Jacob Hess is an entrepreneur and systems engineer who has over 15 years experience in Information Technology. Working in both the customer and systems integrator environments he has designed and deployed many complex IT projects spanning the full stack of networking technologies. Jacob is also a United States Air Force veteran who served as a technical instructor and trained hundreds of network engineers to be job ready for the Department of Defense. He is the Co-founder & COO of Nexgent and is passionate about inspiring, creating, and empowering the next generation of IT engineers.

Resources or Topics Mentioned: Cisco Router Configuration Handbook (2nd edition), Cisco Press Cisco LAN Switching Configuration Handbook (2nd edition), Cisco Press Cisco 3D Interactive Catalogue http://m.kaon.com/c/cs Spanning-Tree Protocol Cisco References: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/tech/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/index.html

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