Cisco Champion Radio

Cisco Live delivers education and inspiration to technology innovators around the globe. It is a place where the brightest minds in IT come to learn and network.

This year, Cisco Live US is taking place in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada from June 4 - 8. If you plan to attend, tune in to this episode to hear from our Champions as they share their unique experiences, practical tips, and best practices.

Resources

Cisco Live 2023 - Cisco

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David Samuel Penaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer

Dan Sheldon (twitter.com/SheldonClimbs), Prosimo, Senior Solutions Architect

Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/evanmintzer), Customers Bank, Director, Production Infrastructure

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

Matt Albrecht, Aqueduct Technologies, Director, Professional Services

Tim Harmon (twitter.com/harmont2004), Computers 2 Kids, Information Technology Technician

Moderator

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

Join Cisco Champions, and the Cisco expert to learn more about the changing threat landscape, and how the latest innovations in Cisco email security can help to mitigate the rise in phishing, business email compromise, malware and ransomware attacks.

Related links

Learn more: https://cisco.com/go/emailsecurity

Free trial: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/email-threat-defense-free-trial.html

Follow us: https://twitter.com/CiscoChampion

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

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

Guest

Usman Din, Cisco, Director, Product Management, TDR PM Email

Moderator

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

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: https://meraki.cisco.com/form/trial/

Learn more about Meraki cloud-managed 5G FWA:

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

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

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

See MG51 and MG51E in the press: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2023/m02/cisco-launches-meraki-5g-gateways-with-t-mobile-to-deliver-simple-and-scalable-business-internet.html

Learn ways businesses can create new customer experiences with Meraki cloud-managed 5G FWA: https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2023/02/simplify-and-scale-anywhere-connectivity/

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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

Product page: https://radkit.cisco.com/

Community page: https://community.cisco.com/t5/radkit-discussions/bd-p/disc-radkit

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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

Guest

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

https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/index.html

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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

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/firewalls/get-started.html?ccid=cc000155&dtid=odicdc000509&oid=trlsc027054

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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

https://github.com/Cat9kEVPN/cat9k-evpn-ansible

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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), NetCraftsmen, 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

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

https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html?socialshare=demo1

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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.

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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

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

Michael Witte (twitter.com/themikewitte), WWT, Technical Solutions Architect, (Blog: https://www.wwt.com/article/examinining-cisco-nexus-dashboard-using-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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