You ever seen Cat OS? Connecting to the Internet in 2025

In 1998 I was 18 happy and trying to get into this field. Being a ccie then was like being a rock star

We had them in students dormitories for internet access for 25 years non stop 365 days!! Absolutely the most reliable hardware we ever had...!!!

Would love to see some content utilizing the Cisco Catalyst 2960.

I was a sperm in 1998.

In 1998, I was installing those nationwide alongside Ascend 9000 s, when combined equalled over $ 1,000,000 in hardware. We installed these in every major city in the USA. I have been in 40 states and we put over 200,000 miles on our vehicle.

i want some new versions that cisco offers in 2025 pls

They were awesome in their day...they had enough horsepower to span ports to feed into snort for IDS and other targeted traffic monitoring for data leaks (mortgage originating/servicing company).

Most of what I worked with in those days were Bay Networks hubs or switches and Cisco 4000 and 7500 routers. I worked with Token Ring more than Ethernet.

good ol' times, thanks for taking us back in time

Yep. I hated CatOS. Saw these running in the core, in a corporate data center in 2008 my first day on the job.

Oh my Goodness, I don’t know what makes David read my mind for him to make all these videos that I love so much. Always something to learn from watching you or listening to you David. Thank you again for everything 😊😎

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I was just starting out at Cisco at this time ❤

This takes me back. CatOS was the first switch OS I ever learnt. I deployed so many 5500s. They were a great switch for their era.

Hell yeah dawg buildings with CATOS be confusing af. I love your breakdown here

I bought for my home lab 2x catalyst 5000 switches around 2002-ish. Loved those things!

About 7 years ago i still had to replace 2948g switch and translate config into ios.

When I read the tumbnail I thought you meant a nintendo switch from the 1990s

i worked with thicknet years ago. great segment. thanks.

Well using cisco i can say that they have asdm - which is so junky xD an in fact mamy solutions look like from 80-90 xd Firepowers FWs are so badly designed...