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Cisco Catalyst Center takes a software-delivered approach to automating and assuring services across your campus, WAN and branch networks. Based on an open and extensible platform, Catalyst Center allows you to build value on the network, so you can streamline operations and facilitate IT and business innovation. This lab closely matches the Cisco SD-Access Foundation lab.

The Cohesity Essentials Lab enables users to learn the fundamental features and functionality of the Cohesity DataPlatform.

This lab provides users access to DZS's ZMS to manage their Velocity Passive Optical Network (PON) devices. It gives users access to a live network while displaying how ZMS works.

Cisco Secure Firewall/Firepower Management NGFW Sandbox lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). This is designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the Cisco Secure Firewall version 7.6. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift AI, formerly known as Red Hat OpenShift Data Science, is a platform designed to streamline the process of building and deploying machine learning (ML) models. It caters to both data scientists and developers by providing a collaborative environment for the entire lifecycle of AI/ML projects, from experimentation to production. In this lab, you will explore the features of OpenShift AI by building and deploying a fraud detection model. This environment is built ontop of Dell R660's and Intel Xeon's 5th generation processors.

This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6, emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity. The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)

Initiation is a Capture the Flag (CTF) lab meant to introduce you to the WWT Cyber Range platform and serve as a tutorial for future events. You will be introduced to the features and functionality as well as provided tips for success during future WWT Cyber Range CTFs. This lab will also allow you to test your access using the same platform we use for our live CTF events so you can make sure you will be ready on game day.

This Lab guide is intended for administrators who are responsible for deploying and configuring AOS 8 solutions. Participants should have at least a basic understanding of WLAN concepts. It is assumed that participants have at least a working understanding of fundamental wireless concepts as well as Aruba technology.

The Fortinet Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet NGFW solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

NVIDIA Blueprints: PDF Ingestion, also known as NVIDIA-Ingest, or NV-Ingest, this blueprint is a scalable, performance-oriented document content and metadata extraction microservice. Including support for parsing PDFs, Word and PowerPoint documents, it uses specialized NVIDIA NIM microservices to find, contextualize, and extract text, tables, charts and images for use in downstream generative applications.

The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Cisco's SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

This lab guide is intended for administrators who are responsible for deploying and configuring Cisco IOS-XE solutions. Participants should have at least a basic understanding of WLAN concepts. It is assumed that participants have at least a working understanding of fundamental wireless concepts as well as Cisco technology.