Archived Networking Events

Community Live- Smart Licensing Using Policy (Routing) – A Simplified Licensing Approach

This event had place on Tuesday 18th, May 2021 at 9:00 hrs PDT 

Smart Licensing Using Policy (SLP) is an enhanced version of Smart Licensing which simplifies the licensing activation experience by removing Day-0 friction.

This session helped you to understand the technical details of SLP, the Greenfield and Brownfield scenario, deployment details for devices, the new Cisco Smart Licensing utility (CSLU), and controllers (CSLU, CSSM Cloud, CSSM On-Prem, and DNAC).

Agenda:

• SLP Introduction
• Technical details of SLP
• Deployment options
• Workflows
  • For new product deployment
  • For upgrading existing products
• Configurations and command references

Pradeep Chaudhari brings 16 years of rich industry experience in the Enterprise and Service Provider Networking domains. He has been with Cisco for 13+ years.

Since joining Cisco in 2008, he has been part of multiple teams within Cisco and held various technical and consulting roles focusing on different SP accounts and technologies (MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE, etc.). 

In the Enterprise space, Pradeep also led the charge on complex network design and implementation projects for Cisco SDN-based ACI Solutions for industry verticals including Banking-Finance and IT.  Presently a Technical Marketing Engineer on the IBNG Routing Platform Team, he is responsible for the ISR4000 and Catalyst 8300 Series Edge Platforms family. He is also a SME for Smart Licensing. On a personal front, Pradeep holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from the University of Mumbai, India. He also holds three CCIE certifications (Routing & Switching, Service Provider, and Data Center).

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Thursday, April 22, 2021
10:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Lack of visibility into SaaS, cloud, and networks outside the campus environment can lead to poor user experience on campus. To enable enterprises to rapidly gain visibility into networks, applications, and services they critically rely on but don’t control, Cisco is bringing ThousandEyes service assurance to the Catalyst 9000 series of switches.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• What service assurance capabilities to address SaaS, Internet and cloud are now included with DNA subscription for Catalyst 9000 series switches
• How ThousandEyes can help enterprises ensure excellent digital experience for campus and branch users by reducing “mean time to identify” (MTTI) and enabling evidence-based management of SaaS providers, ISPs, and other third-party services
• How to get started leveraging ThousandEyes for your existing and new Catalyst 9000 switch deployments

Get your questions answered during the live Q&A with our technical experts.

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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
10:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Many organizations are planning for the return to the office, but a remote workforce will remain the norm for many. Splitting time between working from home and being in the office is here to stay and office spaces will be used differently when employees return. Hybrid workplaces are the future, and modern network solutions need to be in place for safety, sustainable operations, and optimized user experiences. 

Join us on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 for a live webinar to learn about network requirements for a trusted workplace and how to best support a hybrid work model. Technical topics and top use cases we will discuss include:

• Using network insights and location-based services to protect your employees and deliver new experiences
• How to set up workplace density thresholds to gain insights on behaviors like frequency and duration of visits
• Smart Building solutions for hybrid work for seamless, intuitive facilities operations and using 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE+) and UV LED lights to disinfect spaces
• Deploying Wi-Fi 6 for a seamless, untethered experience for users, Internet of Things (IoT), applications, and increased video usage driven by hybrid work
• Network considerations for hot desk/hoteling environments
• Rapid IT transformation leveraging on-premises to cloud to edge data center locations using a software-enabled services approach to operations models

Get your questions answered during the live Q&A with our technical experts.

Ask questions from Tuesday, March 23 to Friday, April 2, 2021

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This forum is a chance to clarify all your questions related to the SR1100X-4G and ISR1100X-6G Platform Overview and Architecture!

The expert will go over the Cisco ISR1100X Series platforms for the SD-WAN branch solution and how it fits into Cisco’s overall branch offerings.
The new ISR1100X Series platforms, and their predecessors ISR1100 Series platforms, now support both Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN and Viptela OS. Prakash will go over the key feature differences between these two operating systems and what benefits customers will get when they migrate to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN.
Prakash will also review some of the use cases that these platforms address and lastly will cover the migration options for these platforms from Viptela OS to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN.

Agenda:

• ISR1100 and ISR1100X Series portfolio overview
• Platform architecture
• Key benefits when migrating to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN
• Key feature differences between Viptela OS and Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN
• Hardware overview
• Migration prerequisites and the upgrade process
• Use cases

Featured Speaker

Prakash is a Technical Marketing Engineer and has been with Cisco for about one year. His overall experience working on Cisco products is 13+ years, with involvement in different technologies in the routing and switching world. He currently leads WAN Optimization, vEdge, ISR1100, and ISR1100X Series products from the technical marketing side. As a Technical Marketing Engineer he is responsible for collaborating with different stakeholders on product development, monitoring product performance, and training marketing teams on product specifications and functionalities.

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This session provides an introduction to the Cisco Telemetry Broker. The need for this product grew from the multiple analytics platforms all requiring access to vital telemetry giving rise to a Telemetry Architecture. An architecture that could route any telemetry source, to any destination, from any type of device or application. We will go over the highly valued use-cases, deployment scenarios, and most of what you need to know from this newly release product. For a sneak peak in to what the future holds, please attend the Roadmap session in the coming weeks.

Speakers:

TK Keanini brings more than 25 years of network and security experience to his role as Distinguished Engineer within Cisco’s Security Business Group, where he uses his expertise in analytics to help customers adapt and respond to ever-evolving threats. In 2017, TK and team were awarded the prestigious Cisco Pioneer Award recognizing their innovative work on Encrypted Traffic Analytics.

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Meet the Authors Event - Cisco's Digital Network Architecture - Intent-based Networking for the Enterprise

(Live event – Thursday, 25th, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 7:00 p.m. Paris)

This event had place on Thursday 25th, March 2021 at 10am PST 

In this session, Cisco Press Authors talks about Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture (DNA) and how it helps technical professionals, decision-makers, and consultants prepare to drive maximum value from next-generation networking. Also, they share relevant updates for everyone involved with DNA planning, implementation, and operation. During this event, attendees have the opportunity to interact with the authors and ask them questions in a live Q&A session.

Join the world-class networking experts and learn more about the enterprise architecture of this decade. In addition, they present key content featured in the book Cisco Digital Network Architecture: Intent-based Networking for the Enterprise.

This event provides an opportunity to interact with the authors in real-time and learn more about them, their story, the story behind their publications, and how they became renowned experts.

Tim Szigeti, CCIE #9794, is a Principal Engineer and the Director of Technical Marketing for Cisco's Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ET&I) group, which is Cisco's leading-edge Research & Development team. Tim is involved in all phases of technology innovation, from ideation to prototyping, market validation, iteration and maturing, and ultimately to transitioning the project to a business unit as a shipping product to drive revenue growth. In his 22 years with Cisco, Tim has been issued seven US patents and authored four Cisco Press books and an IETF standard (RFC 8325). Additionally, Tim has been inducted into Cisco's Distinguished Speaker Hall of Fame Elite.

Dr. Matthias Falkner is a Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco's Global Partner Organization (GPO). He currently focuses on the architecture evolution towards as-a-service networking for both Enterprise and SP markets and is responsible for topics such as multi-domain orchestration and assurance, SD-WAN, and Private 5G. Prior to this role, he was a member of the Enterprise DNA Team, a lead TME Architect for the ASR 100 Series Routers, and a Consulting Systems Engineer. Matthias holds a PhD in Systems and Computer Engineering from Carleton University, Canada, and an MSc in Operations Research & Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

 

Dave Zacks is a Director in Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) team, with a deep background in networking. As a 21-year Cisco veteran, he has seen many twists and turns in technologies capabilities and customer needs across 30+ years of industry experience. Dave is a holder of over 20 patents, a long-term CCIE, and is a Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker Hall of Fame Elite speaker with experience up and down the stack, from ASIC silicon to large-scale network designs, application monitoring, and end-to-end system assurance and troubleshooting.

 

Simone Arena is a principal Technical Marketing Engineer within the Cisco Enterprise Networking Business (ENB) team and is primarily focused on enterprise network architecture and on all things related to wireless and mobility. Throughout the years, Simone has covered multiple roles at Cisco, starting as a software engineer working with Catalyst switching platforms, to a consulting system engineer in the field, to TME within different teams. Currently he is the lead TME architect for DNA Wireless, and his time is split between helping customers and partners design the best solution that fits their needs and engineering and product management, trying to evolve and improve products and solutions. Simone is a Distinguished Speaker at Cisco Live and has spoken at Cisco Live events all over the world for several years.

 

Featured Book

Cisco Digital Network Architecture: Intent-based Networking for the Enterprise – This guide systematically introduces Cisco’s DNA. Merging indispensable new insider information with content previously scattered through multiple technical documents, the book combines technical depth, coherence, and comprehensiveness.

This event is open for everyone, including Cisco customers & partners.

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Join us live on Tuesday, March 9 at 10 am PT (and on demand after) as we take a closer look at the WAN architecture innovations that Cisco has to offer.

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Ask questions from Monday, March 8 to Friday, March 19, 2021

All the knowledge of these four experts at your disposal!

Cisco Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) provides a highly scalable, resilient, and secure network infrastructure. With advanced security features built into the solution, automation, centralized management, and monitoring, Cisco SD-WAN enables you to control your network through a single dashboard, reduce operating costs, and ensure the best possible experience for your users in local applications or on the cloud.

In this event, the experts will help you understand how Cisco SD-WAN is designed and its main benefits.
They will explore everything from the basic solution design, which license to choose, or which router to select, to overall design and deployment best practices. vManage allows you to configure devices, templates, security / control policies and much more... What if, for some reason, vManage fails? We will help you master an understanding of the policy framework and common troubleshooting tools and learn from programmatic methods to create backups in the SD-WAN environment.

This event is for Cisco SD-WAN beginners and advanced professionals.

Featured experts

Guilherme Lyra is a Solutions Architect focused on the Enterprise Networking area. With more than 14 years of experience in networking and security technologies, he has designed and led the implementation of projects with national and global extension for companies in segments such as retail, manufacturing, utilities, and government agencies. Guilherme has also conducted training on Software-Defined Networks and WAN optimization. He holds Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCDP, Juniper JNCIA, and Meraki CMNA certifications.

Danny Blais joined Cisco in 2000 in the role of Lab Administrator. In 2004, he moved to RTP, North Carolina for one year to be part of an incubator program leading him to a Systems Architect role. He is currently based out of Montréal and supports a major enterprise account in the Québec province. Danny has a college degree in computer science with a networking specialty. He has specialized in many Cisco technologies over the years, from Unified Communications to Data Center and now for the last couple of years Cisco SD-WAN. He holds multiple Cisco certifications: CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, and CMNA.

Osvaldo Salazar Tovar is currently in the role of Solutions Architect for Cisco SD-WAN technology for Latin America. He works with the partner ecosystem to deliver new approaches to simplify and optimize their WAN environments to end customers from different verticals, using the Cisco portfolio as a digital transformation platform. Osvaldo graduated from ITESM, and has several certifications such as CCNP R&S, DevNet Associate, and SD-WAN Specialist.

Thomas Matzeu graduated from the French University of Evry. He began as a Deployment Engineer in France, specializing in routing, switching, and security. Thomas joined Cisco in September 2018 as a Pre-Sales Engineer in the Global Virtual Engineering team and focuses on Enterprise Networking technologies such as SD-Access and SD-WAN in Europe.

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Community Live- ISR1100X-4G and ISR1100X-6G Platform Overview and Architecture

This event had place on Tuesday 23rd, March 2021 at 10:00 hrs PDT 

The expert will go over the Cisco ISR1100X Series platforms for the SD-WAN branch solution and how it fits into Cisco’s overall branch offerings.
The new ISR1100X Series platforms, and their predecessors ISR1100 Series platforms, now support both Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN and Viptela OS. Prakash will go over the key feature differences between these two operating systems and what benefits customers will get when they migrate to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN.
Prakash will also review some of the use cases that these platforms address and lastly will cover the migration options for these platforms from Viptela OS to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN.

Agenda:

• ISR1100 and ISR1100X Series portfolio overview
• Platform architecture
• Key benefits when migrating to Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN
• Key feature differences between Viptela OS and Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN
• Hardware overview
• Migration prerequisites and the upgrade process
• Use cases

Prakash is a Technical Marketing Engineer and has been with Cisco for about one year. His overall experience working on Cisco products is 13+ years, with involvement in different technologies in the routing and switching world. He currently leads WAN Optimization, vEdge, ISR1100, and ISR1100X Series products from the technical marketing side. As a Technical Marketing Engineer he is responsible for collaborating with different stakeholders on product development, monitoring product performance, and training marketing teams on product specifications and functionalities.

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This event was open to everyone, including students, instructors, Cisco customers, and partners.

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We will discuss our latest project, Fastlane+, builds on the popular Faslane feature by adding Advanced Scheduling Request to take QoS management a step further by scheduling and carving out airtime for voice and video traffic on iOS devices. This facilitates superior experience with latency sensitive collaboration applications such as WebEx and FaceTime.

The Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst Access Points is an integrated Wi-Fi 6 solution for small and mid-size deployments. Come learn about how it can manage up to 100 APs with its license-free Smart Dashboard and mobile app which provides simplified management and enterprise grade security features with the flexibility to grow as network needs evolve.

Register now in Customer Connection - Free to join the program and attend!

Network Insider Live Webinar

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
10:00 am Pacific Time
(San Francisco, GMT-08:00)

In our world of increasing disruptions, digital and virtual experiences rule more than ever. As a result, organizations are accelerating their adoption of agile multicloud services to enhance their business resilience and digital transformation. A successful multicloud strategy depends on a successful networking strategy that simplifies the connectivity and security of globally distributed users, sites, and applications.

Join us for a live webinar on Tuesday, February 23, and discover how to transform your network and get a more in-depth understanding of:

• Rapidly onboard applications with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp
• How to ensure secure access to multicloud applications
• Providing visibility to distributed multicloud applications and workloads
• Extending network policy and governance from on-premises to multicloud
• Future networking directions to help you plan for the unexpected

As always, a live Q&A is included.

Community Live- New Additions to the Catalyst 8000 Family

This event had place on Tuesday 23rd, February 2021 at 10:00 hrs PDT 

Designed for an intent-based network, the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms family offers best-in-class networking and security combined. The platforms, available in both on-premises or virtual options, are designed for accelerated SD-WAN services, multilayered security, cloud-native agility, and edge intelligence to accelerate your journey to the cloud.

Agenda:

• Overview of the Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms family (C8300, C8500, and C8Kv) already launched
• Introduction to Catalyst 8200 and 8200 UCPE Series edge platforms as new additions
• Key building blocks
• Platform hardware and software architecture
• Platform capabilities
• Product comparison between ISR4331 vs. C8200 and ENCS5100 vs. C8200 UCPE
• Solutions and use-cases

Ramesh Kalimuthu is a Technical Marketing Engineer for SD-branch solution and uCPE products in EN Routing. He has 20+ years in networking and is thankful for the fun learning experience in delivering best in class products in routing, security, and the collaboration space. He is passionate about creating and driving the adoption of new technologies, with SDN and Virtualization solutions as his current focus. 

 

Shameel Ummer is a Technical Marketing Engineer for ISR 4000 as well as Catalyst 8300 Series. Shameel is 4X CCIE and is responsible for all things crypto on the routing platforms

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This event is open to everyone, including students, instructors, Cisco customers, and partners.

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Join us live on Thursday, January 28 at 10 am PT (and on demand after) as we dive into the 5 key networking trends for workforce, workplace, workload and operations resilience. We will highlight findings of the 2021 Global Networking Trends Report and discuss how an intent-based network can enable businesses to build resilience to respond swiftly to unexpected disruptions in the future.

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In this session attendees will receive an introduction to Software Defined-WAN (SD-WAN)  and the importance of control connections, and learn how to configure devices using Templates (Device/Feature) and the importance of the Overlay Management Protocol (OMP). There will be a live demonstration during the event to provide a practical overview about the OMP and it's capabilities.

Ask questions from Tuesday, January 19 to Friday, January 29, 2021

Juan Rangel holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of the Americas in Mexico City (UDLA) and works at Cisco as a TAC Engineer in the SD-WAN area. Speak 3 languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. He has a high knowledge of América Movil Internacional network for having worked at Telmex customer service center and interacting with the different LATAM Claro centers. He has also worked for companies such as Huawei and Citi. It has the following certifications: CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure# 62667; CCNP Security; CCNP Service Provider; CCNP Data Center; AWS Cloud Practitioner, Huawei HCDA and ITIL v3 Foundation.

 

Juan Flores is a Technical Consulting Engineer on the Software-Defined WAN team at the Customer Experience (CX) Center. Before he joined the SD-WAN team, he worked on the Routing Protocols team. Juan specializes in Routing Protocols, Service Provider technologies (MPLS), Enterprise networking, Nexus administration with routing protocols, and SD-WAN technologies. Juan holds a degree in computer systems engineering from the University of the Valley of Mexico. He holds CCNP Enterprise, Service Provider, Data Center, AWS Solutions Architect, Cisco Certified Specialist certifications and CCNA. He is pursing certifications in CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure and CCIE Service Provider.

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This event is open to everyone, including students, instructors, Cisco customers and partners.

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