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.
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.
I recently had a virtual chat with PacketFabric CEO, Dave Ward. If you’re not familiar with PacketFabric, you will be soon. They are quickly becoming an industry mover and shaker in the Network-as-a-Service and next-gen Service Provider (ngSP) space. They’re also a customer of ours, having recently deployed the Cisco 8000 with our new 400G solutions.
Thanks to our continued collaboration with Microsoft and the SONiC community, today we are announcing SONiC/SAI support on our brand-new routing platforms, the Cisco 8000 Series. This represents the first truly integrated approach to supporting SONiC on both fixed and modular routers.
Segment Routing (SRv6) inherits all of SR MPLS capabilities, but simplifies the network by leveraging native IPv6 headers to add network programming capabilities. Discover why SRv6 is getting strong market traction and learn more about what makes SRv6 stand out.
