Why You Should Earn More PDUs Now

Did you know that the system for earning professional development units (PDUs) is changing? It’s true. The PDU program, officially referred to as the Continuing Certification Requirements Program, is being revised by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). The changes begin to take effect at the end of 2015 and will be fully implemented by December 2017.

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Is Cisco IOS XE the Future of Cisco?

Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) has been around since a little after the inception of Cisco Systems as a company. In 1984, Len and Sandy Bosack from Stanford University founded Cisco Systems with a small commercial gateway server. The first Cisco router that I touched was an Advanced Gateway Server (AGS), which was the first marketed product of the company. After this came the Mid-Range Gateway Server (MGS), the Compact Gateway Server (CGS) and later the Integrated Gateway Server (IGS) and AGS+. The first version of IOS that I touched was 8.2(7). The operating system was based on a Unix-based system and was designed as a monolithic operating system, meaning that processes are stacked and interrelated.

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