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Just Released - ASA 8.2 Code

Cisco is pleased to announce the availability of ASA 8.2 code.

Cisco ASA 5500 Series 8.2 Software Release Features

Firewall Features:

Malware Traffic Monitor (Ironport L4TM feature integration) – This is the integration of the Ironport Layer 4 Traffic Monitor feature providing visibility on end-users accessing rogue IP addresses or domains and infecting the internal network. The [...]

Data Center Solutions Webcast

The Cisco Nexus family of switches is designed to meet the stringent requirements of the next-generation data center. Not simply bigger or faster, these switches offer the following advantages:

Infrastructure that can be scaled cost-effectively and that helps you increase energy, budget, and resource efficiency
Transport that can navigate the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet and unified [...]

Blocker Awarded 5 out of 5 starts from SC Magazine

The Cisco Spam & Virus Blocker Team is very excited to announce that SC Magazine awarded Blocker the highest rating for a review, five out of five stars. This is fabulous news, and is evidence that the teamwork and cross-functional collaboration (aka blood, sweat, and tears) that went into the effort have produced the finest [...]

Cisco Unified Computing Education Forums

Virtualization of resources in today’s data centers has created a unique requirement to bring network, compute, and virtualization resources into a cohesive, optimized system. IT teams are faced with the challenge of having to scale, manage, and reduce the time to deploy new applications with technology silos that cannot provide the flexibility and responsiveness needed [...]

End‐of‐Sale and End‐of‐Life Announcement for Catalyst 3560/3750/3560E/3750E IOS Advanced IP Services Feature set

Cisco is announcing the end‐of‐sale and end‐of life dates for the Catalyst 3560/3750/3560E/3750E IOS Advanced IP Services Feature set. The last day to order the Catalyst 3k IOS Advanced IP Services feature set is April 25, 2009. The IOS release 12.2(50)SE available March 2009 will contain the new IOS packaging that removes Advanced IP Services. [...]

Phishers Targeting Your Tax Rebate Money

On March 6th, 2009, cyber-criminals started sending phishing messages allegedly from the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) that provides tax refund information to users. The recipient is requested to login to the embedded website to begin the refund process. The overall coordination and sophistication of the phishing campaign represents an escalation in several aspects.

The phishing [...]

Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4(24)T Enhances IP Routing & Services, Embedded Management Intelligence, and Unified Communications

Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4T integrates a portfolio of new capabilities, including security, voice, and IP services, with powerful hardware support to deliver advanced services for enterprise and access customers.

Release 12.4(24)T, the latest release of the 12.4T family, adds Cisco IOS BGP support for 4-byte Autonomous System Numbers (ASN), Application-Based Routing for Mobile Router [...]

IOS XE Release 2.2.3 is Out and posted on CCO!

Hi Folks:

Please check this out, and do take time to read the release notes for your relevant configurations:

Release Note URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ios_xe/2/release/notes/rnasr21.html#wp45625

Download URL:
IOS XE Release 2.2.3

CCIE Hall of Fame

The other day I came across what I believe may very well be the most comprehensive CCIE Hall of List available on the web. Many of you know that most, if not all CCIE Training Vendors provide a list CCIE’s that have used their products on the individual journey toward attaining CCIE status. I myself [...]

New Product: Cisco Nexus 2148T Fabric Extender

Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extender (FEX) will change the way customers build out data center server access. The Fabric Extender, which provides a Gigabit Ethernet on-ramp to the Unified Fabric, helps IT managers cope with two key data center factors: increasing numbers of servers and increased demand for bandwidth from each server. [...]

New Product: Cisco Spam & Virus Blocker

Cisco Spam & Virus Blocker provides powerful protection against spam, viruses,malware, and other email threats to secure your network and business critical data while improving the productivity of your employees by virtually eliminating spam. Designed specifically for small businesses with up to 250 users, this single hardware appliance is simple to install and use. With [...]

ASA 8.0.4 Feature Enhancement

So I was doing some testing on various versions of code on one of my ASA units and noticed a nice enhancement to the TCP Intercept counters in the output of a show perfmon command. The new output appears in 8.0.4 code but not in earlier code. I’m assuming the feature was implemented to allow [...]