Cisco Champion Radio

Businesses need a way to manage and grow branch networks in a faster, simpler, and more flexible manner. With advancements in 5G cellular, fixed wireless access (FWA) is now a choice method for primary network WAN access.

In this episode, Cisco Champions and experts will talk about Cisco Meraki's recently announced first-ever 5G cellular gateways – the MG51 and MG51E – and how Meraki cloud-managed 5G FWA helps business – from retail and food services to financial services and healthcare – scale robust, always-on 5G connected experiences anywhere.

Try Meraki 5G FWA for free: meraki.cisco.com/form/trial/

Learn more about Meraki cloud-managed 5G FWA:

meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless-wan/

Learn more about the MG51: meraki.cisco.com/product/cellular…ed-antenna/mg51/

Learn more about the MG51E: meraki.cisco.com/product/cellular…l-antenna/mg51e/

See MG51 and MG51E in the press: newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en…s-internet.html

Learn ways businesses can create new customer experiences with Meraki cloud-managed 5G FWA: meraki.cisco.com/blog/2023/02/sim…re-connectivity/

Cisco Champion Hosts

Marc Luescher, (twitter.com/LuescherMarc) Fresenius Medical Care, Network/ Email Security Architect

Jian Zou, PKA Technologies, Principal Network Architect

Dan Kelcher (twitter.com/ipswitch), IP Fabric, Solutions Architect

Guests

Pratik Desai,Cisco Meraki, Product Marketing Manager

Unni Ambat Rajagopalan, Cisco Meraki, Technical Marketing Engineering Technical Leader

Shankarnarayan Dharmarajan, Cisco Meraki, Product Management

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Troubleshooting can be daunting; automating can be hard; and managing a network can be difficult. Experience a new way of addressing your equipment, boosting your Cisco Services and expanding your capabilities with RADKit—a network-wide orchestrator.

In this episode, Cisco Champions uncover what you want to know about RADKit, a Software Development Kit (SDK) with a set of ready-to-use tools and Python modules which enables efficient and scalable interactions with local or remote equipment.

Resources

radkit.cisco.com/#About

Cisco Champion Hosts

Alfred Thyri (twitter.com/phred_at) Axians ICT Austria, Sr. Systems Engineer

Liam Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect

Richard Atkin (twitter.com/ukricha), ITGL, Solution Architect

Guests

Frederic Detienne, Cisco, Distinguished Engineer, CX GC TAC

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Transform your network with a secure foundation that unlocks the power of automation, simplicity, and network insights to meet the demands of the future workplace.

In this podcast, Cisco Champions and Cisco experts discuss the ever-increasing bandwidth needs being driven by the rapid transition to more and more cloud services and next-generation Wi-Fi technology. We will highlight how the newest offering in the Catalyst 9500 Series—the high density 10/25G/50G C9500X-60L4D model with 400G uplinks—helps network operators take the next steps to meet the demand now and in the future.

Learn more

www.cisco.com/site/us/en/product…witches/index.html

Cisco Champion Hosts

Len Ledford, Cerium Networks, Technical Solutions Architect

Pat Allen (twitter.com/layer8packet), Customers Bank, Sr. Network Engineer

Tim Bertino (twitter.com/TimBertino) Nebraska Methodist Health System, Senior Network Engineer

Guests

Iqbal Syed, Cisco, Product Management Leader, ENB TME Platforms

Ninad Diwakar, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer, ENB TME Platforms

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Ninety-four percent of recent survey respondents are concerned that TLS 1.3 will break their existing security controls. With the ever-expanding amount of encrypted network traffic mandated, it’s important to understand how to balance user and customer privacy with security controls. Join experts from Cisco Security and EMA Research as they discuss the rise in compliance mandates, the benefits, and the risks of uninspected encrypted traffic as adoption of TLS 1.3 grows.

Join this episode to learn:

-Details surrounding the rise of encrypted traffic

-Sources and meaning of mandates for internal and external compliance

-Different approaches to managing encrypted data/traffic

Learn more

Cisco Secure Firewall solutions: See, Try, or Buy

www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/s…09&oid=trlsc027054

Cisco Champion Hosts

Adam Hollifield (twitter.com/adambomb1219), Insight Enterprises, Architect

Marc Luescher (twitter.com/LuescherMarc), Fresenius Medical Care, Network/ Email Security Architect

Guests

Alex Tatischeff, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineering Leader

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

As your network evolves into future generations and topologies, it is critical to have an understanding of VXLAN, an underlying technology used in many campus and data center designs.

Join Cisco Champions as they discuss:

-What VXLAN is,

-the evolution of VXLAN,

-its purpose in the campus and data center,

-the benefits and disadvantages,

-and why an organization may want to adopt VXLAN over spanning tree.

Resources

github.com/Cat9kEVPN/cat9k-evpn-ansible

Cisco Champion Hosts

Dan Kelcher (twitter.com/ipswitch), IP Fabric, Solutions Architect

Jian Zou, PKA Technologies, Principal Network Architect

Liam Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect

Ryan Harris (twitter.com/bridgeisroot), Presidio, Senior Engineer

Girard Kavelines (twitter.com/GKavelines) Helient Systems, Managed Services Systems Analyst

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI™) is a comprehensive networking solution for data centers. It enables businesses to innovate faster and minimize downtime by radically simplifying, optimizing, and accelerating infrastructure deployment and expediting the application deployment lifecycle.

Tune in to this episode to learn how Cisco ACI delivers a network policy-based framework that extends to the WAN and campus, translating intent into the network constructs necessary to dynamically provision the network, security, and infrastructure services. Hear how it enables building a data center network fabric with up to hundreds of switches automatically, and focusing on communications, through a single point of network configuration.

Learn more

www.cisco.com/site/us/en/product…ructure/index.html

www.cisco.com/site/us/en/product…?socialshare=demo1

Cisco Champion Hosts

Jian Zou, PKA Technologies, Principal Network Architect

Micheline Murphy (twitter.com/MichyfishMurphy), WWT, Consulting Systems Engineer

Tim Bertino (twitter.com/TimBertino) Nebraska Methodist Health System, Senior Network Engineer

Guests

Jim Mathers, Cisco, Engineering Product Manager

Takuya Kishida, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineering

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Join the Champions and our industry experts as they dive into Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC)—a database system that allows a standard power access point (AP) to operate both indoors and outdoors in parts of the 6 GHz frequency band that are not used by license holders at their location.

In this podcast, you’ll learn how an AP sends a frequency availability request using the format outlined in the Wi-Fi Alliance AFC device to system interface, and the AFC responds with a list of standard power channels that can be used by the APs.

Cisco Champion Hosts

Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo Network Solutions, Network and Security Specialist

Sam Clements (twitter.com/samuel_clements), Presidio, Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Mobility

Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, Director/ Owner

Guests

Matt MacPherson, Cisco, Sr. Director, CTO Wireless

Christopher Szymanski, Broadcom, Director, Product Marketing

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

As IT teams are increasingly challenged to deliver optimally configured infrastructure to meet business demands in an agile manner, automation becomes a necessary IT practice. Automation powered by APIs becomes the building block of integrations across multi-vendor products and Cisco has showcased this capability by providing open platforms like Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Nexus Cloud.

This session will cover the diverse set of integration use cases that customers typically deploy in their data center to ease operations and management of their networking infrastructure. This enables ITOps, NetOps and DevOps teams to innovate and meet the business need of infrastructure automation and accelerate a critical part of their application deployment journey.

Learn more

www.cisco.com/go/dcecosystem

www.cisco.com/go/nexuscloud

www.cisco.com/go/nexusascode

Follow us

twitter.com/CiscoChampion

Cisco Champion Hosts

Alexander Deca (twitter.com/AlexanderDeca_), NTT Limited, Principal Network Engineer

Michael Witte (twitter.com/themikewitte), WWT, Technical Solutions Architect, (Blog: www.wwt.com/article/examinining…g-new-hands-on-labs)

Guests

Mayuri Kulkarni, Cisco, Director, Product Management, DC Switching

Will Zupan, Cisco, Product Manager, DC Switching

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Cisco Champion 2023 Applications

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Automation is critical to modern network infrastructure. Not everyone is equally far along in their automation journey. In this broadcast you will learn how Cisco’s Nexus-as-Code project simplifies datacenter network automation through an easy-to-use, inventory driven approach based on Terraform.

Learn more

www.cisco.com/go/nexusascode

Cisco Champion Hosts Jian Zou, PKA Technologies, Principal Network Architect

Liam Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect

Michael van Kleij (twitter.com/mvankleij_nl) Axians NL, Technical Consultant

Micheline Murphy (twitter.com/MichyfishMurphy), WWT, Consulting

Systems Engineer Guests

Jim Mathers, Cisco, Engineering Product Manager

Rob van der Kind, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Cisco Champion 2023 Applications: ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNjQ0G0SJoDWKeW

AIOps is all the buzz these days. In this podcast, we will debunk some common myths surrounding AIOps and share more insights for network admins to become AIOps power users. Tune in to learn more about how Cisco DNA Center AIOps features help to achieve effective visibility, gain detailed insights and make troubleshooting more efficient.

Resources

Learn more: www.cisco.com/site/us/en/product…latform/index.html

Cisco Champion 2023 application: ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNjQ0G0SJoDWKeW

Cisco Champion Hosts

Michael Witte (twitter.com/themikewitte), WWT, Technical Solutions Architect

Mir Hossein Mirghassemi (twitter.com/packetroute), Morgan Stanley, Vice President, Cloud DevSecOps Engineering

Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, Director

Guests

Bhuvi Chopra, Cisco, Engineering Product Manager, DNA

Sukrit Dasgupta, Cisco, Director, Software Engineering, DNA Machine Learning

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program