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Cisco Live 2026 Signals a New Phase of Enterprise AI: Operational Reality
In this episode of the AIPG Podcast, we dive into the key lessons learned and how enterprise technology leaders should think about them moving forward.
About Cisco & WWT
Our partnership with Cisco is rooted in our shared goal of driving value for our customers while helping them solve complex IT and business problems. The WWT and Cisco partnership began more than 30 years ago. Since then, we have become Cisco's largest and most strategic global partner with more than $6B in Cisco sales and gold certifications in the US, Singapore, India and the UK.
Partner POV | What Is Agentic Observability? Definition, Benefits, and Real-World Applications
In the era of AI-driven applications, traditional observability tools are being pushed to the limit. Engineers once relied on a simple formula: collect telemetry, visualize it, and wait for a human to investigate. But as systems become non-deterministic and autonomous, this passive model is no longer enough.
Partner POV | Splunk Observability + Galileo: Bridging the AI Trust Gap
The era of the "agentic teammate" is no longer a futuristic concept— it's here now. Acting on our behalf, AI agents are enabling us to reimagine key business workflows, streamline customer interactions, and automate daily tasks, so we can all focus on more strategic work.
Partner POV | Agentic Observability Is Changing How We Work, and What Matters
If you only listened to the hype cycles, you might think AI has already "solved" observability. But not so fast, my friend.
Partner POV | Cisco and Equinix Are Expanding Collaboration on Hybrid Multicloud Connectivity
Enterprises face challenges in hybrid multicloud networking, including latency, security, and cloud sprawl. Cisco and Equinix's collaboration introduces Cisco Meraki vMX on Equinix Network Edge, offering secure, cloud-managed SD-WAN with rapid deployment. This solution enhances connectivity, reduces costs, and adapts to evolving needs, positioning enterprises for the AI era.
Cisco Got Serious About PQC at Cisco Live 2026
Cisco got serious about Post-Quantum Cryptography at Cisco Live US. With Cisco IQ, the 8000 Series Secure Router, and a PQC-safe full stack architecture, Cisco is making sure their product lineup is secure today for tomorrow's threats.
Cisco solution focus areas
Cisco AI Solutions
Cisco connects and protects the AI era. With the trusted infrastructure to power and secure AI, Cisco helps you to maximize AI's value for your organization.
Cisco Security
Cisco Security drives security resilience, enabling organizations to protect the integrity of their business amidst unpredictable threats or change.
Cisco Data Center
Exponential data growth and the need to process and deliver data across organizations requires smart data center solutions. WWT and Cisco help organizations optimize on-premises workloads, scale infrastructure, reduce their data center footprints and simplify IT operations.
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Cisco Networking
Cisco Networking provides intelligent network solutions for organizations to securely connect users, devices, applications, and workloads everywhere.
Cisco Hybrid Work
Cisco leadership podcasts
A New AI Operating System with Cisco's Jeetu Patel and WWT's Jim Kavanaugh
In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh and Cisco President Jeetu Patel break down the real constraints shaping the AI era and explore why platforms will define the next decade of enterprise innovation. They'll also talk about how secure, scalable architectures enable organizations to innovate confidently and compete at AI speed.
AI at Scale: How Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT Are Powering the Future of Enterprise AI
As AI moves from predictive analytics to real-time autonomous decision-making, enterprises face a critical challenge: scaling AI securely and efficiently. This episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast explores key takeaways from NVIDIA GTC, the evolving Cisco-NVIDIA partnership and the foundational role AI infrastructure plays in unlocking enterprise-scale AI. Featuring WWT VP of Networking and AI Solutions Neil Anderson, NVIDIA SVP of Networking Kevin Deierling and Cisco SVP of Networking Kevin Wollenweber, the episode covers insights into networking, security, and compute innovations, and how Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT are shaping the future of AI-powered businesses.
Is Security Now a Prerequisite for AI Adoption? Inside Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
As companies move from chatbots to agents, the hardest work isn't prompting — it's building an always-on, governable, cost-aware system that leaders can trust. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel, NVIDIA's Vice President, Americas Partner Organization Craig Weinstein and WWT CTO Mike Taylor discuss how Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is designed to close the gap between experimentation and execution by treating AI as infrastructure.
Why the AI Factory Is Becoming the Enterprise's Next Critical Infrastructure
As organizations struggle to move beyond AI pilots, a new architecture — Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA — is emerging as a missing link between experimentation and real business outcomes. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Neil Anderson, Cisco's Kevin Wollenweber and NVIDIA's Chris Marriott discuss how the Secure AI Factory represents a shift from bolt-on protection to security built into the architecture itself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cisco labs in the ATC
Cisco 9800 Foundation Lab
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.
SASE Architecture: Cisco Viptela SD-WAN With Zscaler (SSE) Lab
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. With the Zscaler and SD-WAN integration, you can rapidly gain access to cloud-delivered security in minutes. This market leading API automation makes it very fast and agile to deploy and manage the network and security environment of hundreds or even thousands of remote sites.
Cisco Splunk Observability Lab
This Splunk Observability Cloud lab is a guided, read-only environment designed to teach how Splunk Observability Cloud is used to monitor and troubleshoot modern infrastructure and applications. You will explore a live trial environment that includes Kubernetes clusters with active workloads, on-premises host fleets, and instrumented microservices, then navigate built-in dashboards, APM service views, alert detectors, and the metric catalog. The lab also emphasizes operational workflows, including infrastructure investigation, application performance analysis, and alert triage.
Intro to ISIS
ISIS is the prevalent IGP routing protocol for multi-protocol routing with support for IPv4 and IPv6. As a link-state routing protocol, it supports fast convergence and fast reroute. Here we explore how easy it is to configure and verify ISIS.
Cisco learning paths
WWT learning paths are carefully designed to guide architects and engineers through some of Cisco's latest technologies. The goal is to prepare tech professionals at each stage of their careers to keep pace with key technological innovations and evolutions. With role-based paths that demonstrate business value, we help teams skill up efficiently.
Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Explore the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA through three learning paths. Master Infrastructure Operations using Cisco Intersight and Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller to orchestrate data center environments. Dive into AI Defense to learn how Cisco secures AI systems with visibility, model validation, and runtime guardrails against evolving threats. Finally, explore how Splunk Observability supports the operation and maintenance of AI workloads.
Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA: Observability
This learning path delivers a structured exploration of network observability principles and monitoring architecture across enterprise environments. Through guided articles, videos, and hands-on labs, participants will develop meaningful insight around telemetry strategy, observability tool placement, and data pipeline design for the data center, cloud edge, campus, and distributed application layer.
Cisco ACI Multisite using NEXUS Dashboard 4.x Orchestrator
Cisco ACI is a policy-driven CLOS, or Spine-Leaf, switching fabric that utilizes Layer 3 ECMP routing in the underlay and VXLAN encapsulation in the overlay to transport Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic both east-west within the fabric and north-south between the fabric and external networks. ACI consists of the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), which provides centralized policy, automation, and fabric management capabilities. Leaf switches function as Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches that provide connectivity to servers, storage, and external networks, while spine switches provide high-speed Layer 3 ECMP connectivity between all leaf switches.
An ACI fabric can be scaled horizontally by adding additional leaf switches, connecting them to the spine layer, and registering them with the fabric. Cisco ACI was architected to operate as a distributed "single logical system," similar to a modular chassis-based architecture, where APICs provide centralized policy and control functions, spine switches provide the high-speed fabric core, and leaf switches provide endpoint connectivity. This distributed architecture enables organizations to decouple these functions from the constraints of a physical chassis and deploy them anywhere within the data center environment.
Cisco ACI further extends this architecture through remote leaf, multi-pod, and multi-site deployments. Remote leaf allows organizations to extend policy and connectivity to remote locations while maintaining centralized operational control. Multi-pod enables geographically separated pods to operate as a single fabric, while multi-site supports independent ACI fabrics interconnected across multiple data centers or cloud environments.
With Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) 4.x, organizations can centrally manage policy, orchestration, analytics, and day-two operations across multiple ACI fabrics and cloud-integrated environments from a unified operational platform. Nexus Dashboard 4.x enhances scalability, resiliency, automation, and operational visibility while integrating advanced analytics, AI-driven assurance, telemetry, and cloud-native application support. This enables consistent policy enforcement, simplified operations, and unified visibility across on-premises data centers, edge environments, and public cloud deployments.
Cisco Networking: Routing Protocols
This Learning Series focuses on core routing protocols, guiding you through structured learning paths for EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you'll build practical skills in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting routed networks. The journey begins with EIGRP, where you'll learn about its fundamentals, metrics, and efficient route propagation. Next, you'll dive into OSPF, exploring areas, LSAs, and hierarchical design for scalable networks. Finally, you'll master BGP, understanding path selection, policy control, and its role in internet-scale routing.
Ideal for network engineers, IT professionals, and anyone looking to strengthen their routing expertise, this series provides a progressive path from foundational concepts to advanced implementation.
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