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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Energy-hungry and heat-generating data -center servers and switches draw up to 2 percent of all electricity in the United States alone, and energy consumption can represent up to 30 percent of data center costs. There is a focus on greater data center sustainability and optimizing energy usage should be a major concern for all forward-looking organizations. With Cisco Nexus Dashboard, the goal is to empower customers to achieve more energy efficient data centers, forecast energy consumption,...

Running a distributed application services infrastructure is onerous. IT leaders in NetOps, DevOps, SecOps, and CloudOps need a consistent way to administer technology for business growth. The Cisco Meraki vMX virtual security and SD-WAN appliance enables businesses to seamlessly deploy, manage, and scale application services anywhere, on any major hyperscaler or hypervisor, in any region. From security, access, and configuration, to one-touch deployments via low-code automations known as...

A phone system is a lifeline for any business. In this hybrid world, business communication is constantly evolving, and so are the expectations for your customers. More businesses are shifting their collaboration and connectivity workloads from on-prem to the cloud, as they look for a more secure, reliable, and scalable communications infrastructure. Trusted by over 12M+ worldwide users, Webex Calling is a modern and complete enterprise-grade business phone system in the cloud, delivering the...

Technology is constantly changing and evolving. If you’re in tech, you’d probably describe yourself as a lifelong learner. Home labs facilitate continuous learning. A home lab is an environment that resides locally in your home that allows engineers or developers to safely test and experiment. Essentially, it is a playground for techies to learn and break things. Join Cisco Champions as they discuss: -Their experience with home labs, -The pros and cons of physical vs virtual...

Generative AI capabilities will enable a significant acceleration of enterprises business/ digital transformation. Enterprises will want to build out AI/ML capabilities for training and/or inference and look for a DC network infrastructure that supports these workloads. Cisco AI/ ML network blueprint will give our customers a proven/ validated solution leveraging Cisco experience with customer deployments for high performance compute, IB to Ethernet network migrations, and large-scale ML...

Cisco U. is a digital learning experience built around the learner with quick-start pre-skill assessments, modular learning, advanced search, and a focus on goal setting, it is designed to work for everyone’s unique journey. With personalized recommendations and feedback, plus learning in the moment of need, Cisco U. can guide learners to the right role or solution, helping to grow skills to accelerate their organization’s business transformation. Tune in to this episode to learn how...

Join our Cisco Champions and Cisco expert as they discuss real-world scenarios, share their experiences, and provide practical tips and best practices for incident response. From data breaches to cyber-attacks, we cover it all and help you prepare for the unexpected. Designed by SOC experts for SOC experts, Cisco XDR simplifies security operations to help security analysts remain proactive and resilient against the most sophisticated threats. By aggregating and correlating data from...

Effective port management is crucial for optimal and secure network operations, but it can be complex and difficult to scale across sites. Does port management have to be a headache? Absolutely not. In this episode, Cisco Champions and Meraki Switching experts will delve into the best practices for managing switch ports at scale. We will explore the potential business outcomes that can be achieved by leveraging Meraki Switching capabilities, such as zero-touch provisioning, port profiles*,...

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) provides complete lifecycle management and automation for Cisco Nexus platforms. It enables automated network connectivity, consistent network management, and simplified operations for hybrid cloud environments. Its modularized architecture based on Kubernetes microservices helps organizations enhance agility to accommodate constant change. Together with Cisco Nexus Dashboard, it enables organizations to streamline data center automation and...

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 Cisco Champion Hosts David Samuel Penaloza Seijas...

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 Cisco Champion Hosts Liam...

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 –...

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....

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...

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...

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 Cisco...

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...

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...

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...

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...