Customer Connection Networking Briefing Series: SD-WAN, Cisco DNA Center, Catalyst 9600

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To register for the briefings below, join Customer Connection, Cisco's global online user group program. Here's how:

1. Join the Customer Connection Program (CCP) 
2. Once your membership is approved and you receive the welcome email, register for the briefing series in the private Networking CCP forum.

Cisco Automates and Secures the Edge with Routing and SD-WAN Advancements

Tuesday, May 19 at 8am PT

• Learn about advancements in Routing & SD-WAN that will help your organization secure access from distributed locations.

  Reliability is key to remote success. Upgrades to Layer 2 functionality and throughput performance from purpose-built routing enhance the network foundation, while the Cisco SD-WAN 17.2 release streamlines the underlying code, converging IOS XE and IOS XE SD-WAN into a single OS for simpler remote deployments.

  In addition, the need to secure data everywhere drives Cisco to automate robust remote protections with new integration to Cisco Umbrella, a Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) stack, enhanced encryption performance from proprietary silicon, and deep network inspection via a new SSL proxy.

  Speakers: Sridhar Subramaniam is a Product Manager with Cisco
  Jan Dembowski is a Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco

Identify, Visualize, Protect: Innovations in Cisco DNA Center that Secure Organizations and Empower Users

Wednesday, May 20 at 8am PT

• The upcoming release of Cisco DNA Center contains a host of new features that help you identify endpoints, visualize traffic, protect your users & data, and provide new capabilities to end-users. In this session, we will:
  
  - Show how Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics identifies previously unknown endpoints on the network and classifies similar endpoints into logical groups
  
  - Explain the role of Group-Based Policy Analytics in helping you visualize and define access policies
  
  - Demonstrate the ease with which Access Control Application authors and enforces policies through segmentation
  
  - Describe how User-Defined Network allows end-users to manage their own private slice carved out from the organization’s network
  
  Speakers: Kevin Regan, Director, Product Management with Cisco
  Piyush Raj, Product Manager with Cisco

Cisco DNA Spaces and Catalyst 9600 Enhancements

Wednesday, May 27 at 8am PT

• Cisco DNA Spaces expands the range of sensors beyond Wi-Fi to BLE devices. Learn how you can deploy sensors, tags, and beacons at scale to drive business outcomes for stakeholders across your business.

  Learn about a new Catalyst 9600 Series line card that gives you a more cost-effective option for SPF aggregation.

  Speakers: Lucas Hanson, Senior Product Manager - Cisco DNA Spaces
  Jeffrey Meek, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco