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Firewall.cx the world's first official Media Review Partner of CiscoPress titles
Cisco Press today cemented a long-standing partnership by appointing Firewall.cx as the world's first official Media Review Partner of Cisco Press titles. Already officially recommended by Cisco's CCNA Academy program, Firewall.cx has been reviewing networking titles since 2003 and has Cisco certified engineers throughout the world serving a huge user community.
Chris Partsenidis, founder and senior editor of Firewall.cx said, "We're delighted with this award which underlines the great work being done by our team. We aim to provide resources and support for our members as they learn and develop, and this partnership will allow us to introduce new Cisco titles to a wide audience while at the same time providing useful feedback for Cisco Press."
A special 'Official Reviewer' logo has been created to mark the occasion.
Official announcement from Cisco Press can be found at the following URL:
http://www.ciscopress.com/press/press_releases_detail.asp?promo=137730.
Chris Partsenidis, founder and senior editor of Firewall.cx said, "We're delighted with this award which underlines the great work being done by our team. We aim to provide resources and support for our members as they learn and develop, and this partnership will allow us to introduce new Cisco titles to a wide audience while at the same time providing useful feedback for Cisco Press."
A special 'Official Reviewer' logo has been created to mark the occasion.
Official announcement from Cisco Press can be found at the following URL:
http://www.ciscopress.com/press/press_releases_detail.asp?promo=137730.
Spammers Beware - Firewall.cx takes action against forum spammers!
Following the continuous posting of spam related posts, we've decided to take action!
Besides the deletion of posts, accounts and permanent banning of whole Class B networks (/16) from which spammers perform their dirty work, Firewall.cx has begun gathering full details of all spammers (including IP Address and EXACT time of forum posting) to use against the people in charge of these activities.
All information gathered is forwarded to every ISP involved, and legal action is taken.
We will not tolerate people trying to turn our site forums into a junk yard.
Closing, we also would like to thank our community for working with us to ensure the site is kept clean from unwanted content.
Chris Partsenidis
Founder & Senior Editor
www.Firewall.cx
Besides the deletion of posts, accounts and permanent banning of whole Class B networks (/16) from which spammers perform their dirty work, Firewall.cx has begun gathering full details of all spammers (including IP Address and EXACT time of forum posting) to use against the people in charge of these activities.
All information gathered is forwarded to every ISP involved, and legal action is taken.
We will not tolerate people trying to turn our site forums into a junk yard.
Closing, we also would like to thank our community for working with us to ensure the site is kept clean from unwanted content.
Chris Partsenidis
Founder & Senior Editor
www.Firewall.cx
Firewall.cx has a new home
Firewall.cx now has a new home on Facebook and LinkedIn. Join our new group at Facebook. This is a great way to communicate, organise events and expand our networks!
With millions of users using both sites and increasing numbers everyday, this is the best time to reach out to the world and make our community known.
Our goal has always been to give back to the community and we will always try to find ways to increase our active users.
By joining not only will you be connecting to your fellow firewall.cx members but you will also be showing to future connections and even employers, your involvement in a dynamic community.
By joining not only will you be connecting to your fellow firewall.cx members but you will also be showing to future connections and even employers, your involvement in a dynamic community.
Firewall.cx Welcomes A New Team Member!
After two years of participation in our forums, providing, without limit, his knowledge and free time to the community, S0lo is now part of the continuously growing Firewall.cx Team!
With S0lo aboard, we are confident Firewall.cx will be able to provide higher quality forum support and moderation, making our site more friendly and helpful!
For those who wish to read more about S0lo, you’ll find more information on his background and expertise on our ‘Meet The Team’ page very soon.
A big warm welcome to our new family member, S0lo!
We look forward to his great work and help, that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Firewall.cx community and Team.
On behalf of the Firewall.cx Team
Chris Partsenidis
With S0lo aboard, we are confident Firewall.cx will be able to provide higher quality forum support and moderation, making our site more friendly and helpful!
For those who wish to read more about S0lo, you’ll find more information on his background and expertise on our ‘Meet The Team’ page very soon.
A big warm welcome to our new family member, S0lo!
We look forward to his great work and help, that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Firewall.cx community and Team.
On behalf of the Firewall.cx Team
Chris Partsenidis
Cisco Lab Announcement
At the beggining of this year we launched our popular "Free Cisco Lab" which consisted of one lab. During this time we discovered various problems, the most serious being the labs reset procedures due to passwords not being set correctly.
The lab has been extremely successful with over 3100 reservations for the past 8 months. That translates to an overall 86.1% usage of the lab's capacity (1 Cisco Lab) since it's launch date.
We are now ready take the next step, which means that the lab will be undergoing some maintenance and testing over the next 6 weeks and will therefore be off-line.
The work will introduce new setup and password reset procedures to ensure the labs availability to all users.
Once the new system is online, we'll then be able to make the rest of our labs available and also work on new features that will dramatically enhance your learning experience.
We apologise for this downtime, but we feel it is necessary to help overcome the current limitations and problems.
Please direct any comments or concerns to the Cisco Lab Forum.
Thank you,
The Firewall.cx Team.
The lab has been extremely successful with over 3100 reservations for the past 8 months. That translates to an overall 86.1% usage of the lab's capacity (1 Cisco Lab) since it's launch date.
We are now ready take the next step, which means that the lab will be undergoing some maintenance and testing over the next 6 weeks and will therefore be off-line.
The work will introduce new setup and password reset procedures to ensure the labs availability to all users.
Once the new system is online, we'll then be able to make the rest of our labs available and also work on new features that will dramatically enhance your learning experience.
We apologise for this downtime, but we feel it is necessary to help overcome the current limitations and problems.
Please direct any comments or concerns to the Cisco Lab Forum.
Thank you,
The Firewall.cx Team.
Introducing the ISDN Protocol
ISDN is a WAN technology used widely by telecommunication companies all over the world.
Our readers can now learn more on the protocol, how it works, its characteristics, supported configurations, speeds and much more by visiting our new 'Networking > Wan Technologies' section, or simply click here.
Our readers can now learn more on the protocol, how it works, its characteristics, supported configurations, speeds and much more by visiting our new 'Networking > Wan Technologies' section, or simply click here.