Advanced Technology Center

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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.

ATC DC5

WWT's ATC Lab as a Service (LaaS) data center is a purpose-built, SOC/SSAE18 audited world-class facility designed to meet the demanding power and cooling needs of any modern environment. The Tier III data center design provides for a completely redundant and continually operating facility.

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.

Testing use cases

Comparison

Upgrade/Migration

Architecture Validation

Performance

Functionality

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

Explore the best the ATC has to offer

Labs, Demos and Research from the Advanced Technology Center

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.

Foundation Lab

Lab Development Platforms

Pure Storage Portworx Lab for Persistent Container Storage

Welcome to Pure Storage's Portworx lab for persistent container storage. Portworx's Enterprise Storage Platform is a complete storage and data management solution for your Kubernetes environments. Containers will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multicloud migrations and more.

Advanced Configuration Lab

Lab ATC

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 10 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.

Foundation Lab

Lab ATC

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.

Foundation Lab

Lab ATC

Cisco Ansible Automation Lab

Welcome to WWT's Introduction to Network Automation and Programmability Lab. The intended goal of this lab is to introduce network architects and DevOps engineers in taking the first step to automate, simplify and streamline the provisioning and configuration of networking platforms such as Cisco IOS XE, Cisco Nexus and Cisco ACI.

Foundation Lab

The ATC's most valuable assets are the Experts

Aaron Freidenberg

WWT

Director - ATC

Bill Thompson

WWT

Director, Global Solutions Development

John Thompson

WWT

Sr. Manager of ATC Lab Services

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

What's popular

ATC WWT Research

Networking Priorities for 2022

A roadmap for delivering new levels of security, productivity and user experience.

WWT Research

Apr 7, 2022

Lab Cisco Hybrid Work

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

Foundation Lab

5471 launches

Lab Development Platforms

Pure Storage Portworx Lab for Persistent Container Storage

Advanced Configuration Lab

134 launches

ESG High Performance Computing (HPC)

Corporate Sustainability Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for improving corporate sustainability and reaching important Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) milestones.

WWT Research

Oct 21, 2022

Lab ATC

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 10 Lab

Foundation Lab

67 launches

What's new

ATC WWT Research

Cloud Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for optimizing capabilities and aligning priorities with business outcomes.

WWT Research

Dec 2, 2022

Lab Beyond Identity

Beyond Identity Foundations Lab

This lab features Beyond Identity which is an authentication solution that uses device-bound credentials for zero-friction passwordless authentication. Beyond Identity is a cloud-native platform that uses Authenticators downloaded on endpoints which registers a users credentials and collects signals on the endpoint to capture device security posture for authentication.

Foundation Lab

18 launches

Lab ATC

Linux Basics for Automation Engineers

The everyday life of an automation engineer will invariably require a fundamental understanding of Linux. This lab is focused on exposing aspiring automation engineers to the foundational concepts of the Linux operating system.

Foundation Lab

20 launches

Video ATC

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp -- Equinix

Cisco SD-WAN provides automated integrations with Equinix that allow you to turn up edge devices as well as connectivity to cloud environments directly from vManage, providing a centralized place to manage all your infrastructure.

Nov 28, 2022

11:16

Lab ATC

Pure Storage FA Files Lab

In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure FA Files on a FlashArray along with setting up replication to a second FlashArray.

Advanced Configuration Lab

10 launches

Lab ATC

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.9)

The Cisco SD-WAN 20.9 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. The environment that supports the Cisco SD-WAN 20.9 Sandbox is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Sandbox Lab

12 launches

ATC WWT Research

A Modular Approach to AIOps

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) continues to become more mainstream. Learn how a modular approach to AIOps allows organizations to better leverage data to drive efficiency.

WWT Research

Nov 15, 2022

News ATC

Liqid Releases New Slurm Plugin and CXL Demo at SC22

Liqid is a core element of World Wide Technology's new Composable Open Technology Environment

Nov 15, 2022

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Lab ATC

Cisco ACI Multisite Lab 2 - ACI and VMM Policy 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 consume easier.

Advanced Configuration Lab

481 launches

Lab ATC

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller Lab

This lab will enable a student to build a basic multi-site fabric using Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) for complete end-to-end connectivity.

Advanced Configuration Lab

11 launches

Lab Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware Cloud Foundation: vRealize Suite Cloud Operations Model

This lab introduces the consumption of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based VMware Cloud using vRealize Cloud Assembly. Participants will gain experience with using Vrealize Automation Cloud Assembly to deploy application workloads onto preconfigured NSX Segments and firewall policies.

Foundation Lab

2 launches

Lab ATC

NetApp Cloud Insights

NetApp Cloud Insights is a cloud infrastructure monitoring tool that gives you visibility into your complete infrastructure. With Cloud Insights, you can monitor, troubleshoot and optimize all your resources including your public clouds and your private data centers.

Foundation Lab

328 launches

Lab ATC

NetApp BlueXP

BlueXP (Formerly known as Cloud Manager) is NetApp's SaaS platform that gives customers visibility across their entire data plane, whether it be in the cloud or in their data centers.

Foundation Lab

170 launches

Lab HPE GreenLake

HPE GreenLake Central Lab

HPE Greenlake Central is cloud-based management console for HPE Greenlake services.

Guided Demo Lab

6 launches

Lab ATC

Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 10 Lab

Foundation Lab

67 launches

Lab ATC

Crowdstrike and Zscaler Integrated Lab

WWT's ATC CrowdStrike and Zscaler Integrated lab exists to showcase the integration between CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform, Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Client Connector through relevant use cases.

Advanced Configuration Lab

39 launches

Article Secure Cloud and Data Center Connectivity

Simplify Distributed Cloud Management With F5 Distributed Cloud Services Platform

In this ATC Insight, we will explore how F5 Distributed Cloud Services platform (F5 XC Services) can simplify the management of applications deployed across multiple cloud providers in multiple Kubernetes clusters. WWT, through its use of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) & F5 XC Services has proven how easy it is to establish cloud-to-cloud connectivity, layer security policies and discover API workloads for distributed cloud framework.

Oct 28, 2022

8 min read

Video ATC

CNC SR-TE Explicit Policy Creation - Part 2 - SR Explicit Policy

This is the third video in the series on Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller or CNC. CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Traffic Engineering Controller for transport networks. CNC can create engineered Transport paths using SR-TE parameters and provision and link these paths to VPN services. CNC performs real-time network optimization based on current network conditions utilizing the Crosswork Optimization Engine.

Oct 28, 2022

7:17

Video ATC

CNC SR-TE Explicit Policy Creation - Part 3 - L3VPN Service

This is the fourth video in the series on Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller or CNC. CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Traffic Engineering Controller for transport networks. CNC can create engineered Transport paths using SR-TE parameters and provision and link these paths to VPN services. CNC performs real-time network optimization based on current network conditions utilizing the Crosswork Optimization Engine.

Oct 28, 2022

19:09

Video ATC

CNC SR-TE Explicit Policy Creation - Part 1 - SID List

This is the second video in the series on Cisco's Crosswork Network Controller or CNC. CNC is a Segment Routing SDN Traffic Engineering Controller for transport networks. CNC can create engineered Transport paths using SR-TE parameters and provision and link these paths to VPN services. CNC performs real-time network optimization based on current network conditions utilizing the Crosswork Optimization Engine.

Oct 28, 2022

8:45