#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.

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Cisco Champion Hosts

Aaron Kirk (@amkirk), Cisco Champion member, Technical Marketing Engineer

Cisco Guest

Joe Clarke, Cisco Distinguished Services Engineer

Moderator

Brett Shore (@brettshore), Cisco Champion Program Management

Podcast Discussion Topics

The importance of automation in the NOC

The numbers behind the NOC

What the Cisco Live NOC team looks like in terms of size and roles

What equipment is used to build the NOC

Preparing for a Cisco Live event

What the NOC team does once Cisco Live starts

How and why the MetroCluster are set-up for Cisco Live

Cisco Live stories, surviving worse case scenarios and tools that the team created and uses

How Webex Teams comes into play

The most important lesson Aaron and Joe have learned

What Aaron and Joe would change for future shows

Extra Reading

Inside the NOC at Cisco Live

Cisco Live NOC and PowerCLI

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Cisco Champions are an elite group of technical experts who are passionate about IT and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The program has been running for over five years and has earned two industry awards as an industry best practice. Learn more about the program at http://cs.co/ciscochampion.