Cisco Champion Radio

Webex Go integrates Webex Calling with personal and business phones to deliver unrivaled mobility experiences for today’s modern workers.

Webex Go extends Webex enterprise-grade calling capabilities, enabling you to make and receive calls using your mobile phone’s native dialer and stay connected on the go. You can seamlessly move the call to the Webex App or a Webex Device or elevate the call to a Webex Meeting to enjoy the rich Webex collaboration experience.

Webex Go also removes the burden on IT by providing a fully compliant and secure mobile device along with centralized, easy provisioning and management in Webex Control Hub with complete access to real time troubleshooting and analytics.

Join us for an informative discussion on Webex Go and how to seamlessly connect and work from anywhere, on your mobile device.

Resources

https://www.webex.com/products/webex-go.html

https://www.webex.com/partnerships/att.html

https://www.webex.com/suite/enterprise-cloud-calling.html

Cisco Guests

Shawn O’Neall, Sr. Product Manager, Webex Calling

Cisco Champion Hosts

Dustin Gabbett (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingabbett/), Director, Cisco CX Practice, ScanSource

Sijbren Beukenkamp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbeukenkamp/), Director, 3Corners

Chris Cavendish (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophercavendish/), Collaboration Engineer, Insight Global

Moderator

Danielle, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

As industries become increasingly interconnected and reliant on technology, the need for robust security measures has never been more critical. In this podcast, we will explore the evolving threat landscape, discuss the potential consequences of industrial cyberattacks, and shed light on the vulnerabilities that commonly exist within industrial control systems.

Resources

Industrial security: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/security/industrial-security/index.html

Industrial visibility with Cisco Cyber Vision: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/security/industrial-security/cyber-vision/index.html

Secure remote access with Cisco Secure Equipment Access: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/security/industrial-security/secure-equipment-access/index.html

Cisco Guests

Andrew McPhee, Solutions Manager, industrial Security, Cisco

Cisco Champion Hosts

Jonathan Mahady (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanmahady/), Senior PCN Network Engineer, BHP

Marc Luescher (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcluescher/), Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Liam Keegan (www.linkedin.com/in/liamjkeegan/), Solutions Architect, 24/7 Networks

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Link to 2024 Cisco Champion application: https://smarturl.it/CiscoChampion2024Application

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a popular Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) feature integrating network fabric operations with a virtual machine domain, creating a single experience to configure, manage, and troubleshoot workloads spanning both the physical and virtual realms.

Leveraging VMM, enterprises can take the first step in unifying their network and compute teams to expedite time-to-value for common network changes, prevent human error, and provide unprecedented visibility to the virtual domain enabling use-cases like classification, policy redirect, and day 2 workflow automation. In addition, adding to the ACI integration family, we are pleased to announce a VMM integration with Nutanix enabled by the new ACI 6.0.3F release.

Resources:

https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html

https://www.cisco.com/go/nexusascode

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/solution-overview-c22-741487.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/case-study-infographic.html?oid=ifddnc028959

Cisco Champion Application:

smarturl.it/CiscoChampion2024Application

Cisco Guests:

Jim Mathers, Engineering Product Manager, Cisco

Cisco Champion Hosts:

Michael Witte (https://www.linkedin.com/in/themikewitte/) Principal Solutions Architect, WWT

Alexander Deca (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderdeca/) Principal Network Engineer, NTT

Liam Keegan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjkeegan/) Solutions Architect, 24/7 Networks

Moderator

Amilee, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Network complexity has magnified due to shifting business models, competitive markets, and multi-vendor capabilities. Service Provider customers and network operators understand the importance of network automation but are struggling to manage complex networks, build trust through intent and validation, and drive operational efficiency.

This podcast would be a good opportunity to:

-Understand the barriers to Automation adoption.

- How to get started with Network Automation leveraging AI/ML Operations,

Tools, and Processes (Cisco Crosswork Network Automation, NSO,

Workflow Manager etc.)

-How to build trust in network intent, validation, and testing.

Resources For more information on Cisco’s Crosswork Network Automation portfolio, click here:

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation (https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/software/crosswork-network-automation/index.html)

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator

(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/network-services-orchestrator/index.html)

Cisco Hierarchical Controller

(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/crosswork-hierarchical-controller/index.html)

Cisco Workflow Manager

(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/crosswork-workflow-manager/index.html)

WAN Automation Engine

(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/wan-automation-engine/index.html)

Cisco Crosswork Network Controller

(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/crosswork-network-controller/index.html)

Cisco Traffic Analysis

(https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/software/crosswork-network-automation/index.html?socialshare=vod-lightbox-hero)

Cisco Crosswork Cloud

(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/crosswork-cloud/index.html)

Cisco Guests

Omar Sultan, Director, Product Management, Cisco

Cisco Champion Hosts

Liam Keegan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjkeegan/) Solutions Architect, 24/7 Networks

Mark Sibering (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksibering/), IT Transformation Consultant, SSC-ICT

Danny Wade (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcwade/), Engineer II, NetCraftsmen

Cisco Champion Application: https://smarturl.it/CiscoChampion2024Application

Moderator

Amilee San Juan, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, join the Cisco Champions and expert to learn how to harness the power of SD-WAN by combining it with converged, cloud security capabilities that only a SASE architecture offers. Listen and learn to discover use cases uniquely designed to deliver anywhere connectivity, always-on cloud security, and an improved remote worker experience, from anywhere.

Resources:

Visit this page to learn more about Cisco’s turnkey, unified SASE solution, Cisco+ Secure Connect: https://meraki.cisco.com/products/cisco-plus-secure-connect/

Cisco Guest

Avinash Ramesh, Technical Marketing Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Meraki

Cisco Champion Hosts

Liam Keegan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamjkeegan/), Solutions Architect, 24/7 Networks

Pierre Besombes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrebesombes/) Principal Engineer, Rakuten Tech

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, CCR Program/ Customer Voices

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, the discussion revolves around a topic that is both timely and critical. Join the Cisco Champions, as they share their insights, experiences, and strategies for introducing children to the world of technology.

From coding basics to cybersecurity, the Cisco Champions delve into the myriad ways to ignite a passion for technology in the younger generation. Drawing from their personal journeys as both tech enthusiasts and parents, they explore the challenges and opportunities in guiding children towards a future-ready understanding of technology.

This episode presents a dynamic conversation, addressing the importance of early exposure to tech, the impact of hands-on experiences, and the role of mentorship in shaping young minds. Listeners will gain practical advice, tools, and resources to empower their kids in navigating the digital landscape safely effectively.

Cisco Champion Hosts:

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

Tim Bertino (twitter.com/timbertino), Principal Data Architect, Nebraska Methodist Health System

Ryan Harris(twitter.com/bridgeisroot) Sr. Network Engineer, NetCraftsmen

Zoe Rose (twitter.com/RoseSecOps), Regional and Supplier Information Security, Canon EMEA

Moderator

Amilee , Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

Cisco Intersight is an infrastructure lifecycle management solution, delivered as-a-service or as a private virtual appliance, that provides a single dashboard to see, control, and automate your compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—wherever it is—from one place.

Modernizing infrastructure management also means automating deployment and configuration workflows along with other tasks that in the past were manual.

Join the Cisco Champions and guests as they discuss Cisco Intersight and its latest capabilities:

-Monitoring and Metric Explorer: Historical and real-time visibility or resource consumption to optimize performance and identify bottlenecks

-Automation with ICO, easy-to-use, low-code orchestration

Resources

https://intersight.com/

Cisco Guests

Mohit Vaswani, Senior Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Sho Funatsu, Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco

Cisco Champion Hosts

Joseph Houghes (twitter.com/jhoughes), Sr. Solutions Architect, Pure Storage

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

Dustin Gabbett, Director (twitter.com/DustinGabbett) Cisco CX Practice, ScanSource

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, CCR Program/ Customer Voices

Network administrators need reliability and flexibility in their network. The Cisco Catalyst 9166D1 provides an integrated directional, antenna in a Wi-Fi 6E certified access point. This solves the challenge of providing focused area signal without external antennas for areas with high ceilings like auditoriums, warehouses, airplane hangars and other large or industrial buildings.

Tune in to this episode to learn more about this Cisco wireless innovation and how this can help network administrators provide predictable, reliable performance and flexible configuration.

Learn more about the Catalyst 9166D1 and other Cisco wireless solutions here https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/wireless/access-points/catalyst-9100-series/index.html

Cisco Champion Hosts

Alan Gardner, CEO, Current Technologies

Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/Jonathan_mahady), Senior PCN Network Engineer, BHP

Mike Bolitho (twitter.com/NetEngMike), Wireless Engineer, CommonSpirit Health

Guest

Fred Niehaus, Technical Marketing Engineer, Technical Leader, Cisco

Moderator

Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Champion Program, Cisco

Cisco 8000 Series Routers have brought many innovations in performance and functionality in helping to scale the Internet for the future. Continuing with this trend, Cisco is pleased to announce the first system in the Cisco 8000 Series Router portfolio based on an innovative centralized architecture in the Cisco 8608. Built on a unique platform that combines flexibility and reliability while offering investment protection, customers can achieve unmatched reliability with redundant control and data planes enabled by redundant route processors and switch cards. Powered by the Cisco Silicon One Q200, this new system supports a variety of interfaces through various modular port adapters (MPA).

Resources:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/8000-series-routers/8608-router-ds.html

Cisco Guests

Eddie Chami, Technical Marketing Expert, Cisco

Cisco Champion Hosts

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

Len Ledford, Technical Solutions Architect, Cerium Networks

Alexander Deca, Principal Network Engineer, NTT

Moderator

Danielle Carter, Cisco, CCR Program/ Customer Voices

Industrial organizations are fundamentally changing how they operate and deliver value to customers. Industry 4.0 holds the promise of bringing in more software controls to improve product quality, reduce waste, enhance sustainability, boost worker safety and cybersecurity, and increase operational efficiencies to reduce costs. Digital transformation is the necessary first step that helps collect the operations data required for analytical operations and industrial switches are key to building such networks.

Tune into this episode of Cisco Champion Radio to learn how highly capable industrial switches can help you evolve your operations by:

-Providing reliable connectivity in the harshest industrial environments

-Ensuring Smooth interruption free operations with high availability and resiliency

-Making industrial networks scalable and flexible with intelligent network automation and performance assurance

-Enhancing cybersecurity with policy based automated network segmentation

-Promoting collaboration between IT and OT teams by using common and proven tools

-Collecting process data right from the machine edge and transport it to cloud-based applications.

Resources

Check out Cisco Industrial Ethernet switching portfolio (https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/industrial-switches/index.html?ccid=cc003448&oid=powit024547) and choose the right switch for your use case or schedule a free no obligation consultation with one of our experts.

Guests

Albert Mitchell, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Cisco Champion Hosts

Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady), Senior PCN Network Engineer BHP

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

Matt Haedo, (twitter.com/matthaedo), Enterprise Solution Architect, ITSavvy

Moderator

Amilee San Juan, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program