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Ryan D'Souza

Technical Marketing Engineer

Technology Experiences

Ryan is a Technical Marketing Engineer in the Technology Experiences events team responsible for network design and implementation for many of Cisco’s events.

For about 4 years, he led the wireless at CiscoLive in the US and Cancun. For the past couple of years, he has been with the events team leading all technologies.

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July 20, 2017

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Surviving the NOC at CLUS17

June 20th 2017. Months of preparation had lead to this day. Trucks rolled in at 8 am and began unloading all of our gear, an entire 18 wheelers worth. Things were looking good. By 9 am we had our racks offloaded and ready to be installed. What could go wrong right? Unfortunately for us, one of the m…

June 23, 2017

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Staging and Setup for Cisco Live 17

The average IT refresh cycle for access layer switches is typically anywhere between 5 to 8 years. This means the typical engineer configures a switch once, and then, other than minor changes, doesn’t have to reconfigure that switch again for a long time. The rollout process also tends to be s…