Your favorite quote? If you're lucky enough to find a person with a lot of head and a lot of heart, they will never going to come off the field second. Vince Lombardi

1. Dont panic
2. Get the right resources engaged
3. What was the last thing that changed?
4. Get the Data that you can (Layer 1-3)
5. Learning when to escalate
6. Was this a process problem? How do we avoid this?

Russ White has over 30 years of experience in network engineering; A Distinguished Architect during his time at Cisco, holds the highest certification Cisco has to offer as a CCAr and holds CCDE #1. He’s also a Publish author, worldwide speaker at many tech conferences, and has over 40+ patents. This guy is a legend folks in the field of networking. 

Quote: “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” C.S. Lewis

Shawn Zandi is a lead infrastructure architect with LinkedIn, where he builds large scale data center, backbone and networks. Over the past two decades, Shawn has worked as network and security architect for consulting firms from Dubai to Silicon Valley. Shawn holds many publications, patents and certifications including 3x CCIE in routing and switching, Security and eSrvice provider as well as CCDE, while through the years of practice has become a vendor-neutral consultant. He currently lives in San Francisco, in Sunny California. In addition to his commitment to LinkedIn, Shawn is a technical advisor to networking startups in the Bay Area.

Quote: RFC1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths Rule (11)

In this episode, we bring back the show! I explain why we were out of pocket for the past months and what to expect in terms of new shows moving forward. And some motivation to the start the new year off right!

Stephen has been in the IT industry for 8 years and got his start with the Cisco Networking Academy. He holds a CCIE in Routing & Switching which he obtained at the very young age of 21. Stephen has worked as an Instructor, a Pre-Sales Engineer, and is now a Consulting Systems Engineer for Cisco Systems working in the Meraki Cloud Business Unit.

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Jacob Hess is an entrepreneur and systems engineer who has over 15 years experience in Information Technology. Working in both the customer and systems integrator environments he has designed and deployed many complex IT projects spanning the full stack of networking technologies. Jacob is also a United States Air Force veteran who served as a technical instructor and trained hundreds of network engineers to be job ready for the Department of Defense. He is the Co-founder & COO of Nexgent and is passionate about inspiring, creating, and empowering the next generation of IT engineers.

Tech Lesson of the Day: Spanning-Tree Protocol

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