Tag Archive for: ‘routing’

Plea to Cisco: ‘CCIE routing and switching written exam needs to be fixed’

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Tom Hollingsworth, a CCIE and author of a popular blog called “The Networking Nerd,” used that forum last week  – smack in the middle of Cisco’s annual user conference — to issue a blistering critique of the CCIE routing and switching written exam. 

“The discontent is palpable,” according to Hollingsworth. “From what I’ve heard around Las Vegas this week, it’s time to fix the CCIE Written Exam.”

That contention has received broad though not unanimous support on Twitter and comments on the post itself. As for Cisco, it tells me they’re always open to suggestions.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Verizon blames ‘routing’ error for Baltimore 911 outage

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Residents of Baltimore who dialed 911 were unable to reach emergency dispatchers for more than two hours Tuesday evening and Verizon is laying the blame on a call-routing error.

From the Baltimore Sun:

Officials at Verizon — the service provider for the city’s 911 system — said the phone company received an automated alert at 7:48 p.m. reporting that 911 calls were failing. Verizon spokesman John O’Malley said the company eventually determined that emergency calls were mistakenly routed to an empty back-up call center in the city.

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Network World Paul McNamara