Awards • AboutNetworks.net

Blog awards and prizes

Cisco Live 2022 Blogging contest

I obtained the 2nd place at the pre-Cisco Live blogging contest, for this page: https://aboutnetworks.net/clus22/

Official results here.

IT Blog Awards

The IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco, aims to celebrate and recognize independent technology content creators for the inspirational and educational blogs, podcasts and videos that are created throughout the year.

AboutNetworks.net is a Top-50 winner in the 2021 IT Blog Awards:

AboutNetworks.net has been selected four times as a finalist in the IT Blog Awards:

In 2021 in the Best Blog category.

In 2020 and 2019 in the Most Educational category – Shares great tips, tricks, or how-to’s to help you learn something new or further your understanding on a topic.

2020 IT Blog Awards finalist

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In 2018 in the Best Cert Study Journey category – provides useful insights into the need-to-knows throughout a certification study journey.

Citations and References

In addition to these awards, I am honored to have some of my articles quoted in other publications, for example:

Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 298, March 2023
Cisco White Paper: RoCE Storage Implementation over NX-OS VXLAN Fabrics.
Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 289, January 2023
Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 194, January 2021
Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 173, August 2020
Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure Magazine: Newsletter 144, January 2020

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