Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn and any ask questions about how to configure and troubleshoot and design network using  Border Gateway Protocol with Cisco expert Vinit Jain. Ask questions from Tuesday Janury 12 to Friday January 22, 2016 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is one of the most widely deployed protocols in networks today and is the definitive routing protocol in the Internet. BGP is a flexible protocol, in that a variety of options are available to network engineers. Furthermore, extensions and implementation enhancements make BGP a powerful and yet complex tool. Because of BGP's pervasive deployment across multiple networks and the large number of use-cases that BGP can be applied to, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how to troubleshoot BGP issues quickly and easily. Vinit will be helping you answer your queries on how to troubleshoot BGP   Vinit will be helping you with all your queries on all of the above. Vinit Jain presented at  Cisco Live in June 2015 on Troubleshooting BGP  Click here for More Information   Vinit Jain, 3X CCIE #22854 is a Technical Lead in HTTS (High Touch Technical Support) team supporting customers in areas of routing, MPLS, TE, IPv6, multicast and a wide variety of platform issues like High CPU, Memory leak, etc IOS, IOS XE, IOS XR and NxOS code base. Has been delivering trainings within Cisco on various technology as well as platform troubleshooting topics. He has also written workbook on IOS XR fundamentals on Cisco Support Community. Vinit has CCIE in R&S, SP and Sec and holds multiple certifications on programming and databases. Vinit  might not be able to answer each question due to the volume expected during this event. Remember that you can continue the conversation on the WAN, Routing and Switching sub-community Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. **Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions          ... View more

Una vez más Cisco Live Cancún ha sido todo un éxito con más de 5,100 clientes y partners que se dieron cita en el hotel Moon Palace.  La Comunidad de Soporte de Cisco estuvo presente en el stand del World of Solutions. Ahí hablamos con cientos de clientes y socios. Varios de ellos nos compartieron su expericence de los beneficios que les ha dado la comunidad de soporte. La comunidad de soporte está en seis idiomas, incluyendo español. No sólo varios de los asistente conocen la comunidad y la usan, sino que también se benefician de participar en los eventos que damos en la comunidad de Webcasts y Pregunte al Experto. Estas son algunas de las entrevistas en español. Te invitamos a que las escuches. Con el gerente de soluciones de seguridad de Cisco, Rafael Chavez y con varios clientes y socios de Cisco.    Cada uno de estos participantes proporciona detalles interesantes de cómo usan la comunidad y los mayores beneficios que la comunidad les da. ... View more

  This session provides an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Unified Computing System in general and the blades in more specific. Sivakumar will cover questions on design, configuration and troubleshooting. The Cisco Unified Computing System™ is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility.  The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain. Managed as a single system whether it has one server or hundreds of servers with thousands of virtual machines, the Cisco Unified Computing System decouples scale from complexity.   Ask questions from Monday, November 30 to Friday December 11, 2015 Featured Experts Sivakumar Sukumar is an experienced Customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) team supporting Data center Products.  His areas of expertise include Cisco UCS, UCS central, Cisco Nexus 9000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 2000, MDS SAN switches,  Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE), Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), Cisco Content Switching Module, Cisco Content Services Switches, and other content products. He has been with Cisco for more than 6 years, working with major customers to help resolve their issues related to content products. Prior to Cisco, he worked with IBM and other service providers managing their networks. Sivakumar  holds a bachelors in Information Technologies from SSNCE Anna University Chennai India,  and these Cisco certifications:  CCIE (#44288) (in  Datacenter), CCNA, CCNP, RHCE and VCP.    Sivakumar might not be able to answer each question due to the volume expected during this event. Remember that you can continue the conversation on the Data Center sub-community   Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. ** Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions       ... View more

  This session provides an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Unified Computing System in general and the blades in more specific. Sivakumar will cover questions on design, configuration and troubleshooting. The Cisco Unified Computing System™ is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain. Managed as a single system whether it has one server or hundreds of servers with thousands of virtual machines, the Cisco Unified Computing System decouples scale from complexity. Ask questions from Monday, November 30 to Friday December 11, 2015 Featured Experts Sivakumar Sukumar is an experienced Customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) team supporting Data center Products.  His areas of expertise include Cisco UCS, UCS central, Cisco Nexus 9000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 2000, MDS SAN switches,  Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE), Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), Cisco Content Switching Module, Cisco Content Services Switches, and other content products. He has been with Cisco for more than 6 years, working with major customers to help resolve their issues related to content products. Prior to Cisco, he worked with IBM and other service providers managing their networks. Sivakumar  holds a bachelors in Information Technologies from SSNCE Anna University Chennai India,  and these Cisco certifications:  CCIE (#44288) (in  Datacenter), CCNA, CCNP, RHCE and VCP.    Sivakumar might not be able to answer each question due to the volume expected during this event. Remember that you can continue the conversation on the Data Center sub-community   Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. ** Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions       ... View more

Cisco Data Center Overlays with focus on VXLAN (Virtual Extensible Local Area Network) (Live Webcast October 20th, 2015 at 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 pm Eastern Time) Please join us on Tuesday October 20th,  2015 at 10:00 am. PDT San Francisco (UTC -7 hours) for this live, interactive event. This corresponds to 1 p.m. EDT New York (UTC -4 hours), 6 p.m. London (BST UTC+1), or 12 p.m. Paris (CEST UTC +2). During this live event, Cisco subject matter expert Vishal Mehta and Pranav Doshi will share about Cisco Data Center Overlays with focus on VXLAN (Virtual Extensible Local Area Network). In the modern data center, traditional technologies are limiting the speed, flexibility, scalability, and manageability of application deployments. There is emerging interest in the industry in overlay technologies (such as MPLS, VXLAN, LISP...) which may address some of these challenges. This session will discuss the latest trend in Overlay Technologies and compare each one of the available solutions in terms of deployment, benefits and challenges. The major emphasis in this session will be on VXLAN evolution and to elaborate on which Cisco Products support different VXLAN solutions. Various VXLAN configurations such as BGP-EVPN control plane, L2 Gateway, L3 Gateway; Bridging, Packet-Flow, Best Practices, Deployment scenarios and other advanced features will be also discussed. Featured Speakers Vishal Mehta (Read the Interview) is a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco's Data Center Competitive Insights Team based in San Jose, California. Previously he was working as the customer support engineer for Data Center Server Virtualization Technical Assistance Center (TAC) team for the past 4 years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco Nexus® 5000, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, and Virtualization. He has CCIE® certification (# 37139) in Routing/Switching, Service Provider & Data Center. Vishal has presented at Cisco Live in Orlando 2013, Milan 2014, and San Francisco 2014 (BRKCOM-3003, BRKDCT-3444, and LABDCT-2333). Pranav Doshi a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco’s Data Center Competitive Insights Team based in San Jose, California. Pranav has been with Cisco since 2010, starting off as a Team-Lead Technical Support Engineer in the LAN-Switching team working on Catalyst 37XX/45XX/65XX and Nexus 2K/3K/5K/6K/7K/9K platforms. After working in Cisco TAC, Pranav worked in Cisco Advanced Services as part of the Data Center Solutions Team for Cisco’s Enterprise Customers. During his stint with Cisco AS, Pranav designed data centers with Nexus Standalone deployments leveraging technologies like Fabricpath, OTV as well as ACI deployments.   Need more information? Have more questions? Find more experts and topics by visiting  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events ">https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. We look forward to your participation. This event is open to all, including partners. Please Share this event in your social channels.   ... View more

This session provides an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches hardware architecture and their role in Data Center / Enterprise switching design, configuration and troubleshooting. Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches extend Cisco Unified Fabric to the data center. Highly programmable, these low-latency switches offer simplified management, enhanced network visibility, advanced monitoring features, and wire-speed Layer 2 and 3 switching for data center top-of-rack (ToR) deployments. These highly programmable, cost-effective, deliver flexible port densities and low power consumption for data centers.   Ask questions from Monday, September 21 to Friday, October 2nd, 2015 Featured Experts Vikash Kumar is a Customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) team supporting Data center Products. His areas of expertise include Cisco Nexus 9000, Nexus 7000/7700 , Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 2000, UCS, and MDS SAN Switches. Kumar has over 6 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and Service Provider networks. He has delivered several internal and external trainings on Datacenter technologies and created external documents on Datacenter products and technologies. He holds Bachelors in Information Technologies and PGDM in Cyber security from IMT Ghaziabad, India and these Cisco  certifications: CCNA, CCNP (Routing and Swtiching), CCNP (security) and he is triple CCIE (#27857) (in R&S, Security and Datacenter). He is pursuing for CCDE   Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. ** Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions   ... View more

  This session provides an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches hardware architecture and their role in Data Center / Enterprise switching design, configuration and troubleshooting. Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches extend Cisco Unified Fabric to the data center. Highly programmable, these low-latency switches offer simplified management, enhanced network visibility, advanced monitoring features, and wire-speed Layer 2 and 3 switching for data center top-of-rack (ToR) deployments. These highly programmable, cost-effective, deliver flexible port densities and low power consumption for data centers.   Ask questions from Monday, September 21 to Friday, October 2nd, 2015 Featured Experts Vikash Kumar is a Customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) team supporting Data center Products. His areas of expertise include Cisco Nexus 9000, Nexus 7000/7700 , Nexus 5000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 2000, UCS, and MDS SAN Switches. Kumar has over 6 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and Service Provider networks. He has delivered several internal and external trainings on Datacenter technologies and created external documents on Datacenter products and technologies. He holds Bachelors in Information Technologies and PGDM in Cyber security from IMT Ghaziabad, India and these Cisco  certifications: CCNA, CCNP (Routing and Swtiching), CCNP (security) and he is triple CCIE (#27857) (in R&S, Security and Datacenter). He is pursuing for CCDE       Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. ** Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions     ... View more

  This session will provide an opportunity to learn and ask questions about Cisco Catalyst Switches IOS architecture, and how to troubleshoot any unexpected reboots and other errors on switches.   Ask questions from Monday, October 5 to Friday, October 16, 2015 Featured Experts Ivan Shirshin is a customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS). He is an expert on Routing, LAN Switching and Data Center products. His areas of expertise include Cisco Catalyst 2000, 3000, 4000, 6500,  Cisco Nexus 7000, ISRs, as well as Cisco routers ASR1000, 7600, 10000 and XR platforms. He has over 7 years of industry experience working with large Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Shirshin holds a CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, and CCIE (# 43481) in routing and swtiching, as well as XR specialist certifications.    Naveen Venkateshaiah is a customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS). He is an expert on Routing, LAN Switching and Data Center products. His areas of expertise include Cisco Catalyst 3000, 4000, 6500,  and Cisco Nexus 7000. He has over 7 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and Service Provider networks. Venkateshaiah holds a CCNA, CCNP, and  CCDP-ARCH, AWLANFE, LCSAWLAN Certification. He is currently working to obtain a CCIE in routing and switching.   Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. ** Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions     ... View more

Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation.  Cisco Data Center Overlays with focus on VXLAN (Virtual Extensible Local Area Network) to  Vishal Metha. Ask questions from Tuesday October 20, to Friday October 30, 2015 In the modern data center, traditional technologies are limiting the speed, flexibility, scalability, and manageability of application deployments. There is emerging interest in the industry in overlay technologies (such as MPLS, VXLAN, LISP...) which may address some of these challenges. This session will discuss the latest trend in Overlay Technologies and compare each one of the available solutions in terms of deployment, benefits and challenges. The major emphasis in this session will be on VXLAN evolution and to elaborate on which Cisco Products support different VXLAN solutions. Various VXLAN configurations such as BGP-EVPN control plane, L2 Gateway, L3 Gateway; Bridging, Packet-Flow, Best Practices, Deployment scenarios and other advanced features will be also discussed.   Vishal and Pranav  will be helping you with all your queries on all of the above.   Vishal Mehta is a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco's Data Center Competitive Insights Team based in San Jose, California. Previously he was working as the customer support engineer for Data Center Server Virtualization Technical Assistance Center (TAC) team for the past 4 years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco Nexus® 5000, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, and Virtualization. He has CCIE® certification (# 37139) in Routing/Switching, Service Provider & Data Center. Vishal has presented at Cisco Live in Orlando 2013, Milan 2014, and San Francisco 2014 (BRKCOM-3003, BRKDCT-3444, and LABDCT-2333).     Pranav Doshi is a Technical Marketing Engineer with Cisco’s Data Center Competitive Insights Team based in San Jose, California. Pranav has been with Cisco since 2010, starting off as a Team-Lead Technical Support Engineer in the LAN-Switching team working on Catalyst 37XX/45XX/65XX and Nexus 2K/3K/5K/6K/7K/9K platforms. After working in Cisco TAC, Pranav worked in Cisco Advanced Services as part of the Data Center Solutions Team for Cisco’s Enterprise Customers. During his stint with Cisco AS, Pranav designed data centers with Nexus Standalone deployments leveraging technologies like Fabricpath, OTV  as well as ACI deployments.   Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. Because of the volume expected during this event, Vishal or Pranav  might not be able to answer every question.  **Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions   ... View more

Welcome to this Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation.  This is an opportunity to learn and any ask questions about how to configure and troubleshoot MPLS VPN to Vinit Jain. Ask questions from Tuesday September 15, to Friday September 25, 2015 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) is a cost-effective solution that provides backbone connectivity and other related services to end customers without compromising customer privacy. Because MPLS provides protocol-independent forwarding, MPLS VPN can be implemented to utilize the existing MPLS infrastructure to provide the service. Ever since RFC4364, many service providers now offer VPN services to their customers, using a technique in which customer edge routers are routing peers of provider edge routers. The Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) is used to distribute customers’ routes across the providers’ IP backbone network, and MPLS is used to tunnel customer packets across the providers’ backbone.   Vinit will be helping you with all your queries on all of the above. Vinit Jain presented at  Cisco Live in June 2015 on Troubleshooting BGP  Click here for More Information   Vinit Jain is a technical lead with the High-Touch Technical Support (HTTS) team supporting customers in areas of routing, MPLS, TE, IPv6, and multicast. He also supports a wide variety of platform issues such as high CPU; memory leaks; Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR Software; and NxOS code base. He has delivered training within Cisco on various technologies as well as platform troubleshooting topics. He has also written a workbook about Cisco IOS XR Software fundamentals on the Cisco Support Community. Vinit holds CCIE certification (no. 22854) in R&S, Service Provider, Data Center and Security, as well as multiple certifications on programming and databases.   Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. **Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions          ... View more

Virtual Switching System (VSS) is network system virtualization technology that pools multiple Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches into one virtual switch, increasing operational efficiency, boosting nonstop communications, and scaling system bandwidth capacity to 1.4 Tbps. At the initial phase, a VSS will allow two physical Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches to operate as a single logical virtual switch called a virtual switching system 144.  his session will provide an opportunity to learn and ask questions about how to implement, configure and troubleshoot VSS in Cisco Catalyst Switches 6500 and 4500. Ask questions from Monday, September 7 to Friday, September 18, 2015 Featured Experts InayathUlla Sharieff is a Customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) team supporting LAN Switching and Data center Products. His areas of expertise include Cisco Catalyst 2000,3000,4000 ,6500 and Cisco Nexus 7000 Switches. Shariff has over 8 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and Service Provider networks. He holds Bachelors in Computer Sciences degree and these Cisco  certifications: CCNA, CCNP (in Routing and Swtiching), and CCIE in R&S (# 43263). He is pursuing the CCIE in Data Centers.   Suresh  Vs is a Customer Support Engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) at Cisco Bangalore, India. He has over 11 years of industry experience working with large Enterprise and Service Provider networks. He has been working with HTTS from past 4 years and supporting LAN Switching and Data center Products. His areas of expertise include Cisco Catalyst 2000, 3000, 4000, 6500 and Cisco Nexus 7000 Switches. Suresh holds a Bachelor's of Sciences in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Madras University. He has these certifications: CCNA, CCNP, CCIE Data Center (# 46658). Find other  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. ** Ratings Encourage Participation! ** Please be sure to rate the Answers to Questions   ... View more

Webcast: Configuring and Troubleshooting MPLS VPN  (Live Webcast September 15, 2015 at 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 pm Eastern Time)             During this live virtual event, Cisco subject matter expert Vinit Jain provides us with an overview of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN). MPLS VPN is a cost-effective solution that provides backbone connectivity and other related services to end customers without compromising customer privacy. Because MPLS provides protocol-independent forwarding, MPLS VPN can be implemented to utilize the existing MPLS infrastructure to provide the service. Ever since RFC4364, many service providers now offer VPN services to their customers, using a technique in which customer edge routers are routing peers of provider edge routers. The Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) is used to distribute customers’ routes across the providers’ IP backbone network, and MPLS is used to tunnel customer packets across the providers’ backbone.  Agenda​ MPLS VPN overview Terminologies Basic MPLS VPN configuration Live troubleshooting demo Featured Speaker   Vinit Jain is a technical lead with the High-Touch Technical Support (HTTS) team supporting customers in areas of routing, MPLS, TE, IPv6, and multicast. He also supports a wide variety of platform issues such as high CPU; memory leaks; Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR Software; and NxOS code base. He has delivered training within Cisco on various technologies as well as platform troubleshooting topics. He has also written a workbook about Cisco IOS XR Software fundamentals on the Cisco Support Community. Vinit holds CCIE certification (no. 22854) in R&S, Service Provider, and Security, as well as multiple certifications on programming and databases. Do you have more questions? Our experts are available for the next two weeks to answer your questions. Join the Ask the Expert discussion at  https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events ">https://supportforums.cisco.com/expert-corner/events. We look forward to your participation. This event is open to all, including partners. Please Share this event in your social channels. You have a chance to win a prize by filling out the survey after attending the live event. Have a technical question? Get answers before opening a TAC case by visiting the Cisco Support Community.         ... View more