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Kevin Wollenweber

Senior Vice President / General Manager

Cisco Data Center and Internet Infrastructure

Kevin Wollenweber is Cisco's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Center and Internet Infrastructure. In this role, he leads product strategy to enhance Cisco's infrastructure solutions for the data center, high-performance routing, and mobile networks. His leadership is pivotal in driving growth and developing cutting-edge solutions to meet the dynamic needs of businesses worldwide. Kevin began his career at Cisco as an intern in routing engineering. His tenure which spans almost thirty years, reflects his commitment and extensive expertise in technology and leadership. His customer-first approach has informed his collaborations with the world's largest webscalers, enterprises, and communication service providers as they transform their network infrastructures. Kevin and his team have developed some of the industry's most innovative products and solutions, empowering customers to tackle business challenges head-on. One example being the integration of Cisco Silicon One into platforms to address the hyperscaler market. This vision has enabled hyperscalers to build robust, efficient, and scalable networks for cloud and AI services. Kevin's dedication to enhancing the customer experience extends beyond product development. His strategic vision has influenced Cisco's organic and inorganic investments across silicon, software, systems, operations, and optics portfolios. Kevin has a bachelor's and master's in computer engineering from Santa Clara University and held a Routing and Switching CCIE.

Articles

Catching the Next Wave of Innovation in Routing and Automation

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This blog covers our perspective on the trends driving transformation, how we are addressing those with our customers, and how we are preparing for the even newer inflection points we see on the horizon.

December 16, 2021

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Multi-Vendor Automation: The Song Remains the Same

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People in the industry are coming around to something we’ve recognized and invested in for a few years now: any viable automation strategy needs to span vendors and technology domains. Networks are heterogeneous by nature, and for automation tools to accommodate that, the entire process needs to be automated, not just part of it. You need end-to-end insights instead of patchy islands of visibility.

November 12, 2021

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Cisco and SONiC

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On November 9th and 10th, we had the opportunity to showcase our commitment at the 2021 Open Compute Project Global Summit with a demo scaling a next generation data center with SONiC VXLAN on the Cisco 8000 for customers wanting a fully integrated system with the silicon, platform, and IOS-XR from Cisco, or wants to run SONiC on Cisco hardware (Cisco 8000), or wants a Silicon only offering.

October 26, 2021

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Cisco and IBM Commit to Seamless Automation for 5G Networks

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Together with IBM, we have integrated our products to enable the orchestration and management of 5G networks together with the underlying optical and IP transport networks in a single framework and solution, driven from any cloud.

September 2, 2021

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Together, Colt and Cisco are Defining the Future of Segment Routing

2 min read

Cisco and Colt partner up to drive Segment Routing innovation especially in SR-ODN, automation via Crosswork and EVPN services.

NCS 500, Your Access Done Right

4 min read

To assist communication service providers with the evolution to the next-gen access and aggregation networks, we are excited to announce a few key additions to the NCS 500 portfolio.

Welcoming the Next Generation of NCS 5500 Systems

6 min read

The NCS 5500 platform has become the go-to peering and aggregation device—down to the access layer—deployed for everything from mobile backhaul to wireline to cable network aggregation. New additions to the Cisco Converged SDN Transport architecture will help communication service providers to deliver new connected experiences quickly and at a massive scale.

Expanding the Cisco 8000 Router Series

4 min read

One year ago, we announced the Cisco 8000 Series routers, combining the revolutionary Cisco Silicon One chipset and Cisco IOS XR, to deliver a breakthrough in high-performance routers. Discover how we expanded the Cisco 8000 Series routers over the past year.