Welcome to the Catalyst Center Expert Insights Community! This dedicated page is your gateway to a transformative journey from beginner to expert. Here, you'll explore essential foundational topics, enhance your understanding with intermediate material, and delve into advanced topics and cross-domain integration to master comprehensive use cases.
The Foundation Series offers a roadmap for Catalyst Center lifecycle management, encompassing exploration of use cases, varied installation methods, configuration basics, validating system health and maintaining SW version compliance.
Date: 03 October, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Join us to discover business value of catalyst center, demonstrating real customer stories and showcasing variety of use cases that fulfils ever-increasing IT demands.
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Date: 10 October, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Explore Catalyst Center various installation options available to suit your specific needs. Join us to learn about the initial setup and configuration best practices to ensure optimal performance.
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Date: 17 October, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Cisco Catalyst Center is replacing Prime-Infrastructure so the time to migrate is now! Join us to learn more on various tools, tips and best practices that will equip you with knowledge to successfully migrate.
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Date: 24 October, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Learn more about the latest Catalyst Center version and stay ahead of the IT curve with new assurance and automation features, as well as best practices to perform a smooth upgrade.
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The intermediate series highlights strategies for leveraging diverse Catalyst Center workflows and tools to streamline your operations, automate daily tasks, and enhance both network performance and user experience, all supported by predictive AI insights and tools within Catalyst Center.
Date: 07 November, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Leverage Catalyst Center to streamline network operations. In this session, you’ll gain the resources and practices to automate your daily tasks, starting with defining network standards, scaling with reusable templates, and expanding device onboarding through plug-and-play functionality.
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Date: 14 November, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Leverage Catalyst Center to maintain a consistent and secure infrastructure by easily spotting network devices that don’t meet your standards. Harness the right resources to effectively remediate any compliance violations, safeguarding your network's integrity.
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Date: 26 November, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Explore Catalyst Center capabilities to manage your wireless infrastructure (Brownfield/Greenfield).
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Date: 28 November, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Dive in and discover comprehensive assurance dashboards, master advanced troubleshooting tools, get tips and tricks and telemetry best practices.
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Date: 05 December, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Unleash the power of Catalyst Center AI to proactively optimize network performance and user experience.
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Season IV (Advanced topics) of Catalyst Center Expert Insights series focuses on SD-Access networks. The first two sessions will provide answers to why, when and how to convert a traditional network to SD-Access. The season will conclude with an overview of Catalyst Center as a platform and the options to integrate with other systems, in order to create a customised environment that suits best to your organisation.
Date: 21 November, 2024 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Integrating with Cisco Spaces leveraging it real to insights to ensure safe, smart and seamless workplace , we will focus on the initial setup for Cisco Spaces and the use cases that you can benefit from if you have Cisco Spaces Extend licenses (included with your Wireless DNA Advantage licenses).
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Date: 14 May, 2025 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: New to Cisco SD-Access? Join this introductory session to explore how SD-Access simplifies network management through automation, segmentation, and policy-based control. We’ll break down the core components like Cisco Catalyst Center, fabric architecture and ISE integration. Our session will guide you through the first steps to get started. Perfect for engineers, architects, and IT leaders looking to modernize their enterprise networks.
Date: 21 May, 2025 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Discuss how Catalyst Center helps to ensure Zero-Trust for your workplace and examine solution key pillars that provide immense value from endpoint visibility, network segmentation and continuous trust monitoring.
Date: 12 June, 2025 Time: 10:00-11:30 AM UTC+1
Session Details: Discover the options to integrate Catalyst Center platform with applications and systems, understand how to extract or import data and explore the capabilities to build innovative new solutions and customised services based on your organisation’s needs.
