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Maximizing Returns: AI Use Cases for Contact Center Success
AI is revolutionizing the way businesses interact with their customers. Here are the top ways that contact center leaders should leverage AI to yield the biggest ROI.
The Battle of AI Networking: Ethernet vs InfiniBand
This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?
Network Engineering Foundations
This Learning Series covers the fundamentals of network engineering. Through hands-on labs and real-world examples, you will develop the practical skills necessary to build and maintain robust networks. It is perfect for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone interested in understanding the backbone of today's interconnected world.
Cisco Networking: Layer 2 Technologies
This Learning Series covers several key network engineering concepts, including VLANs and Trunks, EtherChannels, and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Through practical labs and real-world scenarios, you'll gain hands-on experience in configuring and managing resilient networks. The journey begins with VLANs and trunking, where you'll learn about network segmentation. Next, you'll explore EtherChannels to enhance link aggregation and redundancy. Finally, you'll master Spanning Tree Protocol to prevent network loops and optimize performance. Ideal for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone looking to expand their knowledge of contemporary network infrastructure.
Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1
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)
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Empower Employees and IT Teams with Modern Device Management
Learn how WWT brings business and technology together to empower employees, streamline end-user computing (EUC) and unified endpoint management (UEM). Accelerate innovation so that IT staff, your end users and the business thrive.
Managing Network Congestion in AI: The Role of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
This post delves into Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) as a tool for managing network congestion in AI and high-performance computing environments. By slowing down packet transmission, ECN enhances performance, though its implementation poses challenges, necessitating careful configuration and tuning for optimal results.
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.
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.
Cisco AI Defense Overview
Cisco's end-to-end solution to secure the AI transformation in enterprises.
Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) for 6 GHz Wi-Fi
This blog post traces the history of Wi-Fi technology from its humble beginnings to its current applications and discusses the regulatory and technical obstacles that hinder the full utilization of the 6 GHz spectrum
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.
Understanding Cisco ISE 3.x and the Benefits of Migrating from ISE 2.x to 3.x
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 3.x represents a significant upgrade over its predecessor, Cisco ISE 2.x, offering a host of new features, improved performance and enhanced security capabilities. This blog post delves into the key features of Cisco ISE 3.x and highlights the benefits of migrating from earlier versions, providing a thorough understanding of why this upgrade is essential for modern network environments.
Partner POV | Cisco AI Defense: Comprehensive Security for Enterprise AI Adoption
Today, we are witnessing artificial intelligence radically reshape the way we do business.
Partner POV | Embracing the AI Era: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) is essential.
Segment Routing Inter-Op Lab With Cisco & Juniper
Service providers and other large organizations rely on MPLS quite often on multiple platforms to deliver mission critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the next generation technology that replaces MPLS, and here we look at implementing L3VPN's with Segmenting Routing on both Cisco and Juniper Routers.
SR-MPLS With Flex-Algo Lab
Service providers and other large organizations rely on MPLS on multiple platforms to deliver mission-critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the next-generation technology that replaces MPLS, and here we look at SR-MPLS along with an advanced feature called Flexible Algorithm (Flex-Algo). Segment Routing with Flex-Algo enables the router to assign a user-defined algorithm to the IGP that is implemented dynamically and on-demand.
IP Routing Lab for Optical Engineers
There is a movement in the industry to combine the optical network and the routed network, with Cisco leading the charge. The architecture is known as RON, Routed Optical Networks. With the RON architecture, the services that Optical Engineers are accustomed to delivering within the optical network are now provided via the routed network. Services such as site-to-site traffic demand, path selection, and path protection. With this shift in architecture, there is a growing requirement for optical engineers' expertise to span both optical and routing. This lab is designed to demonstrate how the routed network delivers these services and how to configure a basic RON network using Segment Routing.
SR-MPLS Traffic Engineering Lab
Organizations rely on MPLS on multiple platforms to deliver mission-critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the next-generation evolution of traditional MPLS, and here we look at SR-MPLS and Traffic Engineering. We will perform distributed Traffic Engineering computations from the headend routers and utilize an SR PCE for centralized traffic engineering.
Intro to Segment Routing Lab
MPLS has been around for over two decades and is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. Segment Routing has taken the stage to replace MPLS because it accomplishes the same as MPLS but is less complex, extremely robust and can be scaled without limitations. This lab will introduce you to the basics of Segment Routing.
Intro to Segment Routing With OSPF Lab
This article provides a concise overview of the solution, including both hardware and software components.
Multi-Domain SR-TE Lab
Organizations rely on MPLS on multiple platforms to deliver mission-critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the evolution of traditional MPLS, and here we look at SR-MPLS and Traffic Engineering across multiple domains with an SR-PCE (Path Computation Element). Traffic Engineering has been around for many years as RSVP-TE; however, being very cumbersome and complex, it has gained very little popularity with few deployments. Segment Routing Traffic Engineering adds a new dimension to Segment Routing including the ability to perform end-to-end traffic engineering across multiple IGP domains.
Intro to MPLS Using LDP
MPLS has been used for over two decades. It is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. This lab provides a hands-on lab environment that will familiarize the user with the primary routing configuration of MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) with LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) running on Cisco routers.
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.
Intro to MPLS Using LDP with OSPF
MPLS has been used for over two decades. It is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. This lab provides a hands-on lab environment that will familiarize the user with the primary routing configuration of MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) with LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) and OSPF running on Cisco routers.