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.

Designing The Next Gen Parliament Precinct Network with John Capobianco – ZNDP 075

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Parliament Precinct Network – A True Enterprise Network Design Use Case covering Campus, Wide Area Network, Data Center, Cloud, and Security.

This is a Design Use Case, a true Design Case Study!

I am joined by John Capobianco to give us a deep dive of this massive transformation from a legacy Nortel network into a world-class Cisco Network including a 50 building campus; 500 WAN sites, a DMZ perimeter with firewalls and security devices, active/active data centers, and a ton of new services like Wifi and VoIP.

So Stick around. Here we go!

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Demystifying The Role of the Network Engineer with Tim McConnaughy – ZNDP 071

Demystifying The Roles, Network Community, Podcast, ZNDP

How would you like to work in the Cisco Systems Global Demo Engineering – Customer Proof-of-Concept (CPOC)? Well to me, this sounds like a dream job for any Network Engineer! This is where today’s guest works, in the lab helping customers become successful every day!

We are back with another Demystifying The Role of The Network Engineer episode with Tim McConnaughy.

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The Shift in Availability - Network Design Principle Availability - ZDNP 069

The Shift in Availability – Network Design Principle Availability – ZNDP 069

Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

This is a solo show. Just me myself and I! Also, this was super early in the morning when I recorded it, 2 am to be exact so you will probably find me pretty funny or crazy.

Here I talk about the shift in availability over the years. Availability is a Network Design Principle but I don’t talk about the legacy information all too much and what you should be doing from an availability perspective like reliability and resilience. Hopefully, you are doing those things. Specifically, I am talking about the market shift on availability and what the focus is now. Check it out!

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Demystifying the Role of the Network Engineer with Knox Hutchinson – ZNDP 066

Demystifying The Roles, Network Community, Podcast, ZNDP

In this episode, we continue with our mini-series on Demystifying the Role of The Network Engineer. I have my good friend Knox Hutchinson as our guest today. Knox is going to help us truly understand what the Network Engineer role is all about! He is also going to share a number of real life situations and examples to help provide perspective and context on what a Network Engineer is and does! Let’s jump in!

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