A very good source of information is Cisco's CCIE Power Session at Networkers

Cisco's Networkers Directory

Technical Notes and Links etc. for CCIEs (and others)
(some require a CCO login)

Technical Notes and Links about various Protocols (in general and very specific)

What's New in Cisco Product Documentation

Cisco's Networking Professionals Connection

3KV GmbH
Lots of Cisco and other gear at reasonable prices
specialised in buying and selling new and refurbished/renewed Cisco-, IBM-, HP-, Compaq-, SUN- and 3Com-Products

The Internet Traffic Report shows you an updated traffic report with failures and
lost packet percentages between the continents.

If you want to get an idea of the volume of internet traffic and/or telephone traffic,
then start with a quick look at a map that shows international telephone traffic
between nations, i.e. telecommunications traffic flow map of europe

Animated maps of current Internet lag can be found at the Internet Weather Report

Outstanding maps of the internet, including maps of backbone networks, fiber-,
seacable- and satelite-links can be found at the Atlas of Cyberspaces

Russ Haynal's ISP Page
Maps of many ISP backbones

Loads of technical explanations at whatis.com

Cisco Section at McMSCE.com

Technology Guides (the yellow pages of White Papers)

ITPRCs Training and certification site  

Cable wiring schemes (from Del Mar College)

www.ccie.at     Info page of 2 austrian CCIEs  (Markus Huber,  Robert Schütz)