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: Routing Protocols

This Learning Series focuses on core routing protocols, guiding you through structured learning paths for EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you'll build practical skills in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting routed networks. The journey begins with EIGRP, where you'll learn about its fundamentals, metrics, and efficient route propagation. Next, you'll dive into OSPF, exploring areas, LSAs, and hierarchical design for scalable networks. Finally, you'll master BGP, understanding path selection, policy control, and its role in internet-scale routing. Ideal for network engineers, IT professionals, and anyone looking to strengthen their routing expertise, this series provides a progressive path from foundational concepts to advanced implementation.
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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.
Learning Series

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Foundations

This learning path on foundational Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) provides a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into the core aspects of EIGRP. It starts by explaining the basics of EIGRP, including its purpose, operation, and fundamental concepts such as EIGRP Neighbors, advertising routes, authentication, and many others. This learning path aims to equip network professionals with the knowledge needed to manage and optimize EIGRP in real-world environments, emphasizing best practices and common pitfalls.
Learning Path

NCS-1004 Transponder Using Alien Waves Lab

This lab will demonstrate the Cisco NCS-1004 transponder system's functionality and a common use case: adding it to an existing DWDM system as an "alien" device utilizing "alien" wavelengths.
Foundations Lab
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptella) Sandbox (20.13.1)

This Sandbox environment features a pre-configured network topology designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The incorporated set of components within the lab topology include Controllers and IOS-XE WAN Edges (Catalyst 8000V), all running on 20.13.1/17.13.01a code.
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87 launches

Exploring Cisco NEXUS Dashboard 3.2

Cisco has been at the forefront of developing a suite of standalone tools for data center networking, collectively known as the Day 2 Operations Suite. Recently, Cisco has initiated the integration of these tools into a unified interface called NEXUS Dashboard, providing a consolidated view and shared data repositories for enhanced application correlation. This Learning path is designed specifically for those new to networking or new to the NEXUS Dashboard product. Future learning paths will go into more detail about operating and implementing the NEXUS Dashboard platform.
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Operating Cisco NEXUS Dashboard 3.2 Insights

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) delivers a data-driven architecture for continuous network assurance, leveraging advanced analytics and AI to correlate telemetry from ACI and NX-OS fabrics into actionable intelligence. Rather than relying on reactive troubleshooting, NDI enables predictive operations by detecting anomalies, isolating root causes, and identifying performance risks before they impact production.
Advanced Configuration Lab
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Building Cisco ACI Multisite using NEXUS Dashboard 3.2 Orchestrator (NDO)

Cisco ACI is a policy-driven CLOS or Spine/Leaf based switching fabric utilizing layer 3 ECMP routing in the underlay and VXLAN encapsulation in the overlay to transport layer two and layer three traffic East/West across the fabric and North/South in and out of the fabric. ACI consists of the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), a centralized controller that manages all aspects of the ACI fabric. The leaf switches are ToR switches that provide connectivity between servers and external networks, and the spine switches are Layer 3 switches that provide ECMP high-bandwidth connectivity between leaf switches. An ACI fabric can be expanded East/West by adding leafs, cabling to the spines, and registering them. ACI was designed to operate as "One Big Switch" (like a chassis-based NEXUS 7K) with the controllers acting like the Supervisors, the spines as fabric modules, and leafs acting as blades. This approach allows us to decouple these elements from the chassis and place them anywhere in the data center. The leafs (blades) can be placed anywhere in the data center, so you are not limited to a chassis. We can take this decoupling one step further and put a leaf in a remote data center (remote leaf), place a spine and leaf fabric extension into a second data center (multi-pod), or a new spine-leaf fabric in a data center (multi-site). Using the NEXUS Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO), we can treat multiple fabrics as one entity from a policy standpoint and manage and perform day two operations from a single pane of glass. The power of ACI allows us to stretch layer two and layer three across multiple fabrics and use a single policy for forwarding traffic in the data center. This Learning Module will guide you through basics and implementation skills.
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Cisco Networking thought leadership

Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco Networking – Configuring EIGRP

Join us for an immersive, hands-on networking workshop focused on configuring and optimizing the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) within Cisco environments. This lab walks participants through core routing concepts, neighbor adjacency formation, metric calculation, and essential EIGRP configuration steps used in real-world deployments. You will examine how EIGRP selects efficient paths, balances traffic, manages convergence, and ensures reliable internal network performance. Whether building foundational routing skills or preparing for Cisco certification, this guided workshop provides the practical, scenario-based experience needed to confidently implement and troubleshoot EIGRP at scale.
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Apr 16, 2026 • 11am

Driving Data Center Innovation: A Conversation Between WWT and Cisco

In this Cisco TV interview, Nathan Litz and Vimala Veerappan discuss how partnership drives data center innovation. They explore modern design, scaling AI/ML operations, and streamlining network segmentation to enhance security.
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•Apr 3, 2026

How to Scale Agentic AI Without Losing Control

AI is moving out of prototype mode and into production. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, recorded live at NVIDIA GTC, leaders from Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT unpack the real job in front of enterprise executives: how to scale agentic AI, secure AI factories, manage token economics and prepare infrastructure for an inference-heavy future.
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Mar 30, 2026

Key Takeaways from the Optical Fiber Communications 2026 Conference

Members of WWT's Core Networking Team share their key takeaways and insights from the Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2026.
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•Mar 27, 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

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
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•May 9, 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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