On this episode of Conf T with your SE, Brian Boyd and Bryan Young discuss Cisco's offerings for SD-WAN, comparing and contrasting the two major offerings and going through some design considerations such as number of transports, feature parity, and deployment options.

In this episode of Conf T with your SE, special guest Mike McPhee talks with us about the two major Cisco solutions we have in the NGFW space and where each of them hold their strengths. We dive into both Cisco Firepower and Cisco Meraki solutions comparing features along with management options to better understand where these solutions fit for our customers.

On this episode of Conf T with your SE, we dive into Cisco Enterprise Agreements. This recent offering from Cisco grants our customers flexibility in how they license their Cisco Software solutions. Bryan Young and Brian Boyd go over some of the similarities between the various EAs across the different architectures as well as some of the specifics available for each type.

In this episode, we explore the important reasons why you should keep your Cisco hardware up to date with current support. We explore the lifecycle of Cisco hardware, take a look at support and advanced services offered by Cisco and talk about the latest licensing trends and models used by Cisco. Lastly we cover the hardware changes that have been introduced and go through the various recommended product recommendations.

Cisco EoS/EoL Policy: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/eos-eol-policy.html

Cisco Notification service for PSIRT and other alerts: https://www.cisco.com/cisco/support/notifications.html

Cisco Product Support Page: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/technical/solution-support.html

Cisco Support Services at a glance: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/services/portfolio/documents/solution-support-service-at-a-glance.pdf

Catalyst 9K Series at a Glance: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9000/nb-09-cat-9k-aag-cte-en.pdf

ISR4K Series Routers at a Glance: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/routers/4000-series-integrated-services-routers-isr/at-a-glance-c45-732425.pdf

On this episode, we discussed Cisco's next generation of campus networking called Intent-Based Networking.

We discussed the different pillars of intent-based networking and the management platform known as Cisco DNA Center.

The hardware compatibility matrix for Cisco DNA Center can be found at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/software-defined-access/compatibility-matrix.html

To check out design guides for Cisco DNA Center, please check out the following link: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/design-zone/networking-design-guides/digital-network-architecture-design-guides.html

If you are interested in learning more about Cisco's Intent-Based networking, or would like to inquire about a demo or Proof of Value, please reach out to your local Cisco account team, and let them know you heard about it from this podcast.

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In our first episode of Conf T with your SE, we go over the differences between our Data Center and Access Layer switching and why these two product lines exist.

The Cisco whitepaper mentioned in this episode can be found at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/white-paper-c11-738488.html

A quick introduction and tease of our first real episode scheduled to be published on January 16th.