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Setting up Cisco SMB devices

Setting up Cisco SMB devices

In this video, I'm going to show you how to manage Cisco SMB devices for network device management. So I had a consideration to make. I know that there is a virtual network devices so you can work with emulated network devices. Honestly, I don't like emulated network devices, because one important part of working with network devices is that every network device has its own firmware. And in this firmware, sometimes you come across a pretty poorly implemented SSH stack, which will complicate your work. And for that reason, I think there's only one way to really find out how to manage network devices. And that is by taking some real network devices. And that is how I came to the Cisco SMB devices. SMB stands for small and medium business. And that's a very good reason why I use the small and medium business devices, most of which is that they are affordable. So if you study this course and you want to learn how it really works, you can probably spend a few hundred dollars on an SMB…

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