Brief Overview
Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021: In the following pages you’ll see videos where Cisco experts give interactive, technical deep dive presentations and demos covering announcements from Cisco Live in the realms of Networking, Data Center, Cloud, Service Provider, Security, SASE and Applications. The live audience of technical delegates (listed below) asked the questions our customers and partners are wondering. Delegates included industry influencers, bloggers, and podcasters. These industry influencers discussed their objective thoughts and experiences on Cisco technology and in addition to the 15 videos with Cisco presenters, delegates recorded 2 roundtable sessions. Live streamed on April 13 -14, 2021.
Recordings for both days are found on the following pages.
Jody Lemoine | @GhostInTheNet
John Herbert | @MrTugs
Jonathan Davis | @SubNetwork
Kevin Myers | @StubArea51
Micheline Murphy | @MichyfishMurphy
Nick Buraglio | @ForwardingPlane
Rita Younger | @SDN_Girl
Sam Clements | @Sam_Clements
Teren Bryson | @SomeClown
I want to thank and recognize those who were instrumental in making Cisco Live Global Tech Field Day a success. Thank you to all the speakers who joined multiple practice sessions to prepare for the event and worked tirelessly on your presentations. I also want to thank all my marketing peers who worked with me on the content and socialization of the sessions, I appreciate all your hard work. A HUGE thank you to all the delegates - YOU ROCK! Lastly, THANK YOU to Stephen, Tom, Claire, Alissa, Tiffany, and all the great folks at Gestalt IT for creating this wonderful platform for engaging with the broader technical community.
Breana Jordan | @breanajordan12
Speaker: Rana El Desouky Kazamel, Leader, Mass Infrastructure Product Management
Discover how Cisco Routed Optical networking can change the way you're building up your network.
Speakers: Rana El Desouky Kazamel, Leader, Mass Infrastructure Product Management & Phil Bedard, Principal Engineer, Mass Infrastructure Group
This session introduces and demonstrates Routed Optical Network management using Cisco's open controller-based automation solution.
Speakers: Rana El Desouky Kazamel, Leader, Mass Infrastructure Product Management & Andy Shutz, Senior Director, Mass Infrastructure Product Management
Learn how subscriber services are evolving, and what leaps Cisco is taking to lead this shift.
Speaker: Gurpreet Dhaliwal, Technical Marketing Engineer
This demonstration covers different components of Cisco’s Cloud Native BNG solution, the advantages of deploying control plane in cloud with CUPS architecture, and shows how simple it is to connect a new user plane.
Speaker: Jamey Heary, Chief Security Architect
Dive into the Cisco SASE solution! Key topics include connectivity, security control, and the convergence of the two to provide an integrated network and secure seamless experience.
Blog: Cisco, Bringing SASE Your Way!
Speakers: Steve Wood, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer & Aaron Rohyans, Technical Marketing Engineer
Discover how the Emergence of Cloud and SaaS has improved the way Enterprises deploy datacenters and application delivery, and changed the delivery of WAN service
(33:20) With virtual devices there's always limits, so what are the limits and solutions? What is our top end, and how much throughput can we get?
Speaker: Prabhnit Singh, Product Lead, Internet & WAN
Cisco ThousandEyes dives into the details on how Cisco is launching the industry’s first enterprise-wide full stack observability offering by integrating ThousandEyes internet and cloud intelligence with the Cisco switching portfolio and AppDynamics.
Blog: Closing the Visibility Gap: Understanding ThousandEyes and Cisco’s Integration – Part 2
Speaker: Jerome Dolphin, Technical Marketing Engineer
This session dives into the recent developments in the capabilities and use cases for Cisco SD-Access.
Speaker: Matthias Wessendorf, Technical Marketing Engineer
In this session, you'll learn that when using the Cisco Nexus Dashboard, IT operations teams can navigate all aspects of infrastructure lifecycle tasks from initial configuration and capacity planning to running the entire IT infrastructure.
Speaker: Karishma Gupta, Technical Marketing Engineer
Dive into Nexus Insights and learn by tracking historical context, collecting and processing hardware and software telemetry data, and correlating customer designs with Cisco best-practices, customers can get excellent visibility and awareness of issues affecting their environment and take corrective actions.
(28:15) As far as visualizing the flows, can I see the same kind of information when I have different vendors in those roles and Nexus spine-and-leaf?
Speakers: Renato Quedas, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Strategy, Cisco AppDynamics, James Parnham, Senior Product Manager, Cisco ThousandEyes & Randy Birdsall, Director of Product Management, Cisco Security
Discover how Cisco has launched the industry’s first enterprise-wide full stack observability offer by integrating ThousandEyes internet and cloud intelligence with the Cisco switching portfolio and AppDynamics.
Cisco Champion Radio Podcast: Continuously Protect with Cisco Secure Application
Speaker: Ben Greenbaum, Technical Marketing Leader
In this session, a Cisco expert goes over how we give customers new ways to increase their simplicity, visibility, and efficiency, using only SecureX and the tools and people that customers already have.
Speaker: Justin Barksdale, Technical Marketing Leader
Discover how the integration between Cisco Intersight and HashiCorp Terraform reduces the operational complexity and risk of extending your cloud-based infrastructure as code. We start with the cloud journey (and IaC journey) we’ve seen our customers go on, an overview of our partnership, and demos of both Intersight Services for Terraform and Intersight Kubernetes Service.
Cisco Champion Radio Podcast: Cisco Intersight Cloud Operations Platform
Speaker: Siddharth Krishna, Technical Marketing Leader
In this session, we deep dive on the foundational technologies like 90W UPOE+, location analytics, and AI/ML that lets you take control of your building, reducing energy costs, and improving environmental health.
Speaker: Jim Florwick, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
During this session, our experts talk about the access point configurations and features, as well as implementation details like power draw and architecture support in Mesh environments.