The Nashville Cisco Users Group (NCUG) home page
WELCOME - Network Security & Information Security & Server Administrators & IT Managers & Systems Administrators & Network Administrators & Networkers & Physical Cable Plant & Low Voltage personnel, plus also teachers & trainers and USERS of CISCO equipment throughout Tennessee, southern Kentucky, Northern AL, Northern GA, & Northern MS.
We apologize for the sometimes less than tasteful banners (and popup ads) at the top and right margin of this web page, but this is a free webserver/website and everything we do is for free to technology end users and partners and schools, etc.
Also, we're sorry we're not webmasters, we're just infrastructure geeks, so please pardon our spelling and grammatical errors below.
Everyone is invited. Even if you can't spell IT, or have never configured a Cisco device in your life.
Please permit or add the email address nashvillecisco@yahoo.com through your personal email spam filter or your company's email spam filter.
The Nashville Cisco Users Group (NCUG) offers:
* 35% off discounts at two technology book websites, and 20% off at a third. Plus 20% off all Boson Cisco Certification tools. 35% off at http://ciscopress.com and 35% off at http://www.oreilly.com/store/. And 20-25% off discount at http://wiley.com & McGraw Hill. Scroll down below for details and discount codes.
* NCUG offers free membership (no monthly, quarterly, or yearly dues, ever).
* Free e-mailing list (maximum of 1 or 2 emails/month unless you are job hunting and ask to be added to the NCUG job hunter email list). If you are job hunting, please email us at nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the words JOB HUNTING in the subject line.
* Free meetings (no registration fees or attendance fees, ever), generally around 5:00pm the 3rd Tuesday of each month, and we often take December off for the holidays.
* Free dinner and free training or free presentations, plus free Cisco or free Cisco Press door prizes (and free Wiley/IEEE and O'Reilly Publishers door prizes) at every meeting. You MUST stay until the end of the meeting for a chance to win the door prizes!
* This is not exclusively a Cisco users group, because most members or most members' companies use non-Cisco servers and non-Cisco info security and cable plant and non-Cisco network infrastructure electronics.
* Membership is not by invitation only, and this loosely knit, totally informal group is not exclusively for people whose business or home is in Nashville, TN. Based on our membership, this is more like the (Tennessee and Alabama and Georgia and Mississippi and Kentucky) Network Engineer and Internet and e-Commerce and Server Admin and Low Voltage/Cable Plant and Networkers and Information Security and Firewall and IDS/IPS and Physical Security and Network Security and Router & Switch & Wireless & Wi-Fi Users Group.
* Did you know that we have had past NCUG meetings where NCUG members who are parents brought their children to the meeting, because they wanted their children to learn about IT or just about networking in general?!? And did you know we have had spouses attend who know nothing about computers or info security or computer networking?!?
* If you hear of any local or regional or national or international or education or other grants that the completely non-profit NCUG could apply for, we would like to help some local K-12 schools apply for wireless grants to help their school provide Cisco IEEE 802.11 WiFi to their students. We feel that helping the children in our community will help them better prepare to be well-adjusted contributing members of society when they grow up. PLEASE FORWARD your grant information to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com any info on grants that you read about, hear about or you see online ASAP, both free grants and also matching grants. Thank you very much!
* We do apologize that we only check the nashvillecisco@yahoo.com emailbox only twice/week. Please be patient with us in that regard. And please remember to please add the email address nashvillecisco@yahoo.com through your personal or company's spam filter.
* NCUG is looking for new Steering Committee members. There are no requirements, other than your willingness to help us. If you are interested, please send an email to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the words JOIN STEERING COMMITTEE in the subject line plus some of your contact info so we can contact you. Thank you so much!
* Meetings: There is no one standard meeting place for NCUG every month. Just stay tuned to this website or get on our emailing list for invitations. To subscribe to our emailing list, just send an email to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
* We would also like to have an NCUG meeting at YOUR office! We would also consider having a meeting outside of the metro Nashville, TN area, if we were persuaded that enough people would attend.
* ATTENTION Technical book readers = any NCUG members:
If you are willing to read a Cisco Press book or an O'Reilly book or a Wiley book cover to cover and write (in some cases) as little as a 3 full paragraph review of it, that technical book publisher will be willing to send you that book for free. For more details, please scroll down and contact our Wiley/CiscoPress/O'Reilly contact person in the technical book website discount codes below.
TOOLS WHICH MAY HELP MAKE YOUR NETWORK RESPONSIBILITIES EASIER:
If you want more info about some free ideas and free tools and some free online communities which could help you make your IT operations responsibilities easier, you can check out:
1) Wireshark = http://www.wireshark.org/
2) Packetyzer = http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=88383
3) More free tools at http://thwack.com/freetools/
4) Sans white papers about tools at http://www.sans.org/tools.php
5) http://igoogle.com blogs of online communities, and it works on your pda/smartphone
6) Be active in an online community (sans.org, Nortel Users Association (innua.org), Cisco.com and Cisco Networkers Live, etc, etc)
7) Attend local users groups (Please attend Cisco’s here in middle TN = http://ncug.org for example)
8) Document your network!
9) Document all your projects' requirements
10) Install and test drive products yourself on an isolated lab LAN + simulated WAN (don’t use your production network as your lab)
11) Seek out your online and local communities/users groups for assistance and to hear about their "gotchas" on the products you are designing/buying/deploying/implementing/managing/supporting daily
12) Avoid shelfware which is deployed and used for 1-3 months and then never used again
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TENNESSEE & NASHVILLE USERS GROUPS:
* FYI - Here are some Tennessee and middle Tennessee and Nashville Users Groups:
Women in Technology of
Society for Technical Communication (Middle TN Chapter) = http://www.stcmidtenn.org/
Nashville Cisco Users Group = http://ncug.org
Nashville Linux Users Group = http://nlug.org
Nashville Oracle Users Group = http://www.noug.net/
Nashville (Microsoft) Visual Studio .net Users Group = http://www.nashdotnet.org/
Nashville (Microsoft) Access/Visual Basic Users Group = http://www.nash-pc-users.com/access/
Nashville Technology Council = http://www.technologycouncil.com/
Nashville HP Users Group (join as a free member) = http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/
TN Telecommunications Users Association = http://ttua.orgTN Nortel Meridian Users Association = http://www.innua.org/chapters/manager/chapter.cfm?CID=102
Nashville area VMWare Users Group RSS feed = http://www.vmware.com/community
Nashville area PC Users' Group = http://www.nash-pc-users.com/napcug/index.htm
Nashville Association of Information Technology Professionals = http://www.aitpnashville.org/
Nashville Java Users Group = http://groups.google.com/group/NJUG
Middle TN Java/Websphere Users Group = https://mtjug.dev.java.net/
IBM Midrange User's Group of Tennessee = http://www.imugtn.org/
IEEE middle TN Chapter = http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/nashville/
Information Systems Security Association - Middle TN Chapter = http://www.issa-midtn.org/
Infragard (with FBI) http://www.infragard.net/
Infragard of Middle TN - members alliance http://www.infragard-midtn.org/
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Nashville TN chapter http://www.owasp.org/index.php/NashvilleIf you would like to have your Tennessee Users Group listed here, please send an email to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the words USERS GROUP LISTING in the subject line.
And please add the email address nashvillecisco@yahoo.com through your personal or company's spam filter.
* Also, if you are already receiving our twice/month email invitations and you would like to stop receiving them, please send an email to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Thanks again.
Cisco Press books 35% off User Group Discount Code Available for 2008
FYI: Cisco Press is one of the pieces of the larger Pearson/Informit group, which in addition to Pearson, includes Addison-Wesley Professional . Cisco Press . Exam Cram . IBM Press . Prentice Hall Professional . Que Publishing . Sams Publishing
Official Cisco User Groups will receive up to 35% off every purchase at http://ciscopress.com!
2. Enter your e-mail address on the Login or Become a Member page
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You are only required to register and apply the code once, but you must be logged in when shopping at ciscopress.com to automatically receive the special pricing. Note, Cisco Networking Academy Program titles are discounted 15%. All other Cisco Press titles are discounted 35%.
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* You are only required to register and apply the member code once, but you must be logged in to automatically receive the special pricing.
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Cisco and other Certification tools and Exam Preparation and Network Simulations = http://www.boson.com 20% off discount on any order at Boson Sotware's website. Your members just go to our website http://www.boson.com, they need to enter code NCUG0408 during the check out process to receive a 20% discount on any order. If your members have any further questions, and if I'm not at my desk, please have them contact Boson Customer Service 877-333-3926 (toll free).
Director of Marketing
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615.889.0121 Ext. 228
http://www.boson.com
ATTN Technical book readers / any NCUG members:
If you are willing to read a Cisco Press or an O'Reilly book cover to cover and write (in some cases) as little as a 3 full paragraph review of it, that technical book publisher will be willing to send you that book for free. In many cases that may be as much as a USD $50-$100 book the publisher will send you for free. That sounds like a pretty good deal to us, so we wanted to share this info with you. Please let us know at the next meeting if you are interested or just email us at nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the subject line BOOK REVIEW, and we'll send you the contact info of the right Cisco Press or O'Reilly person. Or please call or email our Cisco Press or O'Reilly or Wiley or Boson contacts above.
If you are job hunting, please send an email to
nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the words JOB HUNTING in
the subject line, and we will email you personally any
middle TN job openings we are forwarded.
If you are no longer job hunting, please send an email to
nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with NO LONGER JOB HUNTING in
the subject line.
If you are NO longer interested in receiving
invitations to our free dinner & learns, please send
an email to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the word
UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Take care...
OCTOBER 2008 NCUG MEETING: You are invited to our free dinner & learn & meeting
& technical presentation at the LPS INTEGRATION office in Nashville TN at 5:00pm
central on Tuesday October 14th 2008. You can show up late if you are working late, no worries!
Special thanks this month to LPS Integration, and as always to O'Reilly, Cisco Press/Pearson and
Wiley/IEEE Press.
WHEN: 5pm Central Tuesday October 14th 2008
Nashville, TN 37228 (615) 1.866.577.2902.
5:00pm Dinner
5:30pm Introductions and any meeting business
6:00pm Cisco presentation by Matt Lang, Senior Network Architect and CCIE Security # 20457 on Cisco's CS-MARS . For more info, please review http://www.cisco.com/go/mars/
7:00pm Drawing for free book door prizes PLUS a $100 AMEX GIFT CARD!!!**
**You must stay until the very end for a chance to win a door prize.
LPS Integration is…
» One of only 3 Citrix Platinum Partners in the SouthEast (and the only one in Tennessee).
» The only Symantec Gold Partner based in Tennessee.
» One of only 6 Microsoft Gold Managed Partners in the Heartland.
» The only Altiris & Vontu partner in Tennessee.
» Responsible for the largest Symantec End Point Protection implementation in the world.
» Constantly expanding our $1 Million training & lab facility.
DIRECTIONS:
We are located off Metro Center (now Rosa Parks Blvd), Exit 85 on I-65
From North of town:
From I-65 South, take Exit 85, Rosa Parks Blvd
Merge right off the exit.
Make a right at the second light.
Go to the end, and make a left at the stop sign onto Great Circle Rd.
We are the second single-story building on the left, name is on the building.
From South of town:
From I-65 North, take Exit 85, Rosa Parks Blvd
At the top of the ramp, make a left at the light.
Make a right at the second light.
Go to the end, and make a left at the stop sign onto Great Circle Rd.
We are the second single-story building on the left, name is on the building.
From downtown:
From Jefferson St, turn onto Rosa Parks Blvd/8th Ave, and follow Rosa Parks Blvd.
Make a right on Vantage Way.
Go to the end, and make a left at the stop sign onto Great Circle Rd.
We are the second single-story building on the left, name is on the building.
If you need anything else from us on this, please let me know.
Thanks.
Frank Pulliza
CNE, MCSE, CCNA, CCEA, CCIA
fpulliza@lpsintegration.com
LPS Integration Inc.
o: 615.254.0581”
Thanks, and we're looking forward to seeing you there.
SEPTEMBER 2008 NCUG MEETING: You were invited to our free dinner & learn & meeting & technical presentation at Cisco Systems Inc, Brentwood TN office at 5:00pm central on Tuesday September 16th 2008. Special thanks this month to Cisco, and as always to O'Reilly, Cisco Press/Pearson and Wiley/IEEE Press.
AGENDA:
5:30pm Introductions and any meeting business
7:00pm Drawing for free book door prizes**
*- Application Networking
- Data Center
- Digital Media
- IPICS
- Mobility
- Security
- Storage Networking
- TelePresence
- Unified Communications
- Video
- Virtualization
1) From Nashville take I-65 SOUTH toward HUNTSVILLE
2) Merge onto OLD HICKORY BLVD / TN-254 W via EXIT 74B
toward BRENTWOOD. 0.4 miles
3) Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN RD / US-31 / TN-6.
4) Go about 0.6 miles, past the 1st traffic light called Maryland Way
5) Immediately begin look for the WAVERLY building on your left. This building is NOT well marked. Come inside, the Cisco office is on the 1st floor around the North side of the building.
AUGUST 2008 NCUG MEETING: You were invited to our free dinner & learn & meeting & technical presentation & tour at XO Communications in downtown Nashville TN at 5:00pm central on Tuesday August 19th 2008. Special thanks this month to XO, and as always to O'Reilly, Cisco Press/Pearson and Wiley/IEEE Press.
WHEN: 5pm Central Tuesday August 19th 2008
WHERE: XO Communications, 105 Molloy Street, Nashville, TN 37201 (615) 777-7777
AGENDA:
5:00pm Dinner
5:30pm Introductions and meeting business
6:00pm XO presentation on SIP
7:00pm Tour of XO facility
7:30pm Drawing for free book door prizes
Did you know all of the following about XO... ?
"XO®
* More than 4,000 employees
* $1.43 billion in Revenue (2007)
Network Assets
* Approximately 1 million miles of metro fiber
* An 18,000-route mile nationwide inter-city network
* Nearly 1,000 central office collocations
* More than 3,000 fiber-fed buildings on net
* Fully peered T1 IP network with more than 100 private and public peering relationships
* 28-31 Ghz spectrum in 75 markets
Ticker Symbol
* OTC: XOHO
Awards
* Winner, NXTComm Eos Award for Best Backbone/Core Network, 2007
* ATLANTIC-ACM, Best-in-Class Wholesale Carrier Awards for Best Representatives, Billing, Voice Product Price and Data Product Price, 2008
* CISCO IP Innovator of the Year at Comptel Plus 2008 Spring Expo
* ATLANTIC-ACM, Best-in-Class Wholesale Awards for Best Wholesale VoIP and Integrated Access/PRI Services, 2007
* ATLANTIC-ACM, Best-in-Class Wholesale Excellence Awards for Data Services and Quality of Sales Force, 2007
* Telecom Association, Members Choice Award for VoIP Services, Top VoIP Service Provider for Partner Community, 2007
* Internet Telephony 2007 Product of the Year Award for XO SIP
* Finalist, Metro Ethernet Forum Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year, 2007
* Telephony, Telephony Award for Innovative Service for Small to Medium Businesses, 2007
* Light Reading, Finalist for North American Ethernet Service Provider of the Year for Innovation, 2007
* Light Reading, Leading Lights Award Finalist for Best New Service – High Speed DIA with Ethernet over Copper, 2007
"
This and more info about XO can be found online at http://xo.com/about/Pages/overview.aspx .
DIRECTIONS: XO's facility is located at 105 Molloy Street, Nashville TN 37201 (615) 777-7777, at the corner of 2nd Ave and Molloy St downtown. 2nd Ave may be under construction at that time. XO is located on 2nd Ave 2 blocks South of Broadway. From the Hard Rock Cafe you can go 2 blocks south on 1st Ave and find parking to avoid the construction. XO is in the 2 buildings between 1st and 2nd Ave on Molloy St. XO is diagonal from the Bluesboro Cafe. During the afternoon, paid parking lots are all that is available in this area. Check in with the security guard in the 2nd Ave XO building.
If you have any questions about the host XO or this event, please contact:
Richard Brown, Senior Sales Manager
XO Communications
105 Molloy Street
Nashville, TN 37201
Office phone # 615-777-7424
rich.e.brown@xo.com
http://www.xo.com
Main phone # (615) 777-7777
http://www.xo.com/golocal/nashville
JULY 2008 NCUG MEETING: This July 2008 meeting took place on
Tuesday July 15th 2008 at Digital Connections Inc (DCI) at their Hendersonville
TN location. Dinner began at 5pm Central time, and the meeting began at around 5:30pm.
Cisco Press and Wiley/IEEE Press and O'Reilly graciously offered free door prizes.
The agenda was open forum this month. We discussed
1) Your personal job hunt, and web sites that are extremely helpful
2) Updating your resume
3) Companies outsourcing IT
4) Companies who will be happy to have your company outsource IT to them
5) The economy and its impact on IT in middle TN
DIRECTIONS to DCI at 152 Molly Walton Drive, Hendersonville, TN 37075 from downtown Nashville:
1) take I-65 N via EXIT 88A toward LOUISVILLE. 6.9 miles
2) take VIETNAM VETERANS BLVD / TN-386 N via EXIT 95 toward HENDERSONVILLE / GALLATIN. 2.4 miles
3) take the CENTER POINT RD exit- EXIT 2- toward HENDERSONVILLE. 0.2 miles
4) turn RIGHT onto CENTER POINT RD. 0.1 miles
5) turn LEFT onto GALLATIN RD 1.0 miles
6) turn LEFT onto FREE HILL RD (stop light 3 @ Shell station) and go up hill past fire station and
cell phone tower to stop sign at end of road. 0.6 miles
7) turn RIGHT onto MOLLY WALTON DR. 0.2 miles
8) DCI is the last building on the left on Molly Walton Drive. Dark brown brick.
If you have any questions about DCI or the Hendersonville TN DCI office, please see
http://digitalconnections.com/ or please call 615.826.5000. If you get lost finding their office
that evening after 5pm you can call 615-389-3254.
And special thanks to Jeff Jennings and the management at DCI for the free dinner
and for hosting this meeting. And of course thanks again to Jamie Adams and all the folks at Cisco
Press/Pearson (http://ciscopress.com), and Marsee Henon and all the folks at O'Reilly
(http://oreilly.com), and Jeff Parker and all the folks at Wiley (http://wiley.com)
for the awesome FREE books door prizes!!!
You can RVSP right now by clicking reply and put the words NCUG RSVP TUE JULY 15 2008 DCI
in the subject line of your reply, if you are 90% certain you can attend. And of course you can
show up late.
Thanks again, and have a happy Independence Day!!!
JUNE 2008 NCUG MEETING: This June 2008 meeting took place on Tuesday June 17th 2008 at PAETEC at their Brentwood TN location. Dinner will begin at 5pm Central time, and the presentation by Director of Sales Tom Coffey began at around 6pm. Cisco Press and Wiley and PAETEC and New Horizons provided awesome free door prizes, you had to stay to the end of the meeting to win a door prize.
Did you know PAETEC recently acquired US LEC, Allworx, and McLeodUSA to expand its communications solutions and geographic reach throughout the US. Here's a Forrester article on PAETEC:
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/0,7211,44279,00.htmlAGENDA:
- Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
- 5pm Central Time, meet and greet, plus free dinner= Pizza and more from Joey's House of Pasta, special thanks to PAETEC, plus dessert= special thanks to TEK Systems
- 5:30pm-6:00pm NCUG member introductions, business, discussions, complaints, gotchas, lessons learned, job hunting, job openings, hiring, outsourcing, etc
- Approximately 6pm or 6:15pm - Speech, "2008, FCC Auctions to Cloud Computing, a Telecommunications Industry Update"
- Tom Coffey, Regional Director of PAETEC
- Tour of PAETEC's Central Office, home to three discreet SONET rings
- Door prizes - special thanks again to PAETEC:
- one pair of tickets to a Tennessee Titans Game
- two pairs of tickets to Nashville Sounds games
- one pair of tickets to a Tennessee Titans Game
DIRECTIONS: We are located in the Maryland Farms business park which is in Brentwood, TN about 12 miles due South of downtown Nashville, just off of I-65. Our actual address is:
PAETEC
Harpeth on the Green V
105 Westwood Place, Suite 100
Brentwood, TN 37027
DIRECTIONS to Paetec's office:
From the airport, get onto I-40 heading west for about 8 miles.
Next, head south on I-65 about 10 miles and exit onto Old Hickory Blvd heading west.
As you merge onto Old Hickory Blvd, you will want to get into the left lanes so that you can turn left onto Franklin Rd, which is at the first set of lights.
Once you have turned left onto Franklin heading South, you will go about ½ mile to the first light, where you will take a right onto Maryland Way.
Head west on Maryland way about 1 ½ miles, then take a right onto Westwood Place. (The last right before you get to Westwood Place is West Park Drive).
Once on Westwood Place, we are the 2nd building on the left on the first floor.
Please feel free to contact us at: 615 324-1000 if you have any questions.
David.Iglar@PaeTec.com
Please subscribe to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com, and we will email you an invitation to this and all future free dinner & learn events.
Please remember to always RSVP to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com.
MAY 2008 NCUG MEETING: The May 2008 meeting was Tuesday May 20, 2008 at the Brentwood TN Cisco office. It was hosted by Sprint's Mike Greeson and Bill Dockery from Sprint, with a Sprint presentation on the topic of Sprint broadband wireless cellular data aircards in Cisco/Linksys network devices + WiMAX/Xohm.
Agenda:
5:00pm-5:30pm Free dinner (thank you Sprint!)
5:30pm-6:00pm NCUG member discussion on various topics (Cisco Systems Inc, CSCO, integration, convergence, gotchas, etc)
6:00pm-7:30pm Presentation by Sprint as described below by Mike Greeson
7:30pm approximate ballpark time of door prize drawings (thank you Cisco Press, Cisco, Sprint and Wiley/IEEE Press!)
"The Sprint presenter was Bill Dockery Bill.G.Dockery@sprint.com. Sprint presented on Sprint’s wireless broadband solutions including the Sprint/Cisco ENZO solution, Linksys+ Sprint broadband connection card, and brief presentation of Sprint’s upcoming WiMAX offering Xohm.
For more info on the presentation, please contact:
Mike Greeson
Enterprise Account Manager II
Sprint Nextel
210 Westwood Place
Brentwood, TN 37027
PCS 615-479-8704
615-221-5560 Fax 913-523-8217
Directions:
1) From Nashville take I-65 SOUTH toward HUNTSVILLE
2) Merge onto OLD HICKORY BLVD / TN-254 W via EXIT 74B
toward BRENTWOOD. 0.4 miles
3) Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN RD / US-31 / TN-6.
4) Go about 0.6 miles, through the 1st traffic light
5) Look for the Waverly building on your left, with a Cisco logo on the 1st floor left front glass window on
the building. Come inside, the Cisco office is on the 1st floor around the North side of the building.
6) If this is your 1st visit to the Cisco-Brentwood TN office you might call 615-221-2900 during normal business hours for directions.
Door prizes were a brand new Sprint CENTRO pda/smartphone/camera/speakerphone, as described at http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?id16=centro&phoneSKU=PTR690HKR (special thanks to Sprint!), and free door prizes books from Wiley/IEEE Press and Cisco Press (special thanks to Wiley and Cisco Press!).
Thanks!!
APRIL 2008 NCUG MEETING: This April meeting took place on Tuesday April 15 2008 at Core BTS at their new office in Cool Springs. Dinner and beverages and dessert began at 5:00pm, the meeting began after we ate and after introductions and business. The door prizes at the very end of the meeting were a new IPOD SHUFFLE (THANK YOU CORE BTS), plus books from ciscopress.com and wiley.com (THANK YOU CISCO PRESS AND WILEY).
AGENDA:
1) 5pm Dinner and meet & greet
2) Afterwards, some discussion about certain members' projects and Cisco-related experiences.
Following this, Core BTS present on:
3) Cisco's Data Center ACE overview, + Lessons Learned.
For more info about the ACE, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/ace.
Directions to CORE BTS:
CORE BTS
Nashville
725 Cool Springs Blvd Suite 300
Franklin, TN 37067
tennessee@corebts.com
615.277.3000
From Downtown Nashville:
1. Merge onto I-440 E towards Knoxville
2. Take exit 5 to merge onto I-65 S toward Huntsville 12.9 mi
3. Take exit 68A to merge onto Cool Springs Blvd 0.8 mi
4. Go straight through light at Carothers intersection
5. Turn right at next light into 725 Cool Springs Blvd (Franklin, TN 37067) third floor suite 300 tennessee@corebts.com 615.277.3000
From the Airport:
1. Head south
2. Slight left (signs for Nashville/Terminal/I-65/I-40 W/Parking/I-24) 0.1 mi
3. Merge onto I-40 W via the ramp to Nashville/I-65/I-24 3.4 mi
4. Continue on I-24 E (signs for I-440 W/Chattanooga/Memphis/I-24 E) 0.8 mi
5. Take exit 53 to merge onto I-440 W toward Memphis 2.6 mi
6. Take exit 5 to merge onto I-65 S toward Huntsville 12.9 mi
7. Take exit 68A to merge onto Cool Springs Blvd 0.8 mi
8. Go straight through light at Carothers
9. Turn right at next light into 725 Cool Springs Blvd (Franklin, TN 37067) third floor suite 300 tennessee@corebts.com 615.277.3000
You had to be present at the end of the meeting for a chance to win the new IPOD SHUFFLE or the Cisco Press or Wiley Books . Thanks for attending.
MARCH 2008 NCUG MEETING: This meeting was on Thursday March 13th 2008 from 5pm-7pm Central time. It was hosted by AT&T and was on the topic of 3G broadband aircards connected to Cisco routers. Dinner and a free AT&T Blackberry door prize were provided by AT&T, and additional free book door prizes were provided by Wiley and Cisco Press.
The title of the presentation was
"Cisco High Speed Wireless Interface Card and AT&T Network Services"
The agenda was approximately as follows:
Presenter Title Topic Time
Dinner and Meet & Greet @ 5pm
Introductions and open discussion @ approx 5:30pm
followed immediately by the following presentations:
Gary Weatherford AT&T Systems Engineer GSM 3G Network Overview 15 minutes
Theresa Corballis Cisco Systems, AT&T Service Creation Cisco High Speed Wireless Interface Card (HWIC) 30 minutes
H. Bryan Pettus, CCSP AT&T Technical Network Consultant Cisco HWIC-MPLS Case study 15 minutes
DIRECTIONS:
The AT&T Mobility Office in the Maryland Farms Complex in Brentwood, TN is located at 5310 Maryland Way, adjacent to the Tractor Supply Corporate HQ. The best contact number to provide is my cellular, 336-7087. Directions below:
From North of Downtown Nashville :
I-65 South to Old Hickory Blvd. West .
Go approximately 2 miles west on Old Hickory Blvd. to Granny White Pike, turn Left going south on Granny White Pike.
Go approximately 1/4 mile to the traffic light @ Maryland Way, turn Left going west on Maryland Way.
Go approximately 1/4 mile and 5310 Maryland Way is on the left. Park on the Maryland Way side (south) parking lot.
From South of Brentwood TN :
I-65 North to Old Hickory Blvd. West .
Go approximately 2 miles west on Old Hickory Blvd. to Granny White Pike, turn Left going south on Granny White Pike.
Go approximately 1/4 mile to the traffic light @ Maryland Way, turn Left going west on Maryland Way.
Go approximately 1/4 mile and 5310 Maryland Way is on the left. Park on the Maryland Way side (south) parking lot.
Thanks!
David L. Kessler, Mobility Applications Consultant
Business Markets Group - Global Channel
AT&T Mobility® 615-336-7087 david.kessler@att.com
http://www.wireless.att.com/home Data Support: (800) 331-0500
Thanks again, and if you are no longer interested in receiving invitations to our free dinner & learns, please send an email to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Take care...
JANUARY 2008 NCUG MEETING: Due to the holidays, there was no Dec 2007 meeting. Our January 2008 meeting started at 5pm on the 3rd Tuesday in January, Tuesday January 15th 2008 at Pomeroy's office, and was sponsored by Bill Simpson and Louie Belt of Pomeroy. The agenda began with dinner, provided by Pomeroy, at 5pm. The meeting will began at approximately 5:30pm. After introductions, the Pomeroy presentation was as described below by Louie:
@Comm provided a demonstration of their call reporting / accounting system that ties in with Cisco Unified Communications products for the meeting. The product is a VoIP Call Reporting product that entails Call Accounting, Call Workflow, Call Abuse, Call Forensics,…
DIRECTIONS TO POMEROY:
1) Exit I-24 at Harding Place and turn East towards the Airport.
2) Drive approximately 1.25 miles and turn left onto Air Park Center Drive (3rd left after crossing Antioch Pike).
3) Take the fourth left into the parking lot. Our office is about 100 yards on the right. Pomeroy sign is on the door.
Pomeroy is located at 717 Airpark Center Drive, Nashville, TN, 37217 For more info about Pomeroy and/or help with directions, please call (615) 399-0404.
Louie A Belt, CCIE # 7054
Internetworking Principal, Midwest Region
lbelt@pomeroy.com
Free door prizes were donated from Wiley and Cisco Press. You had to stay until the end of the meeting to win a door prize. Special thanks to Wiley, Cisco Press, Pomeroy and @Comm.
NOVEMBER 2007 NCUG MEETING: This meeting was held on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Tuesday November 27th 2007 NCUG at 5pm meeting at the Cisco-Brentwood TN office. The Cisco-Brentwood TN office graciously offered to host this meeting and Kevin Train offered to feed us dinner free.
The meeting agenda after dinner and introductions was PLIXER and their NetFlow and sFlow analyzer. Mike Patterson and Dale Locke from Plixer presented. More info on Plixer can be found online at http://www.plixer.com or by contacting:
Michael Patterson
Scrutinizer Product Manager
(207)324-8805 x222
Scrutinizer Training:
http://www.plixer.com/training/scrutinizerTraining.html
Email: mike@plixer.com
Directions:
1) From Nashville take I-65 SOUTH toward HUNTSVILLE
2) Merge onto OLD HICKORY BLVD / TN-254 W via EXIT 74B
toward BRENTWOOD. 0.4 miles
3) Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN RD / US-31 / TN-6.
4) Go about 0.6 miles, through the 1st traffic light
5) Look for the Waverly building on your left, with a Cisco logo on the 1st floor left front glass window on
the building. Come inside, the Cisco office is on the 1st floor around the North side of the building.
We gave away free Cisco Press book door prizes! Special thanks to Kevin at Cisco for dinner, to Emma at TEK Systems for dessert, and to Cisco Press for the books as door prizes!!!
Thank you for attending! If you missed anything, please reach out to Mike Patterson at the phone number or email address above.
OCTOBER 2007 NCUG MEETING: Due to re-scheduling, we did not have an NCUG meeting this month.
But instead, members looked below and registered for one or both of these October 2007 events. 1) free Nashville Cisco/NetQoS event Oct 9th. And the 2) not free Oct 29-Nov 1 annual CIPTUG conference in Austin TX (CIPTUG = the national Cisco IP Telecomm User Group). Please see below for info on both.
Also, for a limited time, you can register for a free copy of SolarWinds standard toolset (14 of the 49 tools free), at http://www.solarwinds.com/superhero
1) You are cordially invited to join us for the upcoming free Cisco/NetQoS Event
in Nashville TN Tuesday October 9th, 2007.
The topic of the discussion will be "IMPROVING NETWORK AND APPLICATION PERFORMANCE WITH CISCO WAAS AND NETQOS TOOLS."
We will discuss additional tips and techniques around Cisco NetFlow
data as well as monitoring VoIP and MPLS migration and performance.
For the location in your area, registration and additional information,
please visit: http://www.netqos.com/promo/cisco_roadshow/index_netqos.html
Seating is limited, so please register now.
I look forward to seeing you there,
Bojana
Bojana Bowermon
Cisco Partnership Manager
NetQoS, Inc.
(512) 334-3773 Office
(512) 413-9322 Cell
bojana.bowermon@netqos.com
2) CIPTUG 2007 Conference - Austin, TX (Oct 29 - Nov 1, 2007)
This event is not free. At this month's CIPTUG (the national Cisco IP Telecomm User Group) conference, visit with Cisco staff from the Cisco Unified Application Environment team. See demonstrations of applications built using the application environment by Cisco and Cisco partners.
Visit Event Site
http://www.ciptug.org/conference.php
AUGUST 2007 NCUG MEETING: The NCUG's esteemed ex-president Jason Myers hosted our Tuesday August 21st 2007 meeting at his office Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. near 100 Oaks mall. As usual, dinner started at 5pm, the presentation started at 5:30pm. Jason presented on the topic= “Documentation, how you know what’s on your network."
Smith Seckman Reid specializes in healthcare, sports/entertainment, information technology and architectural & civil engineering projects.
DIRECTIONS to Smith Seckman Reid (SSR):
1) FROM NASHVILLE: Take I-65 South toward HUNTSVILLE.
2) Merge onto ARMORY DR via EXIT 79.
3) Turn LEFT onto SIDCO DR.
4) On your left, end at
Smith, Seckman Reid, Inc. (SSR)
2995 Sidco Dr
Nashville, TN 37204-3709
Phone: 615.383.1113
http://www.ssr-inc.com
There were FREE books from Wiley/ieee and Cisco Press as the free door prizes. And Cisco very kindly purchased dinner for us. So a very special thank you goes out to Cisco Press, Wiley, and the Cisco-Brentwood TN office!!!
JULY 2007 NCUG MEETING: The Tuesday July 17th 2007 NCUG 5pm meeting was held at the Digital Connections (DCI) Hendersonville TN office. The Digital Connections (DCI) Hendersonville TN office graciously hosted this event and provided us a tour of their facility. And ClearSight Networks fed us and showed us their protocol analyzer products. Dessert was provided by TEK Systems. The meeting agenda after dinner and introductions was:
Presenters:
Jeff Jennings (and others) from Digital Connections
Jenny Wilson from ClearSight Networks
Agenda:
1) Introduction to and tour of DCI's office.
2) Presentation on ClearSight Distributed version 6 and the ClearSight Network Time Machine.
For more info on ClearSight, please start at http://www.clearsightnet.com/
Directions from downtown Nashville to DCI (http://www.digitalconnections.com) in Hendersonville TN:
1) take I-65 N via EXIT 88A toward LOUISVILLE. 6.9 miles
2) take VIETNAM VETERANS BLVD / TN-386 N via EXIT 95 toward HENDERSONVILLE / GALLATIN. 2.4 miles
3) take the CENTER POINT RD exit- EXIT 2- toward HENDERSONVILLE. 0.2 miles
4) turn RIGHT onto CENTER POINT RD. 0.1 miles
5) turn LEFT onto GALLATIN RD 1.0 miles
6) turn LEFT onto FREE HILL RD (stop light 3 @ Shell station) and go up hill past fire station and cell phone tower to stop sign at end of road. 0.6 miles
7) turn RIGHT onto MOLLY WALTON DR. 0.2 miles
8) DCI is the last building on the left on Molly Walton Drive. Dark brown brick.
If you have any more questions about DCI or for Jeff Jennings, please contact jjennings@digitalconnections.com.
If you were as impressed as we were with ClearSight's products, please email Jenny Wilson at rvm96@mindspring.com.
And thanks again to Jamie Adams at Cisco Press (jamie.adams@pearsoned.com) and Marsee Henon at O'Reilly (marsee@oreilly.com) for the awesome FREE book door prizes!!! 
JUNE 2007 NCUG MEETING: The Tuesday June 19th 2007 NCUG 5pm meeting was held at the Cisco-Brentwood TN office. The Cisco-Brentwood TN office graciously hosted this event and fed us dinner. TekSystems provided dessert, and Robert Half Technologies gave some USB and other handouts. The meeting agenda after dinner and introductions and were open, so we discussed certifications, job hunting, questions about company/office networks, MPLS, IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh AP1500s, and other topics). No topic was off limits. The door prizes were 3 Cisco Press books, 1) Cisco Voice, 2) Cisco BCMSN Exam Certification Guide, and 3) Cisco CCIE Routing & Switching written Exam Certification Guide.
Directions:
1) From Nashville take I-65 SOUTH toward HUNTSVILLE
2) Merge onto OLD HICKORY BLVD / TN-254 W via EXIT 74B
toward BRENTWOOD. 0.4 miles
3) Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN RD / US-31 / TN-6.
4) Go about 0.6 miles, through the 1st traffic light
5) Look for the Waverly building on your left, with a Cisco logo on the 1st floor left front glass window on
the building. Come inside, the Cisco office is on the 1st floor around the North side of the building.
Thanks for attending!
MAY 2007 NCUG MEETING: The Tuesday May 15th 2007 NCUG meeting was held at US LEC / PAETEC.
Meeting Place: US LEC/PAETEC
105 Westwood Place, Suite 100 Brentwood, TN 37027
The agenda was:
PAETEC A short non-technical presentation on Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Tour of PAETEC Switch Room
Drawing for Door Prizes.
Free door prizes were 4 sets of 4 tickets to any future Nashville Sounds game, and O'Reilly and Cisco Press books, and you had to be present through to the end of the meeting to win. Thank you very much to US LEC/PAETEC for the tour and dinner and tickets to Nashville Sounds game. And thank you to Cisco Press and O'Reilly.
APRIL 2007 NCUG MEETING: The April 2007 NCUG took place on the 3rd Tuesday in April, Tuesday April 17th 2007 starting at 5:00pm. The presenter was Terry Slattery (CCIE # 1026) from Netcordia (http://www.netcordia.com/). The Cisco-Brentwood TN office graciously offered to host the event. Their address = 7000 Executive Center Drive, Suite 101 Brentwood, TN 37027. The free dinner began at 5:00pm CST, and the meeting/presentation started at approximately 5:30pm. But if you were running a little late that evening, no worries. The excellent tasting Corky's BBQ Dinner and the presentation and free door prizes were provided by Netcordia, plus additional free door prize books were given away from Cisco Press and O'Reilly books. You had to be present to win, and you had to RSVP to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com to eat and attend, and so that Netcordia could purchase the correct total number of dinners.
Directions:
1) From Nashville take I-65 SOUTH toward HUNTSVILLE
2) Merge onto OLD HICKORY BLVD / TN-254 W via EXIT 74B
toward BRENTWOOD. 0.4 miles
3) Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN RD / US-31 / TN-6.
4) Go about 0.6 miles, through the 1st traffic light
5) Look for the Waverly building on your left, with a
Cisco logo on the 1st floor left front glass window on
the building. Come inside, the Cisco office is on the 1st floor around the North side of the building.
Agenda: Terry Slattery (Netcordia's Co-Founder/CTO and CCIE #1026) presented on the following topic:
"Troubleshooting tips and tricks with Netcordia's NetMRI."
For more info on Netcordia and NetMRI, please see http://www.netcordia.com/products/index.asp.Thanks for attending!
MARCH 2007 NCUG MEETING: The March 2007 NCUG meeting took place on the 3rd Tuesday in March, Tue Mar 20th 2007 at 5:00pm. The location of this event was the Cisco Systems Inc. - Brentwood TN office. 7000 Executive Center Drive, Suite 101 Brentwood, TN 37027. It is right off Franklin road as you're driving from Brentwood toward Franklin on the left in the Waverly building. You can see the Cisco logo from Franklin Road.
More detailed directions:
1) From Nashville take I-65 SOUTH toward HUNTSVILLE
2) Merge onto OLD HICKORY BLVD / TN-254 W via EXIT 74B
toward BRENTWOOD. 0.4 miles
3) Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN RD / US-31 / TN-6.
4) Go about 0.6? miles, through the 1st traffic light
5) Look for the Waverly building on your left, with a
Cisco logo on the 1st floor left front glass window on
the building.
AGENDA:
1) Introduction to Packet Design
2) Managing Unpredictability in IP Networks with Route Analytics
3) Live Demo
SPEAKERS:
1) Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP Product Marketing Packet Design Inc., and
2) Sean Gilbert, Systems Engineer, Packet Design Inc.
ABSTRACT:
IP Networks are not by nature predictable in the way they deliver traffic, with routing automatically changing the paths of application traffic as network elements change state over time. The variability of application or service traffic delivery in large, complex IP networks can undermine engineering assumptions, resulting in misconfigurations, slowed or blocked troubleshooting, and suboptimal design and planning. This session will introduce route analytics and a new technology that Internet researcher Van Jacobson has coined “Route-Flow Fusion”—a combination of Netflow and real-time route analytics data that provides visibility, analysis and modeling of the volume, composition and dynamic movement of traffic across an entire network, with very light Netflow export overhead. The session will include an overview of route analytics, explain how flow data exported from a few key routers can be mapped network-wide over their actual routes to provide an always-accurate routing and traffic map, and then some example use cases such as “rewinding” the state of routing and traffic to a past point in time for accurate troubleshooting, simulating what will happen to network traffic when moving servers between data centers, and a demo of actual customer routing and traffic network event streams as recorded by route analytics.
PRE-READING:
Some white papers can be found on Packet Design's website at: http://www.packetdesign.com/solutions/solutions-enterprise.htm
http://www.networkworld.com/PacketDesign0315White Paper "Network-Layer Management: Foundation for Predictable IP Services" by Packet Design. It is available at: http://www.webtorials.com/main/gold/PacketDesign/index.htm. This generic paper does a great job of addressing the need for a solid foundation for a robust IP network. For years, we've tried to simplify the network layer so that it becomes "transparent." Nevertheless, it's still the basis upon which everything in the upper layer depends. If it's unstable, the applications are unstable. Consequently, methodologies like Route Analytics that provide tools for diagnosing underlying network problems become absolutely essential.
Dinner and an iPOD NANO plus other door prizes were provided by Packet Design, plus additional book door prizes provided free by Cisco Press & also O'Reilly, plus wireless posters from Xirrus.
FEBRUARY 2007 NCUG MEETING: The Feb 2007 NCUG meeting took place on the 3rd Tuesday in February, Tue Feb 20th 2007 at 5:00pm in the Art District Conference Room, at the Holiday Inn Express- Downtown, corner of Broadway & 10th Ave, 920 Broadway, Nashville TN 37203, Phone: 615-244-0150. Due to late delivery, the dinner began at 5:30pm and the powerpoint presentation by NetQoS began at 6:00pm.
PRESENTERS:
1) Matt Holmes, Technical Representative, NetQoS
2) Mike Darrish, Sales Engineer, NetQoS
PRESENTATION AGENDA:
1) NetQoS- Introduction
2) Managing the Performance of Converged VoIP and Data Applications
3) Live Demo
Dinner will be provided by Harper’s.
DIRECTIONS (UNCONFIRMED, you may want to mapquest this):
1) I-40 toward downtown Nashville
2) Take Exit # 209 Broadway (may be 209a or 209b depending on which way you're coming on I-40).
3) Turn North onto Broadway (toward downtown)
4) At approximately the 3rd Red Light on your left you'll see the "Holiday Inn Express Downtown", at the corner of 10th & Broadway, 920 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203.
5) We were in the ART DISTRICT CONFERENCE ROOM.Regards,
Bojana
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Bojana Bowermon | Partnership Manager
NetQoS, Inc. | 5001 Plaza on the Lake, Austin , TX 78746
512.334.3773 (v) | 512.413-9322 (m) | bojana.bowermon@netqos.com|
NetQoS: The Performance Experts
The door prizes were books from Cisco Press, O'Reilly and from NetQoS USB pens and a 1GB iPOD. Thank you all!
FEBRUARY 2ND, 2007 FREE ANGELBEAT conference. http://www.angelbeat.com/
JANUARY 2007 NCUG MEETING: This month's NCUG meeting took place on the 3rd Tuesday in January, Tue Jan 16th 2007 at 5:00pm at Time Warner Telecomm (previously Xspedius) in Nashville TN. As always, the free dinner began at 5:00pm, and the free training/presentation/tour began at 5:30pm. But if you were running late at work, that iwas no problem, you can always just show up whenever you can. There were 2 cases of free _ _ _ _ flowing that evening.
PRESENTER: Mike Gearin, Sr Sales Engineer Time Warner Telecomm.
PRESENTATION AGENDA:
1) Time Warner Telecomm - Overview of Network Infrastructure & MPLS
2) Site Tour of Co-location facility.
DIRECTIONS FROM DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE TO: Time Warner's Co-location Facility = 708 Melrose Avenue, Nashville, TN.
1) Take 440 E toward Knoxville -
2) Take the Nolensville Exit -
3) Turn Right onto Nolensville Road.
4) At the redlight turn Right onto Melrose Avenue.
5) Time Warner is located about 1/2 mile on Right in a one story office building. 708 Melrose Avenue.
6) Parking will be ample at this site.
Problem with directions, please call Johnny Gonzales 615-394-0240.
"Time Warner recently purchased Xspedius Communications November 1, 2006. With respect to this transaction - we now have a national presence and service over 75 markets; with a footprint covering over 60% of US Businesses - 24,000 miles of fiber, with an award winning robust network and 10 Gbps National IP Backbone."
Due to the nature and security of this building Time Warner Telecomm REQUIRED all names and rsvp information prior to this event for clearance. So if you didn't rsvp to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com, you were not permitted to enter the building and attend this free NCUG meeting & dinner & learn.
Jama Farrow, Jama.Farrow@xspedius.com
Associate Account Executive
Time Warner Telecom
615-627-3769 o
615-428-1848 c
535 Mainstream Drive
Nashville, TN 37228
http://www.twtelcom.com
Door prizes were provided by Time Warner Telecomm and were 2 iPODs. And also special thanks to Cisco Press and O'Reilly perhaps Wiley for their free books as door prizes!! Thanks!
DECEMBER 2006 NCUG MEETING: This month's meeting took place on Tuesday December 5th, 2006 at 5pm at ProSys IS. The meetingplace and the dinner and the presentation was provided by ProSys IS. Dinner started at 5:00pm promptly, and the meeting/Cisco presentation began at 5:30pm.
Presenter: Andy Winford / Michael G. Nordhoff
Topic: Wireless Outdoor Mesh networking
The pre-reading: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6548/index.html
Directions to ProSys from Nashville, TN:
1) I- 65 South to exit 68A Cool Springs Blvd. East.
2) Turn right on to Carothers Parkway
3) Go to the traffic light, turn right on to Crescent Centre Drive
4) We are the first building on the left (Building 7, 840 Crescent Centre Drive)
5) If you go around to the back entrance of the building, we are the first
Suite on the left as you enter the building - Suite # 160.
Sarah Holstein
Operations Support
ProSys
840 Crescent Centre Blvd. Suite 160
Franklin, TN 37067
(615) 301-5200
Special thanks to Prosys IS for all their wonderful Door Prizes:
2 Cisco 802.11a/b/g cardbus pcmcia wireless NIC cards
a Cisco Press (http://ciscopress.com) Wireless LAN fundamentals book
4 gaming video cards
2 ProSys IS golf shirts.
And special thanks for the door prize from Cisco Press (http://ciscopress.com):
a brand new 2006 Wireless LAN Reference Guide
Thanks for attending! And we hope you had a happy thanksgiving, and we hope you have a happy holidays!
NOVEMBER 2006 NCUG MEETING: This month's meeting took place on Tuesday November 21st, 2006 at 5pm at Coleman Technologies Inc (CTI). The meetingplace and the dinner and the presentation was provided by Coleman. Dinner started 5:00pm promptly, and the meeting/Cisco presentation began at 5:30pm.
The Presenter: Gary Marsh, Topic: Cisco Security Agent.
"Cisco Security Agent software protects server and desktop computing systems by identifying threats and preventing malicious behavior. It mitigates new and evolving threats without requiring reconfigurations or emergency patch updates, providing robust protection with reduced operational costs."
The location of this month's meeting was: Coleman Technologies, Suite 100, 155 Franklin Rd. Brentwood, TN 37027.
For those of you familiar with Brentwood: Coleman is located on the first floor of the Ramparts building on the corner of Franklin Road and Maryland Way.
Directions from Nashville, TN:
1. Take I-65 South
2. Take the TN-254W exit 74B to Brentwood - go 0.3 miles
3. Bear right at Old Hickory Blvd - go 0.1 miles
4. Turn left at Franklin Road - go 263 feet
5. Coleman is located on the first floor of the Ramparts building on the corner of Franklin Road and Maryland Way.
Special Thanks to Coleman for the dinner & the excellent presentation, and the tshirt/cup/mousepad door prizes, and especially thanks to the Systems Engineer/Presenter Gary Marsh, and also Keith Simmons, Acct. Manager, Coleman Technologies, Inc. ksimmons@ctiusa.com Phone: 615-308-8935.
Also special thanks to Cisco Press (http://ciscopress.com) for the door prize of the Cisco VoIP Gateway book.
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OCTOBER 2006 NCUG MEETING: This month's meeting took place on Tuesday October 3rd, 2006 at TEK Systems. Dinner was provided by Hiwaay Internet Services and began at 5pm. The host was ncug officer and President of DreamBuilder IT Services Andy Crefeld.
Agenda:
1. Introduction to DreamBuilder IT Services http://dreambuilderwebworks.com
2. Introduction to Hiwaay Internet Services - Mike Belaszy - Disaster Recovery Colocation facility http://hiwaay.net
3. Presentation by Ray Ainscough (Cisco Systems) on Cisco Security Agent http://www.cisco.com/go/csa
DIRECTIONS:
1. From Downtown Nashville, take I-40 East (toward the airport).
2. Exit onto Briley Parkway North (toward Opry Mills).
3. Take Briley Parkway to Elm Hill Pike (Exit 7).
4. Go right onto Elm Hill Pike and then turn right at the second light (McGavock) into Century City.
5. On McGavock take a right at the first light onto Century Blvd.
6. Take the curve up the hill.
7. You will see Three Lakeview Place (our building) on your right.
8. Pass the building and turn into the driveway immediately after the building.
9. Park in the back.
10. Come in the double doors. The conference room is on the first floor on the far right.
For help with directions, please contact:
Stacy Treadwell, Recruiter
TEK Systems
22 Century Blv. Suite 140, Nashville, TN 37214
800.609.5537 T 615.886.1119
F 615.886.1170
http://www.teksystems.com
The door prize was a Cisco Press book. Thank you for attending!
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AUGUST 2006 NCUG MEETING: This month’s NCUG meeting began at 5pm on Tuesday August 22nd 2006 in Brentwood. As usual, dinner started 5:00pm including pizza and beer. We began promptly at 5:30pm to hear a presentation by our esteemed Director of Training Andrew Whelchel (DCI) on the topic of the Cisco AVS system. For more AVS info and pre-reading material, please review: http://www.cisco.com/go/avs.
Directions to Core BTS are:
1. Take I65 South to the Old Hickory Blvd West exit (Exit 74).
2. Turn right onto Old Hickory Blvd West from the ramp. (500 feet)
3. Turn left onto Franklin Rd (Hwy 31) at the first traffic light.
4. Turn right onto Maryland Way at the first traffic light on Franklin Road. (0.4 miles)
5. Go approximately 1 mile until you come to Westwood Place and turn left (it is just
past the Brentwood Police Station and Chamber of Commerce and Mere` Bulles Restaurant).
6. Core BTS is located in the second building on the left 210 Westwood Place (Doan Pet
Care is also located in our building).
If you would like a copy of the handouts, please call or email:
Jeff Lockwood jeff.lockwood@corebts.com
CORE Business Technology Solutions
210 Westwood Place, Suite 120
Brentwood, TN 37027
Phone 615-277-3000
The first 10 people that arrived at 5pm received a free CiscoPress folio (ISBN 1-58705-267-9) Cisco Press Networking Folio 2006 Edition, a small book which includes 1 chapter from 10 different Cisco Press books. Plus there was a free CD with a Cisco Router Configuration ebook, and a sample CCNA video lab. At the end of the presentation, the door prize was the Cisco Press book Voice over IP Fundamentals, 2nd Edition, Jonathan Davidson, James Peters, Manoj Bhatia, Satish Kalidindi, Sudipto Mukherjee, 2006 (ISBN 1-58705-257-1).
Thank you so much to Core BTS for the free dinner (pizza & all the beer we could drink), and for hosting this event. Thank you to Bobby Walters at Rezult-IT.com for the dessert. Thank you to Andrew Whelchel of Digital Connections, Inc. for the awesome AVS presentation. And thank you to CiscoPress.com for the 10 free CiscoPress folio books and CDs, and for the VoIP Fundamentals Cisco Press book door prizes.
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* JUNE & JULY 2006 NCUG MEETING: There was no June or July 2006 NCUG meeting. But you can find some free networking tutorials (presentations) this month at:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/pdf/
And you can find some of those presentations live spoken by their presenters at:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/real/
Thanks. See you at the next one. Take care.
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* MAY 2006 NCUG MEETING: The May meeting was held at Xspedius Communications (http://www.xspedius.com/) on Tuesday May 30th 2006 at 5pm. Special thanks to Xspedius for hosting us and for the tour and for the Neely's Barbecue dinner and the ICE COLD _ _ _ _! And special thanks to Cisco Press for the 2 Cisco Press books as door prizes!
The Xspedius Engineer scheduled to speak had a baby that week, so the agenda was changed to:
5:00pm Dinner
5:30pm Introductions
5:45pm Narrow down/Find the right technology grant for the school we did a wireless site survey for last Feb. So far, we have found 1 grant which may be applicable to a wireless installation of a K-10 magnet school in Sumner County.
6:30pm Tour of Xspedius facility and switch room
7:00pm Went home.
"Directions to Xspedius=
Interstate 65 to metro center blvd, metro ctr blvd to great circle road turn right, turn left on mainstream, turn right into office park. 535 mainstream Xspedius is a 1 story brick and glass building, it is well marked.
If you have any questions for Xspedius or need help with directions, please call:
Jama Farrow
Xspedius Communications
535 Mainstream Drive
Nashville, TN 37228
615-428-1848 c
615-627-3769 o
http://www.xspedius.com/
jama.farrow@xspedius.com
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* APRIL 2006 NCUG MEETING: This month's meeting was held at CORE BTS on Tuesday April 25th 2006 at 5pm.
"The presenter was injured, so a last minute change happened and the presentation was by CORE BTS Sr SE Andrew Whelchel on the topic of Wireless. As usual, dinner started at 5:00pm, the presentation started promptly at 5:30pm, and there was ice cold beer available.
If you have any questions about the presentation topic or directions, please call:
Jeff Lockwood
CORE Business Technology Solutions
210 Westwood Place, Suite 120
Brentwood, TN 37027
Phone 615-277-3000 "
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* MARCH 2006 NCUG MEETING: The March meeting's free DINNER/DESSERT took place starting at 5:00pm on Tuesday March 28th 2006 at TEK Systems. The meeting presentation began at 5:30pm, and was presented by Network General. The topic this month was:
Network General Sniffer, InfiniStream and Visualizer: "Finding the Needle in the Haystack". Network and Application Performance Analysis.
The presenter was Network General's Systems Engineer Mike Nelson.
1) Network Management Challenges
2) Managing Your Network- The 5 Step Process
3) Dashboard to Packet Overview 4) Sniffer Enterprise Visualizer
5) Sniffer Application Intelligence 6) Sniffer Infinistream
7) Sniffer Multi-Tier & Multi- Segment Intelligence 8) Wrap-Up, Q&A
For more info on the presentation, please contact:
Mark Gecowets
Account Manager - TN
Network General
615-584-4278
Email: Mark.Gecowets@networkgeneral.com
Website: http://www.networkgeneral.com
From Downtown Nashville, take I-40 East (toward the airport). Exit onto Briley Parkway North (toward Opry Mills). Take Briley Parkway to Elm Hill Pike (Exit 7). Go right onto Elm Hill Pike and then turn right at the second light (McGavock) into Century City. On McGavock take a right at the first light onto Century Blvd. Take the curve up the hill. You will see Three Lakeview Place (our building) on your right. Pass the building and turn into the driveway immediately after the building. Park in the back. Come in the double doors. The conference room is on the first floor on the far right.
For help with directions, please contact:
Stacy Treadwell, Recruiter
TEK Systems
22 Century Blv. Suite 140, Nashville, TN 37214
800.609.5537 T 615.886.1119
F 615.886.1170
http://www.teksystems.com
DOOR PRIZES: IF YOU MISSED IT, you missed an informative technical presentation, and you also missed a door prize of 2 separate books, a Network General Shirt and golf balls/tees, and an Apple 1GB IPOD NANO, all from Network General's Mark Gecowets, Account Manager - TN, and you missed the excellent carrot cake!
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* FEBRUARY 2006 NCUG MEETING: The NCUG's esteemed ex-president Jason Myers hosted our meeting at his office Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. near 100 Oaks mall. As usual, dinner started at 5pm Tuesday February 21st 2006, the presentation & tour started at 5:30pm.
SSR specializes in healthcare, sports/entertainment, information technology and architectural & civil engineering projects. Jason presented on open source tools his company uses to monitor their Cisco networks, their printers, their plotters, etc. Also after Jason completed his presentation, we connected to the Internet and had the group search for some grants we can apply for to help the local Sumner County school where we started a wireless site survey last February earn some grant money to help them deploy wireless.
DIRECTIONS to SSR:
1) FROM NASHVILLE: Take I-65 South toward HUNTSVILLE.
2) Merge onto ARMORY DR via EXIT 79.
3) Turn LEFT onto SIDCO DR.
4) On your left, end at
Smith, Seckman Reid, Inc. (SSR)
2995 Sidco Dr
Nashville, TN 37204-3709
Phone: 615.383.1113
http://www.ssr-inc.com
Our door prize waiting for a lucky winner was a http://ciscopress.com Cisco Press CCSP exam and flash card book with accompanying CD.
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* JANUARY 2006 NCUG MEETING: As of January 2006 our old DNS name "nashvilleciscousersgroup.org" has now expired. Please delete/remove it or edit that bookmark/favorite, and instead please use http://ncug.org. Also, please tell your friends and coworkers our new website is much simpler to remember: ncug.org. Thanks!
The January 2006 NCUG meeting took place on Tuesday Jan 17th, 2006 at the Core BTS office. Dinner began at 5pm, and the meeting/presentation began at 5:30pm. The topic was Cisco's Security CLEAN ACCESS, and Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), although due to the snow there was only time for a Clean Access demo. For more info please click on these links:
1) Cisco Clean Access http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6128/
2) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/
Thank you for RSVP-ing. And thank you Core BTS for the FREE BEER, and the door prizes (including a USB wireless keyboard & wireless mouse). If you have any questions about the presentation topics or directions, please call:
Jeff Lockwood
CORE Business Technology Solutions
Phone 615-277-3000
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* DECEMBER 2005 NCUG MEETING: The December NCUG meeting occurred on Wednesday Dec 14th, 2005 at the Cisco-Brentwood Office.
The presenter was Brandy McNeal, and the topic was Cisco MARS (Cisco's SECURITY MONITORING, ANALYSIS, AND RESPONSE SYSTEM). For more info and just 7 pages of pre-requisite reading materials prior to the meeting, please read the following MARS data sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6241/products_data_sheet0900aecd80272e64.html
23 people RSVP'd, 19 of you showed up. Thank you! Thank you for not wasting Cisco's or the presenter's money to order that much food and have only 1/2 the people that RSVP actually show up. Thank you so much Brandy McNeal for the excellent presentation on MARS, and also thanks for your patience when some of our NCUG members kept asking questions on almost every screen of your presentation.!! If you would like a copy of the 13MB presentation, please send an email to bmcneal@cisco.com or to us at nashvillecisco@yahoo.com.
The door prizes were two books on Cisco Call Manager VoIP from http://www.ciscopress.com, and another surprise grand prize of a List Price $599 Cisco AiroNet 1100 series Wireless Access Point! Again, thank you Cisco Press and Cisco-Brentwood for the very generous prizes!!!
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* NOVEMBER 2005 NCUG MEETING: The November meeting was Tuesday November 8th, 2005 at the Cisco - Brentwood office.
5:00pm The meeting dinner was Corky's BBQ. 65 people RSVP'd, so Don Austelle ordered dinner for 50. Unfortunately, only 36 total people attended. Weather permitting, Don has offered to grill out for the December 2005 ncug meeting.
5:30pm The presenter was Randy Paulson (Cisco SE) on the topics of:
Cisco Wireless Strategy Presentation
Unified Wireless Demonstration (formerly Airespace) Including Location Tracking
Open Forum and Hands-on
There was an excellent demo as part of the presentation. After the presentation, and anyone with wireless connectivity had at it as they desired. Randy had a set-up with a 2006 controller, a WCS server, 2 Airespace AP's and one LAP1242. We had access to the controller GUI. It was more of an introduction than a training event. Even the pared down basic internal training would have taken over 5 hours. If you would like a soft copy of the powerpoint presentation, please email Randy at rapaulso@cisco.com (615-344-6829), or us at nashvillecisco@yahoo.com.
DOOR PRIZES: The grand door prize was a Cisco Aironet IOS IEEE 802.11 wireless access point, model # AP1121. Other door prizes included a Greg Norman Cisco golf shirt, a Cisco long sleeved turtleneck, Cisco t-shirts, Cisco hi-lighters/pens/clips/badge clips, and from http://www.ciscopress.com a new 2005 Layer 2 VPN book.
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Also, the link below is to other free NANOG tutorial sessions. Almost all have pdf slides and many have real media presentations. The real media presentations have only recently been posted.
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/agenda.html
Feel free to forward this info to those you think would be interested.
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* AUGUST 2005 NCUG MEETING: The August meeting was Tuesday August 23rd from 5pm-7pm. The presenter was Alex Raskin at Adtran. Special thanks to Alex Raskin at Adtran for the presentation and the dinner/dessert/drinks. The presentation was on the following:
1. ADTRAN CSU/DSU overview; very quick run thru of ADTRAN's suite of CSU/DSUs
2. ADTRAN TSU multiplexors; TSU 100 / 120 / 600
3. ATLAS suite of IAD's; WAN emulation, Cisco university standard, signal conversion, overbooking, VoIP migration 'tool'.
For a copy of the presentation please contact Alex.Raskin@adtran.com or nashvillecisco@yahoo.com.
Also special thanks for the meeting place which was hosted by Jeff Lockwood & Amy Moran at MedSolutions (http://www.medsolutions.com/) in Franklin (615-468-0600).
The door prizes given out at the end of the meeting were donated by Cisco Press and CoreBTS: 1) a 2005 Cisco Press book "Home Networking Simplified", 2) a CoreBTS golf shirt & coffee mugs, 3) a 512MB flash USB hard drive. Thanks to MedSolutions & Cisco Press & CoreBTS, and thank you for attending!!!
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* JULY 2005 NCUG MEETING: The July NCUG meeting was cancelled due to a personal family issue with the presenter. We rescheduled the presenter for our next meeting.
However, we have just been informed about some FREE training:
" Free training from the author of spanning tree and
link-state protocols is recently available. NANOG34
has posted the Real media streams of the tutorials.
Radia Perlman gives an excellent introduction to both
internetworking and security.
See links and pass along if interested:
Introduction to Router, bridges and switches:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/real/bridges.ram
Introduction to network security protocols:
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/real/netsec-protocols.ram
We learned about this free training from Andrew Whelchel.
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* MAY-JUNE 2005 NCUG MEETING: There was a Tuesday May 31st 2005 NCUG meeting at TEKSystems, and the presenter was Trey O'Banion from Fluke Networks. The presentation topic was Fluke's OptiView analyzer product line, and there was a demonstration of an OptiView Integrated Analyzer. Dinner was sponsored by TEKSystems and started at 5:00pm. The presentation started at 5:30pm, and ran about 1.5 hours.
Their address: TEKsystems
Three Lakeview Place, Suite 140
22 Century Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37214
Special thanks to Trey O'Banion of Fluke and Stacy Treadwell of TEKSystems for their presentation and free dinner and their hospitality!!! The free door prizes were a Cisco hat and also a Cisco Wireless Security book courtesy of Cisco Press!
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* MARCH & APRIL 2005 NCUG MEETINGS: There was no formal NCUG meeting in March & April, 2005. Just free VAR seminars. Michael Treadway and another NCUG member met at the Hendersonville, TN Merrol Hyde Sumner County School, and finished the wireless site survey. Now they are working on finishing the BOM, and finding out how a school like this one could buy Cisco equipment for their LAN and WLAN. So far their only choices to order Wireless LAN equipment has been to order HP. But this wireless site survey was performed with Cisco equipment, and so our Bill of Materials will be Cisco equipment. So we have to find out how to order Cisco equipment for a Sumner County School. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!.
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* FEBRUARY 2005 NCUG MEETING: WHEN: 5:00pm Tuesday February 22nd, 2005 in Hendersonville, TN at the Merrol Hyde Magnet School.
WHAT: Cisco Wireless Site Survey training and hands-on practice.
WHERE: Merrol Hyde Magnet School in Hendersonville, TN ( http://www.sumnerschools.org/mhm/ or 615-264-6543 )
Excalibur RF Engineer David Pier gave an excellent 45 minute presentation on wireless, wireless site survey tools, and training or AirMagnet Surveyor.
For a copy of the ncug president's "Troubleshooting Wireless" presentation, including the 2 pages from David Pier's presentation Feb 22nd, please send an email requesting it to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com.
This month NCUG gave away a Cisco Press book on Wireless, a copy of Microsoft C++, 2 books on Java, and a Cisco t-shirt. Excalibur IS gave away a long sleeved oxford shirt. And the Merrol Hyde Magnet School (MHMS) gave away a long sleeved MHMS shirt. Thanks again for attending!
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* JANUARY 2005 NCUG MEETING: This January's meeting took place at 5pm Tuesday January 18th 2005 at Core Business Technology Solutions' (http://corebts.com) Brentwood, TN office. 5pm was the "meet and greet and eat"; Core BTS provided the free dinner. SURPRISE DINNER ITEM: FREE BEER! At 5:30pm, the topic of the free presentation and the free training agenda was:
"1) Cisco AVVID Overview,
2) Cisco IPT Architecture Overview,
3) Cisco IPT Product Offerings
4) Common Adoption Strategies
5) Technology Demonstrations and Q&A
CoreBTS kept the Powerpoint to about 60-70% of the time allowed and the remaining time was demonstrations of the technology. Anyone that wanted to stay after to get more hands on was more than welcome.
Jeff Lockwood, Core Business Technology Solutions210 Westwood Place, Suite 120 Brentwood, TN 37027jeff.lockwood@corebts.com, or 615.277.3000" Thanks for coming to this event. We hope you enjoyed it! If you would like a copy of the CoreBTS VoIP powerpoint presentation, please send an email requesting it to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com.
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* DECEMBER 2004 NCUG MEETING: Due to holiday vacations, there was no December NCUG
meeting. We hope you had a safe & happy holidays!!!
Due to holiday vacations, there was no December NCUG meeting. We hope you had a safe &
happy holidays!!!
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* NOVEMBER 2004 NCUG MEETING: Thank you for attending the November NCUG meeting which took place at XO Communications in downtown Nashville, Tuesday night at 5pm November 30th, 2004.
WHAT: We received a full XO Communications facility and switch tour of all fiber optic equipment, Internet POP/NAP, and Switches. We also did business card drawings for free stuff like XO Shirts.
WHEN: Dinner started at 5pm Tuesday November 30th, 2004. Dinner was provided by the Cisco-Brentwood, TN office. Dessert was provided by Vaco Technology. The tour followed dinner, and was provided by XO Communications.
DIRECTIONS: XO is located at the corner of 2nd Ave and Molloy St. 2nd Ave will most likely be under construction at that time due to Gateway Blvd. XO is located on 2nd Ave 2 blocks South of Broadway. From the Hard Rock Cafe you can go 2 blocks south on 1st Ave and find parking to avoid the construction. XO is in the 2 buildings between 1st and 2nd Ave on Molloy St. XO is diagonal from the Bluesboro Cafe. Paid parking lots are all that is available in this area. Check in with the security guard in the 2nd Ave building.
RSVP: Please rsvp to nashvillecisco@yahoo.com for all meetings. RSVP's ended for this free event at 10am Monday November 29th, 2004. In this case, if you didn't rsvp you couldn't get past security and into the building for the ncug meeting or dinner or dessert or tour.
Richard Brown, Sales Manager
XO Communications
105 Molloy Street
Nashville, TN 37201
Desk phone # 615-777-7424
rich.e.brown@xo.com,
http://www.xo.com
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* OCTOBER 2004 NCUG MEETING: Mitigating Risk With ProSys and Cisco Security Solutions: Wednesday October 27, 2004, 8am-12noon. "COMPLYING WITH GLB, SOX, HIPAA, AND BEYOND.
This event was a free Cisco Security seminar and free breakfast Wednesday morning October 27th from 8am-12noon. The contact for that event was Whitney Holt (wholt@prosysis.com <mailto:wholt@prosysis.com> or 615-301-5215).
MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS EVENT: "It is imperative that companies address growing threats of viruses and worms and what affects these have on their bottom line. In addition, companies are being challenged by government regulations to protect the privacy and security of personal and confidential information.
These current business drivers apply to any company, large or small, that stores, transfers, or has access to employees’ and customers’ private information. This presentation highlighted three of those laws: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). We will discuss how together ProSys and Cisco security solutions can be positioned to address their specific requirements."
About the Presenter: Elijah Chapman, PMP, CISSP, CCSE, Cisco Southeast Regional Security Specialist
Elijah Chapman has worked in IT for nearly two decades and for the last seven years he has focused on Information Security. Mr. Chapman has provided information security expertise to state and federal agencies, financial, medical, manufacturing, and education institutions. He has worked as an IT Security Architect for IBM Global Services designing secure networks for Fortune 100 companies. Before joining Cisco, he was an Advance Technology Security Specialist for Nortel Networks. Mr. Chapman was a co-founder of the RTP Chapter of Information System Security Administration (ISSA) where he served as Vice President. Mr. Chapman is an honors graduate of North Carolina Wesleyan College with a BS in Business Management. He is designated as a Project Management professional (PMP #43718) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP # 38308) along with several other security and business related certifications.
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* SEPTEMBER 2004 NCUG MEETING: September's NCUG meeting took place Monday Sep 27th 5:30pm at the Cisco-Brentwood office.
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We have been meeting since earlier than 1998, but we didn't start this website until 2004 so we don't have all the text from the previous meetings.
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