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Im a network engineer working for an international medical company based in Basel, Switzerland. I began my professional life in 2000 after 4 years of an IT apprenticeship. I started as the Network Management System responsible with quite a lot other of other tasks inside the Cisco networking field. In 2005 I changed to my current employer where I changed my field of knowledge from part NMS part Networking to full time Networking. I also started to educate myself deeper into networking. After passing the CCNA and CCNP exams I wanted to go further with my education and took the CCIE R&S track instead of doing a school with lots of stuff Im not interested in 
I started the CCIE journey in August 2007 with the first of 5 workshops at the Cisco Network Academy in Rapperswil and passed the CCIE in Brussels at 07th of May 2008.
During that time I wrote a lot of documents to keep the stuff I learned and I thought it might be an idea to make it public so it might help other people on their path through the Cisco Certifications. I hope this site gets useful not only for CCIE candidates but also for other networking professionals on their search for knowledge.
If you have any questions or want to contact me, please drop me a line to pashtuk at gmail.com
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Im a network engineer working for an international medical company based in Basel, Switzerland. I began my professional life in 2000 after 4 years of an IT apprenticeship. I started as the Network Management System responsible with quite a lot other of other tasks inside the Cisco networking field. In 2005 I changed to my current employer where I changed my field of knowledge from part NMS part Networking to full time Networking. I also started to educate myself deeper into networking. After passing the CCNA and CCNP exams I wanted to go further with my education and took the CCIE R&S track instead of doing a school with lots of stuff Im not interested in
I started the CCIE journey in August 2007 with the first of 5 workshops at the Cisco Network Academy in Rapperswil and passed the CCIE in Brussels at 07th of May 2008.
During that time I wrote a lot of documents to keep the stuff I learned and I thought it might be an idea to make it public so it might help other people on their path through the Cisco Certifications. I hope this site gets useful not only for CCIE candidates but also for other networking professionals on their search for knowledge.
If you have any questions or want to contact me, please drop me a line to pashtuk at gmail.com
Congrats for your CCIE.
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How`s life in Switzerland and as a CCIE
Thanks
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Not to bad, its just time for some holidays (in a few months
great website. did a quick google for something and found your site.
Thank you, Im glad that you find the blog useful
Great site. I have found a bunch of useful stuff. Thank you.
Thanks Aaron
Since you have expertise in the field of IP networking, could suggest books from ccna to ccie ? thanks in advance.
Hi Sunny
For CCNA and CCNP I used the official self-study bookshelfs for those Certs, available on CiscoPress. CCIE is a totally different story and there are a lot of books around, like Routing TCP/IP Vol. I and II, Cisco LAN Switching (there should be a brand new version available), Internet Routing Architecture, Cisco QoS and many more. I also did my CCIE with the “old” version without MPLS and VPN so Im sure there are more books to get for those topics. Also very helpful is the Cisco online documentation, this is the only resource of information you have during the lab. Check out Internetwork Expert, IPExpert and other Vendors who sell preparation Labs for the CCIE, they mostly have a readinglist which is more up to date
hope it helps
Michel