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Cisco Digital Network Assurance and Closed-loop Automation via Analytics

Tim Szigeti, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, looks at how their Digital Network Architecture (DNA) provides an abstraction for policy and enables closed-loop automation via analytics. Network administrators build their network, hope for the best, and react to alarms. This reactive approach leads to perpetual fire-drills with operation teams running down issues to placate […]

Application Hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches with Jeff McLaughlin

Jeff McLaughlin, Principal Marketing Engineer with Cisco, reviews Cisco Open IOS XE, which can now do much more than move packets, it can host applications in Linux containers or VMs directly on a network device. Cisco’s IOx provides the framework for packaging and delivering applications to network devices. He goes over how it works, use […]

Cisco Network Programmability Using APIC-EM APIs with Saurav Prasad

Saurav Prasad, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the Cisco DNA Center provides a single point of control to simplify the operation of your enterprise network. The DNA controller (Cisco APIC-EM) exposes a rich REST based Northbound APIs to allow other applications to take advantage of the controller capabilities and unlock the power […]

Cisco Open APIs for Network Device Programmability with Kevin Kuhls

Kevin Kuhls, TME Enterprise Solutions at Cisco, gives an overview of open APIs. These are available on network devices. Something besides CLI (Command Line Interface) actually does exist! In this introductory talk, he discusses open APIs for use in environments to support configuration management, along with the ability to retrieve (or stream) operational data. He […]

Cisco Policy Federation – Normalizing Policy Across any Domain with Victor Moreno

Victor Moreno, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, reviews that network, security and cloud operations remain very much domain specific tasks with domain specific functionalities, yet the behavior across these different environments can be expressed in a consolidated policy. He explores the architecture, language and interactions that make this Federation possible across Network and Security domains of […]

Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics – Why Network Security Matters with Saravanan Radhakrishnan

Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the rapid rise in encrypted communications and security impacts the network. How prevalent is encrypted traffic is in your enterprise? Did you know that encryption is being used by evasive applications and malicious software to escape detection in corporate networks? Can you pinpoint end-points in your […]

Cisco Secure Agile Exchange – Architecture Building Blocks with Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how the company plans to use virtualization, switching fabrics, VNFs, and orchestration to manage security policy at the edge of enterprise networks. This includes going through some of the use cases that SAE has to offer including SaaS, IaaS, Private Cloud, and Extranet connectivity.

Cisco eNFV – An Open Solution for Virtualizing Network Functions with Matthias Falkner

Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, explores the openness of the eNFV solution, showing how every layer of the solution stack is exposing the APIs. Support for 3rd party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and application workloads running on NFVIS is explained. The session also introduces the 3rd party Ecosystem support process, which provides […]

The Building Blocks of Cisco eNFV with Matthias Falkner

Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, reviews supported hardware platforms, the Network Function Virtualization infrastructure Software (NFVIS), supported VNFs, and the management and orchestration stacks. Particular emphasis is given to the newly announced Enterprise Network Compute System ENCS 5104.

Review of Cisco Virtualizing Network Functions in the Cloud with Tony Banuelos

Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, reviews how the company delivers enterprise networking VNF technologies available on public cloud marketplace platforms like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Learn how the Cisco CSR1000V helps meet the demands of businesses moving core applications to public cloud by delivering enterprise class network services inside the public cloud […]

Cisco’s End-to-End Virtualization Strategy for the Enterprise with Tony Banuelos

Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, gives an overview of Cisco’s virtualization solution strategy to enable businesses to deliver a network platform that is agile, secure and extensible. The end-to-end virtualization solution delivers the ability to provision, change and grow network services based on rapidly changing user demands and needs for internally hosted and […]

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches – A New Era of Networking with Muhammad A Imam

Muhammad A Imam, Senior Manager Technical Marketing at Cisco, introduces the Catalyst 9000 Family and will talk about the common foundational elements and attributes of the C9K family of switches that takes us in the new era of networking. It talks about UADP 2.0 and Open IOS XE as the basis of Cat9K Family. The […]

What Cisco Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Can do for the Network with JP Vasseur

JP Vasseur, PhD, Cisco Fellow, discusses how after 30 years of research and progress in the area of Artificial Intelligence, the number of applications is growing exponentially: self driving cars, recommendation systems, automatic reading, biology. This leads to the discussion of two major Machine Learning based products: a massively distributed architecture to detect 0-day attacks […]

Cisco IOS-XE Evolution with Dave Zacks

Dave Zacks, Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, looks at the IOS-XE Evolution, which has changed from a monolithic OS, to a modularized IOS built on top of Linux. Its latest change is to deliver containerized application along side IOS, and to focus on programmability via APIs.

Cisco Programmable ASICs and The Importance of Flexible Silicon with Dave Zacks

Dave Zacks, Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, discusses why flexibility in networking has never been more important.  The way network engineers design, build, and operate networks is changing rapidly.  Traditional network silicon hardware – the network ASICs that form the heart of networking gear – lack the flexibility to handle the rapidly changing networking needs […]

Cisco DNA Enterprise Network Architectures with Mark Montanez

Mark Montanez, Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco, discusses how enterprise network architectures are being challenged by the rapid adoption of mobile, cloud, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The emergence of Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning is enabling better real-time decision making, and driving the need for automation and efficiencies to enable these […]

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