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Robb Boyd

Producer, Writer, Host

Robb Boyd is the host, writer and producer for Cisco’s globally distributed communication vehicle, TechWiseTV. Robb began his Cisco career in field sales working directly with customers. He became a product specialist for network security and assisted with sales and the channel organization.

Robb’s reputation for simplifying technical concepts and making them accessible to a broader audience soon lead him to become one of the original creators of TechWiseTV in 2006. Now recognized as the most valuable storytelling platform in Cisco history. TechWiseTV and its related programs have expanded into more than 50 global markets earning over 25 industry awards in multiple categories including 2 Emmy Nominations.

Articles

January 22, 2018

TECHWISETV

Cybersecurity on Unscripted

3 min read

I never realized how many IoT devices were in my own home until a little incident prompted me to change the password for our ‘parental’ wireless network.

January 17, 2018

TECHWISETV

Encrypted Traffic Analytics: Explained on TechWiseTV

3 min read

How many security challenges are still considered intractable? How easy does it become to start accepting things as status quo when we really should always be asking some form of 'why not?' I am thankful for the many unknown researchers deep within our company that asking hard questions because sometimes we get great answers. This is one of those rare stories.

July 17, 2017

TECHWISETV

Catalyst 9000 on TechWiseTV

1 min read

Not only is this the biggest single family roll out that Cisco has done in history, it was done to coincide with a completely new model for how enterprise networking should be done.

June 23, 2017

TECHWISETV

What is an Intuitive Network?

3 min read

How well do you understand what Cisco just announced? If you are the slight bit technical or just curious what the reality is behind all the grand talk...check out these shortcut videos from TechWiseTV.

December 12, 2016

TECHWISETV

TechWiseTV dives into Enterprise Service Automation and Easy QoS

3 min read

In this episode, Cisco’s Prakash Rajamani demonstrates how orchestration tools like Enterprise Service Automation (ESA) can bring repeatable, consistent, and scalable processes to your virtualized branch deployment. Later, Ramit Kanda shows a dramatically simple way that ESA can be used to control QoS on your network: from wired to wireless, and through the WAN.

November 29, 2016

TECHWISETV

Cisco and Apple: Understanding the Innovation

3 min read

To fully appreciate what these two industry leaders have accomplished, I thought it would be helpful to pull back the covers a bit, and level set on how things are usually done. This can help highlight where and how these tweaks can improve your own enterprise experience.

November 14, 2016

TECHWISETV

TechWiseTV: Indoor Location Accuracy, a World of Possibility

3 min read

Accurate tracking of people or objects inside of a building is not as easy as it may seem. There are a lot of factors at play...but thankfully, there are also a lot of solutions. Make sure you understand the benefits and the trade-offs, so you can maximize the Opportunity Inside.

November 11, 2016

TECHWISETV

Stealthwatch Learning Network License: The Workshop

4 min read

Get an inside look at how Stealthwatch Learning Network License can transform your branch network router into a powerful security sensor and enforcer: one capable of quickly detecting threat activity and mitigating attacks, with little to no hands-on management needed.

November 3, 2016

TECHWISETV

Integration: The Civilized Approach to Securing Your Branch

3 min read

We demonstrate two different scenarios: An anomaly that turns out to be an FTP file transfer we didn’t expect, and an unusual spike in traffic. In both cases, what blew me away was how easy it was to understand what was truly going on, and how simple it was to take action.

October 28, 2016

TECHWISETV

Tetration Analytics Shines a Light on Your Data Center

3 min read

I was very excited to finally get a chance to cover Tetration, especially when I learned that Cisco IT wanted to weigh-in on their experience with the platform. As you know, IT isn’t prone to blindness by “shiny objects.” They’re interested in solving real problems, and Cisco IT is no different.

August 2, 2016

TECHWISETV

CliQr: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too.

2 min read

The idea of ‘one size fits all’ never worked for me. And it certainly does not work for picking a cloud vendor. CliQr has become Cisco CloudCenter and you will love how easy this is making things.

March 28, 2016

TECHWISETV

Digital Ceiling and the Semiconductor Blues

7 min read

Light-Emitting Diodes (LED’s) create light by sending an electrical signal to a sandwich of semiconductor materials to create electromagnetic radiation that we see as light or ‘Electroluminescence’. It’s actually a specific wavelength of light depending on the chemical make-up of the materials used.

March 22, 2016

TECHWISETV

Oxymoronic or Not? Legacy Next Generation Firewalls…

2 min read

Cisco announced “the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused Next Generation Firewall. “ But what the heck is ‘fully integrated’ and ‘threat focused?’ These sound like important distinctions.

March 14, 2016

TECHWISETV

Are you reaching your Digital Potential?

2 min read

So as to avoid burying the lead, you will get a chance to experience Enterprise Network Function Virtualization (E-NFV), APIC-EM updates and demonstration, the network as a security sensor with a little Lancope update, changes to CMX now in a ‘cloud’ version, and end to end quality control for applications like Jabber…end to end QoS.

March 8, 2016

TECHWISETV

Enterprise NFV Fundamentals

3 min read

Enterprise NFV is focused on bringing this SDN style functionality to your branch office capabilities. Any large enterprise is thinking like a service provider these days because the IT department (or whatever you might call it now) are providing business critical functions. The faster it can be done, the more it can be used and at the lowest cost..the better.

February 25, 2016

TECHWISETV

Let there be “Networked” Light

3 min read

How the Digital Age has us re-thinking the victor of the AC/DC wars.

February 20, 2016

TECHWISETV

Why do we need NBASE-T?

2 min read

How well do you understand the data bottleneck that NBASE-T Alliance is helping us solve? What are the cost effective options for preserving your cable investment? Robb Boyd explains in this latest, ‘Fundamentals of NBASE-T’ from TechWiseTV.

January 5, 2016

TECHWISETV

Network like it’s 1999 with BGP EVPN

4 min read

BGP EVPN brings both layer 2 and 3 capabilities to the hamstrung overlay but how would it work for your network? How well do you understand the additional benefits and limitations of this design?