Video tutorials

SDN for the LAN–Making the Right Switch

See why the IT world is talking about software-defined networking for the LAN, and what it means for your organization. From upgrade options to hardware innovations, you won’t want to miss this one. Our experts will explore the “what, why and, how” of SDN for the LAN. (via TechWise TV)

How to Design a Guest WLAN

This video provides an overview of the concepts that must be understood to design an effective guest WLAN.

Related training: Enterprise Wi-Fi Network Design (CWDP)

Cisco ACI Demo

Carly Stoughton, Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) system from the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). Recorded at Networking Field Day 9 on February 13, 2015.

Related training: Configuring Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI Mode (DCAC9K)

How Devices Connect to the Fabric: Understanding Cisco ACI Domains

Carly Stoughton, Technical Marketing Engineer, introduces Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) domains and describes their interaction with the greater policy infrastructure. Recorded at Networking Field Day 9 on February 13, 2015.

Related training: Configuring Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI Mode (DCAC9K)

Virtual firewalls – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Anything is marketed as a “virtual firewall” these days, from contexts on physical boxes to hypervisor kernel modules and VMs with a kitschy GUI in front of iptables. The presentation walks you through the virtual firewalls taxonomy, describes the major architectural options, and illustrates typical use cases with products from a few established virtual firewall vendors (Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Vyatta/Brocade) and startups (LineRate Systems, Midokura).

Unfied Communication Manager 10.0 New Features

Cisco Unified Communications Manager is the core of Cisco Collaboration Services. This video covers the new features of Cisco Unified Communication Manager 10.0. and is the first in a session of 2 hangouts on the subject.

Service Discovery Using User Data Service

Cisco subject matter experts Raees Shaikh and Vasanth Kumar focused on implementing Intercluster Lookup Service (ILS) networks in enterprise deployments, then using ILS to build an enterprise network with User Data Service (UDS) for service discovery of Jabber clients.

What's New In the World of UCS Central 1.2(1)

This video teaches you more about the newly introduced features of the UCS Central 1.2(1) release, such as new Fabric Interconnect model support, Virtual MIT, WAN Optimization of traffic between UCS Manager and UCS Central, and different approaches on how to best implement and deploy UCS Central at scale.