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Advanced Technology Center (ATC)

To answer the most complex questions, we've developed an immersive learning platform, powered by our Advanced Technology Center, designed to be at the forefront of what's possible. Accelerate your knowledge by joining our physical and virtual ecosystem of innovation, research, community, labs and thought leadership. Be in the know wherever you are in the world.

What's inside?

The ATC is a collaborative ecosystem used to design, build, educate, demonstrate and deploy innovative technology products and integrated architectural solutions for our customers, partners and employees around the globe. The heart of the ATC is our Data Centers which house 350+ racks of equipment used to cut technology evaluation time from months to weeks, if not days.

ATC DC1-60

Located in the heart of our tech campus in St. Louis, the original ATC Data Center serves as a multi-purpose data center lab where we can accept various customer/partner products and racks.

ATC DC2-56

Our first data center expansion in the ATC on our Tech Campus in St. Louis, architected to efficiently move gear in and out, while utilizing modern data center design principles.

ATC DC3-56

This data center is the twin of our DC2 facility, located on our Tech Campus in St. Louis.

ATC DC4-56

Our newest data center on the Tech Campus in St. Louis, that offers a variety of secure co-location offerings.

Equinix DC11

Our Equinix extension of the ATC allows our customers to experiment with various technologies that help them architect their next-gen cloud ready architecture. This facility is located in Ashburn, VA.

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Cloud connected

Adopting a combination of on-premise, off-premise and public cloud capabilities is the only way to keep up with the rapid market changes digital disruption is driving. The ATC is a replica of that ever-changing landscape with integration into all three major Cloud Service Providers, leveraging low latency connections through our Equinix Extension.

Testing in the ATC makes it all real

We use enterprise-class traffic generation tools, such as Ixia IxLoad, to simulate the applications that are unique to your organization to show how a solution seamlessly integrates into your network. Over the years we have developed a testing framework that allows us to go from concept to test plan to achieve the outcome needed for your product or solution evaluation.

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Learn more about our advanced testing capabilities in the ATC

Testing Capabilities in the ATC

Jan 17, 2022

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The Power of Partnerships

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Labs, Demos and Research from the Advanced Technology Center

Cisco ACI Module 1 - ACI APIC Setup, Best Practices Lab and Tutorial

Cisco's ACI Anywhere vision is to allow a single security and connectivity policy with a single pane of glass to manage all multicloud environments. The key to ACI Anywhere is the ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO), which allows the administrator to create consistent security and connectivity policies across multiple physical, virtual and cloud-based sites. This series of 4 lab modules will go through all the steps necessary to bring up an ACI Multi-Site environment from scratch. It will be divided into modules for the student to easily consume.

May 18, 2020

3 min read

Lab Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

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.

Nov 13, 2019

2 min read

WWT and Aruba Partnership

Accelerate your transformation journey through the partnership and continued success of HPE Aruba and World Wide Technology.

Apr 19, 2022

8:38

Cisco ACI 5.0 Virtual Simulator Lab

The ACI 5.0 Simulator is designed to give our customers a chance to experience the new ACI 5.0 release, from initial connectivity and setup through best practice fabric configuration and VMM integration. You can also launch this environment to utilize automation tools (Postman) to configure and interact with the APIC.

Jul 22, 2020

2 min read

Lab Kali Linux Software

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab

The Palo Alto NGFW 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 Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Jul 14, 2020

2 min read

The ATC's most valuable assets are the Experts

Aaron Freidenberg

WWT

Director - ATC

Bill Thompson

WWT

Director, Global Solutions Development

John Thompson

WWT

Chris Braun

WWT

Engineering Manager

Derik Heidemann

WWT

Manager, ATC Lab Services Storage Team

Joshua Burpo

WWT

Manager - ATC - Lab Services - Security

Paul Sievers

WWT

Manager, Lab Services

Joe Marentette

WWT

Technical Solutions Architect

Brian Saunders

WWT

Principal Solutions Architect - Lab Services

Brett Turner

WWT

Cybersecurity Architect

Marty Squillaci

WWT

Manager

Dave Gratz

WWT

Technical Solutions Architect

Christopher Hoff

WWT

Chris Hoff

Brett Millaway

WWT

Technical Solutions Architect - ATC LS

Ryan Salihar

WWT

Engineering Manager

Jeff Andiorio

WWT

Principal Solutions Architect

Brandon Swagman

WWT

Practice Lead

John Dyer

WWT

Engineering Manager

Carl Dubois

WWT

Practice Lead - Automation (Global Solutions Development)

Eric Jackson

WWT

Practice Lead

Ben Kools

WWT

Practice Manager, Global Solutions Development

Matthew Halcomb

WWT

Principal Solutions Architect

Earl Dodd

WWT

HPC, ESG, Sustainability Architect and Alchemist

Kent Noyes

WWT

Director of Cyber Strategy, Global Accounts

John Stillwell

WWT

Technical Solutions Architect - Cyber Security

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Cisco ACI Module 1 - ACI APIC Setup, Best Practices Lab and Tutorial

Cisco's ACI Anywhere vision is to allow a single security and connectivity policy with a single pane of glass to manage all multicloud environments. The key to ACI Anywhere is the ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO), which allows the administrator to create consistent security and connectivity policies across multiple physical, virtual and cloud-based sites. This series of 4 lab modules will go through all the steps necessary to bring up an ACI Multi-Site environment from scratch. It will be divided into modules for the student to easily consume.

May 18, 2020

3 min read

Lab Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

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.

Nov 13, 2019

2 min read

WWT and Aruba Partnership

Accelerate your transformation journey through the partnership and continued success of HPE Aruba and World Wide Technology.

Apr 19, 2022

8:38

Cisco ACI 5.0 Virtual Simulator Lab

The ACI 5.0 Simulator is designed to give our customers a chance to experience the new ACI 5.0 release, from initial connectivity and setup through best practice fabric configuration and VMM integration. You can also launch this environment to utilize automation tools (Postman) to configure and interact with the APIC.

Jul 22, 2020

2 min read

Lab Kali Linux Software

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab

The Palo Alto NGFW 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 Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Jul 14, 2020

2 min read

What's new

Oracle Session Border Controller Sandbox

This lab is sandbox environment designed to simulate a collaboration ecosystem with Oracle Session Border Controllers. Participants will have access to a Cisco and Asterisk Collaboration environments. Students will be able to test and configure the Oracle Session Border Controllers and enable VoIP calling between the systems.

Aug 5, 2022

2 min read

Elastic Endpoint Security Lab

Elastic Security provides a different approach to EDR by combing EDR and SIEM capabilities which leads to reduced mean time to detect and respond to threats. Elastic Security for endpoint prevents ransomware and malware, detects advanced threats and arms responders with vital investigative context, such as prioritized detections to help stop alert fatigue.

Jul 26, 2022

2 min read

Assessing Intel Optane Persistent Memory With Dell Live Optics

Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem) solves the problem of memory growth and DRAM density limitations by offering an efficient and cost-effective way to embrace a memory tiering architecture. This lab uses Dell Live Optics to perform an assessment and sizing for Intel Optane PMem.

Jul 14, 2022

1 min read

Lab Ubuntu Software

Development Environments - Getting Started

Development Environments Development environments are the first step on your automation journey. This track will help define what a development environment is and provide some hands-on exposure to one solution.

Jul 14, 2022

1 min read

NGINX Accreditation 101

The first in a series of NGINX labs intended for educational and workshop purposes. Topics covered here include installation, load balancing, custom access logs, cache proxies, API live monitoring and dynamic configurations.

Jul 5, 2022

1 min read

Cribl Foundation Lab

Cribl Stream is an observability pipeline tool living between any data source and any destination. These destinations can be systems of analysis (Splunk, Elastic, etc.) or systems of retention (S3 buckets, Data Lakes, etc.). Stream uses Sources, Destinations, Routes and Pipelines to move data coming from data sources, processes through its pipelines (group of functions) and sends the results to one or many destinations in the format that is best for the environment and its use cases.

Jun 29, 2022

1 min read

Intro to MPLS Using LDP

MPLS has been used for over two decades. It is the cornerstone of Service Provider Networks and many enterprise, utility and federal networks. MPLS delivers mission-critical applications and services. This lab provides a hands-on lab environment that will familiarize the user with the primary routing configuration of MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) with LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) running on Cisco routers.

Jun 27, 2022

1 min read

Nokia Routing Hardware Lab

This lab demonstrates Nokia routing using MPLS on 7750 Service Routers, 7250 Interconnect Routers and 7210 Service Access System.

Jun 27, 2022

1 min read

Testing Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN in the ATC

Palo Alto has long been known as a global cyber-security leader. Since their acquisition of CloudGenix in 2020, Palo has been helping to shape the cloud-centric model by adding SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) into a holistic SASE offering including Prisma Access for customers and an ever-evolving industry. The ATC (Advanced Technology Center) worked to build a lab within a few weeks that would test, showcase, and demonstrate Palo Alto's SD-WAN cloud-native network approach. Keep reading to see how Palo Alto completes their SASE solution.

Jun 27, 2022

28 min read

HCI for Edge Computing

Many customers request help with setting up and configuring different solutions in our Advanced Technology Center to help them make the the right technology decisions. Learn about a particular proof of concept (POC) performed to deploy and test four different 2-node, edge technologies.

Jun 27, 2022

7 min read

SASE Architecture: Cisco Viptela SD-WAN With Palo Alto Prisma (SSE) Lab

First coined in 2019, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is the convergence of network and security frameworks. SASE aims to reduce the operational complexity that comes with a cloud-first delivery model. Application assurance and service optimization are achieved via global Point-of-Presence (POPs) and peering with carriers providing high-performance backbones. The combination of all these factors gives the user a consistent and secure experience no matter where they are located.

Jun 16, 2022

2 min read

Software-Defined Cooling With ZutaCore Lab

This lab aims to familiarize the user with the Zutacore Cooling Solution called HyperCool™. HyperCool™ is a complete, two-phase, closed-loop solution for cooling a server's heat-emitting components, such as the CPU, GPU and FPGA.

Jun 7, 2022

1 min read

Lab Cloudify- Environment as a Service

Cloudify Lab

This lab introduces you to Cloudify, a powerful, multicloud management system that deploys and manages cloud environments across public and private cloud infrastructure.

Jun 6, 2022

2 min read

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 sides.

Jun 6, 2022

3 min read

CipherTrust Manager - Essentials Lab

Thales CipherTrust Manager is a central management point for the CipherTrust Data Security Platform. It provides a unified management console that makes it easy to discover and classify data, and to protect sensitive data wherever it resides using a comprehensive set of CipherTrust Data Protection Connectors from Thales. CipherTrust Manager is available in both virtual and physical form-factors that integrate with FIPS 140-2 validated Thales Luna Network or Cloud HSM, and third-party Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for securely storing master keys with highest root of trust. These appliances can be deployed on-premises as well as in private or public cloud infrastructures. This allows customers to address compliance requirements, regulatory mandates and industry best practices for data security.

May 26, 2022

2 min read

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VMware Chooses WWT to Become Its Tanzu Portfolio Experts

VMware has entered into a first-of-its-kind relationship with WWT to provide specialized training in all things Tanzu, effectively becoming VMware's in-depth experts.

May 26, 2022

5 min read

Driving Business Outcomes With SD-WAN

Today, wide area networks require a solution that is agile for faster time to market, with centralized management for ease of administration and provides secure deployment options. The solution should easily integrate with emerging technologies, optimize user experience and, at the same time, deliver those requirements at scale.

May 26, 2022

16:09

Tanium Proving Ground Lab 7.5

Tanium 7.5 Proving Ground Lab

May 26, 2022

2 min read

Zerto Essentials Lab

Zerto Virtual Replication provides simple business continuity and disaster recovery for VMware virtual machines using a VMware vCenter Server embedded graphical interface. During this demo, we will provide an overview of the Zerto product, including how to manage and protect virtual machines using protection groups and explore the RPO/RTO of recovery using Zerto's replication features.

May 16, 2022

1 min read

F5 Certificate Rotate with Vault and BIG-IP

Use Docker, Ansible and Terraform to create a Certificate Authority with Hashicorp Vault and F5 BIGIP. Ephemeral certificates are rotated every 2 minutes.

May 16, 2022

1 min read