The Cisco 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.

One of the advantages of using ThousandEyes is the ability to see the metrics from around the world. ThousandEyes has hundreds of agents located around the world customers can use in addition customers can install enterprise agents that are only available for testing products within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC). For this lab, ThousandEyes was set up using a few of the cloud agents in different parts of the world. Each agent runs a script that interacts with the TeaStore website.

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. Cisco Secure Edge (formerly Umbrella) is a SASE solution that combines edge networking, domain name system (DNS) enforcement, cloud-delivered firewall (CDFW), and secure web gateway (SWG) capabilities to connect, protect, and secure remote offices and users. The SASE Lab Series will look to explore the capabilities of the solution to provide you with a "rubber meets road" understanding of these technologies and how SASE can be applied in your company.

Established in 2007, Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) was developed to secure the Federal Government's connections to the Internet. The first iteration of TIC, coined 1.0, focused on reducing external network connections to improve security posture. TIC 2.0 refined the original design by pushing for standardization across federal agencies. In its 3rd revision, TIC 3.0 introduces flexibility, security and visibility to accommodate cloud, mobile and encrypted applications, services and environments.

The Cisco Meraki Wireless Switching and Security Lab is designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the features of Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Meraki MX, MS and MR product lines.

Distinguish yourself as a leader in collaboration technologies. Achieving CCIE Collaboration certification proves your skills with complex collaboration solutions. To earn CCIE Collaboration certification, you pass two exams: a qualifying exam that covers core collaboration technologies, and a hands-on lab exam that covers enterprise collaboration solutions through the entire network lifecycle, from designing and deploying to operating and optimizing.

SecureX Lab

Cisco Webex Contact Center is a next-generation cloud contact center solution. Designed and built from its foundation as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud solution, Webex Contact Center's best-of-breed platform architecture brings your business the innovation, flexibility, scalability, and agility of the cloud without sacrificing security. As a cloud-based subscription, Webex Contact Center enables rapid time to market and time to new revenue while minimizing upfront capital investment.