Cisco Champion Radio

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 flexibility needed to support and simplify the “work from anywhere, on any device” promise. Resources 1) https://www.webex.com/suite/enterprise-cloud-calling.html 2) https://www.webex.com/gp/wainhouse-future-proof-cloud-calling-now.html 3) https://www.webex.com/content/dam/wbx/us/ebook/webex-calling-ebook-of-innovations_cm-3273.pdf Cisco Champion Hosts Amr Nasher (twitter.com/Amr_Nasher), Twaasol, Managing Director Billy Zoellers (twitter.com/billyzoellers), Dean Dorton, IT Infrastructure Services Manager Ele

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 environments, -Use cases, -Cost considerations and, -Personal vs company funded labs Cisco Champion Hosts Girard Kavelines (twitter.com/GKavelines) Helient Systems, Managed Services Systems Analyst Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady) BHP, Senior PCN Network Engineer Pieter-Jan Nefkens (twitter.com/pjnef), Nefkens Advies, Network Consultant/ Owner Stephen Paynter (twitter.com/stephenpaynter), Network Bright, Automation Engineer Zoe Rose (twitter.com/RoseSecOps), Canon EMEA, Regional and Supplier Informat

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 fabrics. AI applications expect –high performance, low latency and lossless networks. To achieve this, network administrators need to deploy the right hardware and software features, along with a configuration that supports AI application needs.Vvisibility into congestion hot spots is the need of the hour-long with automation frameworks to make sure the entire network fabric is configured correctly for AI/ML workloads. The Cisco Nexus 9000 switches have the hardware and software capabilities available today to provide

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 Cisco U. guides learners and teams to their tech learning goals. Whether you need training to seek a certification, role, or solution, we have you covered with courses, a vibrant community, and tech content on both Cisco and adjacent technologies, shaped to how you learn. Resources Cisco U. Overview - https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/foryou?utm_campaign=ciscou&utm_source=web-cisco&utm_medium=champion-podcast Cisco U. Login - https://u.cisco.com/?utm_campaign=ciscou&utm_source=web-cisco&utm_medium=champion-podca

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 multiple disparate detection technologies into a unified view, Go from endless investigations to remediating the highest priority incidents with greater speed, efficiency, and confidence with Cisco XDR. Join us for thought-provoking discussions and practical insights that will help you stay ahead of the curve in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape. Resources: https://cisco.com/go/xdr Cisco Champion Hosts Zoe Rose (twitter.com/RoseSecOps), Canon EMEA, Regional and Supplier Information Security Evan Mintzer (twitter.

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*, scalable management through integrations, templates, and APIs – all of which are delivered with a user-friendly approach. *Port profiles will be available on the Meraki dashboard in early summer. Read this blog for more details (https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2023/05/the-key-to-effective-and-secure-port-management/) Resources https://meraki.cisco.com/products/switches/ Cisco Champion Hosts Deirra Footman (https://twitter.com/ccieby30), Network To Cloud, Network Engineer Pat Allen (twitter.com/layer8packet), Cus

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 centralize applications and reduce deployment time of VXLAN-EVPN fabrics to minutes. Cisco NDFC helps improve fabric reliability with constant monitoring of compliance and health, while reducing operation errors with predefined deployment models. Learn more about NDFC here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-data-center-network-manager/index.html Cisco Champion Hosts Liam Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect Alexander Deca, NTT, Principal Network

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 (twitter.com/davidsamuelps), Verizon Business, Principal Engineer Dan Sheldon (twitter.com/SheldonClimbs), Prosimo, Senior Solutions Architect Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/evanmintzer), Customers Bank, Director, Production Infrastructure Joseph Houghes (twitter.com/jhoughes), Pure Storage, Senior Solutions Architect Matt Albrecht, Aqueduct Technologies, Director, Professional Services Tim Harmon (twitter.com/harmont2004), Computers 2 Kids, Information Technology Technician Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amil

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 Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect Marc Luescher (twitter.com/LuescherMarc), Fresenius Medical Care, Network/ Email Security Architect Guest Usman Din, Cisco, Director, Product Management, TDR PM Email Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Champion Program

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 – scale robust, always-on 5G connected experiences anywhere. Try Meraki 5G FWA for free: https://meraki.cisco.com/form/trial/ Learn more about Meraki cloud-managed 5G FWA: https://meraki.cisco.com/products/wireless-wan/ Learn more about the MG51: https://meraki.cisco.com/product/cellular/integrated-antenna/mg51/ Learn more about the MG51E: https://meraki.cisco.com/product/cellular/external-antenna/mg51e/ See MG51 and MG51E in the press: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2023/m02/cisco-launches-mer

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. Resources Product page: https://radkit.cisco.com/ Community page: https://community.cisco.com/t5/radkit-discussions/bd-p/disc-radkit Cisco Champion Hosts Alfred Thyri (twitter.com/phred_at) Axians ICT Austria, Sr. Systems Engineer Liam Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect Richard Atkin (twitter.com/ukricha), ITGL, Solution Architect Guest Frederic Detienne, Cisco, Distinguished Engineer, CX GC TAC Moderator Danielle Carter, Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Progra

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 uplinks—helps network operators take the next steps to meet the demand now and in the future. Learn more https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/index.html Cisco Champion Hosts Len Ledford, Cerium Networks, Technical Solutions Architect Pat Allen (twitter.com/layer8packet), Customers Bank, Sr. Network Engineer Tim Bertino (twitter.com/TimBertino) Nebraska Methodist Health System, Senior Network Engineer Guests Iqbal Syed, Cisco, Product Management Leader

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 to learn: -Details surrounding the rise of encrypted traffic -Sources and meaning of mandates for internal and external compliance -Different approaches to managing encrypted data/traffic Learn more Cisco Secure Firewall solutions: See, Try, or Buy https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/firewalls/get-started.html?ccid=cc000155&dtid=odicdc000509&oid=trlsc027054 Cisco Champion Hosts Adam Hollifield (twitter.com/adambomb1219), Insight Enterprises, Architect Marc Luescher (twitter.com/LuescherMarc), Frese

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 Champion Hosts Dan Kelcher (twitter.com/ipswitch), IP Fabric, Solutions Architect Jian Zou, PKA Technologies, Principal Network Architect Liam Keegan (twitter.com/liamjkeegan), 24/7 Networks, Solutions Architect Ryan Harris (twitter.com/bridgeisroot), NetCraftsmen, Senior Engineer Girard Kavelines (twitter.com/GKavelines) Helient Systems, Managed Services Systems Analyst Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

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 dynamically provision the network, security, and infrastructure services. Hear how it enables building a data center network fabric with up to hundreds of switches automatically, and focusing on communications, through a single point of network configuration. Learn more https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/cloud-networking/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html?socialshare=demo1

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 standard power channels that can be used by the APs. Cisco Champion Hosts Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo Network Solutions, Network and Security Specialist Sam Clements (twitter.com/samuel_clements), Presidio, Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Mobility Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, Director/ Owner Guests Matt MacPherson, Cisco, Sr. Director, CTO Wireless Christopher Szymanski, Broadcom, Director, Product Marketing Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1

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 data center to ease operations and management of their networking infrastructure. This enables ITOps, NetOps and DevOps teams to innovate and meet the business need of infrastructure automation and accelerate a critical part of their application deployment journey. Learn more www.cisco.com/go/dcecosystem www.cisco.com/go/nexuscloud www.cisco.com/go/nexusascode Follow us twitter.com/CiscoChampion Cisco Champion Hosts Alexander Deca (twitter.com/AlexanderDeca_), NTT Limited, Principal Network Engineer Michael Wi

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 Michael van Kleij (twitter.com/mvankleij_nl) Axians NL, Technical Consultant Micheline Murphy (twitter.com/MichyfishMurphy), WWT, Consulting Systems Engineer Guests Jim Mathers, Cisco, Engineering Product Manager Rob van der Kind, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer Moderator Danielle Carter, Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program Cisco Champion 2023 Applications: https://ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNjQ0G0SJoDWKeW

AIOps is all the buzz these days. In this podcast, we will debunk some common myths surrounding AIOps and share more insights for network admins to become AIOps power users. Tune in to learn more about how Cisco DNA Center AIOps features help to achieve effective visibility, gain detailed insights and make troubleshooting more efficient. Resources Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/dna-center-platform/index.html Cisco Champion 2023 application: https://ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNjQ0G0SJoDWKeW Cisco Champion Hosts Michael Witte (twitter.com/themikewitte), WWT, Technical Solutions Architect Mir Hossein Mirghassemi (twitter.com/packetroute), Morgan Stanley, Vice President, Cloud DevSecOps Engineering Sijbren Beukenkamp (twitter.com/sijbrenb), 3Corners, Director Guests Bhuvi Chopra, Cisco, Engineering Product Manager, DNA Sukrit Dasgupta, Cisco, Director, Software Engineering, DNA Machine Learning Moderator Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer

Are you studying for an upcoming exam? Could you use some tips on how to study to get that certification? Join the Cisco Champions in this unfiltered episode as they discuss some tricks, tips and habits that they have used to study for exams and certifications. Learn more https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/ https://blogs.cisco.com/learning/meet-cisco-u https://www.netacad.com/ https://skillsforall.com/ https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/modeling-labs/index.html https://dcloud.cisco.com/ https://developer.cisco.com/ https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/application-centric-infrastructure-simulator/index.html https://community.cisco.com/t5/unified-computing-system-knowledge-base/ucs-platform-emulator-downloads-ucspe-4-2-2a-ucspe-4-1-2c/ta-p/3648177 https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ https://www.eve-ng.net/ https://www.gns3.com/ https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/09/netsim-tools-overview.html https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn https://www.fo