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Tech Area: Networking Experiences
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December 5 │ Location Based Intelligence Introduction to Engagements and Location Personas with Cisco Spaces |
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December 10 │ Meraki Securing the Meraki Full Stack |
Join us as our experts take you through best practices for securing the Meraki Full Stack. Learn how to get the most out of the security features of the Meraki Security and SD-WAN appliances, Meraki Switches and Meraki Wireless. |
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December 11 │ Location Based Intelligence Transform your Spaces with Smart Workspaces |
Join us as our experts walk you through the Smart Workspaces solution. This solution leverages information from Meraki, Webex, Catalyst APs, and other sensors to give you a dynamic and real-time picture of your building occupancy, air metrics, and other statistics, all within Cisco Spaces. We will show you how this solution works, what steps you will need to perform to enable it, and the benefits of implementing it within your organization. |
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December 11 │ Secure Automated WAN Performance Tuning Best Practices for Secure Automated WAN |
Join us as our experts walk you through improving performance by tuning the Cisco SD-WAN fabric operations by use case. By the end of this session, participants will be better able to recognize performance issues and apply tuning best practices. |
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December 12 │ Secure Automated WAN Integrating ThousandEyes |
Join us as our experts walk you through the use cases and benefits of ThousandEyes integration with Cisco SD-WAN, as well as the applicable requirements and dependencies. This session also includes a demonstration showcasing the added value ThousandEyes brings to SD-WAN. |
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December 12 │ Campus Network Automation Overview of Catalyst Center Application Visibility and Experience |
Join us as our experts walk you through Catalyst Center (Formerly Cisco DNA Center) Assurance deployment guidelines, workflow, considerations, and installation best practices. |
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January 7 │ Campus Network Automation Overview of Catalyst Center Application Visibility and Experience |
Join us as our experts walk you through Catalyst Center (Formerly Cisco DNA Center) Assurance deployment guidelines, workflow, considerations, and installation best practices. |
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January 8 │ Meraki Introduction to Meraki APIs |
Join us as our experts walk you through Meraki API categories, their features and uses. Learn about Dashboard API, Webhooks, Scanning API, and MV sense. |
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January 9 │ Meraki Securing the Meraki Full Stack |
Join us as our experts take you through best practices for securing the Meraki Full Stack. Learn how to get the most out of the security features of the Meraki Security and SD-WAN appliances, Meraki Switches and Meraki Wireless. |
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January 14 │ Location Based Intelligence Introduction to Engagements and Location Personas with Cisco Spaces |
Join us as our experts walk you through the Engagements and Location Personas applications. Review the benefits for both end users and administrators of the network and go over the workflows for both applications at a high level. |
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January 16 │ Location Based Intelligence Transform your Spaces with Smart Workspaces |
Join us as our experts walk you through the Smart Workspaces solution. This solution leverages information from Meraki, Webex, Catalyst APs, and other sensors to give you a dynamic and real-time picture of your building occupancy, air metrics, and other statistics, all within Cisco Spaces. We will show you how this solution works, what steps you will need to perform to enable it, and the benefits of implementing it within your organization. |
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January 21 │ Secure Automated WAN Integrating ThousandEyes |
Join us as our experts walk you through the use cases and benefits of ThousandEyes integration with Cisco SD-WAN, as well as the applicable requirements and dependencies. This session also includes a demonstration showcasing the added value ThousandEyes brings to SD-WAN. |
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January 22 │ Catalyst Center Upgrading Catalyst Center |
Join us as our experts walk you through best practices for upgrading Catalyst Center (Formerly Cisco DNA Center), both in an air gapped environment and a standard deployment. Learn how to prepare for the upgrade by completing the upgrade checklist and prerequisites, and review a step-by-step upgrade workflow, as well as post-upgrade verification processes. |
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January 23 │ Secure Automated WAN Performance Tuning Best Practices for Secure Automated WAN |
Join us as our experts walk you through improving performance by tuning the Cisco SD-WAN fabric operations by use case. By the end of this session, participants will be better able to recognize performance issues and apply tuning best practices. |
Tech Area: Data Center Cloud and Compute
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December 5│ Intersight Capability Overview: Cisco Intersight and UCS |
Learn how Cisco Intersight interacts with your UCS infrastructure and how you can leverage its features to simplify operations such as deploying UCS domains and UCS servers using Policy-based profiles and templates. |
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December 10 │ Data Center Deployment for Advanced Application Performance Monitoring |
Join us as our experts walk you through the onboarding process for Cisco AppDynamics, where you will be introduced to key features such as Business Application and Business Transactions. The session will also cover the procedures for adding users to the AppDynamics controller, ensuring you have a complete understanding of system setup and user management. |
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December 11 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Managed Mode |
Learn how to leverage the Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) to combine the capabilities of the UCS Systems and the cloud-based flexibility of Intersight, unifying the management experience for the standalone and Fabric Interconnect attached systems. |
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December 12 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Ansible and Python |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Ansible and Python. |
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December 17 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Terraform and Powershell |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Terraform and Powershell. |
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December 5 │ Data Center Multi-Site and Multi-Pod for Cisco ACI |
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January 7 │ Data Center Deployment: Get Started with Cisco Intersight |
Join us for an overview of how to get started using Intersight by creating your SaaS account or deploying the virtual appliances and setting up your on-prem deployment. |
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January 8│ Intersight Capability Overview: Cisco Intersight and UCS |
Learn how Cisco Intersight interacts with your UCS infrastructure and how you can leverage its features to simplify operations such as deploying UCS domains and UCS servers using Policy-based profiles and templates. |
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January 9 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Ansible and Python |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Ansible and Python. |
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January 14 │ Data Center Hybrid Application Monitoring Capability Overview |
Join us as our experts walk you through the features that enable the full value of Cisco AppDynamics. Gain basic knowledge of flow maps, business transactions, and service endpoints. Review the first steps to configure health rules, data collectors, policies, and more. |
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January 15 │ Data Center Capability Overview for Advanced Application Performance Monitoring |
Join us as our experts walk you through the Cisco AppDynamics Agents. This session will provide an in-depth exploration of the Alert and Respond Model, part of Cisco AppDynamics, and will offer detailed instruction on the configuration of Data Collectors. |
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January 16 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Managed Mode |
Learn how to leverage the Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) to combine the capabilities of the UCS Systems and the cloud-based flexibility of Intersight, unifying the management experience for the standalone and Fabric Interconnect attached systems. |
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January 21 │ Data Center Hybrid Application Monitoring Day 2 Operations |
Join us as our experts walk you through operational best practices for Cisco AppDynamics. Learn how to manage roles and permissions, gain a better understanding of security management and configuration, and review steps to plan your agents’ deployments. |
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January 22 │ Data Center Hybrid Application Monitoring Deployment |
Join us as our experts walk you through the deployment configurations used to enable Cisco AppDynamics. Explore deployment design approaches and review Cisco guidelines and best practices including the Cisco AppDynamics SaaS deployment model, agent rollout strategy, and Plan AppDynamics Model for the application. |
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January 23 │ Data Center Cisco Intersight Programmability - Terraform and Powershell |
Learn about Intersight's ability to automate and customise operations within the Cisco Intersight platform. Gain knowledge how users can leverage Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to integrate and extend the functionality of the platform to enable automation of repetitive tasks, creation of custom workflows, and integration with other tools and systems using Terraform and Powershell. |
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January 28 │ Data Center Simplified Hyperconverged Infrastructure |
Learn about the benefits and value of Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix Solution. Our experts will provide a technical overview and explain the business outcomes of the Simplified Hyperconverged Infrastructure use case. |
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January 29 │ Data Center Deployment for Advanced Application Performance Monitoring |
Join us as our experts walk you through the onboarding process for Cisco AppDynamics, where you will be introduced to key features such as Business Application and Business Transactions. The session will also cover the procedures for adding users to the AppDynamics controller, ensuring you have a complete understanding of system setup and user management. |
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January 8 │ Data Center Deployment Best Practices for Cisco ACI |
Join us as our experts walk you through ACI design elements like naming conventions, policy management, access policies, tenants, and design best practices. |
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January 15 │ Data Center Cisco ACI Integration with ServiceNow |
Join us as our experts walk you through the use cases and benefits that you and your IT team will realize when Cisco ACI is integrated with the ITSM and ITOM solution ServiceNow. |
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January 21 │ Data Center Multi-Site Domain with NDFC |
Join us to learn how to implement Multi-Site between VXLAN EVPN fabrics. Our experts will share best practices and workflows for enabling the recommended designs, Anycast or vPC BGWs, as well as review how to configure the core router for Multi-Site scalability. |
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January 23 │ Data Center VXLAN Fabric Performance Tuning Best Practices |
Learn more about common performance issues that may impact VXLAN EVPN fabrics. Our experts will also share best practices to optimize your VXLAN EVPN fabric performance. |
Tech Area: Security
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December 5 │ Security Protect Your First Application |
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December 10 │ ISE ISE Profiling |
Join us as our experts walk you through the ISE Profiling feature, including an exploration of use cases and a review of the benefits to configuration workflows and probes. Participants will also learn best practices for implementing Profiling in their environment. This session covers almost all aspects of Profiling for anyone evaluating whether to deploy the feature in their network. |
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December 11 │ ISE ISE Upgrade |
Join us as our experts walk you through the steps to prepare, perform, and validate a successful ISE upgrade without headaches. This session will cover best practices and strategies to minimize downtime, as well as various methods of upgrades for different types of ISE deployments. |
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January 7 │ ISE ISE Smart Licensing |
Join us as our experts walk you through the basics of Cisco Smart Licensing, which can simplify your software experience by providing you with an easier, faster, and more consistent way to purchase and manage licenses across the Cisco portfolio and across your organization. This session will highlight the benefits of Smart Licensing over traditional, demonstrate the creation of Smart and Virtual accounts, and review the licensing possibilities in an air-gapped network. Our experts will also outline key points related to Smart Licensing with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). |
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January 14 │ Endpoint Detection and Response Capability Overview: Orbital Advanced Search |
In this session, participants will learn all about Orbital Advanced Search based on OS query implementation and Script execution. We are going to show you how Orbital helps to cut downtime to remediate threats and how it aligns with your business goals. During the solution demonstration, you will clearly see how Orbital works by understanding common pre-built queries and scripts that can be utilized and how you would write your own. |
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January 21 │ Network Security Analytics Day 2 Operations with Visibility, Analytics and Policies |
Join us as our experts cover best practices for operationalizing Secure Network Analytics, or SNA, solution through Day 2 Operations capabilities. This session will focus on the visibility features of SNA, along with Analytics and Policies. Participants will be introduced to the variety of telemetry sources the SNA ingests flows from, learn how to leverage Analytics capabilities to investigate further, and learn how to operationalize SNA Policy Management. |
Tech Area: Cross Architecture and Service Provider
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December 5 │ CDE Cloud Devices Experience End User Engagement |
Join us as our experts explain Collaboration Device end user adoption and best practices. This session will cover technical readiness, communication and launch types, as well as how to measure adoption success. |
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December 10 │ Service Provider SR-MPLS SR-PCE Overview |
Embark on a comprehensive exploration of SR-PCE and gain insights into its pivotal role in shaping the future network path computation. This session offers a detailed overview of the fundamental principles behind SR-PCE, shedding light on how it enhances the scalability and flexibility of network architectures. Discover the strategic advantages of incorporating SR-PCE into your network design, as we delve into real-world use cases and scenarios. Learn how SR-PCE simplifies path computation, facilitates efficient resource allocation, and contributes to the seamless orchestration of network services. |
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December 11 │ Service Provider SRv6 Monitoring |
Join us for a session focused on SRv6 monitoring, specifically delving into OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) and traffic accounting. This event is designed to equip you with the essential skills to effectively monitor and manage your SRv6 network. Starting with SRv6 OAM, we will explore how these tools facilitate fault detection, performance monitoring, and network diagnostics. Understand how they contribute to the overall health and performance of your SRv6 network. Next, we learn about SRv6 traffic accounting. Learn how to keep track of data flow within a network, understand usage patterns, and ensure optimal allocation of network resources. |
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January 9 │ CDE Best Practices for Implementing Cloud Devices Experience |
Join us as our experts provide an overview of deployment options for Collaboration Devices. This session will address prerequisites, network readiness, device configuration, and integration options. |
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January 21 │ CDE Cloud Devices Experience End User Engagement |
Join us as our experts explain Collaboration Device end user adoption and best practices. This session will cover technical readiness, communication and launch types, as well as how to measure adoption success. |
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January 8 │ Service Provider Scaling NSO Deployment |
Join us as our experts demonstrate Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) stacked services and Layered Service Architecture (LSA) to increase redundancy, improve performance, and reduce Service deployment time across network devices orchestrated by NSO. In this session, you will also learn Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) High Availability Design steps to deploy NSO HW redundancy via a HA architecture and reduce single point of failure for Orchestration Services, along with the actions required to right size your NSO deployment. |
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January 15 │ Service Provider SR-MPLS Multiarea/Multidomain |
Join us for a session dedicated to SR-MPLS Multiarea/Multidomain networks. Discover how SR-MPLS, a groundbreaking technology, is reshaping the narrative of network management in complex multiarea and multidomain environments. Learn from leading industry experts about the fundamentals, applications, and the latest trends in SR-MPLS technology. This session will include SR-PCE advanced features, simplification of network management and increase the scalability. |
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January 22 │ Service Provider SRv6 Traffic Engineering |
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January 29 │ Service Provider NSO and NED Upgrade |
Join us as our experts demonstrate Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) capabilities in managing upgrades with various Service Packages that deliver Orchestration capabilities to various multi-vendor network devices. This session will include an overview of NSO Service Reconciliation steps required for upgrade and management of NSO's multi-vendor NEDs as per NSO software release. |
Tech Area: Cross Architecture - LATAM
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Resource: Supporting links
- Bookmark/subscribe the Ask the Experts (ATXs) live schedule
- Post-session materials including recording, session handout:
- Cisco DNA Center ATXs resources (also contains Spaces, ThousandEyes, Meraki, SD-WAN)
- Cisco SD-Access ATXs resources
- Cisco ACI ATXs resources (also contains Nexus Dashboard, NDFC//DCNM)
- Cisco Intersight ATXs resources (also contains HyperFlex, AppDynamics)
- Cisco Endpoint Security ATXs resources (also contains Secure Email, ISE, SecureX, DUO)
- Cisco Network Security ATXs resources (also contains Secure Firewall/Network Analytics, ISE, SecureX, DUO)
- [Partner Community] Ask the Experts (ATXs) Essentials
- FAQ
