Today’s blog has one big major subject: The Cisco Expo 2006.
The Cisco Expo is a fair organised by, who else could it be, Cisco. During this show some demonstrations and scheduled presentations will occupy your day and such a fair can be very informative if the subject suits you.
Some of Cisco’s partners as well as their own consumer brand, Linksys, were also there to demonstrate some of their latest innovations in the IT sector.
Companies that were there included Vodaphone, KPN, Systimax, IBM and triple P.
I’m not going to describe all the presentations and demonstrations in detail, there is no need for that, but just a very little report about the day and some pictures of goodies. Which makes me wonder why I brought my camera and didn’t take any pictures while I was there… Truth can be so much stranger than fiction.
Good evening people, today we’ve been to the official Cisco Expo 2006 at which Cisco and some of their partners demonstrated some cool new things. Vodaphone was demonstrating how a UMTS datacard can be used together with a Linksys (which is the consumer brand of Cisco) wireless broadband router to provide multiple computers with internet access while using only 1 UMTS connection.
Systimax solutions demonstrated a very cool and usefull hardware tool to monitor network activity as well as pinpoint failures, report unwanted access and report disconnected cables and all that jazz. With a database of attached network clients, switches, routers and cabling and a map of the building, the software that comes with the monitoring hardware you can pinpoint the exact location of a failure or any of the other things I mentioned.
Other things that were demonstrated including some wireless pre-N products, VOIP stuff, and MiMo.
Aside from the information fair there were a lot of presentations by either people of Cisco or one of their partners. These were all very informative, allthough not all of them were equally interesting to me. One of the presenters was speaking English with a little too strong Frensh accent that I could barely understand what he said and another one had the same problem, but with another accent. The rest of the presentations were pretty good overall and very interesting. One was about the Cisco Security Management software which can be used to configure and troubleshoot mutliple routers and switches at once from a single centralized location. Access to the routers would be established using an encrypted connection through SSL or SSH and the new version in Januari will also support Telnet for those older routers and switches that don’t support SSL or SSH.
And ofcourse the most important thing of all: GOODIES!
This goodie is a photoholder with a globe shaped head. Yes, that’s as useless as it sounds.
The usual CDs and DVDs you get at modern day fairs.
This one is actually pretty cool, yet another clock for my room 
Always wanted to have something to store my businesscards in… If I had any -_-’
Yup, a drinking bottle, always handy.
The badge. Not actually a goodie, but it makes you look like you matter, that you can make a difference.
This keyring is really cool. Bit heavy though, for a keyring.
Coolest fair goodie ever. This radio that is shaped like a PC mouse actually works! On 2 AA batteries.
And lastly, a notebook. The old fashional analog type of notebook. It looks good and it might come in handy sometime.
Oh yeah, one final thing before I forget:
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