[CONTEST CLOSED] Happy New Year! What are your Networking Resolutions?

MeredithW
Meraki Alumni (Retired)

UPDATE: this contest has ended. Thanks to everyone for sharing your 2022 resolutions! Congratulations to our three randomly selected winners: @Scottdb@Polymathink, and @Bill9!   

 

It's time for our annual Resolutions contest!

 

In last year’s Network Resolutions contest, the community resolved (among many things) to learn more about APIs, get the CMSS (Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist) certification, and even write a Meraki component for their smart home! 

 

This round, we'd love to hear either how your resolutions from 2021 turned out or what your new networking resolutions are for the year ahead. Three lucky winners will receive some fun Meraki swag!

 

How to enter

Tell us your Network Resolutions in a comment on this blog post before 9:59am PST on Tuesday (January 18).

 

How to win

Once submissions close at 9:59am PST on January 18th, we will select three entries at random to win a Meraki magnet sculpture!

 

Sure to provide hours of entertainment!Sure to provide hours of entertainment!

 

The Fine Print

  • Limit one entry per community member 
  • Submission period: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 11am PST through Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 9:59am PST
  • Complete rules and eligibility can be found here.
41 Comments
PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal

I would like to complete the DevNet Associate qualification.

Oscar_Espinoza
Here to help

I would like to obtain the CCNP certification..

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

I would go more in depth for Network Automation study courses which also includes Devnet. 

NetworkDemon
Getting noticed

I am preparing for CCIE DC ..

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal

What about you @MeredithW ?

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

@PhilipDAth : Nice question 🙂 

KarstenI
Kind of a big deal

Same as @PhilipDAth, I really want to do the DevNet Associate this year, some non-Cisco certifications are also waiting.

And I need to free my mind from network-stuff while cycling!

Tymur
Comes here often

I am preparing for CCIE Enterprise...

krob527
New here

Re-structuring our Network Support line of business to lead with Meraki! 

TJONES-614
Conversationalist

I would like to play around with IPv6 

Jwiley78
Building a reputation

To try and get more clients to use Meraki hardware.  If I can get at least one client to use MV then I will consider it a success.  Hard to get them to understand the cost correlation and value of the product.

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

@Jwiley78 : Wonderful, Best of luck !

McCombsIT
Here to help

My new Meraki resolution is to get as many friends, family, and business owners transitioned over to Meraki. I started using it for home use and am loving the stability of the hardware. The hardware is just built with such quality you don't hardly see anymore with technology. 

BobaFett
New here

Last years goal was to find a job. I found a great job and they just installed a new Meraki network but had no one to run it. It could not have been a better fit for both of us, although I wish I would have been able to do the Meraki upgrade instead of taking over what a contractor left behind. Goal for this year is to get my first Meraki Cert. Taking the cert class in February. Company is giving me the day off to take the remote class from home. 2022 is going to be a great year. 

pauldmitri
Comes here often

Finish CCNP

Scottdb
Conversationalist

Finishing installing our new Switches and Complete my NC State Cyber Security Boot Camp 

Patrick-Collins
Comes here often

My Meraki Resolutions are to get more of my Meraki clients on the Advanced Security license for their MX devices and to get back on the Certification bus. 

PacerX
Getting noticed

Personal: Learn to weld. 

Professional: Expand on the companies network security practices. Some areas are a little to lax for my comfort. 

NickLRicoh
Comes here often

Need to show more customers the ease of use and setup that Meraki has, transition them to the better platform and stop the headache of more complicated setups from other networking vendors

agroisman
Conversationalist

I would like to obtain DevNet certification

MeredithW
Meraki Alumni (Retired)

@PhilipDAth making the switch to fiber internet - does that count??

yurigodinez6449
Just browsing

I would like to complete the DevNet Associate and more

 

rachit
Conversationalist

Target is to achieve DevNet Expert.

Last year i have completed DevNet Associate & this year i will start with DevNet Professional.

 

Happy learning

Massimiliano
Conversationalist

I would like to achieve Cisco Meraki Solution Specialist certification, plus complete a Certified Wireless Network Professional path... It's hard, but I'm full of hope. 

julienguffroy
Comes here often

I would like to complete a certification. Customer side migrate all remote sites to sdwan 

chrishilton
Here to help

I'll be implementing proper Wi-Fi 6 by pairing MR56 with MS355-48X to achieve full 5Gbps throughput to the core!

Arjan_Kievits
Comes here often

Working with the local Meraki team, learning all about Meraki API's, I've started to build a IoT/Meraki demo for schools to demonstrate the possibilities in networking and IoT. Goal is the get students to become attracted to the technology and our company, offering them a internship. So, I'm now setting up a MX with a 4G internet connection, MV2, raspberry pi, AP and switch. Currently managed to let students make a noise (clap hands, shout, whatever) to trigger the camera and take a snapshot. All done over wireless and Meraki. Once Meraki Things API is opened up, plan is to add MT's to the setup and think of some other nice IoT demo's. 
Let's face it: good IT people are hard to find so going to the very beginning (schools) and having an interactive demo get's the discussion going. Nothing more boring than a slideshow on IT...

mahrsmusic
Conversationalist

Meraki Specialist!!!

Polymathink
Getting noticed

One of my predecessors may not have realised that he misconfigured our internal address scheme by using a public IP address range that happens to be used by a very large publicly traded company. He started it with 192, but not 192.168.xxx.xxx. I knew we'd run into potential problems down the road, and we were able to avoid one this past year, but we really need to get this corrected.

 

This is the year we do so, which will require a host of changes from DNS to DHCP to routing, switching, you know the drill, across all locations.

 

Funny thing, no one here and none of our sub contractors can remember who did this or when it was done.

 

Thanks, dude.

Double-J
New here

We have a few campuses that were re-wired and I have been able to get about half of them all looking nice and pretty.

 

This year I want to finish cleaning up the cabling, get my CyberOps Associate and CCNP Security.

 

Anything beyond that would be a nice to have, but these three are on my get-it-done list.

 

 Jeremy

Chris_B
Conversationalist

Finish my DevNet Professional, and then Meraki Specialist this year hopefully.

TRBO_KCMO
Getting noticed

Finish SSH and SNMPv3 migration

cmr
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

Build a kitchen, finish the bathroom, the a pantry and finally a nice new home office, oh and finish the summer house!

 

Meraki-wise we're getting quite a few more 355s to replace our old 3850 stacks and will be implementing micro-segmentation using a combination of the 355s and firewalls (mainly MXs)

Msimon_wi
Conversationalist

be mindful of stable release candidates, keep licensing updated ahead of time, GROW GROW GROW! 

WilJen
Conversationalist

I want to learn how to use the APIs.  I am doing a large scale replacement of APs this year and would prefer not to manually enter each device and then place individually on the maps.  

 

If you have done this and can share details of the process or can direct me to the best place to start, it will be appreciated.

M6MTA2018
Comes here often

I would like to learnt about APIs and CCNP certification.

Akhilbhattar1
Conversationalist

Building network for a new branch we are setting up. Need to architect, get the hardware, configure and deploy. Hopefully everything goes well.

BlakeRichardson
Kind of a big deal

I would love to migrate a good portion of our CCTV to MV cameras this year, the new MV52 is going to be a big help as I was concerned about how I would deal with the current bullet cameras we have. 

snmitrov
Comes here often

2022 resolution is to get one cloud-related certification on top of spending more time outside with my family. 

Bill9
Comes here often

Cybersecurity expertise for 2022

MeredithW
Meraki Alumni (Retired)

This contest has ended. Thanks to everyone for sharing your 2022 resolutions! Congratulations to our three randomly selected winners: @Scottdb@Polymathink, and @Bill9!