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Switching Secrets for Multimedia
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Air: December 18, 2008

*This episode has set ALL NEW ATTENDANCE records and although specifics cannot be shared in this forum, the team has completely reset expectations for what a corporate, virtual event can do to touch customers. Please share your thoughts about this show (good and bad) by opening a discussion thread at the bottom of this page.

Big Geek Props to:
  • CMO Network Systems Marketing:
    • Jennifer Geisler, Berna Devrim, Rob Sloan
  • On the 'Deeply Technical' side:
    • Kevin Decato, Faraz Aladin and of course, Carl Solder


Links:
Cisco.com/go/switching
The Video Ready Campus
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Switch Series

Segment 1

"A Switch is just a Switch, Right?"
  • Introduce the changes switches have undergone
  • Review/Whiteboard:
    • GOLD: Generic Online Diagnostics
    • IP SLA
    • IP SLA and NetFow - Marriage made in heaven?
  • What makes a switch TRULY stackable? (Fixed Focus)
    • Whiteboard
    • 3750E Demo
    • Stackwise
    • Smart Multicast
Segment 2
Core Security (Modular Focus)
  • Introduce Carl Solder
  • PISA - Programmable Intelligent Services Accelerator
    • PISA and Netflow
    • Show and Tell: PISA with SUP 32 Card
    • Demo: Applying a Policy
  • Reverse Path Forwarding (Fixed and Modular)
  • Control Plane Policing
Segment 3
Redundancy
  • Carl Solder still with us
  • VSS Virtual Switching System
    • Whiteboard
    • Hardware Demo
    • Virtual Switch Link
    • Carl's five biggest advantages of VSS in your network
5. Reduced administrative overhead
4. Consolidate Configuration
3. Multi-Chassis Etherchannel
2. Improved Availability and Resilience
1. Eliminate Spanning Tree

  • EEM - Embedded Event Manager (Carl's handiwork...)
Segment 4:
Switch and Network Design for Rich Media
  • Carl Solder still with us
  • Edge/Distro/Core...Fabric
    • Security
    • Redundancy
    • Performance
  • 8 Hardware QOS queues
  • Delivering 10GB
  • 30W PoE

Cisco Learning Network update from Venita Valencia, Community Manager for Learning at Cisco
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JANUARY 13, 2009:
INTERACT LIVE WITH CARL AND JIMMY RAY

Attend the Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Workshop: Tap Into a Higher Level of Network Consciousness with EEM.
Interact live with both Jimmy Ray and Carl Solder.


Special Guest, Carl Solder
Carl has been in the I.T. industry for 24 years and currently serves as a Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer (DTME) with the Campus Switching Systems Technology Group (CSSTG).Carl Solder, Distinguished Switching TME

Carl has been with Cisco nearly 13 years of which the last 6 years has been with the CSSTG as a TME working predominantly on the Catalyst 6500 platform. Prior to this he worked as a Consulting Systems Engineer with the Asia Pac Core Technology Group in Singapore providing technical marketing support for the Catalyst switching product line for all countries in the Asia Pac region. His initial tenure in Cisco was working as a field Systems Engineer in Australia focusing on Routers Switches, Security and Voice.

Prior to working with Cisco, Carl worked at IBM for 11 years. During this time he worked in a number of areas including applications and systems programming, systems engineering and consulting primarily in the area of Mainframe, LAN communications and storage subsystems..

Carl has a Bachelors degree with a double major in Programming and Systems Analysis from Curtin University in Western Australia. In 1999 Carl was awarded the inaugural "Top SE" for the entire Asia Pac theater. He also completed his CCIE certification within a year of joining Cisco and is currently an active member of the 10 year CCIE club.