New Cisco Campus Switching Product On The Horizon?

It looks like there may be a replacement for the 6500 on the horizon according to NetworkWorld:

As expected, Cisco is developing a significant product launch for the enterprise campus under the codename “Big Bang.”

Marie Hattar, vice president of network systems and security solutions marketing, would not divulge details on Big Bang at the Interop 2008 conference. But she said it is a code name for a campus product launch that’s not likely to happen in calendar 2008.

“You’ll see a big bang but not a forklift,” Hattar says on the upcoming campus refresh. “It’s an evolutionary big bang.”

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The name ‘Big Bang’ (and its overuse by the Cisco suit) sort of reminds me of a project that we worked on a couple of years ago.  We were expanding our campus LAN by implementing a GeoMax implementation.  All of the infrastructure was priced out and the business plans written.  All that remained was to pitch the project to the VP and have her sign off on it.  She loved it except for one thing.  “Change the name now.” 

The name of the project? MAN Enhanced.  Even I (with my admittedly dirty mind) didn’t catch the connotation at first.   The Enzyte and Swedish pump jokes sponsorship jokes lasted weeks.

Question Of The Day: 01 May, 2008

Topic: IOS

r1#show ip arp 10.1.123.100
Protocol  Address          Age (min)  Hardware Addr   Type   Interface
Internet  10.1.123.100            1   0000.5e00.0101  ARPA   FastEthernet0/0

What can we tell about the IP address 10.1.123.100 from this output?

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Yesterday’s Question

Question Of The Day: 30 April, 2008 

Topic: IOS

You need to add multiple lines of configuration to the following interfaces on sw1:

Fa0/1, Fa0/2, Fa0/3, Fa0/5, Fa0/7, Fa0/8, Fa0/10, Fa0/13, Fa0/14, Fa0/15, Fa0/16, Fa0/17

Can you write a single-line interface range command to apply the changes to all of these interfaces at one time?

Answer: sw1(config)# interface range Fa0/1 – 3 , Fa0/5 , Fa0/7 – 8 , Fa0/10 , Fa0/13 – 17

interface range

This is a command that I use all of the time.  Up until I started doing CCIE labs, I did not know that you could use this command to configure discontiguous interfaces at the same time.  This is a great time saver in the lab as well in real life.

Hat tip to Steve.  I used his answer because I wasn’t able to jump on a switch from where I’m at (other than a production switch and I don’t want to run even the most innocuous commands on a production switch if I don’t have to).