Cisco Champion Radio

Stadium Wi-Fi aims to deliver an exceptional and seamless experience to tens of thousands of fans, who often push the Wi-Fi deployment to its limits. While previously, performance was enhanced through software, Cisco’s design team took a different approach. They went back to the basics and reworked the antennas. Ultimately, this led to tightening the beam width and reducing side lobes to make the unit software configurable and steerable. This made it possible to increase the distance between the AP and the device. Tune in to this episode to hear Cisco Champions and Distinguished Engineer Matt Swartz discuss the Cisco Catalyst 9104, how it helps customers reimagine stadium Wi-Fi and other use cases. Learn more: https://wifinowglobal.com/news-and-blog/as-crowds-return-to-big-sports-cisco-ups-its-game-with-a-rethink-of-high-density-wi-fi/?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion    Cisco Champion Hosts: Meredith Rose (twitter.com/mer3dithrose), WWT, Network Engineer Shai S

5G SD-WAN has totally changed the ways businesses use the internet and connect to the cloud. Multigigabit 5G cellular wireless links provided by Cisco’s new 5G Catalyst Cellular Gateway offer flexible, fast connectivity for any location. Tune in to this episode to hear how Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms, and the Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateway combine to offer multigigabit 5G links to cloud applications that are deployed, managed and monitored in the SD-WAN dashboard. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/catalyst-cellular-gateways/index.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion    Cisco Champion Hosts Artem Tkachov (twitter.com/ArtemTkachov) GAIN Capital, Infrastructure Manager David Penaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer  Guests:  Arpitha Shetty, Cisco, Engineering Product Manager, Enterprise Routing & SD-WAN Enablement David Roten, Cisco, Engineering TME Leader, ENB-TME Routing Plat

Cisco Champions Unfiltered is a different flavor of Cisco Champion Radio episodes dedicated to facilitating informal and informative conversations among Cisco Champions—focused on topics related to technology, trends or career. In this episode, Cisco Champions bring in their collective experiences to discuss the complexities of breach notifications—sharing when breaches should be communicated, how they should be communicated and more. Learn more about the Cisco Champion program: www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-e…nfluencer-hub.html Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion Cisco Champion Hosts: Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/EvanMintzer), Ashfield Engage, Information Security Manager Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo, CTO and Network Archeologist John Agunbiade (twitter.com/responficient11), FirstBank Nigeria, Network Security Engineer Mark Sibering (twitter.com/netcicd), Devoteam, Principal Architect Zoë Rose (twitter.com/RoseSecOps), Canon EMEA, Regional and Supplier Information Security Lead Moderator

You’re under extreme pressure to keep up with the rapid pace of technology changes, while keeping your business running at peak performance. Our focus is to deliver business value to you faster — from empowering your people to fueling new ideas and ways of working. Introducing Collaborative Intelligence, our unique approach of combining the right expertise, use cases, best practices, and insights to accelerate your success with new CX Success Tracks.  Tune in to this episode to hear how the CX Cloud platform with AI/ML delivers the analytics and actionable insights to solve your problems faster and make your business thrive. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/customer-experience/success-tracks.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469    Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion    Cisco Champion Hosts: David Penaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Lead Network Consulting Engineer Dan Sheldon (twitter.com/sheldonclimbs), WWT, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer Shai Sil

The new Webex Events transforms your company meetings and corporate events with real-time online webinars and webcasts, expanding your reach, reducing travel costs, and boosting attendance. Create professional events with peace of mind that Webex Events will ensure secure, reliable, and engaging experiences for all attendees.  Planning an effective virtual event in today’s collaborative environment can be extremely complex. Attendees expect a high quality and memorable experience, no matter which location or device they’re joining from. Most vendors claim that a one-size-fits-all offering will suffice. However, to truly meet audience expectations, stand out in a crowded webinar and event field, and ensure that messages resonate with attendees, businesses require a robust, intelligent and interactive platform purpose-built for the events of the future. Tune in to this episode to learn how Webex Events can help you plan your event, engage your audience, follow up and measure event success.  Learn mo

Small biz is the backbone of the global economy and the heartbeat of the local community. Tune in to this episode to hear how Cisco Designed offers affordable, simplified small business IT solutions that solve complex problems for your growing business. We’ll help you understand the portfolio’s four categories—networking, security, collaboration and analyze. Lastly, hear the top two technology requests we’ve seen from small businesses in the past year and a half; how we’ll transition from secure remote work (WFH) to hybrid work environments; and how Cisco Designed technology helps facilitate that for our small business partners, customers and prospects, all the way down to the lone IT person wanting to get the most out of their network needs. Learn more: www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/…dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion Cisco Champion Hosts: Ben Story (twitter.com/ntwrk80), Redeye Network Solutions, Sr. Network Security Engineer  Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer),

Introducing the recently-launched WiFi enabled, ruggedized smartphones: The Cisco Webex Wireless Phones 840 and 860 deliver enterprise-grade voice over IP via wireless smartphones to enable mobility-based productivity. Tune in to this episode as we discuss and learn about key features like security, IP68 and IP65 ratings, and hot-swap battery option. Plus, explore mobile device management options and learn why this smartphone keeps your video, voice and text conversations secure. Every time. Learn more: www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/c…dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion Cisco Champion Hosts: Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/EvanMintzer), Ashfield Engage, Information Security Manager Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady), BHP, Principal RF Wireless Engineer Guests: David Scott, Technical Marketing Engineer Leader, CTG TME Jerry Vander Voord (twitter.com/cisco_jerry), Engineering Product Manager, UCEBU PM Moderator: Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Tech

Join us for this podcast where we’ll explore the world of software-defined cloud interconnect (SDCI) with our partner Megaport. We’ll take a deep dive into SDCI and middle-mile optimization of the transport with direct private connection to your hybrid cloud workloads.   Cisco’s new SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect integration with Megaport’s Virtual Edge delivers a highly efficient, highly available, and highly secure method to interconnect your enterprise sites and cloud workloads.    Learn how, with a single pane of glass, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect offers end-to-end network automation between sites and from site to clouds that’s 99.995% reliable. You’ll also hear how Cloud Interconnect with Megaport helps significantly reduce connectivity costs and total cost of operations when compared to other network connectivity options. Learn more:  (At-a-Glance) https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/sd-wan/at-a-glance-c45-2361868.html?oid=aagetr025526?dtid=opdcsnc001469   (Cisco) h

ThousandEyes is joining forces with the Cisco Catalyst 9000 family of switches to bring Internet and Cloud Intelligence to tens of thousands of organizations around the world, enabling them to see and manage networks and applications that they rely on but do not directly own or control. By bundling ThousandEyes with its most widely deployed switches for campus and branch environments, Cisco is solving a critical visibility gap for enterprises, who are increasingly leveraging cloud, Internet and SaaS to deliver digital services to its employees and internal systems.   Cisco Catalyst 9300/9400 switches with a DNA Advantage or Premier license can now serve as a vantage point for enterprises to gain a 360-degree view of campus service delivery—with no need to deploy additional hardware or purchase a separate software license.   Learn more: https://blog.thousandeyes.com/campus-service-assurance-cisco-catalyst-9000/?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion   Cisco Champion Hosts: Artem Tkacho

Disruptive network transformation may only happen once a decade.  First movers can set agendas and force competitors to defend for years.  Cisco's Routed Optical Networking solution fundamentally changes how IP and optical networks are built and operated forever.   Tune in to this episode to learn how Cisco’s Converged SDN Transport architecture begins to put an end to a long history of inefficient use of network capital and simplifies operations for the 5G era. Specifically, Cisco's Routed Optical Networking solution transforms customers’ financials with up to 35% CapEx and 57% OpEx savings. No one else can deliver anything close. Learn how to evolve your current infrastructure.  Learn more: www.cisco.com/go/ron?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion      Cisco Champion Hosts: David Penaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Lead Network Consulting Engineer Deirra Footman (twitter.com/ccieby30), 14 West, Senior Network Engineer Shai Silberman (twit

The Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System simplifies your data center, adapting to the unpredictable needs of modern applications while also providing for traditional scaleout and enterprise workloads. It reduces the number of server types to maintain, helping to improve operational efficiency and agility as it helps reduce complexity. Powered by the Cisco Intersight™ cloud operations platform, it shifts your thinking from administrative details to business outcomes—with hybrid cloud infrastructure that is assembled from the cloud, shaped to your workloads, and continuously optimized. Now that hardware can think and change like software, you are free to think like tomorrow.  Tune in this to podcast to learn how the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System can help you prepare for a hybrid cloud world—by helping you simplify with a cloud-operated infrastructure, simplify with an adaptable system designed for modern applications and simplify with a system engineered for the future.     Learn more: https://www.cisco.co

Cisco® Nexus® Dashboard simplifies operations in today’s modern mutlicloud data center environments.  Tune in to this episode to learn about the operational simplicity realized from Cisco Nexus Dashboard and the powerful capabilities of its operational services. It a multidimensional challenge for IT to keep applications and networks in sync. With the ever increasing scope of the roles NetOps and DevOps, an automation toolset is needed to accelerate data center operations and securely manage the expansion to hybrid and multicloud. Cisco Nexus Dashboard provides a single focal point to unite the disparate views of globe-spanning multicloud data center operations, application deployment, and performance. Learn more: http://www.cisco.com/go/nexusdashboard?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Related blog: https://packetized.wordpress.com Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion      Cisco Champion Hosts: Michael Witte (twitter.com/themikewitte), WWT, Technical Solutions Architect Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom),

In this podcast, we discuss recent features, enhancements, and deployment strategies for Cisco SD-Access.   New features have enabled additional ways to evolve an existing network into a modern, automated, and secure SD-Access network in gradual steps that minimize disruption to business or users. Network Administrators can choose their starting point in the network evolution journey depending on the status of their existing network and decide their destination based on their business needs, adding benefits at each step along the way.    New segmentation capabilities and deployment flexibility have enhanced SD-Access to support Layer 2 switched access networks as a migration step in the journey.   New features also enable use cases that allow flexible routing of traffic from Layer 2 access networks to destinations outside the fabric. This is very useful in multitenant networks.   We also discuss the deep visibility that SD-Access features such as AI Endpoint Analytics and Group Based Policy Analytics bring th

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become the standard mode of operation for public cloud infrastructure provisioning and modern development practices. However, extending IaC to your on-premises infrastructure can be challenging. Cisco and HashiCorp recently announced a joint solution, Cisco Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform that addresses this issue.   In this podcast we will dig into the requirements for bringing IaC on-prem and how the combination of Intersight and Terraform Cloud Business makes it easier and safer.   Learn more: https://developer.cisco.com/iac?dtid=opdcsnc001469   Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion     Cisco Champion Hosts: Mark Sibering (twitter.com/netcicd), Devoteam, Consultant  Meredith Rose (twitter.com/mer3dithrose), WWT, Consulting System Engineer Jaycee Cockburn, NTT, Network Design & Team Lead Guest: Mohit Vaswani (twitter.com/momagic123), Cisco, Technical Solutions Architect, CISG Cloud Sales David Soper, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer, CPSG UCS    Moderator: A

Last year, Cisco created the Emerging Technologies and Incubation organization which is on a mission to revolutionize innovation at Cisco. ET&I works on breakthrough, emerging solutions outside of the core business to create new markets and incubate new businesses for Cisco.   Tune in to this episode to hear the Cisco expert, Tim Szigeti, and Cisco Champions discuss how ET&I is different from traditional R&D; cutting-edge technology solutions to the latest business and social challenges; future trends; how you can be a part of Cisco’s innovation program; and more.  Learn more: https://www.ciscotechblog.com/   Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion?dtid=opdcsnc001469        Cisco Champion Hosts: Ben Story (twitter.com/ntwrk80) Redeye Network, Network and Cybersecurity Engineer David Macias (twitter.com/dmacias) Contact Center Consultant Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady) BHP, Principal RF Wireless Engineer   Guest: Tim Szigeti (twitter.com/tim_szigeti) Cisco, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

The ways your IT enables secure, trusted, and flexible collaboration is a major factor in your business’ ability to address, overcome, and even benefit from disruption, especially in these uncertain times. Given the new normal organizations have faced over the last year, it has become evident that it’s not just how your co-workers need to execute their daily operations, but also how your customers must pivot.   It means more than just understanding and managing the span of technologies in use and how to securely enable and interact with them at scale; it means having actionable intel and insights and being able to respond to them without impacting performance. And, to make that environment operate optimally at scale with agility and resilience, you need technological acumen edge-to-edge.   Join Chris Rittler, VP of Product Management for Cisco Business Critical Services and Cisco Champions as they discuss how your organization can take proactive steps to be prepared for an uncertain future and build greater r

If you’ve ever wondered what a Cisco Champion is, you’ll find the answer in this episode. In our very first episode of the Cisco Champions Unfiltered series—where we feature Cisco Champion on Cisco Champion conversations—we have an informative, yet casual, discussion with five Cisco Champions.   In this discussion, we gain insights into their backgrounds and experiences as technologists and as Cisco Champions. You’ll quickly discover that Cisco Champions are next-level technologists who have a passion for technology and a passion for connecting with their peers and Cisco experts, technology and solutions. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/events-webinars/influencer-hub.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469     Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion      Cisco Champion Hosts: Amr Nasher (twitter.com/Amr_Nasher), Twaasol, Business Development Manager and Solution Architect  David Peñaloza Seijas (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer Michael van Kleij (twitter.com/mvanklei

Now more than ever, sustainable and flexible building designs are at the forefront of every developer, constructor and owner’s next big project. The return on investments for creating dynamic, intelligent spaces can be "funded" by net-zero, or even net-positive designs that are easier to spec, deploy and commission with smart building technology.   You cannot automate that which is not connected, and it is exponentially easier to connect tens of thousands of things using the same design than it is to keep track of duplicate and disparate materials and procedures. A single converged network can power, connect and secure buildings systems with 90W PoE in ways never previously imagined, driving complexity and cost out of projects and simplifying the ongoing operations while creating the smartest and most agile spaces to keep up with the changing world. Tune in to this episode to learn how Cisco Smart Building Solutions create intuitive, trusted facilities that help enhance health, safety and efficiencies to

Known as Project Starship when it was introduced in June 2017, Cisco Intersight has come a long way. Intersight is a SaaS based platform that shouldn’t be confused with a monitoring dashboard. Yes, it has a dashboard, but it also has true infrastructure management, application optimization through Intersight Workload Optimizer, a Kubernetes service to deploy and manage consistent production-grade containers, and many ways to do infrastructure as code (IAC) including the Intersight Service for HashiCorp Terraform.   Join long-time Cisco veterans Doron Chosnek and Brandon Beck and Cisco Champions as they discuss the power of the Cisco Intersight API. Learn more: http://cisco.com/go/intersight?dtid=opdcsnc001469   Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion     Cisco Champion Hosts: Dan Kelcher, NTT Data Services, Enterprise Architecture Advisor  Joe Houghes (twitter.com/jhoughes), Veeam Software, Solutions Architect Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services Gue

Cisco introduced End to End (E2E) Encryption in 2008 as a Webex Meeting option where only the meeting participants—and not the Webex cloud—have access to the meeting encryption key. Since most business over the last 12 months has been conducted virtually, the security and confidentiality of meetings has become a priority for our customers. Cisco expects that end to end encryption will become a commonplace meeting feature as privacy and confidentiality become a baseline expectation from many customers, and we have been driving the delivery of a set of open IETF standards that will allow multiple vendors to adopt E2E encryption as a standard.   Tune in to this episode to learn more about Webex's new standards-based approach for secure and confidential meetings with Zero Trust Security which covers:   The Webex architecture for Zero Trust End to End Encryption and Identity Verification The IETF standards that Zero Trust End to End Encryption and Identity uses Secure Frame (S-Frame)/ Message Layer Security (M