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Dr. Sebastian Jeuk

Lead Test Architect

Solution Validation Services, CX

Sebastian is a Lead Test Architect at the Solution Validation Services Group in CX. After his master’s in Internet Engineering at University College London (UCL), Sebastian joined Cisco in the UK as part of the enhanced Customer Aligned Testing Services (eCATS) Team in Advanced Services. Responsible for Data Center test engagements, he executed large customer-related Proof of Concepts and design validations. After moving to the US, Sebastian worked in different teams, continuing his work in validating larger customer deployments. He currently lives in Munich, Germany, where he is the technical lead for the SVS Public Sector Lab in Berlin. Sebastian holds a PhD in Cloud Computing from UCL and has more than 50 patents in a variety of technology areas. His interests focus on data center technologies, cloud computing, and related architectures. In his free time, he has a passion for Judo, in which he holds a black belt. He is also an avid photographer.

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October 9, 2025

CISCO CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

SVS Engineers: Who are the people that test-drive your network?

3 min read

Cisco Solution Validation Services (SVS) engineers design tailored test blueprints, validate complex network deployments in labs, and deliver future-proof, reliable solutions.

July 17, 2025

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CISCO CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Solution Validation Services Matter More Than Ever Before

4 min read

Cisco Solution Validation Services (SVS) are a critical component of the solution lifecycle. See the difference validation can make—not just in preventing costly failures like misconfigured security policies, incompatible integrations, or performance bottlenecks under load, but in delivering true operational confidence.

February 18, 2016

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CLOUD

OpenStack ASR1000 Plugin: New Features

2 min read

In my previous February 2015 blog post, I reviewed a new plugin for the OpenStack Neutron service plugin environment enabling customers to leverage the hardware platform ASR 1000. At that point the plugin was based on the Icehouse OpenStack version with limited feature support. Over the last several months we have been continuing the work on later OpenStack […]

February 23, 2015

DATA CENTER

Scaling OpenStack L3 using Cisco ASR1K platform

2 min read

Cisco has developed a plug-in to integrate the ASR 1000 Series Router (ASR1K) into OpenStack to offload L3 capabilities on to dedicated routing hardware.  The plug-in was demonstrated at Cisco Live in a Proof-of-Concept environment. We are planning demos of a Cloud solution based on the ASR1k plug-in at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. The plug-in […]

January 9, 2015

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DATA CENTER

Investigating OpenStacks Multicast capabilities (Part 1 of 3)

4 min read

This is my first blog post within the Data Center and Cloud technology area. I recently joined the Openstack@Cisco team under Lew Tucker focusing on advanced OpenStack System research as a Cloud Architect. As part of this role I performed a gap analysis on the functionality (or the lack thereof) of multicast within an OpenStack […]