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Why Modern Cloud WLANs Are Re-Centralizing the Data Plane
Modern cloud-managed WLANs are reintroducing centralized data-plane aggregation to improve scalability, simplify operations, and enhance roaming. Cisco's Campus Gateway exemplifies this hybrid model by combining cloud control with centralized tunneling, enabling cleaner segmentation and more efficient campus and branch network architectures at both large and small scales.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1: VXLAN EVPN Fabric Deployment
Join us for an interactive VXLAN EVPN lab session that combines guided walkthroughs, real-world insights, and hands-on practice using Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1. During the lab walkthrough, we'll discuss the workflow for onboarding Cisco Nexus switches, configuring vPCs, and building VRFs and networks. You'll learn how segmentation and tenant connectivity are implemented, along with key concepts such as route leaking, external route advertisement, and the roles of Border Gateways and Border Gateway Spines, as well as an overview of additional Nexus Dashboard labs and learning resources, and a look at what's coming next.
Nexus Dashboard 4.x Learning Series
This learning series begins with the fundamental concepts of Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1, giving you a strong foundation in platform architecture, device management, and network visibility. You'll then move into Day 0, 1, and 2 operations, covering switch onboarding, initial configuration, ongoing management, and operational workflows to maintain a healthy network. The series culminates with building VXLAN EVPN fabrics, including advanced tasks like external route advertisement, route leaking, and Multi-Site Domain integration, giving hands-on experience with scalable, distributed data center architectures, all managed through the unified Nexus Dashboard interface.
Why Observability Has Become the Control Plane for Enterprise AI
As enterprises rush to deploy AI, observability is emerging as the discipline that determines whether those investments create durable value—or quietly erode it. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Ivan Wintersteiger, Cisco Splunk's Tapan Shah and NVIDIA's Shashank Sabhlok discuss why observability, when treated as foundational, becomes the connective tissue between infrastructure, applications, security and user experience.
The Shift from AI Pilots to AI Infrastructure
As organizations move beyond experimentation, compute has become a deciding factor in whether AI delivers real value or stalls before production. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT VP Neil Anderson, NVIDIA VP Chris Marriott and Cisco VP Daniel McGinniss talk about how organizations are rethinking where AI runs, how it's secured and how value is measured.
The Network Is Becoming the Real Unit of AI Performance
As AI systems grow larger and more distributed, enterprises are discovering that performance, security and time-to-value depend less on individual components and more on how well the system moves, synchronizes and protects data at scale. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Justin van Schaik, Cisco's Dave Jansen and NVIDIA's Taylor Allison talk about how a well-designed network fabric extends time to value and decreases risk for AI initiatives.
Cisco Networking: Configuring OSPF
This configuration workbook lab is designed to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) routing in Cisco networks. Participants will learn to configure OSPF across multiple areas, implement OSPF neighbor relationships, and manage route summarization and redistribution. The lab will also explore advanced OSPF concepts such as stub areas, NSSA, and virtual links. By the end of the lab, learners will be able to validate OSPF operations using show commands and debug tools, ensuring proper route propagation and stable network convergence in real-world routing environments.
Foundations Lab
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Cisco SD-Access Fabric with Catalyst Center (2.3.7.9) Foundations Lab
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.
Advanced Configuration Lab
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SRv6 uSID Lab
SRv6 utilizes the IPv6 data plane natively to deliver Segment Routing capabilities which dramatically simplifies network deployments. By eliminating the need for MPLS label shims and transporting SRv6 SIDs as IPv6 addresses, any IPv6 capable router can forward an SRv6 packet. This means that you can run SRv6 services over any IPv6-enabled infrastructure. This lab will introduce you to the basics of SRv6 with L3VPN over a purely IPv6 transport.
Advanced Configuration Lab
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Why Production AI Exposes Security Gaps Organizations Can't Ignore
As enterprises move AI from experimentation to production, security failures are no longer isolated incidents—they are systemic risks embedded deep in infrastructure, data flows, and decision-making systems. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Istvan Berko, Cisco's DJ Sampath and NVIDIA's Ofir Arkin discuss why as AI becomes core infrastructure, security becomes the mechanism that determines whether that infrastructure scales or undermines itself.
Accelerating Kubernetes Ingress and Security Automation with F5 and WWT
This blog highlights automated deployment patterns of F5 NGINX Ingress Controller paired with F5 NGINX App Protect across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.