Networkers program sessions are spread across the multiple tracks discussed below, with each track providing a comprehensive overview a single technology or topic. Depending on your interests and educational priorities, you can create a focused agenda from sessions in a single track, or you can pick and choose sessions from multiple tracks and Cisco Live’s other educational programs (Developer Network, IT Management, and Service Provider) for a cross-discipline curriculum.
The Networkers program also includes the certification opportunities that can help you earn the credentials that pave the way to increased opportunity.
With a wide range of sessions covering today’s leading network technologies and topics, the Networkers program provides the education and training to help you advance your career goals and make you a valuable asset to your organization.
The Data Center and Virtualization track offers a broad range of technical and strategic topics to help you understand how to plan, design, deploy, and maintain a next-generation data center. You can gain a strong understanding of the Cisco technologies, architectures, and applications involved, and learn troubleshooting techniques, and explore implementation considerations for application networking solutions, server virtualization, high-performance computing, and storage area networking. The Data Center and Virtualization track also offers insight into current data center trends and existing solutions for common challenges such as limited floor space, power, and cooling. Sessions in this track also address federal, state, and industry compliance issues, including green initiatives.
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The Mobility track is designed to deepen your understanding of how to design and develop a secure and scalable unified mobility platform that allows you to deliver applications that transform business operations for greater efficiency and flexibility.
Technical sessions will cover a broad spectrum of technology areas that make up a mobility platform, including, unified communications, wireless, network systems, network management, and security. Learn how to design, implement, and manage a unified wireless network with services unique to your enterprise, including guest access, voice over WLAN, wireless intrusion detection and prevention, precise location tracking, Network Admission Control (NAC), and more.
Whether you are Wi-Fi-enabling your business for email and Internet access or supporting mobile healthcare, inventory management, video surveillance, and other specialized applications, the Mobility track can help prepare you to better facilitate efficient interaction among applications, while supporting a collaborative mobile workforce.
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The Network Infrastructure and Systems track features sessions designed to help build your expertise in layer two and layer three control plane services and the hardware and software components needed to implement these services. As these services underlie the operation of the entire network, they are critical to designing and managing a highly available network that supports business continuity and regulatory and strategic business objectives. The principles discussed are applicable to campus, branch, data center, and wide area networks. Topics include understanding, deploying, and troubleshooting routing, switching, virtualization (including MPLS and other tunneling technologies), Cisco IOS software, Cisco hardware architecture and operation, services, and network management.
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The Security track equips you with the knowledge and skills to develop an integrated security approach that ensures regulatory compliance, protects against data leakage, and defends against evolving security threats. Technical sessions in this track will focus on products, applications, architectures, and troubleshooting techniques for designing, deploying, and managing Cisco information and network security solutions. You can obtain a better understanding of firewalls, VPN, intrusion prevention products, and email and web security. Through case studies and external instructors, you will also have the opportunity to explore current trends and challenges in information and network security, including: how to address the ubiquitous nature of web applications and services; the erosion of traditional network barriers that separate trusted from untrusted users and "inside" from "outside" access; and preventing modern information attacks from cyber vandals and for-profit businesses.
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For service providers, keeping pace with customer expectations and competitive markets is essential for business growth. Cisco is focused on helping you deploy services, build networks, accelerate demand, and optimize business processes. The Service Provider track can help you gain the knowledge and skills needed to build, manage, and operate the application, service, and network layers of your infrastructure and deliver the voice, video, and data experiences that end users demand. Sessions will cover topics such as mobile and fixed access areas (Wi-Fi mesh, WiMAX, DOCSIS, metro optical, and pseudowires),), distribution, and core transport and routing technologies. You can also explore concepts such as application optimization in the transport for voice and video.
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The Unified Communications and Collaboration track offers the latest information on how to combine your current Cisco video, voice, data, and mobility products and applications into a single architecture that enables a more collaborative business model. Learn which trends in unified communications and collaboration technologies are developing most rapidly and how to adapt to the growing communication complexity of the mobile workforce. Sessions in this track will cover best practices and instruction on designing, deploying, and configuring a network with the bandwidth and content delivery capacity that supports your organization’s collaboration and communication strategies. This track will also address how to determine the services necessary to ensure a secure, contextual, and consistent collaboration experience across all of your enterprise applications, devices, and workspaces.
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Video is revolutionizing how companies and service providers conduct business to lower costs and increase revenue. With the growing need for collaboration, the ability to provide any-play solution to consumers (mobile and fixed video+voice+data), and newly added value managed services, enterprise IT and service provider professionals must understand the business benefits, technical requirements, and challenges inherent with video. Technical sessions in this track will help you better understand the range of video solutions, from end-to-end IPTV services to business video solutions, and provide guidance for designing, planning, building, and managing a media network infrastructure.
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