Author: Zig Zsiga

Zig Zsiga, CCDE™ 2016::32, CCIE™ #44883 has been in the networking industry for 20 years. He is currently a Principal Architect supporting the CX US Public Sector Business and Customers. Zig holds an active CCDE and two CCIE certifications, one in Routing and Switching and the second in Service Provider. Zig also holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from Park University. Zig is a father, a husband, a United States Marine, a gamer, a nerd, a geek and a big soccer fan. Zig loves all technology and can usually be found in the lab learning and teaching others. Zig is a published author now working on his second book, the CCDE OCG. He is the host of the Zigbits Network Design Podcast (ZNDP) where he interviews leading industry experts to talk about network design. All of Zig's content is located at https://zigbits.tech. Zig lives in Upstate New York, USA with his wife, Julie and their son Gunnar.

ZBISE05 – Virtual Wireless LAN Controller (vWLC) Install

December 15, 2017 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE

Hey Ziglets, today we are continuing with our Cisco ISE 2.3 Blog Series by walking through deploying a Cisco Virtual Wireless LAN Controller (vWLC) in our Lab. We cannot do any of our Wireless 802.1X or Guest flows without out a Wireless setup now can we?!?! Its ISE ISE Baby time!! Lets get it done!

ZNDP 018 – An Overview of the Aruba Certified Design Expert (ACDX) Certification with Tony Molica

December 8, 2017 Zig Zsiga Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

Hey Ziglets, we are back again to add to the Design Certification Mini Podcast Series that we started to do with the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Certification a few months ago. Today we are going to spotlight the Aruba Certified Design Expert, also known as the ACDX. To help us today, because I know nothing about Aruba Certifications is my good friend Tony Molica! Lets get into it!

ZBISE04 – Cisco ISE Adding the ISE Cluster to Active Directory

November 30, 2017 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE

Hey Ziglets, we are back. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Are you ready for some ISE ISE Baby?!?! Well we have a new ZBISE Blog post for you, ZBISE04. This one is going to show you how to add your newly provisioned and minted ISE Cluster into Active directory. Lets do it!

ZNDP 017 – What Are You Thankful For?

November 22, 2017 Zig Zsiga Podcast, ZNDP

Hey Ziglets, Happy Thanksgiving!!

For today’s episode of the Zigbits Network Design Podcast, we are going to take a break from our series and the technology to ask and answer the question: What are you Thankful for this Thanksgiving? We have a couple of special guest on today’s show to answer this question from their own perspective.

ZBISE03 – Overview of our Cisco ISE Use Cases for the ZBISE Blog Series

November 22, 2017 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE 2 comments

Hey Ziglets, welcome back. We have a new Zigbit for our Zigbits Blog Series on Cisco ISE 2.3. Today we are going to go through a number of what I would call design related items when it comes to deploying any policy engine in an environment. Let’s get started.

ZNDP 016 – The Consultative Engineer

November 10, 2017 Zig Zsiga Consultative Leadership, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP 2 comments

Hey Ziglets, welcome back!! For today’s episode of the Zigbits Network Design Podcast, we are going to give a name and title to what we have been discussing for a few months now. Then we are going to give a number of examples of how everything we have been discussing fits in each of the situation examples. Lets jump right in.

ZBISE02 – Building a Cisco ISE Distributed Cluster

November 4, 2017 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE

Hey Ziglets, Here is another Zigbit for you on Cisco ISE. Thats right, Its ISE ISE Baby time again. Today we will be showing you how to build a four node Cisco ISE 2.3 Cluster. Lets get started!

ZNDP 015 – How you can identify your requirements?

October 27, 2017 Zig Zsiga Consultative Leadership, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

Hey Ziglets, welcome back!! It feels like its been forever. For today’s episode of the Zigbits Network Design Podcast, we are going to answer the question “How you can identify your requirements?”. Before we jump into that, we have some updates. Lets get started!

ZBISE01 – Basic Cisco ISE VM Installation

October 25, 2017 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE One comment

This blog post starts the Zigbits Blog Series on Cisco ISE 2.3 (ZBISE). In this series we will be using Cisco ISE 2.3 and a number of other critical infrastructure systems and services. Lets jump right in.

ZNDP 014 – What is Best Practice?

October 13, 2017 Zig Zsiga Consultative Leadership, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

Hey Ziglets, in today’s episode we are going to ask and answer the question “What is Best Practice?” and how should we handle Best Practices in today’s Networking World. Lets do it!