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

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Upgrade/Migration

Architecture Validation

Performance

Functionality

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Labs, Demos and Research from the Advanced Technology Center

Data Center Networking

Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1

This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6, emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity. The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)

Foundations Lab

• 1767 launches

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

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.

Foundations Lab

5905 launches

Security Operations

CrowdStrike and ExtraHop Integrated Lab

WWT's ATC ExtraHop & Crowdstrike Integration Proving Ground Lab exists to provide a unified solution built around relevant use cases. It will showcase ExtraHop and CrowdStrike's integration to stop breaches before they can cause damage.

Advanced Configuration Lab

27 launches

Infrastructure Automation

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 and Cisco Nexus.

Foundations Lab

2604 launches

Wi-Fi Networking

Demystifying the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Configuration Model

The purpose of this insight is to educate wireless network administrators who are considering deploying or migrating a wireless network about the similarities and differences between the Cisco Catalyst 9800 and AireOS wireless solutions. We have provided an overview of the Cisco Catalyst solution, details about why the configuration model was revamped, and instructions for how to correlate configuration constructs between the legacy and new configuration model, simplifying adoption of the new solution.

ATC Insight

Jun 26, 2020

The ATC's most valuable assets are the Experts

Aaron Freidenberg

Director - ATC

Bill Thompson

Director, Global Solutions Development

John Thompson

Sr. Mgr of ATC Lab Services

Chris Braun

Mgr, ATC

Derik Heidemann

Mgr, ATC

Joshua Burpo

Manager - ATC - Lab Services - Security

Paul Sievers

Manager, Lab Services

Joe Marentette

Technical Solutions Architect

Brian Saunders

Principal Solutions Architect - Lab Services

Brett Turner

Cybersecurity Architect

Marty Squillaci

Mgr, ATC

Dave Gratz

Mgr, ATC

Christopher Hoff

Chris Hoff

Brett Millaway

Technical Solutions Architect - ATC LS

Ryan Salihar

Manager, Lab Services

Jeff Andiorio

Principal Solutions Architect

Brandon Swagman

Practice Lead

John Dyer

Mgr, ATC

Carl Dubois

Practice Lead - Automation (ATC Solutions Development)

Eric Jackson

Practice Lead

Ben Kools

Practice Manager, Global Solutions Development

Matthew Halcomb

Principal Solutions Architect

Earl Dodd

HPC, ESG, Sustainability Architect and Alchemist

Kent Noyes

Sr. Director of Cloud Security

John Stillwell

Technical Solutions Architect - Cyber Security

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Security Transformation

Security Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for securing the business and powering performance.

WWT Research

• Feb 7, 2023

Data Center Networking

Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1

Foundations Lab

1767 launches

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab

Foundations Lab

5905 launches

Security Operations

CrowdStrike and ExtraHop Integrated Lab

Advanced Configuration Lab

27 launches

Infrastructure Automation

Cisco Ansible Automation Lab

Foundations Lab

2604 launches

What's new

Infrastructure Automation

NetApp Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

752 launches

Infrastructure Automation

Pure Ansible Automation Lab

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity 6.1 using Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into Ansible Tower to understand how they work together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.

Advanced Configuration Lab

644 launches

Infrastructure Automation

Windows Management With Ansible

To keep up with the growing speed of business demands, there's a pressing need to make programmability and automation an inherent part of operational IT processes. WWT offers hands-on Ansible Automation Training Labs to help customers learn how to get started using centralized automation tools to manage and deploy configurations.

Foundations Lab

314 launches

DevOps

Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift for Developers

This lab shows developers how to deploy their applications to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 (OpenShift), the premier Enterprise-level container platform based on Kubernetes. Leveraging the Source-to-Image feature, the lab provides hands-on instructions on migrating non-containerized, and various levels of containerized applications to OpenShift.

Foundations Lab

223 launches

Infrastructure Automation

Introduction to Version Control

Introduction to version control...

Foundations Lab

59 launches

ESG

Using AI to Reduce Energy Consumption, Cost and Carbon Emissions in Data Centers

Leveraging energy-saving technologies to move closer to net zero.

ATC Insight

May 26, 2023

Primary Storage

Pure Storage ActiveCluster Lab

Pure Storage has released synchronous replication technology in its FlashArray series of products. That product is called ActiveCluster, and this lab will show users how to setup, configure and utilize ActiveCluster in an vSphere 7.0 deployment.

Advanced Configuration Lab

130 launches

Data Analytics & AI

Sound Data Strategy Paramount to Generative AI

Data management is an organizational effort that leads to direct and tangible business benefit and creating efficiencies for IT.

WWT Research

• May 25, 2023

Data Analytics & AI

Generative AI: Risks, Rewards and a Framework for Utilization

Identifying existing and potential use cases will enable faster return on investment with generative AI and help determine your ownership model moving forward.

WWT Research

• May 25, 2023

Data Analytics & AI

Manage Generative AI Before It Manages You

When it comes to AI, governance and risk management should remain top priorities as IT leaders are being inundated with requests for how best to implement the technology.

WWT Research

• May 25, 2023

Unified Communications

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.

Sandbox Lab

78 launches

Data Protection

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.

Foundations Lab

58 launches

Data Protection

Veeam Availability Suite Lab

This lab contains full featured Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). The lab has the software components to create backup jobs to protect VMware vSphere virtual machines. This lab will continue to add Veeam Availability Suite capabilities going forward. Check back for more added functionality.

Foundations Lab

80 launches

MPLS and Segment Routing

Introduction to Cisco EPNM: Viewing Inventory & Topology

Device inventory and topology for Cisco EPNM

Video

• 7:20

May 23, 2023

MPLS and Segment Routing

Cisco EPNM Routing: Provisioning EVPL Circuit With EPNM

Routing operations for provisioning of customer circuits

Video

• 5:27

May 23, 2023

Optical Networking

Introduction to TDM-to-IP

This video provides a high-level overview of what TDM-to-IP is, why it's important and what solutions WWT is leveraging in the space.

Video

• 4:45

May 23, 2023

MPLS and Segment Routing

Introduction to Cisco EPNM: Navigation Basics

Introduction and navigation basics for Cisco EPNM

Video

• 3:19

May 23, 2023

MPLS and Segment Routing

Introduction to Cisco EPNM: Adding & Configuring Devices

Adding and configuring new devices for Cisco EPNM

Video

• 6:38

May 23, 2023

MPLS and Segment Routing

Cisco EPNM Routing: Provisioning MPLS Tunnels With EPNM

Routing operations for provisioning of MPLS Traffic Engineering tunnels

Video

• 6:20

May 23, 2023

MPLS and Segment Routing

Cisco EPNM Routing: Managing the Network

Using EPNM for management of the routed network, including ongoing operations, maintenance and troubleshooting

Video

• 5:39

May 23, 2023