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Technical Seminars

Technical Seminars (8 Hours on Tuesday, November 6)

Cisco Live’s comprehensive full-day seminars address a wide variety of technology areas, design principles, and best practices. Offered only on Tuesday, November 6, these technical seminars complement their corresponding technology breakout sessions.

Data Center & Virtualization

TECDCT-2121 - Cisco Data Center Architecture and Cloud Infrastructure: Validated Design & Best Practices

Tuesday, November 06, 2012 08:30 AM Type: Technical Seminar Level: Introductory Duration: 9 Hrs. Audience: All Language: English - With Simultaneous Translation to Spanish

This technical seminar will discuss Cisco's vision for Data Center architecture and Cloud infrastructure. It will detail the components of how Cisco integrates network, compute and storage on an automated and unified infrastructure. It is of relevance to both all markets segments (Enterprises, Service Providers, Small and Medium Business and Public Sector) It is an in-depth study of Data Center technologies and best practices for implementing private, public and hybrid clouds. It will be a journey starting from networking and storage infrastructures, crossing servers and hypervisors and reaching to the automation and management layer. Along the way we will explore innovations and solutions from Cisco and technology partners. This journey will focus on four major areas: 1) Network Consolidation and Virtualization Network simplification is one expectation cloud. Technologies such as Fabric Extender (FEX, A-FEX), Unified Fabric (DCB, FC, FCoE, multi-hop FCoE), connectivity for 10GE, 40GE and 100GE will be explored as well as techniques to enhance Virtual Machine mobility (vPC/Fabric Path; OTV; LISP). Management tools and techniques to address the adapting operational model of a converged data center will be covered. 2) Unified Computing and Server Virtualization We cover in detail the Unified Computing System (UCS) virtualization capabilities that merge all the concepts discussed in the previous section. Innovation to accelerate Virtual Server adoption will be detailed: VN-Link; Virtual Interface Cards, VM-FEX, VXLAN. We will show how networking, storage and server virtualization fit together on the Cisco UCS. Usage of service profiles and virtualized adapter will be described. We will also explore "Integrated Compute Stacks" for turnkey delivery of Private Clouds with partners like EMC (Vblock) & NetApp (Flexpod). 3) Cloud Services Cloud services encompass a broad range of business solutions such as Virtual Desktop, Hosted Collaboration, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This section maps the business requirements to Infrastructure Functionality. Initiatives such as VXI, HCS and Private Cloud will be explored, and we will map the innovations such as vPath, VSG, vASA, vWAAS, vNAM and VXLAN to these solutions. Customer Use-Cases will be highlighted, including requirements for multi tenancy. 4) Automation & Orchestration for Cloud Having a virtualized infrastructure that unifies storage, network and compute is only half the story. Cloud solutions include service automation capabilities that require a software stack to drive the infrastructure. This final section will bring it all together, the infrastructure consolidation with self service portal, service catalogue and orchestration. Components of the solution; portal, catalog, orchestrator, workflows, targets, agents will be discussed. Automation with Cisco Network Hypervisor and Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (CIAC), as well as ancillary services such as Billing & Service Assurance will be covered No one vendor is enabling the entire ecosystem so we will highlight open source projects (Openstack) and partner solutions (BMC and others). We will close this technical seminar with a description of a Virtualized Multi Tenant Data Center (VMDC) which encompasses many of the technologies discussed during the day. Throughout the day there will be live demonstrations to showcase the technologies discussed in the technical seminar and the audience will be welcomed to interact during the demonstrations.

Routing & Switching

TECRST-2020 - Bring Your Own Device - Architectures, Design and Operation

Tuesday, November 06, 2012 08:30 AM Type: Technical Seminar Level: Introductory Duration: 9 Hrs. Audience: All Language: English - With Simultaneous Translation to Spanish

IT organizations are facing a challenge caused by the exponential growth of consumer devices that are brought inside the corporate networks. The spectrum of BYOD adoption varies greatly across businesses, from restricting consumer devices all the way to embracing the productivity gains by supporting enterprise applications across mobile devices. All spectrums of BYOD adoption require a comprehensive solution that ensures the security and reliability of the network while addressing the multiple challenges that the BYOD trend has created. This session will provide you with expert advice about the technologies and architectures that are needed in order to allow the end users the freedom to bring their choice of device to work while still affording IT the controls to ensure security, network reliability and data loss prevention. Topics to be covered include secure unified access (wired, wireless and remote), policy, mobile device on boarding and management. A combination of lectures and live demos will provide you with the information needed in order to build an effective Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solution.

TECRST-2323 - IPv6 Deployment and Operation Considerations – Hands On Experience

Tuesday, November 06, 2012 08:30 AM Type: Technical Seminar Level: Introductory Duration: 9 Hrs. Audience: All Language: English - With Simultaneous Translation to Spanish

Since February 2011, it is public knowledge that IPv4 address are limited and that newcomers, new subscribers may not receive a public global IPv4 address. This session explains why all organizations and enterprises are impacted by this address exhaustion even when using RFC 1918 private addresses on their Intranet. The session also covers the priorities and sets up an action plan. We will cover several topics related to IPV6, beginning with a brief technical introduction to IPV6 and provide foundational knowledge required to support IPv6 technologies, as well as IPv6 routing concepts. For the first time we are offering a Hands On technical seminar, the session will provide attendees an opportunity to configure, troubleshoot, design and implement an IPv6 network using IPv6 technologies and features such as: IPv6 addressing, IPv6 neighbour discovery, HSRPv6, static routing, OSPFv6, EIGRPv6 and BGPv6. You will be provided with a scenario made up of an IPv4 network where you will get the opportunity to configure and implement IPv6 based on the requirements on the network. For example where would you deploy dual stack, where it make sense to do tunnelling and how to deploy IPv6 routing protocols without impacting your existing Network infrastructure. Attendees to this session MUST bring their own laptop for lab access.

Unified Communications & Collaboration

TECUCC-2222 - Enabling Enterprise Collaboration: Design Concepts and Best Practices

Tuesday, November 06, 2012 08:30 AM Type: Technical Seminar Level: Introductory Duration: 9 Hrs. Audience: All Language: English - With Simultaneous Translation to Spanish

During this session we will explore in detail all the different and most relevant aspects that should be considered for a successful deployment of an Enterprise Collaboration solution, including best practices. Based on the design guides, we will cover the concepts that explain how the different components of the solution interact among themselves, and what requisites we should consider depending the size and scope of the project. It is recommended that attendees to this session have a basic understanding of Cisco Unified Communications Manager.

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