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 Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN Visibility with Analytics

This learning path explores the use of monitoring your Cisco SD-WAN fabric with SD-WAN Analytics and ThousandEyes, showcasing their unique methods of providing visibility into network and application performance. As a WAN engineer, monitoring and keeping an eye on the health of your network can be a constant challenge, but luckily network monitoring capabilities have come a long way. In today's complex network environments, having robust monitoring capabilities is essential for network engineers to understand and troubleshoot issues effectively. SD-WAN Analytics and ThousandEyes are powerful tools that provide varying levels of network visibility, each offering unique perspectives and usage scenarios. Understanding the capabilities of each helps network engineers identify the right tool for their specific needs, ensuring optimal network performance and reliability.
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Cisco Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN With SD-Routing

SD-Routing is a new capability offered by Cisco, in an attempt to simplify and overcome the challenges of traditional routing deployments. This capability enables autonomous (non-SD-WAN) routing devices to be managed through the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, unifying autonomous and SD-WAN devices into a single platform, unlocking many of the tools and features previously only offered to SD-WAN devices, such as device lifecycle management, DIA (Direct Internet Access), Cloud-onRamp, and troubleshooting tools. Enroll to gain practical skills in onboarding traditional routing devices into SD-WAN Manager, and become proficient in leveraging SD-Routing's benefits for simplified network management and enhanced operational agility. Start your SD-Routing journey today!
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Multi-OEM VXLAN EVPN 101: From Host Connectivity to eBGP Underlay

This learning path is a comprehensive, progression-driven curriculum designed to take network engineers from core Layer 2/3 fundamentals all the way to architect-level mastery of VXLAN EVPN — one of the most critical technologies underpinning modern data center and cloud networking. Spanning multiple structured modules, the path is carefully sequenced to build knowledge layer by layer, ensuring that each concept is grounded in what came before and every advanced topic is supported by a solid technical foundation. The journey begins with a deliberate refresher of networking fundamentals — Ethernet, VLANs, IP routing, and ARP — not as a review for its own sake, but to reframe those concepts through the lens of scalability challenges that VXLAN EVPN was built to solve. From there, learners explore the evolution of data center design, the mechanics of overlay networking, and the inner workings of VXLAN itself, before advancing into the EVPN control plane, distributed routing models, multi-tenancy, and high-availability designs. Throughout the path, the curriculum maintains a strong emphasis on real-world applicability and multi-vendor relevance, with content aligned to production deployments on Cisco NX-OS, Arista EOS, and Juniper Junos platforms. Learners will not only understand how VXLAN EVPN works in theory, but will develop the design intuition to architect, validate, and defend fabric deployments in complex, large-scale environments. Advanced modules extend the curriculum into automation and programmability, multi-site and inter-DC architectures, hybrid cloud integration, and emerging trends such as SRv6 and AI-driven network operations. This learning path is built for engineers at the CCNA level and above who are ready to move beyond traditional campus and enterprise networking into modern data center and cloud infrastructure. It is equally valuable for seasoned professionals seeking to formalize and deepen their VXLAN EVPN knowledge, close vendor-specific gaps, or transition into architecture and design roles. Whether you are preparing for a professional certification, building a lab curriculum, or enabling a team of engineers, this path provides the structure, depth, and practical grounding to make that outcome a reality. Look for part 2 of this series, where we dive into advanced VXLAN techniques such as flood and learn, MP-BGP EVPN, multi-tenancy, and troubleshooting.
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Manage and Monitor SD-Routing Devices

With Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 20.13, learn to onboard traditional routing devices into Catalyst Manager just like SD-WAN devices, enabling advanced monitoring capabilities and troubleshooting tools.
Advanced Configuration Lab
97 launches

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Foundations

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

SR-MPLS Traffic Engineering Lab

Organizations rely on MPLS on multiple platforms to deliver mission-critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the next-generation evolution of traditional MPLS, and here we look at SR-MPLS and Traffic Engineering. We will perform distributed Traffic Engineering computations from the headend routers and utilize an SR PCE for centralized traffic engineering.
Advanced Configuration Lab
130 launches

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
57 launches

Cisco Networking thought leadership

Cisco Crosswork Network Controller: What's all the Hype?

We explain why Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller (CNC), a Segment Routing software-defined networking controller, is getting so much attention.
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•Jul 30, 2026

How to Determine If ACI Multi-Site is the Right Data Center Solution

Is ACI and ACI Multi-Site the correct solution for your data center refresh? By leveraging the ACI Multi-Site on-demand labs, you can determine if the ACI Multi-Site spine/leaf fabric architecture fits your business and technical requirements for brownfield or greenfield data center refreshes.
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•Jul 15, 2026

Simplifying Branch Networking with Unified Branch and Branch as Code

Learn how Unified Branch and Branch as Code technologies streamline branch network deployment, drive standardization, embed security from day one, and enable scalable, efficient operations for the modern enterprise.
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Cisco SR-MPLS or Cisco SRv6 uSID: Choosing the Right Path for Your Network

A deep-dive comparison of Cisco's two Segment Routing implementations — SR-MPLS, built on the proven MPLS data plane, and SRv6 uSID, built natively on IPv6 — where they diverge, where they excel and how to choose the right path forward.
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•Jun 25, 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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