Apple, Cisco Lead DJIA Higher Tuesday

Markets opened higher on Tuesday after a long weekend of Christmas holidays. The Case-Shiller household confidence index improved from 5.6% per year over the years in October, the Conference Board consumer confidence index rose to almost 114. 11 sectors S & P posted gains on Tuesday. WTI crude oil for February delivery was set at $ 53.90 a barrel, up to about 1.7% on the day. Gold for February added about 0.5% on the day to close at $ 1,138.70. Shares were directed to a higher fence just before the bell as the Dow rose 0.10% for the day, the S & P 500 rose 0.27% and the Nasdaq Composite 0.55% traded.

Dow Jones shares, which posted the biggest daily percentage increase before Tuesday's close, were Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) which traded up 0.71% at $ 117.36. The 52-week stock is $ 89.47 to $ 118.69. The volume was approximately 55% below the daily average of about 32.7 million shares. The company had no new specificity on Tuesday.

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) rose 0.61% to $ 30.72. The 52 week stock is $ 22.46 to $ 31.95. The volume was 60% lower than the daily average of about 22 million shares. Giant of the networks had no specific news.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) rose 0.55% to $ 242.30. The 52 week stock is $ 138.20 to $ 245.57. The volume was less than a third of the daily average of about 5.4 million shares. The investment bank had no specific news on Tuesday.

Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK) traded up 0.44% at $ 59.82. The 52 week stock is $ 47.97 to $ 65.46. The volume was less than half of the daily average of about 3.9 million shares. The pharmacist had no definite news.

Dow 30 shares, 22 are on track to close above Tuesdays and 8 should close lower.

Cisco Introduces Cloud-Scale Networking for Enterprises

A new solution for networking through the Cisco cloud launched this week aims to help service providers and Internet companies to take advantage of network virtualization (SDN) and network functions (NFV) in the Transition from their headquarters to next-generation data centers.

According to the company, the network solution includes a number of benefits to customers of the company Relevant Products / Services, including the automation of large-scale procurement and the ability to implement network changes in minutes rather than hours. It also provides software scalability for more modular and faster service deployment, while providing real-time visibility and control by continuous telemetry.

Reduction of costs, greater efficiency

 The solution will be delivered through the Cisco IOS XR to half the total cost of proprietary software (TCO) and double the efficiency and performance of more than five years, from the current mode of operation, according to the company.

Cisco said the network solution also uses the principles and data center "DevOps" technicians to provide agility, improved efficiency and simplicity, the company said, would extend beyond the traditional network and head office.

According to a study commissioned by Cisco, more than 70 percent of service providers surveyed are planning or planning central office transformations using NFV and SEN technologies.

 "Our continued progress with the Cloud Scale platform demonstrates our commitment to NFV and NEE solutions for open, programmable, and automated networks," said Yvette Kanouff, senior vice president, Cisco Services.

"SOP changes are among the priorities of our customers around the world and we are in a unique position to help them improve their existing routing platforms using Cisco IOS XR software."

The company described the new platform as more streamlined, more automated and virtualized as network platforms that are currently available. It will also help companies, such as service providers, media and Internet companies to reduce costs, improve market speed and secure their networks.

EVPN and BGP

 Cisco said it is working with a number of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups to help advance neutral vendor projects such as routing and continuous segment telemetry. The company attributes its work with these groups to help develop the new platform.

Among the new features included in the release, there is the Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) that ensures the separation between the data plane and the control plane, the creation of a protocol-based unified and centralized recovery test plan BGP (Border Gateway) and industry standards.

The platform also includes an end-to-end routing segment, which, according to Cisco, will create a unified common redirect subnet to simplify network operations. In addition, it includes the "telemetry-driven model" platform to provide greater visibility, real-time, granularity through native, common and open data models for automation and more efficient operation of physical and virtual resources.

Cisco plans to meet the capabilities of these Cloud-scale through the network with ongoing additions to the convergence of the Cisco Series Family Network (NCS).

Protecting Innovation: Arista’s Copying of Cisco’s User Interfaces

I can not pretend not to be disappointed that a jury in a federal court after finding Arista has copied the Cisco user interfaces and the copy is not justified by fair use doctrine, applied the main unknown scenes that can be done to deny Cisco relieves Arista action. In layman's terms, justification by applying the scenes to the effect that the jury was excused copy Arista because they believe that "external factors" dictated the selection and arrangement of some of the falsified characteristics.

We believe that this narrow doctrine developed to insure that copyright infringement does not extend to the use of mundane elements of literary works as diagram device a character or a frame has been misapplied or misunderstood.

We were convinced that a third court (after two separate findings of the judges of the International Trade Commission) came to the conclusion Arista had deliberately copied Cisco, refute Arista accusations in which his products had been developed from a sheet Of clean paper. We will look at Judge Freeman to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to justify the jury's conclusion, as well as other grounds for cancellation of the test result.

Arista copied even though other competitors have developed user interfaces in a variety of ways that they do not copy. Cisco's user interface is well known and successful, and although it has often been called the "industry standard" - meaning a popular reference - no Cisco technology in this case is incorporated into a real industry standard; In fact, there is no standardization body for CLI.

Our goal has always been to protect technological innovation and prevent Arista from using our patented and proprietary technology. In two separate cases before ITC, we have made significant progress in this direction. We are delighted that the ICC made a final infringement determination against Arista on three Cisco patents in the case known as 944, and one judge in the ITC found a violation of two additional patents in the case '945.

In some ways it is ironic that The San Jose jury has heard nothing from Arista demonstrating their desire to respect the intellectual property rights of others but has not had the opportunity to hear replicas of these intellectual property rights claims based on Arista's own proven actions.

Cisco believes in competition and employee fair mobility, especially since both are essential elements of the innovation needed in our industry. And we also believe in protecting the hard work of our employees and made important investments to develop great products.

This, too, is critical to our industry. It encourages inventors to create a new technology that meets future needs. Investors are encouraged to have confidence in our company and its future. Cisco will continue its position of not being a litigious society. We prefer to invest in our people and our products. But we will defend both in blatant copy situations, as we have seen in our business against Arista.

Bringing Cisco's Cash Back to the US Would

Bringing Cisco's cash back to the US would cause a rush of dividends, buybacks and M&A, CEO says

Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins told CNBC on Wednesday that if the company could repatriate foreign capital, it would make a combination of dividends, redemptions and mergers and acquisitions.

Cash repatriation, or bringing international profits back to the US, would eventually create jobs for Cisco, Robbins said on "Squawk Box" Wednesday at the roundtable business in Washington.

Many large US companies keep stacks of cash abroad because they do not want to pay stiff taxes to bring them home. Cisco has more than $ 60 billion overseas and could be one of the main beneficiaries of repatriation measures proposed by President-elect Donald Trump.

"I think it would be for [creating jobs] for Cisco, but it would also create jobs beyond that," said Robbins. "If we come back - if we were to increase our dividend - while mutual funds, which goes through America's middle class, flowing through to make people feel better about their income.

I continued: "I think all this is good for business."

Robbins said Trump is business-friendly and could drive the US economy.

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My Observations and Bars (Early Edition)

Originally posted November 17 at 15:41 EDT
Examining the contrast has been a theme for the entire week. And here, in "Do not run with the crowd. Honest on the contrary"

Miami madness (type of real estate)

Mark Grant is frightened by the strength of our currency.

Danielle on the stage.

Boockvar to inappropriate golfer subscriber!

JC Penney (JCP) short sale options - a 100% win. (Direct connection between frequently asked questions often ends in another way!)

Just say no in-depth muni-bonos-end closed.

DRYS is all wet.

IPhone could be making homecoming?

On balancing inflation - an image that says it all.

The market moved more "go" - to a large extent It seems that there is a response to better economic data this morning.

At 15 hours the populations were close to highs of the day.

I caused a Cisco Kid short circuit last night. Tire With this short rental. I have added to my ProShares UltraShort S & P500 ETF (SDS) long (growing). My net short exposure - is now in the middle and small, in the extreme.

    The US dollar, as mentioned above, continued to break further against the euro. I'm restless. Mark Grant is concerned. The market does not care.
    The price of crude oil (up to $ 0.20) was set after yesterday's strong gains.
    Gold fell $ 9 as it continues to decompose - close to $ 1,200.
    AG: wheat products at $ 0.07 to $ 0.04 maize, soy and oats at $ 0.05 to $ 0.02.
    Wood up to $ 7 resulted from the large amount of housing this morning.
    Bonds iShares Barclays 20+ Year schmeissed ... ETF Treas.Bond (TLT) for $ 1.50.
    The yield on bonds and bonds at 10 and 30 years increased by 5 basis points about.
    2s / 10s spread accentuated by 2 basis points to 125 basis points about.
    Municipal bond funds traded lower. Closed funds were affected.
    High performance was flat, although the Blackstone / GSO Strategic Credit Fund (BGB) increased by $ 0.05.
    Banks continued to be the "fair world", but this observation becomes strong and panic. My finger is on the Select Financial Sector Short SPDR (XLF) button. But not yet.
    Insurers outperformed, but my long Hartford Financial (HIG) downgraded.
    Big bag houses again. Very overbought.
    Mixed cars.
    Energy shares, a profit making.
    Strong retail sales after weak Wednesday. Led by Best Buy (BBY) and Home Depot (HD).
    Biotech was slightly superior, led by Allergan (AGN) and Celgene (CELG). Pharmaceutical Valeant (VRX) However, in the regulatory sights.
    Big Pharma lowers - but barely.
    The old media run by an analyst update at Microsoft (MSFT).
    Consumer goods plagued by a strengthening dollar. Short investment, Coca-Cola (KO), can not go out of its own way ... a good thing.
    Discretionary consumption was mixed.
    (T) FANG had a good second day - but the shares of their maxima as Netflix (NFLX) turns red.
    Apple (AAPL) slightly lower Wednesday after a beautiful day.

Here are some of the value added contributions Edition on our website:

1.Jim "The Captain" Cramer on the banks. I am less positive than Jimmy - This believer is in arrears in the movement of financial values.
2. Rev shark in the market manipulation.
3. Homie Mike Norman.
4. Tim Melvin says its value for research.
5. Sossi drink the Kool-Aid, uh ... Pepsi!

positions:
HIG large, large JCP, large SDS, small GLD
SPY small cut, small GM, small M, small CSCO, small NFLX, KO, AAPL

Position: See above.



Brief Cisco Kid

Originally posted November 17 at 9:22 am EDT

I took a short negotiation from Cisco (CSCO) last night in weak guidance.

I see $ 29 $ before 31.

200-120 Exam Question No 61

Question No 61:

Refer to the exhibit.

At the end of an RSTP election process, which access layer switch port will assume the discarding role?

A. Switch3, port fa0/1
B. Switch3, port fa0/12
C. Switch4, port fa0/11
D. Switch4, port fa0/2
E. Switch3, port Gi0/1
F. Switch3, port Gi0/2

Answer: C

Cisco's job Applications Site Leaked Personal Data

Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in their business careers portal that may have exposed personal information of trucks.

The networking giant sent an email affected users in which it is stated that "limited information on job applications set" leaked mobile version of the website, which shows a "configuration incorrect security" placed after system maintenance on a third party site.

An anonymous researcher reported the flaw. Cisco says it has found no evidence of another unauthorized access, but "an instance of unexplained abnormal connection to the server" during the time that the data was exposed was found.

Cisco indicates that borked security settings were in place between August and September 2015, and again in July and August 2016.

It indicates that the data presented may have included real names and connection; Passwords; physical and email addresses, phone numbers; The answers to security questions; Education and professional users; Cover letters and resumes.

Any hacker who aspire the data also won the voluntary information of candidates, including sex, race, veteran status and disability and disability.

"After knowing this, the adjustment was corrected immediately and passwords on the site that have been restored," said Cisco customers in the notices sent to the Attorney General of California

Cisco says the disclosure shows its "commitment to trust and transparency," noting that it is alerting users to the possibility of their personal information has been exposed because users often reuse the same password on multiple websites.

He did not mention that the information is perfect fodder for social engineering attacks in which criminals can use personal information to impersonate victims exceeds validation checks the identity of the account holder.

Cisco said users can put fraud alerts free 90-day bills if they wish. ......

200-120 Exam Question No 60

Question No 60:

Refer to the exhibit.

The output that is shown is generated at a switch. Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)

A. All ports will be in a state of discarding, learning, or forwarding.
B. Thirty VLANs have been configured on this switch.
C. The bridge priority is lower than the default value for spanning tree.
D. All interfaces that are shown are on shared media.
E. All designated ports are in a forwarding state.
F. This switch must be the root bridge for all VLANs on this switch.

Answer: A, C, E

Cisco co-founder Sandy Lerner’s next big idea: Redefining road food

Before long trips, Sandy Lerner mini fridge bank again is connected to the cigarette making its Chevy Volt and fills it with the type of organic food, local, which Cheerleading for two decades.

The owner of the first farm in Virginia, to be both certified organic and human certificate, Lerner not want to risk going hungry on the road, where the only option may be the service station food.

"And I'm not alone," says Lerner, drinking coffee on vintage sweet coffee, the new grocery store and an hour west of Washington in Marshall, Va. When Lerner tells the people that the store, the first "hundreds" plans to open near highways in the region, you will have a window drive-through takeaways and organic burger $ 5, "the first thing they say is" Oh thank God, I should not bring food with me anymore, "he said.

Ask how you're considering joining these price points, agricultural practices, married with its 800 acres of farm Ayrshire and Head Tavern Upperville Hunter and flashes a knowing smile.

"We spent 20 years learning," he said.

Reinventing system

For no reason, Lerner, 61, is a formidable business woman.

In the 1980s, she and her husband after giant technology-based Cisco Systems, which invented the router (yes, that one), and has made millions collected when their participation after being shot in a company Shake- up. In 1996, he followed his interest long the welfare of animals at the start Ayrshire, with a focus on animal endangered species. That same year, Lerner began Urban Decay cosmetics company; He sold a few years later, and is now part of L'Oreal.

Stephanie Bates, owner of a business colleague and friend in Upperville, Va., Have long known the scope of Lerner. "She is a woman of endless talent and has the ability to fill the niche that people are looking for," Bates said.

Lerner Ayrshire experience taught him that he needed to buy a slaughterhouse for the economy of this new model of fast food job. Therefore, when one of the half dozen facilities certified Department of Agriculture in Northern Virginia United States became available this year in Winchester, that's what he did.

Although Ayrshire Farm has the ability to provide meat for the first two stores, the second is to turn off Interstate 81 in Winchester this year, the soft crop will buy from local farmers in the future. Lerner said he plans to help farmers interested in obtaining the necessary certifications and pay more for their animals as livestock trade in your county.

"This is the reconstruction of a local food system," he said.

Eric Bendfeldt specialist Virginia Cooperative Extension in sustainable communities, said farmers always looking to diversify their markets, "and that these nodes along the I-81 and other places that really makes a lot of sense."

With his latest business venture, Lerner joins a handful of others in the country who are trying to prove that fast food can be good food.

This year, leaders of the California Roy Choi, truck Kogi Korean taco and Daniel Patterson, two stars Coi Michelin opened the first Locol outpost, chain healthier fast food, in the neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles from the south. The menu includes $ 4 hamburgers with meat mixed grains, $ 6 bowls of noodles and fresh $ 1 instead of soda water. A second location in Oakland and a food truck that opened this year add up to a dollar price of each item while competing with other fast food options.

chain "fast-casual" like Elevation Burger, based in northern Virginia, offer alternatives to putting organic meat and grazing between the rollers, but their prices are closer to $ 10. And although the provision of care Chipotle Mexican Grill meat has gained a loyal following, high model took a hit after an E. coli outbreak late last year.

Kombucha and burgers

As for Lerner, you would like optimum product to compete with McDonald in Marshall to I-66 pilots looking for a pit stop. But he also wants her interior offers white brick to be a community space for the bucolic town that is, obviously, far from being a food desert.

At first glance, the commercial space in the lobby renovated the former Marshall National Bank & Trust Co. is a much larger version of picturesque Lerner Home Farm Store in Middleburg, Va., Which was closed in August so you can focus on new stores. The grocery store sells meat and other farm Ayrshire with local and prepared food products, and those who want a turkey Ayrshire $ 145 can still be found here.

"This is basically the store in Middleburg on steroids," says Lerner. "Although I hate to say steroids, because it is so unhealthy and they are, of course, healthy."

This space flagship retail 3,500 square feet, not counting the seats above and offices for the brand is increasingly widespread as to suitable for table week or dinner Thanksgiving the refrigerated meat display and ready meals, all available for delivery. The wooden shelves are local products such as Virginia peanuts, chocolate cookies and hot cocoa Firehook manna and national organic products.

On the back of a high-ceilinged lobby, the bank vault became a cellar, and a refrigerator walk-behind a small bar full of beer Virginia. The drums have more beers and organic Kombucha Barefoot Bucha and nitro snow cold brewed coffee in the coffee, both based in Charlottesville

There is also a coffee bar and, on the other side of the arcades of walls separating the bank office buildings, a cafeteria full of light. A post-construction of a large car park entrance - a point the business owner uses for lack of sales Middleburg Parking - brings customers fresh flowers and internal line brand pet foods foodie hairy.



The drive-through is behind the store, where two lanes are spent building bench. (Do not worry: The burgers are delivered through a window or out of cars they expect not turn pneumatic tube.)

Sheree McDowell, manager of food and soft drinks harvest, said he wants to offer options "for families who want to feed their children a healthy diet, but they still have the need to quickly get the meal time to time."

To this end, the spigots of sweet potato with a hamburger for a child are baked instead of fried (which is, by design, not fryer on the premises) and come with a small cookie and organic juice or milk for $ 6. Families can sift through all the options pre-order online or through the application of the mark, allowing more time to approach a cooked to order.

Community and convenience

The store must also receive its share of vagrants, drawn to the city by a street that is now full of apologies to mind feeding people take a detour. He recognized national Red Truck Bakery has its location near Marshall. This was particularly fortuitous when the building burned Suave harvest in early September, just weeks before the scheduled opening, and a baker who works in the morning shift was there to call 911. The damage was minor.

Across the main street it is the restaurant's main field and recently opened for the target price worth Piedmont region of Virginia. Riccordino a small kitchen walled up in the same owners, snacks next Chicago style hot hawks. Down the street, the butcher cuts Total ox sells farmed animals grazing "neighborhood" bar and butcher opens for dinner Tuesday through Saturday.

"Park the car once, and it's like shopping at three stops," says the owner of the red truck bakery Brian Noyes, who watched only grocery store on the street, an IGA close just before Marshall opened last year . "We all wanted another thing coming, so here is next."




Lerner said the momentum of Marshall is one of the reasons why it decided to locate the headquarters of sweet harvest and the first store here. The store keeps one foot in the aisle of the grocery store of the community for which his predecessor was known Middleburg with the launch of the new brand concept more practical, Lerner has been perfected over the years.

"This is the food system that I know of," said Lerner, a senior converted in California to Virginia Culture "I'm not Bill Gates;. I can not fix this, but I can help you here."

Pipkin writes about food, local agriculture and the environment.

Your days of watching pirated live streams may be over, thanks to Cisco

Cisco has plans for you in their tracks - if you watch a pirated stream illegally, it is. The company based in San Jose recently introduced a new technology known as transmission fight against piracy, which "uses technology to locate illegal redistribution of content on open Internet and closed networks of pirates." And apparently, you Cisco will deny access to illegal live stream, even if you are in the middle of watching.

Prevention of piracy streaming, or SPP, works by using a "legal water mark" that "identifies subscriptions / sessions used to obtain the content and source through video security system - all in real time" Cisco wrote in a blog post announcement earlier this week. and because the technology is fully automatic, Cisco said "a quick response to incidents of the response of piracy." this means no need for others to obstruct, and is now "a level of prevention unprecedented broadcast through the device and allows resume service providers control over their channels to maximize their income." a great news for service providers, potentially bad news for you (if you have a penchant for watching free TV).

Cisco hopes to go wide with its SPP technology, and has partnered with a friend MTS (WFSW) to meet both the web as possible. As stated in the company's technology, "The principal of piracy WFSW market surveillance capabilities power the Cisco SPP service with pirated video in real-time feeds to find on the open Internet, that are used by SPP to locate the source drain and turn it off. "

So if you have big plans in the coming months to see everything college football through a live illegally, or has been enjoying all your favorite shows in a capacity not as kosher, consider this the end of the day . fight against piracy transmission may simply make an honest viewer.

200-120 Exam Question No 59

Question No 59:

Which three of these statements regarding 802.1Q trunking are correct? (Choose three.)

A. 802.1Q native VLAN frames are untagged by default.
B. 802.1Q trunking ports can also be secure ports.
C. 802.1Q trunks can use 10 Mb/s Ethernet interfaces.
D. 802.1Q trunks require full-duplex, point-to-point connectivity.
E. 802.1Q trunks should have native VLANs that are the same at both ends.

Answer: A,C,E

India revenue crosses $1 billion for Cisco: CEO

 With more than $ 1 billion in revenue already, India is fast becoming one of the four main markets for the technology giant Cisco in the coming years on the back of strong growth in government and the business of the company.

Of $ 49 million the company, which has about 11,000 employees in India, in the nation of South Asia as its second seat after the US "If you look at our performance over the past two years, our company is more than $ 1 billion India. last year, it grew by over 20 percent, "said Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins PTI.

He added that the company will continue to invest and start new projects in India. "India is already among the five markets, absolutely," he said. Cisco Major markets include the US, Japan and China.

Cisco and IBM's New Partnership Is a Lot About Talk

With Worldwide Technology Cat and talking robot software are inevitable Cisco and IBM are involved.

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Companies Nos reveal how the New Deal affect the prices for Current their services.

200-120 Exam Question No 58

Question No 58:

Refer to Exhibit: 

How many broadcast domains are shown in the graphic assuming only the default VLAN is configured on the switches?

A. One
B. Two
C. Six
D. Twelve

Answer: A

Cisco Executive Chairman signs R&D MOU with Israel

John Chambers, Cisco's chief executive, company world's largest networks, has signed a protocol agreement on Sunday in the advancement of digitization in Israel during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Three years earlier, Chambers predicted that Israel would be the first country to be scanned from beginning to end, and Sunday MOU seemed to define a roadmap for how this could happen.

The MOU scored ten different possible areas for cooperation between the company and the Israeli, such as digital education, digital health, human capital, innovation and government research centers.

Cisco technology could be used to create the fastest Internet infrastructure and make it easier to connect devices to the "Internet of things", the everyday devices network by sensors and modems.

In health, for example, the introduction of portable devices could be helpful for researchers guzzling data, and help doctors end when patients get sick.

The government also seeks modes more effectively itself, creating a common data system in the cloud that would make it easier for departments to communicate with each other and build a plan to exploit the power of creation of Israeli companies in government. The Office of the Chief Scientist is developing a similar initiative.

On Monday, the center of Jerusalem R & D will host Cisco cameras at an event in the future of television, called "The future starts now."

It is intended to showcase new innovations in the field of television and video, including cloud storage for video, customizable televisions, virtual reality, and new security features.

200-120 Exam Question No 57

Question No 57:

What are the possible trunking modes for a switch port? (Choose three.)

A. Transparent
B. Auto
C. On
D. Desirable
E. Client
F. Forwarding

Answer: B, C, D

Australian fixed broadband speeds to average 44.3Mbps by 2020

Cisco released its report Visual Networking Index (VNI) for Australia, showing that if the line speed increase fixed Internet 2.4 times over the next five years, Australia will step behind the rest of the world.

With the forecast report traffic Australia, Kevin Bloch, chief technology officer of Cisco Australia and New Zealand, he referred to the forecast traffic levels Cisco Internet, use of the device, and a breakdown of technology for the five-year period between 2015 and 2020.

According to Cisco, the average speed of a fixed broadband connections including national broadband network (NBN), is expected to leave 18.4Mbps to 44.3Mbps in 2015 in 2020.

For fixed broadband by 2020, 81 percent of the connections will be faster than the speed of 5 Mbps; 53 percent will be faster than 10 Mbps; 17.7 percent will be faster than 25 Mbps; and 16 percent will be faster than 50 Mbps.

Average speed Wi-Fi will also increase by 2.6 times during the five-year period, from 9.1Mbps to 23Mbps, while average mobile connection speeds will double to 16 Mbps in 2020.

Bloch said that Australia was "too far" in speed, but said it is not so much the speed that is used for connectivity.

"The worst thing we can be as a country is complacent. The fact that we either AU $ 41 or AU $ 29 million in infrastructure nationwide broadband [Network], to me that's just the beginning, because only we're shooting faster electrons. What to do with these electrons? This is much more important, "admits the director of technology.

"We ensure that the physical copper optics, HFC [hybrid fiber-coaxial] infrastructure, and this is a good thing for us, but I spend much of my time thinking about what that means?

"The message we try to convey the Australian company is that we are in a race. And this is not a race between two Australian companies, is a race between Australia and the rest of the world. And I really learned to kick your ass here, and we to go all. '

The Australian IP traffic will grow three times between 2015 and 2020 at an annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21 percent, reaching 1.9 exabytes per month and 62 petabytes per day, with an annual supply of 22 May exabytes. IP traffic will average 6Tbps 2020, while "rush hour" or demand peaks reach 32Tbps.

The total Internet traffic will grow from 606 petabytes per month in 2020 to 1.7 exabytes, or 55 petabytes per day, compared to 20 petabytes per day in 2015. Internet traffic busy hours grow at a CAGR of 34 percent, reaching 28Tbps, while Internet traffic will average 5Tbps.

The disparity between peak and average data usage is a concern for telecom providers, Bloch said; Advanced divergence of 34.1 percent and 22.4 percent CAGR for the average CAGR will lead to pressure on the networks.

"This is a big problem for telephone companies: average time served and the time difference of about 1.5 is growing rapidly again half - 34 percent CAGR of 22 percent CAGR This is a big problem, because how you build for peak ..? "he said.

"For telcos, which is only getting worse ... we need more content, although technically we have to use this intelligent content, which is what content distribution networks are."

mobile data traffic will increase fivefold between 2015 and 2020 at a CAGR of 40 percent; It rose 6.3 percent of total Internet traffic in 2015, but will make 12.3 percent in 2020. It will reach 204 petabytes per month in 2020, up to 38 petabytes in 2015.

In 2020, Cisco predicted that the average Internet user to generate 60 GB of Internet traffic per month, an increase of 139 percent, and the average household to go through 149.3GB per month, up 146 percent. means fiber to node / basement / local distribution / Point (FTTx) of households 240.7GB generate Internet traffic per month, against 143.1GB in 2015, while the average mobile connection generates 4,777MB mobile data traffic per month, almost 300 percent of 1,199MB reported in 2015.

There will be a total of 21 million Internet users in Australia in 2020, Cisco, representing 81 percent of the total population, compared with 18 million and 74 percent of the population in 2015.

According to Cisco, Australians are "addicted" to video streaming 2020, video traffic to grow three times in 2020 at a CAGR of 27 percent. 1.4 exabytes per month will be reached in 2020 to 418 petabytes per month in 2015, with a total Internet video traffic to make up 82 percent of all Internet traffic in 2020, compared to 69 percent in 2015.

Netflix is ​​having a "significant impact" on the use of rush hour over the Internet, such as smart phones with capabilities increasingly being released, Bloch said.

Internet traffic game, meanwhile, will jump nine times during the same period, at a CAGR of 55 percent. It will increase from 418 petabytes per month to 1.4 exabytes per month, and will make 7 percent of the public Internet traffic in 2020. In 2015, rose 2 percent of Internet traffic consumers.

Cisco also predicts there will be 237 million networked devices in 2020, against 130.4 million in 2015, with 34 percent of these to be connected mobile. Of all networked devices, 59 percent will be (M2M) -Washer machine; 14 percent will be connected TVs; 11 percent will be smartphones; 8 percent will be PC; and 3 percent will tablets.

M2M modules use an average of 0.645GB per month, while smartphones use 11.8GB per month, tablets have an average of 24.7GB per month PCS use 48.7GB per month, and connected TVs using 4K 4.6GB per month.

This growth of Internet devices objects (IOT) and data usage, Bloch refers to backpacks RFID bees CSIRO to talk about what he calls "the IO Lite" - inexpensive devices long battery life that they need to run the IO.

"I'm on the record to say that telecom costs for connecting to the" things "in 10 years will be zero," he added.

"The money is in your applications and data."

Bloch also said that Australia is "really behind" in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), being in 13th place worldwide. He said the two keywords to STEM are the quality and scale, with a high quality program that will extend across the country. He also said another letter should be added to the acronym.

"It should not be STEM, should be STEMC" says Bloch.

"C is creativity. Because if you look at the computer and humans, humans are very different today what computers can do.

"This is what we think, how to use computers creative technology are far from that.".

The publication of statistics Australia following the publication of the 11th edition of the Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global IP traffic update scheduled two weeks ago. The general report predicts that nearly half of all Internet-connected devices will be objects (IO) 2020 devices.

M2M connections will increase from 4.9 million in 2015 to 12,200,000,000 in 2020, Cisco said, with 46 percent of all connected devices consist of M2M connections.

"A growing number of M2M applications such as smart metering, video surveillance, health monitoring, transport, packaging and asset tracking, contribute significantly to the growth of devices and connections," Cisco said.

The segment of the e-health will experience the highest growth of M2M, Cisco said, from 144 million in 2015 to 729,000,000 in five years. The consumption of domestic industry has most M2M connections, however, with 5.8 million planned for 2020.

Cisco also expects that by 2020 there will be 1 billion new Internet users; global IP traffic will reach 2.3 zettabytes per year; IP video to make up 82 percent of all IP traffic; DDoS attacks will increase to 17 million; VR traffic will increase 61 times; and video conferencing will grow to 248 million users.

200-120 Exam Question No 56

Question No 56:

Which term describes a spanning-tree network that has all switch ports in either the blocking or fowarding state?

A. Converged
B. Redundant
C. Provisioned
D. Spanned

Answer: A

Latest Cisco-IBM Deal Brings Watson to the Edge

“We’re trying to reduce the unnecessary transmission of data to the cloud.”

legendary IBM Watson system is well known as a platform that gathers archived data analysis to give an answer that might insoluble problems or questions. A new initiative between Cisco and the IO Watson, however, is likely to lead to a real-time view of any and all terminals.

the collaboration of IBM Cisco is designed to enable organizations in remote areas harness the combined power of analysis capabilities edge the IO Watson and Cisco to understand more deeply and act on critical data on the network edge.

Cisco, through their offers and initiatives supporting the "fog of calculation" is a promoter of the implementation of intelligence at the edge, or anywhere else along the spectrum of connections between devices and centralized servers. "We Cisco combines advanced capabilities with Watson so that we can make intelligent decisions on the edge of the network, the data is valuable," says Mike Flannagan, vice president of Cisco data and analysis.

Cisco provides the "ability to perform advanced analysis of the data flow, and data direction - look aggregates and summaries, such as time series, either one minute, five minutes or an hour on average," he says Flannagan. with this partnership, "Watson offer the opportunity to distribute a small piece of code on its edge, to tell our software data is interesting for them."

The ability to move more analytical processing on board is critical, especially for a real-time based on the IO and other distributed data. But for companies that do not have easy access to bandwidth connectivity, these capabilities are sometimes out of reach or take too long. intend to Cisco and IBM to provide such operational capacity on the edge of the computer, such as oil rigs, factories, transport companies and mines, where time is of the essence, but the bandwidth is often insufficient networks.

For example, workers in remote environments now be able to better monitor the health and behavior of critical machinery and plan more accurately for upgrades and maintenance of the necessary equipment. For example, illustrates Flannagan, "A machine operator may need to take readings for things like vibration, temperature and pressure. If there is a problem that will cause a security problem, I have to find that now, not three days from now ".

In addition, it may be too costly and need to be constantly moving all data generated in a central location for analysis. "You may have to make decisions at the point or close to the point of production," says Flannagan. "You have to decide how and what to do with it."

In general, companies using IBM Watson "have sent all the raw data to the cloud," he says. . Switches routers, bandwidth, cloud capacity - - "Then Watson would have to decide once was there as was a large number of irrelevant data to the cloud, with all necessary infrastructure to do so is sent then throw more if in the end, has not since been relevant to the problem you are trying to solve. We try to reduce unnecessary transmission of data to the cloud. "

The solution is marketed and sold as a whole and include cognitive IO Platform Watson and a real vision of time with IBM analytics continuous Cisco. This will allow real-time analysis to be performed on the edge and data collection for long-term analysis in the cloud.

200-120 Exam Question No 55

Question No 55:

Refer to the exhibit.

At the end of an RSTP election process, which access layer switch port will assume the discarding role?
 
A. Switch3, port fa0/1
B. Switch3, port fa0/12
C. Switch4, port fa0/11
D. Switch4, port fa0/2
E. Switch3, port Gi0/1
F. Switch3, port Gi0/2

Answer: C
 

Through Cisco and IBM, can customers have it both ways?

Cisco's new Internet IBM Objects (IO) of the Association promises to Undo a jam perception Customer to give today the whole concept of analytical or processing of borders, no ACTING analyze v On the IO data about the devices and / or sensors in the "borders" red.

As is reported RNA Technology Giants have worked as Component Analysis run the IBM Watson IO Devices Cisco borders, bringing more intelligence in essence Closer to where the action is.

For customers who promises to relieve Last enigma of IO "Where Start with Analysis", but in a nutshell, The Message of Companies esta clear "CAN have it both ways".

"Integration Greatly improves the IBM and Cisco Offers Analysis, Strategies IO STRENGTHENS Both companies, promises to increase their incomes And IO," director of Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil of, he said.

"The Agreement These Things ago by simplifying construction of the IO solutions that integrate capabilities Enterprises Both spokesmen for the company have said that extra 25,000 mutual customers had been asking for that capacity".

He said Gottheil Much of the excitement sober IO in 2015 was about How to extract value from large gender IO Data With IBM forefront of ESA Generation emotion.

"Companies did Provider insisting on the Strategic Transformation of Companies that implement IO" said Gottheil.

"The IBM and other vendors large IO pursue been found in the past year, however, is that customers Vie IO strategic, but dare not have to commit to Large Scale Projects Io has."

To Gottheil, interested customers in the IO transformation of Strategic Projects the one often experience with Proof of Concept or TACTICAS implementations as well evaluated: Great IO commitments.

But this is costly UN process and requires much time for Sellers and has resulted in lower growth MASA IO originally expected.

"Customers Vie based IO Edge Como Safest, with greater assurance of a return on investment more quickly Made" He added Gottheil.

"The problem with IO Strategic Analysis Based on centralized is that the cost is of great high io and profit is also true that Little IO.

"The benefit is based on the knowledge generated by large centralized data analytics, and the value of any ESOS Viewpoints Can You Tell if used to generate there."

With little IO, Gottheil said the return on investment more modest maybe, but with more confidence and can estimate due to lower cost of little IO, the risk is lower.

With this announcement, IBM said Gottheil is able to offer customers SUS a "soft path" between the iO based on the edge are large centralized IO.

"At the same time, the Performance Analysis on the edge centralized Reduce cost analysis by reducing amount of data transmitted, stored Procesados ​​that," explained Gottheil.

"Together, Transitions and THESE: customer benefits has also Reduce Costs sweet, so it is easier to paragraph Pass customers gradually a large IO IO".

: Also, it is now TOLD Gottheil Able to provide customers THEIR an "easy bridge" Power of Cisco Centralized Analytics.

"Cisco customers had been Analysis USO borders a Less than create their own integration with platforms Centralized Analysis; Cisco platform is based on analysis of the boundaries of computer fog Company as its Platform for Analysis" Anadio Gottheil.

They are hybrid IO a winner and IBM Cisco?

The paradigm of technology that is based esta Association is not new, however; As providers Microsoft, Dell and GE have the edge and analysis capabilities Centralized computing IO, as they provide cost savings and benefits SIMILAR Time.

However, Gottheil said that this partnership will create tests and Concept Increasing awareness of hybrid IO customers, IBM Watson will not allow to put in the driver's seat in more situations.

For Cisco, the third paragraph ANADE Association do vital component of the IO system, bringing a powerful centralized analysis engine with its platform (Jasper) Works and Connectivity.

"We believe that, ultimately, STRENGTHENS Revenue Controller class Cisco - Access Routing - while also complement Opportunities Software, Security, and income-based software IO" said Gottheil.

"The partnership allows both companies is approaching has the IO with joint sales and go-to-market initiatives that it is more beneficial both for sellers.

"DUE Cisco and IBM have cost structures separated under this Agreement, IBM paragraph EXPECT seek partnerships with additional providers, Juniper As tales Market for Growth stimulate IO.

"At the same time, Cisco EXPLORE integration mayor Other Suppliers scammers Central Analysis, tales of how Microsoft is GE."

Competition in the Market

Gottheil said that IBM will also help Association has better differentiate against competitors Analysis IO And as AWS cloud, Google is Microsoft, analytical and maintaining portfolios Watson Center, in addition to the cloud and the IO.

"With AWS establish itself as the dominant leader in the public cloud infrastructure, IBM esta working to promote hybrid managed IT, there Cognitive Skills Cloud services as part of a concentrated portfolio, enabling customers How to use Technology Achieve cloud-enabled business Industry specific Outcomes "He added Gottheil.

"AWS strives to provide comparable Solutions Business to business customers, is a Joint Messages Widest solutions, usually a Developer Level".

Looking ahead, Gottheil's believes that the focus of Cisco industry IBM and experience and "resound good" With customers IO requiring BY generals customization, there ultimately provide a Provider Each scam An additional way to para SUS Drag cloud solutions in the conversation.

CISCO Awards CloudHPT as the Master Cloud & Managed Services Partner of the Year

CloudHPT has been awarded that prestigious award Announced the "Cisco Master Managed Services Cloud & Partner of the Year". Cisco unveiled the winners knew Partner Summit in the UAE attended by over 200 partners, including delegates CXOs Technical and Vocational High Level at the Ritz Carlton in Dubai, UAE on May 24, 2016.

This award recognizes the Company USING Best Practices in class and serves as a model for the rest of the industry. Areas of consideration INCLUDE addition Processes and Innovative Practices Focus-LED architectural successes, and the Strategic Approach Business As a result m giving the customer success.

Cloud and Master Managed Services Partner of the Year recognized CloudHPT As the first and only cloud to Achieve partner and Services Master Certification in UAE managed, a record performance in Q1 2016.

Innovative Approach to provide quality services and low latency enterprise cloud TX Local T4 DC and 24/7 support team and strong as a difference CloudHPT Leading Provider of Managed Services cloud.

"We are proud results we achieved and we recognize the strategic importance of offering cloud solutions in the UAE," said Adam Wolf, Technical Director, CloudHPT. "This demonstrates our commitment to achieve vy maintain A s position leading reference in the Cisco ecosystem partners. We are working closely with Cisco's captured the market trends, such as cloud, the IO are the main volumes of data, while transforming for growth and profitability. "

About CloudHPT: CloudHPT is the provider of the cloud with DATABASE Several centers in the GCC.

We are the Supplier Certified Cisco Powered primer in the region cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) DRaaS Y (Disaster Recovery as a Service). Our Solutions is based on High Performance Technology (HPT IAH) and data centers housed in UAE Top.

We help our partners give customers ITS A roadmap has cloud that reduce IT costs and eliminate Course Future CAPEX costs. Normally, This approach provides a saving of 50% in the year and includes primer Migration Services and Full Service managed. Typically, customers use our cloud in the Country for workloads to take advantage f critical ultra low latency there Country Support and Professional Services.

Cisco Stock: This Could Be Massive for Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco biggest gain in value?

If Cisco Systems, Inc.  stock was not on their watch list before, it must be now. Why? The network equipment company could be on the verge of its next big rally.

I explain ...

What Piper Jaffray, Oppenheimer, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Jefferies Group have in common? They all gave the Cisco stocks a recommendation from "buy" on Thursday. (Source: "Cisco Systems Company Profile" market coup, last accessed 19 May 2016)

Of course, analysts do not always right. But for all these companies to evaluate a "Buy" in an action, you have something special.

Price targets are rather optimistic, too. For example, the Deutsche Bank has a target of $ 33.00 $ 35.00 price of shares of Cisco. In the middle, this would imply an increase of 23.3%, even after the rise on Thursday. (Source: Ibid.)

You could say that the mere possibility of 23% is not much in the area of ​​technology today, and see how a little broth streaming video won last year. But it's really not a fair comparison. You see, while Cisco is a high-tech company, which is not a disruptive stronger. The company has already established its presence. It has existed for over three decades.

In fact, Cisco could almost be considered as a social income today. With a dividend yield of 3.92%, which is impressive in the world of technology. In addition, since the company began paying quarterly dividends in 2011 it increased seven times since its dividend. (Source: "dividends and splits", Cisco Systems, Inc., entered May 19, 2016.)

If the action can offer capital gains with his beautiful dividend yield would be even better. And a strong earnings report is certainly a good way to spark a rally.

In the third quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2016, which generated revenues of $ 12.0 billion, representing an increase of three percent YoY. The number of revenue also exceeded Wall Street estimates of $ 11.97 billion. (Source: "Cisco Reports Third Quarter Results", Cisco Systems, Inc., May 18, 2016.)

Earnings per share (EPS) were better than expected as well. During the quarter, Cisco adjusted EPS rose six percent annually to $ 0.57, which also exceeded the estimate of $ 0.55 by analysts. (Source: Ibid.)

Note that in the current economic environment, growth of Cisco's business will not be as it was in the nineties. At the same time, business spending has been very strong. In particular, many companies outsource their work computer for cloud service providers like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation
The combination of slow growth macro environment with the tendency to move to cloud computing, the outlook does not come out really optimistic for Cisco. And indeed, these concerns have been a drag on shares of Cisco, which had a negative performance over the last 12 months.

However, the company said, things could not be as bad as analysts expected.

For the current quarter, Cisco expects revenue are in the range of $ 12.36 billion to $ 12.73 billion, which is better than analyst expectations of $ 12.4 billion, for most. The company also expects earnings of between $ 0.59 and $ 0.61 per share, which is at the top of the new estimate of $ 0.58 Wall Street. (Source: Ibid.)

Another reason why investors warmed to store the profitability of Cisco. Normally, when an established and oriented headwinds, industry margins are expected to decline. But this is not the case with Cisco. In its fiscal third quarter, gross margin Cisco products reached 63.8%, representing an expansion of 220 basis points compared with the period last year. During the quarter, the company expects its gross margin is between 63% and 64%

200-120 Exam Question No 54

Question No 54:

 Refer to the exhibit.

The output that is shown is generated at a switch. Which three statements are true? (Choose three.)

A. All ports will be in a state of discarding, learning, or forwarding.
B. Thirty VLANs have been configured on this switch.
C. The bridge priority is lower than the default value for spanning tree.
D. All interfaces that are shown are on shared media.
E. All designated ports are in a forwarding state.
F. This switch must be the root bridge for all VLANs on this switch.

Answer: ACE

3 Stocks to Watch Next Week: Cisco, Salesforce, and Wal-Mart

Despite macroeconomic uncertainty, networking giant Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) aims to increase revenue in its fiscal third quarter, results for which will be announced on Wednesday. weak fast growing segment of Cisco data centers in the second quarter is approaching, but the company expected to be a temporary problem. The security sector is still growing rapidly, with Cisco to become a diversified provider of security solutions.

the software provider of customer relationship management (CRM) Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) also report results on Wednesday. The company continues to grow rapidly and produce a lot of free cash flow, but results in accordance with GAAP Salesforce remain essentially nonexistent. Free cash flow is far from perfect, and Salesforce finally prove to investors that can produce consistent profits.


After some terrible results colleagues retailers, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) were informed of its first quarter results on Thursday. Proceeds will have a success due to the higher wages and investments in training and e-commerce, but Wal-Mart expected to increase same-store sales to the United States. One of the e-commerce initiatives Wal-Mart, grocery order online and pick up, looks particularly promising.

A secret opportunity billion available

the largest technology company in the world forgot to show something, but some Wall Street analysts and Loco keep pace: There is a small company that is driving your brand new appliances and next revolution in technology. And we believe that the share price has almost unlimited space to run investors in early-to-know

200-120 Exam Question No 53

Question No 53:

Which three of these statements regarding 802.1Q trunking are correct? (Choose three.)

A. 802.1Q native VLAN frames are untagged by default.
B. 802.1Q trunking ports can also be secure ports.
C. 802.1Q trunks can use 10 Mb/s Ethernet interfaces.
D. 802.1Q trunks require full-duplex, point-to-point connectivity.
E. 802.1Q trunks should have native VLANs that are the same at both ends.

Answer: A, C, E

200-120 Exam Question No 52

Question No 52:

Refer to Exhibit: 

How many broadcast domains are shown in the graphic assuming only the default VLAN is configured on the switches?

A. One
B. Two
C. Six
D. Twelve

Answer: A

Cisco Exec: Strong HyperFlex Demand Is Delaying Partner Shipments

 Cisco Exec: Strong HyperFlex Demand Is Delaying Partner Shipments, But We're Stepping Up Manufacturing:

Cisco Systems said Friday that saw customer interest in higher than expected HyperFlex, its foray into the hyper-convergence market, which has led to delays in shipping the product to partners for testing purposes.

"We value customer orders [of HyperFlex], which delayed delivery partners who wish to obtain laboratory equipment," Todd Brannon, director of product marketing for Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, said in CRN an interview. "He told us we would have a ramp production of six to eight weeks and we have done that."

Several partners told CRN earlier this week that Cisco extended the deadline for submissions HyperFlex channel indefinitely after initially saying they had received in March.

 Brannon recognizes shipping delays and said Cisco has responded by intensifying production HyperFlex.

"It speaks of the frustration of members. Everyone wants to get [HyperFlex] gear in their laboratories," he said. "We have increased the prognosis and get the materials to do so. This is definitely temporary."

Over the next two months, running within two weeks between ordering and fulfillment that is the standard for the UCS, Cisco HyperFlex Brannon said.

HyperFlex, unveiled in early March, married with Cisco UCS servers with storage technology defined by the software developed in partnership with Springpath, a company founded by former engineers VMware storage. Springpath HX platform data storage pools conventional semiconductors and hard drives and turns it into a business system object storage.

Some Cisco partners told CRN that are concerned that version 1.0 of HyperFlex lacks features found in competing products, such as coding erase, which breaks the data into pieces and stored in a variety of places communication and media types

 Brannon said Cisco HyperFlex not use encryption or deletion of RAID storage - another technology used to build resilience storage - because Springpath file system is specifically designed for hyper-convergence and provides better performance.

Members also noted that HyperFlex is not compatible with all arrays in flash memory, but Brannon says that is by design. "We do not want to make use of all flash memory arrays to hyper-convergence because there is a tax hefty price," he said. "Hyper-Startups convergent use of all flash in a way that we do not believe it to be effective."

 intensive workloads the data are an example where flash is useful, but customers tend to run the bare metal, according to Brannon.

"If someone is looking for a system based on all-flash system, it is likely that they will target a Flexpod" Brannon said, referring to the converged infrastructure that combines Cisco UCS servers with NetApp storage and marketed jointly by suppliers and partners.

Cisco is planning HyperFlex sales and marketing training available to all 2,152 of its partners worldwide UCS, Brannon said. Cisco focuses on its main partners UCS 125, but expects to have 900 members UCS formed in late July, he said.

 Meanwhile, Cisco was a late entrant to the convergence hyper-space and catch up.

Nutanix, offering superior service in the hyper-convergence space, with more than $ 312 million in financing, is expected to have its initial public offering in the coming weeks. SimpliVity, player # 2 with more than $ 276 million in funds, said he has seen good results as well.

Dynamic new companies creation and improvements in version 6.2 of VMware his VSAN technology, are pressure ratchet Cisco HyperFlex on the market soon.

Brannon agreed, but said that Cisco hopes that customers adopt HyperFlex as something different and unique to the current offer on the market.

"The new companies have created a lot of mind share around the hyper-converged infrastructure, and certainly a wake join a market that is about to take off," Brannon said.

"What is essential is to get to market with a product hyper-convergent this year, and we did. So we focus on deliveries to customers."

200-120 Exam Question No 51

Question No 51:

Which are valid modes for a switch port used as a VLAN trunk? (Choose three.)

A. Transparent
B. Auto
C. On
D. Desirable
E. Blocking
F. Forwarding

Answer: B, C, D

Cisco Flags Five Product Vulnerabilities that Could Trigger Denial of Service

Cisco has published five security advisories on Wednesday, issuing software updates to patch a number of vulnerabilities in three products, any of which could potentially trigger a denial of service condition.

In other words, the exploitation of one of these flaws, an attacker could execute essentially a low-grade attack, denial of service against a company that uses the minimum bandwidth, even without the need for an army of robots. "A large distributed denial of Internet service (DDoS) would not even be necessary" if a vulnerability to denial of service exploded in a particular application, "Terrence Gareau, scientific director of the security company Network Nexusguard, SCMagazine said. com.

Cisco has created solutions for all these vulnerabilities and advises clients on all affected products to download updates for their products immediately.

The most critical of the five defects listed was a vulnerability in HTTP URL redirection functionality of multiple versions of Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Cisco Software. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability remotely by sending an HTTP request designed, creating a buffer overflow condition that causes a hit to recharge and generate a crash file device.

David Larson, director of operations Corero Network Security, said in an interview SCMagazine.com use types of vulnerabilities, attackers can sometimes "get root access to the core. What this means is, that is not necessarily just a result of denial of service. This is the result of "property", "so that bad actors could take control or eliminate the entire network.

Gareau said two exploit of this nature in an environment as a center of health care "would be very devastating, especially since many hospitals use wireless networks."

There were two other vulnerabilities associated with Cisco WLC Software, both described as having a potential impact "high". Improper handling of traffic that involves software Hi Task Manager, while the other was a defect in its interface Web-based management, due to the presence of unsupported URL.

Cisco also reported a vulnerability in the processing subsystem encryption Secure real-time transport protocol Library (libSRTP), which affects Cisco Litany products including telephones, web conferencing servers, routers and security devices.

Finally, Cisco has reported a vulnerability in the functionality software repeat DHCPv6 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance - a disconcerting revelation, to be sure, since it could use a denial-of-service attack that effectively overcomes security products Cisco network 5500- running this software as your firewall X Series next generation. The vulnerability specifically affects the release of ASA software 9.4.1 when configured in firewall mode and routing mode single or multiple context.

Larson said that default is "alarms me," and said he has "a major problem because many organizations could tolerate traffic bypass around your firewall if you have a catastrophic failure." And that could be exactly what an attacker wants so they can sneak malicious traffic within the network.

While exploiting this vulnerability could remotely be a bit of a challenge, the failure still pose a major threat to social engineers who steal credentials network registration of privileged information, or the most insidious threats. For example, Larson suggests that such a threat could manifest as "APT is already within the network, as a weapon for this particular vulnerability."

Asked to comment on vulnerabilities, Cisco made the following general statement SCMagazine.com: "Cisco is the safety of our customers first when we have a vulnerability in our products, issued a security warning to ensure that our customers know it. it is and how to fix it. "

Larson said that ultimately, security alerts as Cisco just published "highlights what I think is something that IT security should look more closely: Can you afford to have DDoS low grade in his environment and ignore "

200-120 Exam Question No 50

Question No 50:

What is one benefit of PVST+?

A. PVST+ supports Layer 3 load balancing without loops.
B. PVST+ reduces the CPU cycles for all the switches in the network.
C. PVST+ allows the root switch location to be optimized per VLAN.
D. PVST+ automatically selects the root bridge location, to provide optimized bandwidth usage.

Answer: C

200-120 Exam Question No 49

Question No 49:

Each of these four switches has been configured with a hostname, as well as being configured to run RSTP. No other configuration changes have been made. Which three of these show the correct RSTP port roles for the indicated switches and interfaces? (Choose three.)

A. SwitchA, Fa0/2, designated
B. SwitchA, Fa0/1, root
C. SwitchB, Gi0/2, root
D. SwitchB, Gi0/1, designated
E. SwitchC, Fa0/2, root
F. SwitchD, Gi0/2, root

Answer: A, B, F

Cisco: A Safe, Cheap, Big Tech Stock Yielding 3.6%

Cisco Systems was a social gogo in the turn of the century, when its market value rose after the half-billion dollars.

Today, Cisco (ticker: CSCO) is much less even a better investment with a dividend yield of 3.6% in good health, assessment and convincing stability.

Like other technology heavyweights, Cisco has matured a tumultuous first that many smaller and younger players better quarter. Cisco shares have gained 23% since hitting a 52-week low in February.
And today, there is less naysayer among analysts sales. JP Morgan, who has been bearish on the stock market over the past two years, along with Cisco to neutral from low weight.

Shares rose 1.3% to $ 27.92.

Certainly, the analyst Rod Hall is not pounding the table on the stock. the earnings growth of Cisco's tibia. And with a target price of $ 27.50, Hall sees no place to head over the next year, arguing that at 12 times earnings forward, the world's largest maker of networking equipment business in line with its historical average.

Still, Cisco is trading at a big discount to the overall market. And after announcing a dividend increase of 24% in February (the increase in payment quarterly cash of 26 cents per share), Cisco has one of the highest returns of any cap value stock dividend in the Standard & Poor's 500, according to Hall.

Therefore, investors are paid to maintain a stock that faces little downside risk through prudent financial forecasts.

The main business of Cisco switches and routers is used to help connect computers to each other and to the Internet. This was under the pressure of increased competition.

Cisco has experienced faster growth in new types of products, including hardware and software conference. And some bulls see upside in its cloud business. However, a Cisco server recession expressed concern about spending business customers.

Consequently, analysts polled by Thomson Reuters see earnings per share increase of more than 4% at the end of this year in July to $ 2.30 on revenue of $ 49 billion. It expects earnings to increase to $ 2.39 per share next year.

Cisco in February called Barron "one of the cheapest ways to have a stable business generating large amounts of cash."

Cheap is correct. Even after its recent rally, Cisco will seek a reduction of almost 30%, both in the field of technology and the broader S & P 500. However, the company generated cash flow totaling $ 8,700 million over the last nine months and has completed its most recent quarter in January with more than $ 60 billion in cash on its balance sheet.

In February, Cisco has expanded its share repurchase plan of $ 15 billion. The company, meanwhile, has continued a streak of medium-sized transactions, including $ 320 million to acquire last month Israeli designer Leaba semiconductor chips.

However, some analysts do not see the value. Analyst at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Tal Liani downgraded to neutral from buy Cisco, citing concerns about growth.

However, Liani raised his price target to $ 30, implying a price increase of nearly 8%. And if you give a multiple of Cisco market - 16.5 times earnings forward - that puts the stock at $ 37.

200-120 Exam Question No 48

Question No 48:

Which two of these are characteristics of the 802.1Q protocol? (Choose two.)

A. It is used exclusively for tagging VLAN frames and does not address network reconvergence following switched network topology changes.
B. It modifies the 802.3 frame header, and thus requires that the FCS be recomputed.
C. It is a Layer 2 messaging protocol which maintains VLAN configurations across networks.
D. It includes an 8-bit field which specifies the priority of a frame.
E. It is a trunking protocol capable of carrying untagged frames.

Answer: B, E

MapR wins Cisco ISV Partner of the Year

And Data Analysis great company, Cisco won MAP Technologies ISV partners of the Year, The Pacific Japan (APJ).

If you give a channel Partners As an example, Regional Geographic Cisco Partner Summit awards recognize Practice Business Model Success surrounding Approaches selling led architecture, business programs is based on Innovative Strategic Results and practices.

"Committed MapR this Strategic Relationship with Cisco and to enable our joint customers to implement innovative applications, large global volumes data," said Vice President APJ MAPR Technologies dear Martin.

"We are very proud of our achievements successes there honored with Cisco to receive this prestigious award."

Partner organization Cisco Vice President APJ Ruma Balasubramanian, he said, "Cisco proud to work with partners around the world to direct v the innovation is the transformation digital customers is everywhere and create new solutions and business models for Our. Recognize the honor of UN is MapR Technologies, which: furthermore also emphasizes stellar achievements in the APJ region. "

200-120 Exam Question No 47

Question No 47:

Refer to the exhibit.

 

Which two statements are true about interVLAN routing in the topology that is shown in the exhibit? (Choose two.)

A. Host E and host F use the same IP gateway address.
B. Router1 and Switch2 should be connected via a crossover cable.
C. Router1 will not play a role in communications between host A and host D.
D. The FastEthernet 0/0 interface on Router1 must be configured with subinterfaces.
E. Router1 needs more LAN interfaces to accommodate the VLANs that are shown in the exhibit.
F. The FastEthernet 0/0 interface on Router1 and the FastEthernet 0/1 interface on Switch2 trunk ports must be configured using the same encapsulation type.

Answer: D, F