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Cisco Unified Edge: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure
Cisco's Unified Edge Platform redefines distributed computing by delivering real-time intelligence and efficiency at data creation points. With energy-efficient design and centralized management via Intersight, it transforms industries from retail to healthcare. Experience the future of edge computing—intelligent, secure and scalable—wherever data is generated.
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.
Getting Started with Cisco Catalyst Center
This learning path provides a comprehensive introduction to Cisco Catalyst Center, guiding network professionals through the platform's core features and advanced capabilities. Learners will start by understanding the hierarchical design model and how it supports scalable management and policy deployment. The course covers device discovery, inventory management, and provisioning workflows, enabling consistent network configuration and automation. It also addresses software image upgrades, lifecycle management, including End-of-Life (EoX) insights, and essential system administration tasks. A significant portion is dedicated to Software-Defined Access (SDA) fabric design, including control and border nodes, as well as implementing secure, policy-driven segmentation through micro-segmentation using Security Group Tags (SGTs). By the end, participants will be equipped to deploy, operate, and optimize Cisco Catalyst Center in modern enterprise environments.
Segmentation in the Data Center With Cisco Nexus Dashboard
This post reviews the steps needed to define and configure data center segmentation policies using Cisco's Nexus Dashboard platform alongside the results of these actions in a lab topology.
Cisco Networking: Trunks, VLANs, CDP, LLDP, UDLD
The Cisco Layer 2 Fundamentals Learning Path focuses on key networking concepts including VLANs, Trunks, CDP, LLDP, and UDLD. It starts with understanding how VLANs segment networks for better security and performance, followed by learning how trunk links enable communication between VLANs. You'll explore CDP and LLDP to discover network devices and topologies, and finally dive into UDLD for preventing unidirectional link failures. This path equips you with essential skills to manage, secure, and troubleshoot Layer 2 networks, providing a strong foundation for more advanced networking topics.
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1 Intermediate Lab
The Cisco Nexus Dashboard platform serves as a unified management interface for diverse data center networks, offering a shared environment to operate Cisco's suite of data center services, including Nexus Dashboard Intersight and NEXUS Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC). This lab will guide the user on the necessary administrative steps to set up the NEXUS Dashboard platform. These include backup, remote storage, and other critical administrative tasks.
Cisco's Technology Announcements: Building the AI-Ready and Edge-First Future
Cisco Partner Summit 2025 in San Diego marked more than a celebration of partnerships. It represented a turning point in how Cisco and its ecosystem are defining the next era of AI, edge compute, networking and lifecycle services. The event showcased major technology announcements alongside a sweeping series of awards recognizing partner excellence. Among those honored, World Wide Technology (WWT) stood out for its innovation, customer impact and global execution.
Cisco Unified Edge: Powering the Next Generation of Intelligent Infrastructure
Cisco's Unified Edge Platform redefines distributed computing by delivering real-time intelligence and efficiency at data creation points. With energy-efficient design and centralized management via Intersight, it transforms industries from retail to healthcare. Experience the future of edge computing—intelligent, secure and scalable—wherever data is generated.
Segmentation in the Data Center With Cisco Nexus Dashboard
This post reviews the steps needed to define and configure data center segmentation policies using Cisco's Nexus Dashboard platform alongside the results of these actions in a lab topology.
Cisco Networking: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
This Learning Series covers essential OSPF routing concepts and skills, forming a critical foundation for modern network engineering. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you'll gain practical experience configuring and troubleshooting OSPF in various environments. The journey begins with OSPF Foundations, where you'll learn about link-state routing, neighbor relationships, and area design. Next, you'll dive into OSPF Intermediate concepts such as network types, LSA behavior, route summarization, and redistribution. Ideal for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone seeking to deepen their expertise in scalable, dynamic IP routing using OSPF.
Cisco NEXUS 6000 Hyperfabric Foundations Lab
Explore the untapped potential of integrating hardware and software solutions. This article delves into innovative strategies to bridge the gap, promising transformative impacts on technology and user experience. Discover how synergy between these elements can redefine the future.
Cisco Live 2025: Data Center Networking Innovation Key Takeaways
At Cisco Live 2025, Cisco unveiled a bold vision for the future of data center networking—one that embraces AI scalability, embedded security and cloud-operational simplicity. From game-changing switch architectures to hyper-intelligent security tools, Cisco's announcements focused on building the AI-native, zero-trust and observability-rich data center of tomorrow. Here are five of the most impactful innovations announced.
Unifying Data Center Management: A Look at Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1
The blog post reviews enhancements coming to Cisco's upcoming Nexus Dashboard 4.1. It highlights how the new unified platform helps to streamline operations, saves network teams time and money, and simplifies deployment and management by bringing all of the Nexus Dashboard features and functions under one roof.
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Intermediate
This intermediate learning path on Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is tailored for network professionals who are ready to move beyond the basics and develop a deeper, more practical understanding of OSPF in enterprise networks. The path explores key deployment and optimization techniques including route redistribution between OSPF and other protocols, effective route summarization at ABRs and ASBRs, and implementing route filtering to control routing information flow. It also covers OSPF area types in detail, including standard stub areas, totally stubby areas, and Not-So-Stubby Areas (NSSA), with guidance on when and how to use each to simplify routing and improve scalability. Throughout, the learning path emphasizes best practices, common design mistakes to avoid, and hands-on configuration strategies to help learners confidently apply OSPF in complex, real-world environments.
Cisco 6600 Series Fabric Interconnects: A New Baseline for Modern Data Centers
Cisco's 6600 Series Fabric Interconnects revolutionize IT infrastructure by unifying LAN, SAN and management into a streamlined platform. Offering significant cost savings and future-ready capabilities, these interconnects support AI, NVMe and hybrid cloud demands, ensuring high performance and flexibility without added complexity. Embrace the future of core switching today.
Unveiling the Future of Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Cisco HCI with Nutanix
Learn how Cisco and Nutanix's partnership revolutionizes data-center and edge infrastructure with a unified, scalable platform for HCI and AI.
Getting Started with Cisco Catalyst Center
This learning path provides a comprehensive introduction to Cisco Catalyst Center, guiding network professionals through the platform's core features and advanced capabilities. Learners will start by understanding the hierarchical design model and how it supports scalable management and policy deployment. The course covers device discovery, inventory management, and provisioning workflows, enabling consistent network configuration and automation. It also addresses software image upgrades, lifecycle management, including End-of-Life (EoX) insights, and essential system administration tasks. A significant portion is dedicated to Software-Defined Access (SDA) fabric design, including control and border nodes, as well as implementing secure, policy-driven segmentation through micro-segmentation using Security Group Tags (SGTs). By the end, participants will be equipped to deploy, operate, and optimize Cisco Catalyst Center in modern enterprise environments.
4 Benefits of a SaaS-Managed Data Center Fabrics: Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is an innovative solution that integrates local switches with SaaS-based management. It is designed to be scalable, secure and simple to deploy.
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 Networking: Trunks, VLANs, CDP, LLDP, UDLD
The Cisco Layer 2 Fundamentals Learning Path focuses on key networking concepts including VLANs, Trunks, CDP, LLDP, and UDLD. It starts with understanding how VLANs segment networks for better security and performance, followed by learning how trunk links enable communication between VLANs. You'll explore CDP and LLDP to discover network devices and topologies, and finally dive into UDLD for preventing unidirectional link failures. This path equips you with essential skills to manage, secure, and troubleshoot Layer 2 networks, providing a strong foundation for more advanced networking topics.
Cisco Networking: EtherChannels
The EtherChannel Configuration Learning Path focuses on key concepts and protocols for link aggregation, including static EtherChannels, PAgP, and LACP, with a deep dive into LACP's advanced features. You'll begin by understanding how EtherChannels combine multiple physical links into a single logical connection to enhance bandwidth and redundancy. The path covers how to configure static EtherChannels for manual link aggregation, followed by PAgP for dynamic link aggregation in Cisco-only environments. You'll also explore LACP, an open standard protocol, and its advanced features such as negotiation modes, timeouts, and priority settings for optimizing link performance and fault tolerance. This learning path equips you with the skills to configure, manage, and troubleshoot EtherChannel setups, providing a strong foundation for advanced network design and troubleshooting.
Cisco Networking: Spanning Tree Protocol
This learning path provides a comprehensive guide to mastering Cisco's Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and its variants, including PVST+, RSTP, and MSTP. It covers the fundamentals of STP, such as preventing network loops and ensuring redundancy, while diving into advanced configurations like adjusting STP costs and bridge priority to optimize network performance. The path also emphasizes security features such as Loop Guard, Root Guard, BPDU Guard, and many others, to protect against unintended topology changes and network instability. Additionally, students will engage in hands-on labs to configure STP, allowing them to apply best practices and gain practical experience in designing secure, efficient, and resilient networks."
Control All Your Infrastructure with Cisco Intersight
Learn how you can control your UCS servers, converged infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure using Cisco Intersight.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI Cluster Overview
A cloud managed, high performance, easy to deploy and operate, consolidated network - integrated with your Al stack.
Modernizing the Data Center to Capitalize on AI with Cisco at Cisco Live! | Beyond the Booth
Generative AI may sit atop the executive agenda, but few organizations are fully prepared to harness the full potential of AI and AI-powered technologies.
While at Cisco Live, we caught up with Cisco's David Jensen and WWT's Justin van Schaik to talk about the need to modernize and scale enterprise data centers for the surging growth in AI. We also talk with David and Justin about managing AI environments and workloads and how Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters make it easy for enterprise customers to build infrastructure to run generative AI models.