It’s time again! It has been many years since I went to Cisco Live, the last time being in 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. With the corona pandemic disrupting the live event for the past few years, it was finally time for the networking community to come together in one place, this time the place being Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
Schedule of the Week
I booked most of my sessions of the week as soon as the session picker was released, as many of the popular sessions tend to fill up pretty fast. With my CCNP recertification coming up this year, I wanted to attend as many interesting sessions as possible to collect Continuing Education (CE) credits to help me with my recertification.
Unsurprisingly, many of the sessions I attended were related to the Cisco Identity Services Engine, or ISE if you will, mixed with some SD-Access and wireless-related sessions.
Most evenings were spent with my colleagues eating good food and drinking good beer.
Monday (All-day Technical Seminar):
Walking on solid ISE - Advanced Use Cases and Deployment Best Practices (TECSEC-3781)
Tuesday:
The Art of ISE Posture, Configuration and Troubleshooting (BRKSEC-2445)
High Availability Design with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controllers (BRKEWN-2846)
Securing Starlink Internet Services (BRKSEC-2037)
123 - Enterprise Campus Wired Design Fundamentals (BRKENS-1501)
Designing Highly Available Networks Using Catalyst 9000 Switches (BRKENS-2095)
Enterprise Campus Design: Multilayer Architectures and Design Principles (BRKENS-2031)
Wednesday:
Migrating Classical Enterprise Campus Networks to VXLAN EVPN Based Networks (BRKENS-3096)
Connecting Cisco SD-Access to the External World (BRKENS-2811)
Troubleshooting the Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series Switches (BRKTRS-3090)
What's New in Cisco SD-Access (BRKENS-2829)
Thursday:
ISE Deployment Staging and Planning (BRKSEC-2660)
High Density Wi-Fi Design, Deployment and Optimization (BRKEWN-2087)
Cisco's Unified Agent: Cisco Secure Client. Bringing AMP, AnyConnect, Orbital & Umbrella together (BRKSEC-2834)
Cisco DNA Center Licensing for Campus Networks (BRKOPS-2109)
Closing Keynote (KEYGEN-1002)
Friday:
BGP EVPN in Enterprise Campus with Catalyst 9000 Switches (BRKENS-2092)
Implementing Segmentation in Industrial Networks (BRKIOT-2882)
Favorite Sessions
Going to so many sessions this week was kind of rough and sometimes I just wanted to take a break and do something else for a while. However, I felt a few sessions this week stood out, both in terms of content and presentation, and many interesting points were being made on the subject in question.
My favorite sessions (in no particular order):
BGP EVPN in Enterprise Campus with Catalyst 9000 Switches (BRKENS-2092)
Securing Starlink Internet Services (BRKSEC-2037)
High Density Wi-Fi Design, Deployment and Optimization (BRKEWN-2087)
Cisco's Unified Agent: Cisco Secure Client. Bringing AMP, AnyConnect, Orbital & Umbrella together (BRKSEC-2834) - the “Aaron Woland therapy session”.
Pictures from the Week
Until next time!