Cisco Networking Academy Graduate Secures Lucrative Position with Midstream Energy Company

The forty-something-year-old Spring resident recently gained a fulfilling position as a cyber security network engineer with Enterprise Products,a leading U.S. provider of midstream energy services and is being compensated handsomely for his skills and expertise.However,it was an arduous journey before the Lone Star College-Tomball Cisco Networking Academy graduate finally found the job of his dreams.
The Cisco Academy Learning Management System is a program that is focused on providing education,training and guidance to anyone interested in building an IT career through Cisco product and service certification.That certification validates the ability to install,configure,operate and troubleshoot medium-size route and switched computer networks as well as wireless networks,security appliances and Voice over IP equipment,including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a wide area network.

In 1992,Austin State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry.After four years as a laboratory technician in the petroleum industry,he got a job with Lone Star College-Kingwood as a laboratory coordinator,and that’s when things started to change. I’ve always been interested in science and technology.   While employed at Lone Star College,I took some IT-related courses at night.Our division was the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for the construction of an interdisciplinary computer lab, and I was tasked with its design,procurement and implementation.

The experience left Horn with a dilemma continue working in the lab or take a chance and follow his passion.
I’d always been good with computers.I saw the need for small office/home office IT technical support in the community and decided to try my luck at becoming a small-business owner.  The business was fairly successful for a number of years until the 2008-2009 economic crash,at which point I lost a significant portion of my business.That was when Horn decided that it was time to return to school.I enrolled in the Cisco Networking Academy at Lone Star College starting with the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) program. I continued through the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) program and CCNA Security program, and began looking for work as a network engineer.

 Today is supporting cyber security by using applications and hardware equipment at plants and facilities throughout Texas,Louisiana,Oklahoma and New Mexico a perfect fit.The position is very hands-on and requires traveling to the remote plant sites to resolve issues.I enjoy getting out of the office and into the field where I can get my hands dirty.

Horn is quick to add that his success was in no small part due to his Cisco Networking Academy education and in particular, the efforts of his professor,I have more than 200 hours of college and worked at LSC-Kingwood;from the student side and the coworker side,I know a good instructor when I see one.  Willie would always go out of his way to help share his 40 years of industry knowledge,make sure you understood some very complicated material,even send e-mails about job openings.He was very interactive;he made you feel like part of the teamIf he could only share one thing about his experience,it would be that you are never too old learn that you should never be intimidated when faced with something new.You can do it.

Cisco locked out of AT&T SDN data center?

It could be a very unhappy new year for Cisco.AT & T has issued a request for information to around the holidays that could have long-term global market for network infrastructure and Cisco -specific negative implications,the ratio of an investment analyst.

The FRY AT & T aims to gather suppliers of information providers in their plans to embrace software-defined networking and network virtualization capabilities in its products and product architectures to align with the virtualization strategy AT & T 2.0 domain . Domain 2.0 is a virtualization project that seems to embrace network hardware and driver of the white box,SDN goods  according to the report of MKM Partners.

The deadline was 31 December 2013 and AT & T will review the plans until the first half of 2014 , according to MKM.After that,it is expected that requests carrier to issue more specific proposals .
MKM domain believed to 2.0 implementations are likely to occur in the first place in the data center industry AT & T,perhaps in 2015.After that a WAN SDN controller is deployed in 2016,and then AT & T IP routing would converge and deep optical transmission network,the investment firm provides .

AT & T provides the virtualization of the data center network can not jibe with Cisco's strategy, and vice versa,according to MKM.AT & T is already using NSX virtualization platform VMware vSphere network and the cloud computing system.
But even then  the line switching based Cisco Networking - With the Nexus 9000 fabric Centric Application Infrastructure may be " too complex and property compared to white box oriented architectures AT & T seeks , the company claims.

AT & T seems to be particularly worried about competing with cloud services offered by the likes of Google and Amazon and is likely to continue some of the concepts of virtual networks established white box implementations of these companies early SDN.

As a result, the long-term plan from AT & T 2.0 Domain are negative Cisco more positive for Ciena,Finisar,F5 Networks and VMware.MKM notes that both Cisco and Juniper do little or nothing enterprise datacenter AT & T and,with the exception of a few sales of network security appliances.
The WAN is a different story  Cisco and Juniper routers will continue to sell both proprietary and cutting edge for AT & T in the coming years,provides for the MKM.But this does not necessarily give them the benefit of the SDN controller WAN project of the company in 2016 - MKM notes that,as AT & T converge its routing and optical levels,the monitoring infrastructure SDN,which could come down to a supplier and optical media Ciena,Infinera .

What can induce acquire Ciena Cisco or Juniper or Infinera,MKM postulates .
So it seems that,on the supplier side,however,the status quo to the domain of AT & T 2.0 even if the project is anything but.