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 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
55 launches

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.
Advanced Configuration Lab
206 launches

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.
Learning Path

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.
Foundations Lab
163 launches

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.
Foundations Lab
243 launches

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.
Foundations Lab
12 launches

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.
Advanced Configuration Lab
13 launches

Cisco Networking: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

This Learning Series covers essential EIGRP 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, verifying, and troubleshooting EIGRP in a variety of environments. The journey begins with EIGRP Foundations, where you'll learn about neighbor relationships, DUAL operations, route advertisements and more. Next, you'll explore EIGRP Intermediate concepts such as route summarization, variance, unequal-cost load balancing, route filtering, and redistribution. Ideal for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone seeking to deepen their expertise in scalable, dynamic IP routing using EIGRP.
Learning Series

Cisco Networking thought leadership

Cisco Live 2026: What the WWT Networking Team Learned in Las Vegas

Each year, Cisco Live brings together tens of thousands of networking professionals for a week of announcements, deep-dive sessions, and the kind of candid conversations that only happen in person. This year in Las Vegas, WWT sent a team of networking subject matter experts covering wireless, switching, SD-WAN, core routing, optical networking, and data center networking. What they brought back was a consistent signal: AI is no longer a strategy conversation, it is an infrastructure conversation, and the network is squarely at the center of it.
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•Jun 9, 2026

Cisco Live 2026 Signals a New Phase of Enterprise AI: Operational Reality

As AI agents, cyber risk and infrastructure demand accelerate, IT leaders must move beyond experimentation and build the visibility, agility and resilience needed to operate at AI speed. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, we dive into the key lessons learned at Cisco Live 2026 and how enterprise business and technology leaders should think about them moving forward.
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Jun 4, 2026

How Flex Spectrum Works

See a real life example of how Flex Spectrum works.
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May 27, 2026

Converged Packet Optical Solutions from WWT and Cisco

As networks grow in size and complexity, managing routing and optical functions can become a challenge. Most organizations want to simplify, but integrating new solutions with legacy systems can be complicated – and costly.
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May 20, 2026

Cisco Live 2026: What the WWT Networking Team Learned in Las Vegas

Each year, Cisco Live brings together tens of thousands of networking professionals for a week of announcements, deep-dive sessions, and the kind of candid conversations that only happen in person. This year in Las Vegas, WWT sent a team of networking subject matter experts covering wireless, switching, SD-WAN, core routing, optical networking, and data center networking. What they brought back was a consistent signal: AI is no longer a strategy conversation, it is an infrastructure conversation, and the network is squarely at the center of it.
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•Jun 9, 2026

Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB)

Wireless connectivity has long been too unreliable for mission-critical industrial operations. Until now. Cisco's Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) technology delivers the consistency and predictability of a physical cable, without the cable. From smart factories and autonomous vehicles to high-speed rail and busy seaports, discover how URWB is enabling industries to embrace wireless connectivity without compromising on performance or safety.
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•Apr 1, 2026

How SR-MPLS Is Changing the Way We Think About IP Networking

Learn how SR-MPLS, or Segment Routing Multiprotocol Label Switching, changes the way we think about traditional IP networking.
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•Jan 7, 2026

Cisco Live 2025: Networking Takeaways

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