Cisco Live NOC

May 30, 2018

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio, S5|Ep.14: NOC Behind the Scenes

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by technologists for technologists. In this episode, Cisco Champions Aaron Kirk discuss the NOC at Cisco Live with Joe Clarke. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode in SoundCloud Check out all Season 5 episodes in iTunes Listen to Seasons 1-4 in iTunes C…

July 20, 2017

NETWORKING

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…

December 1, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio, S2|Ep. 45. The Dream Team

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we talk about the Dream Team with Alumni Zoe Rose and Cisco Networking Academy Program Managers Gena Pirtle and Sara Shreve. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s…

My Cisco Live Milan IPv6 Firsts

That is it, Cisco Live Milan is over! The “before” of anticipation, seemingly a moment ago, is replaced by the “after” of takeaways and accomplishments for the week. Some passed their CCIE certification, some met a new business partner, but it’s likely that everyone lea…

Quitting the Legacy IP at Cisco Live Milan

It’s that time of the year again – time for some computer and human networking at Cisco Live Milan! This year I’m taking the unusual and somewhat risky step of blogging about the network infrastructure before the event. This is because we’re going to try something interesting for the networkin…

April 12, 2013

NETWORKING

IPv6 Just Works: Cisco Live London Dual-Stack Network

Another year, another CiscoLive. This was the last year in the London venue, and since it was the third time we did it, we had a chance to incorporate learning from the previous two years. As a result, I would say the network was quite a success. The key element of the design, led by Mark McKillop,…