Cisco and WWT: Delivering Seamless and Secure Networking Solutions for the Modern Enterprise

 

Cisco and WWT deliver seamless and secure networking solutions for campus and branch environments, ensuring that users enjoy uninterrupted access to applications and data at any time, from any location, regardless of where those applications are hosted. With a comprehensive and flexible portfolio, Cisco ensures frictionless connection for users and devices in the most complex environments with AI and security embedded from the start. 

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?
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•Nov 3, 2024

Simplify IT and Network operations: Leverage AI/ML, automation, and enhanced visibility to provide a simplified, scalable network management solution with a centralized cloud-based dashboard, enabling efficient control and configuration of both wired and wireless networks from anywhere. It enhances visibility and security through integrated analytics and real-time insights, ensuring optimized performance and protection for critical network resources.

Support the future of work: Transform how connectivity and security are approached, allowing any user to seamlessly connect to any application in the multicloud era. This is achieved through a cloud-native SD-WAN overlay that is built on a SASE-enabled architecture, offering robust security and optimized performance. By integrating Cisco SD-WAN, organizations can ensure secure and reliable access across diverse environments, enhancing productivity and collaboration in an increasingly digital world.

Optimize application experiences: Swiftly detecting and address any degradation in network performance and user experience. This is achieved through end-to-end visibility and AI-driven insights that span both private and public networks, facilitated by native integration with Cisco ThousandEyes. With this powerful combination, organizations can proactively monitor and enhance network health, ensuring consistently high performance and a seamless experience for users interacting with critical applications.

See and Secure: Enhance the identification, verification, monitoring, and protection of users, devices and applications by implementing policy and segmentation by integrating network telemetry with advanced security analytics to provide comprehensive visibility and control. By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can ensure that their network environment is both secure and efficient, effectively managing access and safeguarding critical resources against potential threats.

WWT experts and the AI Proving Ground in our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) support the latest in Cisco Networking solutions.

Why WWT for Cisco Networking?

With over 600 skilled developers worldwide and many successful business transformation applications delivered, our Application Services (AS) team is a tremendous asset to customers. Offerings include software and application development and third-party platform integrations.
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Whether you need help strategizing and implementing enterprise architecture, solidifying your segmentation business case, assessing the risks and maturity of your current approach, improving operational efficiencies or building and executing a plan to fill gaps — we can help. Our services range from briefings, assessments and workshops to long-term consulting and technical engagements.

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Our Advanced Services team helps equips organizations with their new technology as quickly as possible to start driving outcomes. Through our proven methodologies and global integration and logistics capabilities, we offer a broad set of deployment solutions for Cisco networking solutions with products ranging from campus access layers, WAN migrations, mobility and data center networking.

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With more than four million square feet of space on three continents, we are positioned to provide robust logistics and life-cycle management internationally. Services range from basic, just-in-time logistics to configuration and staging. Networking-specific offerings include imaging and configuration, asset management and rack integration. In addition, process automation allows us to integrate with customer systems for seamless device delivery and management.

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Leveraging the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), we are able to demonstrate the capabilities and features of Cisco Networking solutions. More importantly, the power of the ATC comes through with all the integrations with other systems and services such as ServiceNow, Ansible and O365. This allows us to quickly showcase automation of business process.

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Cisco Networking labs and learning paths in the ATC

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.
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.9.x)

The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 20.9.x Sandbox is a capability of the ATC designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the latest features in the Cisco SD-WAN solution. Within this lab version, every Edge participating in the SD-WAN fabric is a Catalyst 8000V. The environment that supports the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 20.9.x Sandbox is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Sandbox Lab
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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.
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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 Scalable Group Tags (SGTs). By the end, participants will be equipped to deploy, operate, and optimize Cisco Catalyst Center in modern enterprise environments.
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Cisco Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN

This Learning Series is designed to Discover and Experience Cisco Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN. Cisco Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN is a solution that provides secure and scalable connectivity for enterprises by optimizing and simplifying the management of their wide area networks.
Learning Series

Cisco Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN Security

This Learning Path delivers tangible business value by empowering enterprises to proactively defend against security threats through the intelligent capabilities of Cisco SD-WAN. Designed for network engineers interested in learning about securing the SD-WAN, this Learning Path leverages integrated security features such as threat intelligence, secure segmentation, and advanced traffic inspection, organizations can reduce risk, minimize downtime, and ensure business continuity. Ultimately, this learning path supports enterprises in strengthening their security posture while optimizing network performance and operational efficiency.
Learning Path

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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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.
Foundations Lab
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Cisco Networking thought leadership

The NVIDIA–Cisco Spectrum-X Partnership: A Technical Deep Dive

NVIDIA and Cisco's Spectrum-X partnership combines best-of-breed software and hardware into a multivendor ecosystem. This partnership enhances scalability, flexibility, and vendor interoperability, addressing the critical demands of AI/ML workloads. The collaboration promises a high-performance Ethernet fabric, redefining load balancing and congestion control for the AI era.
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•Jul 3, 2025

The Versatile Data Center Smart Switch: Cisco N9300

The Cisco Nexus N9300 Smart Switch revolutionizes data center infrastructure with its convergence of high-performance switching, network security and application services. Featuring Cisco Silicon One ASICs and a Data Processing Unit, it offers intelligent, service-aware capabilities. Optional Hypershield enhances zero-trust security, making it ideal for AI, hybrid cloud and security-conscious environments.
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•Jun 25, 2025

Transforming Healthcare with SD-Access

Cisco's Software-Defined Access brings 5 key network benefits to healthcare organizations.
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•Jun 23, 2025

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.
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•Jun 19, 2025

Cisco Live 2025: Networking Takeaways

Our Networking team's highlights from an exciting week in San Diego.
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•Jun 18, 2025

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
Blog
•May 9, 2025

Troubleshooting a Wireless Network - Information Gathering

This video covers essential wireless troubleshooting strategies, focusing on isolating issues through a structured approach. It highlights key information to gather, such as client behavior, device type, and signal strength metrics. Learn how to quickly assess symptoms, correlate data, and determine root causes in dynamic Wi-Fi environments.
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Apr 28, 2025

Troubleshooting a Wireless Network - Information Gathering

This covers essential wireless troubleshooting strategies, focusing on isolating issues through a structured approach. It highlights key information to gather, such as client behavior, device type and signal strength metrics. Learn how to quickly assess symptoms, correlate data and determine root causes in dynamic Wi-Fi environments.
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•Apr 23, 2025

Cisco Networking certifications and awards

WWT employs 367 Cisco-certified engineers and holds more than 6,060 individual Cisco certifications. Notable certifications include many CCIE routing and switching, CCIE data center and CCIE collaboration certifications. Other CCIE-certified resources span security, service provider, storage, networking, voice and wireless.

  • Cisco Gold Integrator
  • Cisco Master Networking Specialized
  • Cisco Master Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Specialized
  • Cisco Master Service Provider Technology Specialized
  • Cisco Advanced Enterprise Networks Architecture Specialized
  • Cisco Hybrid Cloud Networking Specialized
  • Cisco Hybrid Work from Office Specialized
  • Cisco IoT Advantage Specialized
  • Cisco SASE Specialized
     

WWT was also recognized with sixteen Cisco Partner of the Year awards in 2024

View all of WWT's Cisco certifications and awards
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