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June 24, 2017 2 Comments
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Collaboration at #CLUS: Get Ready to Fly Like a Superhero!

Some call it summer camp for nerds. Some call it the world’s biggest annual gathering of Cisco technical experts. The official name is Cisco Live. Whatever it is, an analyst recently predicted that the collective attendance will increase baseline average of technical acumen among Las Vegas hotel guests by at least 37% during this week. (I’d footnote that analyst, but she was actually a sidewalk psychic and doesn’t have a website. But based on what I know about this event, I think she’s pretty accurate.)

Nevertheless, there’s a whole lot of technical knowledge flying into this city – and with all the education sessions, certification testing, and general information sharing – there will be even more leaving at the end of the week. The whole show has a superhero theme. If you weren’t one when you landed here, you’ll be one by the time you leave.

Registration started today, more activities get going tomorrow, and the official deal kicks off on Monday with the opening keynote and session agenda.

What’s up for the collaboration fans among the badge-wearing masses? Plenty! Education sessions, innovation talks from execs, demos in World of Solutions, an entire village of partners, testing for certifications… Like I said, plenty.

Get a comprehensive overview of collaboration sessions and events,
plus links to sessions by subtopic.

Not making the trek to Las Vegas? That’s OK
Not everyone can spend a week away from work and home to travel here. And not everyone wants to hear the pilot announce that the temperature is 108 degrees when you arrive at the airport.

  1. Keep up with us on social media:
    • @CiscoCollab will provide highlights, session reminders, and some cool video action.
    • @ciscokima (that’s me!) will be live tweeting all sorts of keynotes, innovation sessions, and events throughout the week
  2. Tune in online: Webcasts and broadcasts are free to attend! Check out the full broadcast agenda.
  3. Watch this space: I’ll post daily wrap-ups with the day’s highlights and amusements.

Don’t miss Collaboration Innovation Talks
Make sure you put the talks from Collaboration execs Jens Meggers and Jonathan Rosenberg on your schedules. Both are presenting in the Innovation Showcase Theater during the week. I’ll be there, probably even in the front row.

Fear not! Both sessions are part of the live broadcast schedule.
To view, visit ciscolive.com/online at the scheduled session times.

Monday, June 26th at 5:30p PT
The 90s Called…They Want Their Workplace Back: How to Create a New Work Paradigm
Jens Meggers, SVP and GM for the Cloud Collaboration Technology Group
Tired of slogging through 100s of emails and hours of meetings every day? We all are! Microsoft Outlook was innovative when launched in 1997. Sadly, most enterprise employees still use it as their primary communication tool. Modern workplaces need modern tools that allow people to work naturally, easily, and on the go: global, mobile, video-first. Innovative collaboration tools can transform the way your employees work. We’ll show you how Cisco Spark has increased productivity, communication, and employee satisfaction with real use cases — all in a secure, compliant IT environment. (Session ID: INSCOL-1004)

Thursday, Jun 29, 12:00 p.m. PT
Worried About Putting Your Data into the Cloud? Good, You Should Be
Jonathan Rosenberg, VP/CTO of Collaboration, Cisco
Moving workloads to the cloud has tremendous benefit, but it’s not without risk. Putting your confidential data into the cloud means you trust the vendor to keep it safe for you. Safe not just while at rest in their cloud, but also as it moves within the cloud and to clients. The entire industry is boasting encryption at rest and in-transit and data privacy, but what does this all really mean? Understanding the technology behind these terms ensures that you select vendors that use innovative cloud security methods to provide end-to-end data security while retaining the features that make cloud solutions so valuable. (Session ID: INSCOL-1016)

Amusement for the day
Kudos to our flight attendant for keeping us entertained. Just one example: “If you’ve brought any chocolate on board, please remove it from your carry-on and pass it to the middle aisle. The flight attendants will happily take it from you.”

New case study: Capital Factory
While you’re ready for the big show to get started, whet your appetite for collaboration with a new case study from Capital Factory in Austin, Texas.

https://youtu.be/RCnWBAXSXhA

 

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Kim Austin

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Securing Your Data in the Transformation to Digital

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a joint webinar between Cisco and Global Knowledge Canada to discuss Cisco’s latest cybersecurity industry research, the security challenges organizations face today, and how organizations can mitigate risks. After a detailed conversation with Brad Haynes, Cisco product specialist at Global Knowledge Canada, here are my top three takeaways.

The Rise of Cyber Attacks

As organizations go through digital business transformation, attack surfaces are increasing and major security breaches continue. In the past few years alone, the frequency and size of security breaches has forced organizations to increase their security budgets in order to simply retain customers. These “just in case” funds are more formally known as incident response retainers. By 2020, leading analyst organization IDC predicts that 80% of enterprises will have incident response retainers in order to combat potential security breaches.

Businesses Struggling to Keep Pace

Businesses and IT security professionals must focus on their most important goal: protecting their data. But few businesses are actually keeping pace with the rapid advancements of cyber attackers. In 2014, 64% of businesses reported that their security infrastructure was up to date; in 2015, that number decreased to 59%. Cisco’s 2016 Annual Security Report determined that only 45% of businesses feel confident in their ability to measure the scope of an attack and remediate the damage. These figures present compelling evidence that organizations not only need incident detection and response plans in place but also individuals with the right skills to implement new infrastructure and monitoring systems.

The Need for Talent

In the marketplace today, there is a need for a new breed of security professional. In fact, companies rate shortage of IT staff and skills as a major challenge when it comes to security. According to Forrester’s The State of Network Security, 56% see staffing challenges as a barrier to enabling more secure systems. In response to this overwhelming need for security skills, Cisco created the Cisco Global Cybersecurity Scholarship, and we’re currently investing $10 million in a two-year scholarship program to increase the pool of talent with critical cybersecurity proficiency. Through the scholarship program, Cisco offers free training, mentoring, and testing designed to help you earn Cisco Certified Network Associate Cyber Ops certification and hone the skills needed for the job role of security operations center analyst.

To learn more about how Learning@Cisco is addressing the need for updated security skills, visit http://cs.co/90058mYD7. To listen to the full “Defend Your Data” webinar, visit http://cs.co/90038mQxc.

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Tejas R Vashi

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Learning@Cisco, Cisco Services

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Get Ready to Enter the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live

If you already have a visit to the DevNet Zone on your Cisco Live agenda, you can stop reading now.  If not…you need to put it on your calendar now.

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The range of learning, coding, connecting, and inspiring activities and sessions at this year’s Cisco Live is greater than ever! More learning labs, more hands-on workshops, more solution demos, more mini-hacks, more 4:30 beer parties!  Heck, there’s even an Escape Room challenge to put your API skills to the test!  If you’re into network programming, Cloud collaboration, IoT application development, or DevOps … it’s simply the place you need to be.

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The full DevNet Zone schedule gives you everything you need to know about what’s happening in the DevNet Zone and when. It gives you a glossary of the APIs and tools you’ll be able to learn about and get hands-on with. And you’ll find a listing of all the self-paced, no-reservation-required Learning Labs you can complete on-site – with experts there to help if you need it. We’ll have learning labs there for you across all of DevNet’s technology areas including:

  • Network programming
  • Software coding
  • Security
  • Cloud
  • Collaboration
  • Data center
  • Mobility
  • Analytics & Automation
  • Virtual development & testing

Here’s a quick skip across the surface of some of the DevNet Zone sessions and activities. Follow the links to learn more, and then get it on your calendar to come to the DevNet Zone for a deeper dive.

Innovation Showcase Keynote – “Innovation: The Rise of the Network-Powered Developer”

Monday at 6:00pm, join me to hear about some exciting innovations with Cisco APIs, and introduce you to the art of what’s possible where infrastructure meets apps.  I’ll be joined on stage by a special guest from Apple.

Inspirational Panels – More than inspiration, these expert panels give you a window into where technology and industry leaders see us heading. Come meet them in person, and ask your questions.

  • Monday at 1:00pm – Strategies for Delivering Efficient & Data-Aware IoT Applications Panel Discussion
  • Monday at 4:00pm – The Opportunity Project: Expanding Economic Opportunity Through Open Data
  • Tuesday at 1:00pm – Applying Design Thinking to Building Products in Cisco
  • Tuesday at 5:00pm – Cisco CTOs Discuss APIs and the future of IoT, Networking, Security, Cloud, and Collaboration
  • Wednesday at 1:00pm – Cisco Partners & DevOps – Hear our partner expert panel discuss how DevOps methodologies work in the world of networking, and how and why you may consider building a DevOps practice.

Mini-Hacks: Try one of our mini-hacks where we give you a problem to solve and you code away! Create an iOS app with QoS tags (Fast lane Validation), hack with Meraki APIs and Spark Bots.

Enter the Meraki Challenge to win a Meraki Developer Kit!  Complete all 3 Meraki Mini-Hacks or all 4 Meraki Learning Labs and you’ll be entered to win, full details onsite!

DevNet Escape Room:  Grab a few friends and use your API skills to code your way out! Complete 3 challenges in 15 minutes and the fastest time of the day wins big!

Women in Tech event:  Sunday, from 8:00 – 11:00am, The Cisco DevNet Women in Tech community is bringing a hands-on coding workshop using Cisco DevIoT and DIY electronics Arduino kit. Bring your own laptop. Arduino Kits and other supplies will be provided.

DevNet Express Cisco Chat

The two DevNet Express Events being held at Cisco Live are SOLD OUT.  However, we will be hosting a #CiscoChat on Facebook.com/ciscodevnet.  Live video from Las Vegas! After the live video ends, the recordings will be available on Facebook. You’ll find details are in Hank Preston’s blog.

The two DevNet Express events are:
DevNet Express: Data Center Infrastructure is for Data Center Infrastructure Engineers working with compute, network and storage, Architects and Software Systems Integrators plus Operations and Networking teams with an interest in infrastructure programmability, configuration, automation and provisioning.

DevNet Express: Cloud Collaboration is for IT professionals who want to learn about developing with Cisco Spark collaboration API. You’ll listen and learn from trainers, get hands-on with the technology, to complete some interactive Missions (with proctors to help you) and get rewarded for your hard work.

These events have taken off in popularity, so please visit our DevNet Express events page to find a future event, perhaps coming to a city near you!

I’m out of breath just thinking about all that DevNet is serving up for you in the DevNet Zone.  But now Cisco Live is here!  Yeah!  Do come by and “develop” with us.  I can’t wait to see you there and do take a #SelfieWithSusie.

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Threat Round-up for June 16 – June 23

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between June 16 and June 23. As with previous round-ups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics, indicators of compromise, and how our customers are automatically protected from these threats.

As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive and current as of date of publication. Detection and coverage for the following threats is subject to updates pending additional threat or vulnerability analysis. For the most current information, please refer to your FireSIGHT Management Center, Snort.org, or ClamAV.net.
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Talos Security Intelligence & Research Group

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Staging and Setup for Cisco Live 17

The average IT refresh cycle for access layer switches is typically anywhere between 5 to 8 years. This means the typical engineer configures a switch once, and then, other than minor changes, doesn’t have to reconfigure that switch again for a long time. The rollout process also tends to be staggered over time and location, with the typical rollout going building by building or floor by floor.

If you are with me so far, you can imagine my shock when I first took on the role of leading the NOC team at Cisco Live and learned that not only do I need to configure 500+ switches but I need to do so in about 3 months with the bulk of the requirements coming in about 3 weeks out. To make matters worse most of these were not brand new out-of-the-box switches. I was faced with the uphill task of wiping 500 switches, loading code on them and configuring them to be consistent and stable.

Fortunately, the range of products available to me made this enormous task relatively straightforward.

STAGING SETUP
We started off by building racks that we used to stage 3560cx switches. Each rack can hold 42 switches. We broke up each rack logically as bins and slots to make it easier to manage. As you can see below each rack has 3 bins and each bin has 14 slots.

Staging Racks loaded with Switches

Each slot has power, Ethernet and a console connection. Power is connected to a network controlled PDU so each slot can be turned off and on individually. Console cable connects to a terminal server that has a menu created that lists which line connects to which slot. Ethernet all runs back to a 3850 to provide network connectivity (and POE if APs are being staged). The 3850 uplinks to the network.

APs in the staging rack after hours

 

Terminal Server Menu

Now that we have all the logistics and setup are taken care of we can start the staging process.

PRE-STAGING CONFIG
As we load up the switches in a slot we scan the serial and the mac into a spreadsheet and use some formula magic to convert the base mac address to the address that will be used for the VLAN SVI of our switch mgmt. VLAN. The mac address is then used to create a reservation in Cisco Prime Network Registrar for DHCP.

This way, when the switch boots up and gets a DHCP address, it will be the same address that we will end up using for the show via static assignment. This helps us in two ways, one the address doesn’t change during the staging process so there’s no disruption to the process and two we see the same IP-SERIAL-MAC combo everywhere in the network, start to finish.

The scope on the DHCP server serving the switches had option 43 configured to point to APIC-EM

Switch staging
We used APIC-EM and its PNP features to stage all our switches this year. APIC-EM supports template variables which is what we used to configure a unique hostname and IP address for each switch.  You remember all those serials we scanned before? We used that csv to bulk upload the switch info to APIC-EM and into a project. This time around we did not get an opportunity to use APIC-EMs rich API capabilities to program a project but, are definitely looking to do so in the future.

APIC-EM CiscoLive PNP Projects

Once the switch info is in APIC-EM, we are ready to begin staging. On the uplink switch we added the PNP startup VLAN command to ensure the switch gets an IP in the right VLAN and can talk to APIC-EM. At this point, all we had to do is power on the switch. The switch would then boot up, grab a DHCP IP, connect to APIC-EM, download code, reboot and then download config. That’s it! We’re done.

Using APIC-EM we staged 3560CX switches, 3850-24XU switches and 3850-24XU stack switches. We had almost a 100% success rate. The few failures we had was because of code dependencies on the switch which is easily fixed by manually adding the PNP commands via console. A lot of these switches were provisioned over lunch, on the weekend at home and yes, even over a few beers while watching TV. That’s the beauty of this setup, it beats the alternative and ensures consistency on all the switches. Honestly, I don’t think I could ever go back to the old way of copy paste or USB.

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A Steady Drumbeat for Simple, Open and Automated

I continue to beat the drum for solutions that are simple, open, and automated because it’s something I’m passionate about and Cisco Security is deeply committed to. It’s the clear path forward to security as a force multiplier – helping you to improve your security posture with your existing resources.

In March, I gave a quick update on the latest advances we had made and the beat goes on. Here are just a few highlights from the last three months.

Our latest version of Cisco Stealthwatch makes it simpler and faster to act on security events that matter most to your organization, greatly enhancing visibility with new capabilities and integrations we recently announced. These include:

  • A new “at-a-glance” list of alarms – automatically categorized by severity – to accelerate incident response.
  • Extended integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) through pxGrid for both telemetry identity and remediation. It provides an open, automated way to get more information about the identity behind an alert – the user, device, and security posture – and rapidly contain threats.
  • New documentation and reporting increases visibility across security events and traffic flows for better correlation into the source and destination of malicious activity.

Since unveiling Threat Intelligence Director, we’ve been contacted by dozens of threat intelligence and TIP providers eager to become part of our partner ecosystem and our open approach to operationalizing threat intelligence with Cisco Firepower. These new partnerships we’re forging will help you maximize the return on your investments in threat intelligence and increase security effectiveness. Our goal is to continue to make it simple to leverage threat intelligence across Cisco’s security portfolio, no matter the source of that intelligence.

Cisco is the longtime leader in boosting security through network access control and simplifying it through group policy. We’re proud to be at the forefront of this movement that is making it increasingly simple for you to deploy and manage policy, notably access control policy, in a consistent and automated way across cloud infrastructure and services. Other technology vendors and services providers have jumped on the bandwagon and group policy is becoming a common way to handle access control policy across public and private cloud domains. We’re excited to see this approach embraced and we will continue to spearhead advancements that allow you to build policy that works end-to-end across the infrastructure and services your business counts on.

These are just a few of the many ways we continue to innovate through technology and partnerships to deliver effective security that is simple, open, and automated. Can you hear the drumbeat?

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Insider’s Guide to the (First-Ever) CLUS Partner Days

Chances are if you’re attending this year’s Cisco Live in Las Vegas, you’re probably not new to the event. With more than 37,000 attending the four global Cisco Live events held each year, it’s the largest event we host. Although attendees always come for the in depth-training, live demos and networking, this year there is so much more to come for. You’ve likely seen the buzz around our recent announcement, so we clearly have some exciting updates to talk about.

Why it’s worth it…

Partner Days is a brand new program at Cisco Live US, designed just for our partners. Five tailored breakouts and an inspiring keynote will go in-depth about key technologies, sales strategies and give you access to exclusive training, demos and networking events. Wendy Bahr, SVP, Global Partner Organization, kicks off the week with what you can do to capture the digital opportunity. The custom sessions continue deep dives focusing on Digital Network Architecture, Next-Gen Cloud and Data Center, Sales Multiplier, Security and the Future of the Systems Engineer. Take a look at the full agenda and add sessions to your schedule (don’t forget the opening keynote from CEO Chuck Robbins).

As our thank you, enjoy free professional headshots outside our Partner Days room, in Oceanside A. Then, come help us celebrate and appreciate all of our partners at the VIP Partner Lounge during the customer appreciation event on Wednesday night.

No two attendees have the same experience

These three action-packed Partner Days are about you, so we want to see how you experience Cisco Live and the new Partner Days program. Connect with us by following @CiscoPartners on Twitter, where you can share:

  • your thoughts and questions about all the Partner Days sessions
  • inspiring quotes or valuable insights from our speakers
  • the coolest thing you saw from the World of Solutions (there will be a lot!)
  • Breaking Bad references during the Bryan Cranston keynote
  • the perfect selfie or maybe even a picture of your step counter to show off how active you’ve been (I’m making these up now)

…You get it, literally anything you want, that’s the whole idea.

What about the folks who won’t be attending in-person?

I’m glad you asked. We want to engage all of our partners, even those who can’t be with us in Las Vegas. You can absolutely ask your questions on Twitter, but even better than giving a 140 character response, we’ll be broadcasting Facebook Live interviews with Cisco executives throughout the Partner Days program:

  • Monday, 9:15am PT – Nirav Sheth, VP, Partner Solutions, Architectures & Engineering
  • Tuesday, 9:15am PT – Michelle Chiantera, VP, Global Partner Marketing
  • Wednesday, 9:15am PT – Wendy Bahr, SVP, Global Partner Organization

You’ll have the opportunity to hear more from these speakers and have your questions answered live. ‘Like’ Cisco Partners on Facebook and tune in, whether you’re in Vegas or at your home office. For the first time ever, we’ll be live streaming the CLUS opening keynote by Chuck Robbins on the Cisco home page, as well as the Cisco Facebook page. You can also tune in to more Facebook Live broadcasts each of these days at 3:30pm PT where we’ll be joined by some Partner Days attendees.

If you’re not the most socially savvy, there’s truly never been a better time to get started. There are humans on the other side of these social accounts – like myself – and we look forward to connecting with you, live from the middle of the action in Las Vegas. Be sure to use the hashtags #CLPartnerDays and #CLUS in all your tweets, that way you can track and join the conversation with your peers.

We’ll see you there or online!

 

 

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Matthew Ingram

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Apple and Cisco Partnership Continues to Deliver Great User Experiences for Mobile Users

In the previous blog we shared how the first round of innovations coming from the Apple and Cisco partnership enabled enterprise Wi-Fi users to be more productive as they move within the environment as well as enabled IT to prioritize business-critical applications over the air, something that hasn’t been done before. In this blog we will share how in this second round of Networking Innovations we take the guesswork out of Network Analytics and Assurance.

Here is what we are announcing now:

  1. We have had customers telling us that they love the ability to prioritize business critical apps on iOS. They have asked us to extend that to macOS, and we have delivered. Starting this fall, customers can prioritize their mission-critical apps on Mac computers, too.
  2. Wi-Fi Analytics: Imagine every time an iPhone or iPad associates or roams on your network, it informs the associated Access Point about the BSSIDs and signal strength, the Access Points it sees around itself and why it disassociated or roamed. And instead of relying on MDM, or your network needing to guess which device is connected to it based upon traffic from the device, your iOS device will identify itself with its specific model and iOS version, e.g. iPhone 7 running iOS 11 beta.

Now imagine an analytics engine utilizing machine learning to deliver insights on network behavior and events. This is going to transform the way that you diagnose and troubleshoot any mobility issues, as well as deliver an enhanced experience for your users. This will all coming later this fall, enhanced experience, powered by intelligence.

 We are in this for the long run, and are seeing results in deployments:

  • New apps optimized for the fast lane are being introduced into the App Store every month. From healthcare and hospitality apps to collaboration apps such as Cisco Spark and Cisco WebEx.
  • We are using it ourselves –in our United Kingdom Cisco office, test have showed 83% lower quality issues with collaboration apps. Our customers in healthcare, enterprise, and retail environments are also deploying this innovation.
  • More developers are joining DevNet to validate their iOS apps for fast lane. Read Susie Wee’s blog to learn how
  • To quote Dennis Holmes, the Director of Mobility and Infrastructure Solutions at Internetwork Engineering who has supervised deployments of this technology at multiple customers,

“Fast lane innovation is a must for any company focused on transformation through digitization”.

How do I learn more ?

Join us at CiscoLive! for more details or reach out to your local sales team to understand how Apple and Cisco can fast-track your workplace.

 

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Jeevan Patil

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What is an Intuitive Network?

It can be easy to get lost in all the superlatives of these recent announcements…they can border on hyperbole.  It is important to remember that much of the recent Intuitive Network, New Era of Networking announcement is purposefully taking the long view.  DO NOT miss the fact that there is a lot of very real technology being announced and you can start playing with most of it immediately.

I love what has been accomplished here and I really excited about what we can do with it now and in the future. We created five whole TechWiseTV episodes to breakdown what you can do right now.  I know that these will help you understand what is happening in a much clearer fashion because we worked with the engineers who have been heads down on this stuff over the last few years.

These were done with a specific order in mind…not required but can be helpful…especially if you get distracted once in awhile and have to come back and forth to get through them all.

If you were to only watch one show about these announcements…I recommend ‘Introduction to Software Defined Access.’

This will set you up well to see how we are able to move towards Intent Based Networking.  In a nutshell, it reminds me of the old maxim: Begin with the End in Mind. For your network, this would be the allure of being able to state your policy requirements in plain english.

You will learn from both Carl Solder and Shawn Wargo.  Veterans of both Cisco and TechWiseTV.  We share the specific network issues that have plagued us all for so many years you may have assumed they would never go away: user mobility, segmentation for both users and devices, insights into all activity, policy consistency and the ability to easily spin up new services.

You will also see how DNA Center has become the easy to use, central console for interaction and control of design, provisioning, policy and assurance.

To be clear, start with: ‘Introduction to Software Defined Access.’

What to watch next?

Watch in or out of order…but just watch.

 

In the ‘not quite a flow chart’ above, you can see that there are two different paths to take as far as what to watch next.  If the SD-Access talk got you excited, stay with it as we take the same engineers through a deeper look at the technologies that make up the network fabric:

  • Control Plane based on LISP
  • Data Plane based on VXLAN
  • Policy Plane based on TrustSec

Sound interesting?  Then watch ‘A Deeper Look at Software Defined Access’

The other huge topic however would be this new family of switches with the Catalyst 9000. This is the biggest all in one release of a new switch hardware we have ever done.   As great as these are…you don’t have to get them to take advantage of this New Era of Networking.  But I highly recommend it!   Watch “Catalyst 9000 Series: Programmability and Software Defined Access“.   (this is the one where we look closely through the hardware)

Now there are just two shows left to choose from on our journey through the big announcements.

  1. You can get more into the new software available with “Catalyst 9000 Series and Open IOS-XE: The New Era of Programmability.” There is a whole new foundation of software now laid out for this switch family that actually speaks volumes as to how we are making it easier to roll out new versions on the future.  Programmability and access to internal functions are key for automation and your attempts to work this hardware into your existing workflows…you will enjoy learning how much more you can do.
  2. The UADP ASIC has been with us for awhile and the stuff I have learned from Peter Jones and Dave Zacks has had me itching to cover this for awhile.  That time has finally come and it coincided with the release of the UADP 2.0 ASIC that can be found in this new Catalyst series.   The big questions we go after in this one:  do you have any idea how hard these things are to make?  It takes forever…and it costs a ton!  We do get a lot more specific….but make make sure you know just how ground breaking and valuable our investments into programmable silicon have become. Watch “Programmable ASICS: Flexibility at Wire Speed“

Let me know if you get to watch through some or all of these.  What did you like?  What could we have done better?  Do you agree there is real and valuable progress being made?

Let me know in the comments below or send me a tweet: @robbboyd

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