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.

ZNDP 029 – Cisco ISE Authentication Design with Andy Richter

June 13, 2018 Zig Zsiga Cisco, Network Community, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

Today’s Zigbits Network Design Podcast (ZNDP) is being recorded at Cisco Live US 2018! Today’s show is all about Cisco ISE Authentication Design with Guest Expert Andy Richter, who is a Security Practice Manager and Distinguished Engineer at Presidio. There is a whole bunch of technology in this episode, so get out your pens and notepads, turn up your volume and lets get started!

ZNDP 028 – Zig’s Cisco Live US 2018 Message

June 11, 2018 Zig Zsiga Cisco, Podcast, ZNDP

Today’s Zigbits Network Design Podcast (ZNDP) covers Cisco Live US 2018! Today we discuss what Cisco Live means to me and what it should mean to you, How to get the most out of Cisco Live each year, and some of my recommendations for this week! Turn up your volume, start the podcast, and lets do it!

ZBISE14 – Cisco ISE Creating WLC ACLs on Your vWLC

June 4, 2018 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE

We are moving on up in the world!! Today starts our first installment of our Wireless ISE Use Cases!! I love making progress! Today we are specifically going to cover creating our WLC ACLs for all of our Wireless (WLAN) use cases. All aboard, the train is leaving the station!!!

ZNDP 027 – The Year of Identity

May 11, 2018 Zig Zsiga Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

Today’s Zigbits Network Design Podcast (ZNDP) is all about what we did in the last year…Its The year of Identity Episode. Today we discuss the current Identity Crisis / Process we are going through behind the scenes. Lets Jump right in!! Turn up your volume, start the podcast, and lets do it! 🙂

ZNDP 026 – Cisco Live US 2018 Network Design & CCDE Focused Sessions

April 30, 2018 Zig Zsiga Cisco, Network Community, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

Its that time of the year! Cisco Live US 2018!!!! Its only a few more weeks away! 🙂 As we started last year, today’s episode is all about maximizing your time while at Cisco Live US 2018 towards Network Design and the Cisco Certified Design Expert Certification!

ZBISE13 – Cisco ISE Cisco Access Point with MAB Auth on Wired

April 29, 2018 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE

Here is our Final Cisco ISE 2.3 Wired Use Case. Today we will implement our Cisco Access Point Policy which will utilize MAB Authentication and a Logical Profile to categorize the Cisco Access Point. Not much else to say but that, so lets get to it!

ZBISE12 – Cisco ISE XBOX One with MAB Auth on Wired

April 15, 2018 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE

Here is ZBISE12 and with it is our Wired XBOX One Use Case! If you recall we are going to authenticate our XBOX One with MAB and then we are going to assign a dACL to the session. Shall we jump right into it now???

ZNDP 025 – Designing for Data Center Migration and Application Mobility with Malcolm Booden – Part 1

April 12, 2018 Zig Zsiga Demystifying The Roles, Network Community, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP 2 comments

Hey Friends, Nerds, and Geeks, we are back today with our Audio podcast show # 25 and its a Guest Expert show! My good friend Malcolm Booden from the UK Joined me in Jan for a discussion around Designing for Data Center Migration and Application Mobility. We talk about a lot of different concepts, perspectives, and items to keep in mind in when you are going through an event like this. Today is the first part of the discussion. So sit back, turn up the volume and enjoy the show!

ZBISE11 – Cisco ISE Cisco VoIP Phone with MAB Auth on Wired

April 6, 2018 Zig Zsiga Blog, Cisco, Cisco ISE Blog Series, ZBISE 2 comments

Hey Friends, Nerds, and Geeks! We are back after a full month’s break. Man life can really get crazy and thats an understatement here. In a months time, we went on a 10 day family Disney vacation, packed everything in our house in NH, sold said house, moved to VT with family, all while the entire family was fighting sickness after sickness. I’m winded from writing all of that! 😉 This isn’t a rant by no mean, more of “wow a lot has happened” in a months time.

Well we are back today with ZBISE11, and just to catch everyone up and refresh our minds a little, this installment of our ISE 2.3 Blog Series is on the Cisco VoIP Phone with MAB Auth on Wired Use Case. Such a mouth full that one!! 🙂 Enough updating and talking, lets get into it!

ZNDP 024 – Ask Zig – How much depth should be covered to be an expert?

March 2, 2018 Zig Zsiga Cisco, Network Community, Podcast, ZNDP

Hey Friends, Nerds, and Geeks out there, we have an Ask Zig episode. Shahzad on twitter asked “In regards to CCIE what is your take on expert of a given topic. In other words how much depth should be covered?”. This is a great question that we are going to answer it in this episode! Find your favorite spot to listen, get some note taking material if you need, and lets get this show started!