In this episode, Cisco Champions Aaron Kirk discuss the NOC  at Cisco Live with Joe Clarke.

Cisco Champion Host

Aaron Kirk (https://twitter.com/amkirk), Cisco Champion member, Technical Marketing Engineer

Cisco Guest

Joe Clarke, Cisco Distinguished Services Engineer

Moderator

Brett Shore (https://twitter.com/brettshore), Cisco Champion Program Management

Podcast Discussion Topics

- The importance of automation in the NOC

- The numbers behind the NOC

- What the Cisco Live NOC team looks like in terms of size and roles

- What equipment is used to build the NOC

- Preparing for a Cisco Live event

- What the NOC team does once Cisco Live starts

- How and why the MetroCluster are set-up for Cisco Live

- Cisco Live stories, surviving worse case scenarios and tools that the team created and uses

- How Webex Teams comes into play

- The most important lesson Aaron and Joe have learned

- What Aaron and Joe would change for future shows

More information and resources here: https://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/ciscochampion-radio-s5ep14-noc