Cisco ACI Multi Site Deployment Options with Max Ardica

Max Ardica, Principal Engineer at Cisco, reviews the current state of interconnecting ACI networks. Cisco is evolving current options, offering a multi-pod infrastructure within the same networking fabric. This gives the simplicity of offering a single control plane, wherein each pod can run its own protocols, but changes can be pushed out to the whole […]

Digital Building Solutions: Bringing IoT to the Enterprise with Akshay Yadav

Akshay Yadav, Product Manager at Cisco, reviews the company’s Digital Building framework, and how it represents the next generation of how enterprises will build. He reviews the potential the framework provides, the challenges in evolving from more traditional architecture, and the forces in the market driving adoption. Finally, he reviews how the solutions in the […]

Paessler PRTG Demo with Kimberley Trommler

Kimberley Trommler, Senior Technical Evangelist at Paessler, demonstrates their PRTG networking monitoring solution. This utilizes a number of software sensors within the solution to monitor specific aspects of a given device or appliance. Kimberley shows how each sensor has a variety of different metrics called channels, that give a granular look at performance for troubleshooting.

Cisco Contiv Demonstration with ACI with Rohit Agarwalla

Rohit Agarwalla, Senior Technical Lead at Cisco, demonstrates the capabilities and use cases of their Contiv container networking solution. They demonstrate how in a Kubernetes environment you can keep containers isolated, but working in coordination with their policy based tools.

Cisco Contiv Introduction with Kiran Kamity

Kiran Kamity, Senior Director at Cisco, reviews Cisco’s Contiv container networking solution. This isn’t simply a network overlay, Contiv supports L2, L3, overlay and ACI. It’s also 100% open source.

Programmable ASICs for Cisco Catalyst Switches with Muhammad Imam

Muhammad Imam, Senior Manager Technical Marketing at Cisco, reviews the traditional role of fixed function ASICs at Cisco, and how programmability changes this mainstay. In 2013, they debuted the Catalyst 3850 switch, which had programmable pipelines. Muhammad reviews how the UADP ASIC architecture is able to achieve that programmability. Finally, he reviews the most recent […]

Cisco Network as a Sensor and Enforcer with Derek Huckaby

Derek Huckaby, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how Cisco is rolling out a security focused mindset across the Catalyst switch line. They do this by allowing switches to have visibility to incoming traffic, as well as be the enforcement point. This can dynamically be updated by pushing down policy to switches.

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