Cisco 5G Packet and RAN Transport Architecture

The session covers the new transport requirements for 5G (latency, bandwidth, scale, flexible service placement, MEC), Cisco proposed solution converged SDN transport to address those requirements, cloud-agnostic networking to host infra on public clouds, network slicing, and automation through Cisco Crosswork platform.

Arista’s Service Provider Opportunity

Introduction of Arista’s cloud networking approach and how it is addressing Service Provider transitions. Anshul describes how Arista’s foundation in spine / leaf network designs for the cloud data centers transitioned into the WAN interconnect roles for Arista’s ethernet switches. With the demand for high speed ethernet in the WAN, Arista’s ‘switches’ were pulled into […]

Arista Infrastructure-as-Code for Carrier Networking

Rich discusses the landscape for automating network operations in a service provider environment using software-driven control techniques. Topics include OpenConfig/NetCONFIG/YANG, state-streaming / gRPC, declarative provisioning, and workflow / service automation, and Carl explains Arista’s extensible automation framework and demonstrates a particular use-case for service provisioning using one of Arista’s Ansible Collection integration solutions.

Simplifying the Network Edge and Core with Arista

Alex covers the routing use cases that Arista focuses on, including Provider Edge, Metro Edge, and Backbone Transport use-cases. The session focused on how Arista helps to simplify Service Provider networks using the modern, open protocols and a scale-out architectural approach to network design. A discussion of how EVPN and Segment routing provides a consolidated […]

Arista Merchant Silicon for Service Providers

Hugh provides an in-depth look at how merchant silicon hardware-platforms meet modern routing use-case needs, giving customers best-of-breed solutions with time-to-market and economies of scale benefits. Arista’s platform portfolio is based on a variety of merchant silicon architectures, all with a common EOS software approach for operational consistency. Hugh takes us through the basic principles […]

Arista Cloud Grade Routing Overview

While Arista doesn’t build legacy ‘routers’, Arista very much does provide modern ‘routing’ for cloud, service provider, and enterprise use-cases. Shyam discusses Cloud Grade Routing and Arista’s software-first approach to Internet routing, aligning with the modern internet transitions to support over-the-top video, mobile/5G, provider edge, AI-driven compute, and edge compute deployments. Arista has pioneered application […]

Cisco 8000 Series Portfolio Update

Cisco 8000 is the newest addition to the Cisco’s Service Provider Routing portfolio and is the fastest growing routing platform in the industry. This session provides a high-level overview of the Cisco 8000 series routers and you’ll see the entire Cisco 8000 series portfolio and its differentiated value proposition.

Cisco Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Case Studies for Service Provider and Data Center Network

In the presentation by Jiri Chaloupka, a deep dive into Cisco’s Ethernet VPN (EVPN) over IOS XR portfolio was provided, emphasizing the ongoing investment in service overlays. Chaloupka outlined the evolution of network underlays and overlays, highlighting the transition from traditional MPLS and IP-based underlays in service provider and data center networks to more unified […]

Cisco Secure Zero-Touch with IOS XR: Seamless Trust Enabled on Day Zero

This session does a deep dive into the RFC-8572 compliant Secure ZTP implementation on IOS-XR. Cisco showcases how this allows Cisco Service-Provider platforms to enable standards-based, end-to-end secure workflows on Day 0 of network deployment, for the first time in the industry.

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