make sure you spend time checking your Resume. How to answer technical questions. Do I need to get a degree? Or are certifications enough? Menu: 1) Resume tips: 00:44 2) Too much focus on Technical skills: 4:14 3) Interview tips: 5:50 4) What do I need to do to work at Cisco? 9:42 5) What about social media marketing? 11:38 6) Certs vs examples of work? 13:14 7) Degrees vs certifications? 14:28 8) Can I get a job at Cisco without a degree? 18:10 9) Cisco Dress code: 19:03 Jeff's details: Blog: http://www.subnetzero.info/ INTERVIEWING #1: How I got my first networking job: http://www.subnetzero.info/2019/03/15/880/ David's details: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal #jobs #ccna #ccnajobs

Do you know how Wifi 6 actually works? Do you understand terms such as OFDMA, BSS Coloring, TWT, 1024 QAM and more? Well this video explains all of those terms! Wifi 6 is not a switch as some have said - even with OFDMA - but 802.11ax now allows multiple clients to transmit at the same time! That is a massive change in wifi technologies. Learn about all the new wifi 6 advantages and confusing terms in simple to understand language. Rowell explains Wifi fundamentals and advanced concepts using simple language and fantastic analogies. Wifi is becoming more and more important. So, if you are studying for your ccna wireless exam, or ccnp exam, this video will help you. Learn about ofdma and other terms: bss coloring, target wake time and many others. Even if you are only preparing for your icnd1 or ccent exam, start learning some wireless technologies if you want to get a career as a network engineer. Menu: Wifi 6 new features: 00:01 Wifi 6 speed: 1:12 Rowell Introduction: 4:25 Wifi podcast: 5:00 Rowell's experience - Stanford University: 6:15 What about Wi-Fi 6 is interesting (high efficiency) 9:30 Why is it called Wifi 6? 11:27 What fast is Wifi 6 - caveats: 14:00 What does Wifi 6 high efficiency mean? 15:49 OFDMA: 17:55 Getting back to the basics: What is a channel? 20:45 Is Wifi 6 a switch? 22:15 What is channel bonding? 25:22 MIMO:27:00 Multiple Radios (Radio Channels): 28:36 Wifi 6 2x2, 4x4, 8x8 Radio chains: 30:43 MU-MIMO - is it like a switch? Or Hub?: 35:03 BSS Coloring: 46:39 Is Wifi 6 it real? Is it pre-standard? 49:30 2.4 Ghz change in Wifi 6: 50:53 Latency in Wi-Fi 6: 53:01 What about the client devices? 54:12 Will old devices slow the network down? 55:32 How many years will it take to convert? 57:28 Real World Deployment? Should I upgrade? What should customers do? Get Wifi 6 today? 58:38 Wifi 6 Modulation: 1024 QAM: 1:01:02 Target Wake Time (IOT devices):1:05:14 Wifi Tools: 1:13:06 Cisco Video mentioned: https://youtu.be/V5qLv0BtBcM Rowell's contact details: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rowelldionicio Podcast: https://www.cleartosend.net Website: https://www.packet6.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowelldionicio/ David's contact details: Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedinIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ YouTube: https://www.YouTube.com/davidbombal Learn more here: What Is Wi-Fi 6? http://bit.ly/2Jvlcx9 Cisco Access Points: http://bit.ly/2Ekpjru Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Solution: http://bit.ly/2JvkQGP 5G or Wi-Fi 6? Yes.: http://bit.ly/2w9URfb Cisco DevNet Wireless page: https://developer.cisco.com/wireless/ Main Cisco DevNet Page: http://cs.co/9002DQ3Tu #wifi6 #80211ax #ccna

What are the top 10 skills and technologies you need to learn in 2019? CCNA? Python? AWS? Ivan Pepelnjak shares his knowledge about SDN, OpenFlow, NSX, Whitebox switching, disaggregation, Cumulus Linux and a whole lot more. Use the menu to jump to a specific topic. Previous video: https://youtu.be/BmnRf0HCy_Q Connect with Ivan: Website: http://bit.ly/2Hci4oL Twitter: https://twitter.com/ioshints LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanpepel... Connect with David: Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ Top 10 skills discussion starts here: 01:09:10 Menu: 00:17 - Introductions 01:15 - Ivan's new content and interesting courses 03:00 - Webinar content 05:25 - Do Network Engineers need to know the theory behind specific topics like OSPF 09:50 - What is SDN? 19:34 - OpenFlow implementations 22:20 - Other SDN solutions 24:02 - What is Cisco ACI? 27:40 - What is VMware NSX? 33:00 - How do the other SDN solutions compare? 35:00 - Should I study Cisco or AWS? 43:50 - Will we still have jobs in the cloud era? Will AWS and Azure replace my jobs? 47:07 - Will automation replace network engineers? Will AI replace us? 50:40 - AWS versus CCIE? 53:00 - Cumulus and other vendor switches used by Facebook, Amazon etc Why should I care? 59:55 - What is Whitebox switching / disaggregation? 01:09:10 - Should Network Engineers learn Linux? 01:09:47 - What technologies should I learn today if I'm starting out in my career? 01:13:45 - Other skills you should get today? Soft skills / mentorship. 01:15:00 - Don't fake it! Top 10 technologies and skills to learn in 2019: 1) Networking - obviously you need to know networking if you are a network engineer :) Get your ccna / CCNP / CCIE 2) Linux 3) Git 4) Python 5) Higher level automation tool like Ansible / Bash / Make 6) Networking on Linux 7) Cloud skills like AWS or Azure 8) Application Architectures 9) Soft skills 10) Mentoring Courses: Python for Network Engineers ($10): Udemy: http://bit.ly/2Wwb0aD GNS3 Academy: https://goo.gl/vnZJhg Linux for Network Engineers ($10): Udemy: https://bit.ly/2EFyHU8 GNS3 Academy: https://bit.ly/2HuEY80 Ansible for Network Engineers ($10): Udemy: http://bit.ly/305b5nL Cumulus Linux ($10): http://bit.ly/2LKyIPx DavidBombal.com: All courses are part of subscription http://www.davidbombal.com #top2019skills #top2019technologies #study2019

Want to learn from the best? Learn from Ivan Pepelnjak! The "grumpy old network engineer" tells us about OpenFlow, SDN, Network Automation, Certifications and a lot more in this interview. Is it worth my time learning OpenFlow? Is network automation and SDN hype? Are certifications still worth it? Connect with Ivan: Website: http://bit.ly/2Hci4oL Twitter: https://twitter.com/ioshints LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanpepelnjak/ Connect with David: Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ Menu: Introduction: 00:10 Ivan's books and the old days: 01:23 ipSpace overview - why?: 2:33 One story from the early days: 04:00 How ipSpace can help you: Real world and multivendor: 04:45 80% of what they tell us is @£$@£$%: 6:05 Distributed Data centers across bridged networks and SDN and OpenFlow: 6:48 What would you do if you started today? Are certs important today? 07:50 Where did the Cisco CLI come from? 10:00 Study Cumulus Linux and other vendors while doing your CCNA: 11:15 How to increase the value of your knowledge: 11:44 Networking hasn't changed in the last 40 years and whatever you learn about networking will still be valid 20 years from now: 13:15 Certifications are still valid. Networking will become like power transmission networks: 15:00 There will be fewer jobs for network engineers in future: 19:35 Low end jobs will disappear. Make sure you learn network automation: 22:00 ipSpace automation courses and SDN: 25:30 Why should I learn and implement network automation? 30:26 When should I start learning automation? 33:25 CCNA before automation or at the same time? 35:30 Are you scared of spiders? Ansible or Python? 36:25 Nornir / Netmiko / NAPALM: 37:20 Should I learn SDN / OpenFlow in 2019? 42:28 David's details: YouTube: www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedinIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ #Ansible #CCNA2019 #Python

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No more excuses. Network Engineers are now developers. Plus, learn how to open CSV files and manipulate CSV data using Python. Hank Preston continues to teach us core Python skills. Menu: 00:16 - Hank Conferences 00:34 - Global PyCon conference 01:10 - Is the python PyCon conference worthwhile for Network Engineers? 03:00 - Network Automation Open Space at PyCon 05:25 - Are Network Engineers Programmers / Developers? 09:25 - Imposter Syndrome! 12:50 - Sharing is caring 15:50 - Python Libraries & Packages / Don't reinvent the wheel! 17:08 - CSV Libraries 19:15 - Atom (IDE) and iPython and other code editors 21:33 - Working with CSV libraries 25:00 - Importing and opening CSV 32:48 - Python for loop 42:33 - Using the Python With statement 50:51 - Using the built in help capabilities 1:00:35 - Prompting the user to add more data 1:05:47 - Using a Shebang line 1:08:20 - Linux Permissions (add execute permissions) Links: Start Now Page on Devnet: http://bit.ly/2WBjb5v NetDevOps Live Episode on Python Libraries including CSV: http://bit.ly/2VjbGP4 Coding Fundamentals Learning Labs: http://bit.ly/2vU1BO8 Network programmability Basics Video Series covering CSV: http://bit.ly/2JzlbY4 David's details: YouTube: www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedinIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ #python #devnet #ciscopython

It's confusing! Where do I start with network automation? Which tools should I learn? Hank Preston opens the Network Automation Tool Chest and tells us which tools we should learn. We have a roadmap of tools to learn, how to start learning and how to deploy in the real world. Which tools are best to start with? python or ansible or netmiko or pyats or paramiko? We discuss lots of options in this video. #Python #Ansible #Genie Links: DevNet home page: http://bit.ly/2MHbgOk Network programmability Basics Video Series: http://bit.ly/2GGzg2T Laptop Setup Labs: http://bit.ly/2GGzh6X Coding Fundamentals Learning Labs: http://bit.ly/2ZK8yiP Ansible Learning Labs: http://bit.ly/2ZEdqFY Menu: 0:38 - What Network Automation Tools 02:56 - The NetDevOps Engineer's Tool Chest 06:42 - Network Service and Configuration Management tools 10:36 - Where to start - Netmiko 12:55 - Genie CLI 15:00 - Ansible 20:20 - Domain Specific Language 22:14 - Python vs Ansible 24:08 - Napalm + Nornir 27:15 - Issues with Napalm and Netmiko 28:19 - Real World Use Cases of network automation tools 30:02 - pyATS & Paramiko 33:49 - pyATS & Genie 41:04 - DIFF 42:54 - How to schedule Network Automation 45:06 - Do Network Engineers need to learn Linux? Bash? 49:07 - Is Ansible Linux based? 50:15 - Other core skills needed today for Network Engineers 52:22 - Other Resources to help you 58:32 - Orchestration/Integration tools 59:33 - What is CICD? 1:04:00 - Do I need to learn Jenkins? 1:07:40 - The future of things going? 1:09:22 - Is there a presentation that goes over all of these tools? 01:10:10 - What should I begin with as a beginner? # Getting Started 0. Foundation "Stuff" * Python * Linux/bash fundamentals * git * REST APIs 1. CLI Based Interactions * Python + Netmiko - Configuration Based use cases * Genie CLI - Operation based use cases * Parmiko - NOT RECOMMENDED - just use Netmiko 2. Network Automation Frameworks/Abstractions * Ansible "Domain Specific Language (DSL)" - Configuration Use Cases * NAPALM + Python - Configuration Use Cases * Nornir + Python - Configuration Use Cases 3. Network Verification * pyATS/Genie + Python - Operational / Testing Use Cases * For every BGP neighbor, ensure prefixes being learned * For every "up interface", ensure no CRC errors * "Profile" before change, Change, "Profile" after, DIFF Other Skills/Questions 1. How to schedule "stuff" * Run a Python script every hour - cron utility on Linux/Unix/macOS * Orchestration/Integration Tools - (CICD Tools) - Jenkins, Drone, Gitlab * "Event Driven" * Central Management Servers - Ansible Tower # Real World Use Cases * Scale * Performance * Transactions/Error Recovery David's details: YouTube: www.youtube.com/davidbombal Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: www.instagram.com/davidbombal/ LinkedinIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal/ #python #netdevops #devnet #genie #pyats #python #netmiko