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was host to best speakers on technology and innovation, motivating the audience as well as those watching on a live stream.
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ISCO Live is the ULTIMATE tech celebration. In June, tech professionals from around the world gather to attend clinics, labs, seminars, and view exhibits that showcase the leading edge in network technology. Cisco’s best and brightest presented technical education workshops promoting forward-looking ideas intended to elevate and inspire. Attendees soaked up Cisco Live in the chill party vibe of San Diego. An event matched by no other, the five days of Cisco Live showcased the latest cutting edge in hardware and technology.
Picture: NOC Demo In the week before the show, Cisco technicians moved into the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) in an organized wave, completely transforming all halls and meeting spaces. The entire network infrastructure at SDCC was reconfigured and fortified, adding more switches, fiber, and Wi-Fi access points inside the facility, and bridging
Picture: Network Topology properties, the Hilton Bayfront, Marriott Marquis and the Manchester Hyatt hotels, were linked back to the Cisco core at the center of the SDCC, to manage content, quality, and security. In a demonstration of new tech, a Wi-Fi6 network was created in the Marriott hotel. Bandwidth to feed the needs for this event spanned across multiple 10 GbE circuits. Attendees enjoyed full Wi-Fi access throughout the campus, allowing them to use the Cisco Events Mobile App to keep updated and on track at Cisco Live. This year’s theme, You Make Possible, highlighted that people are the drivers of innovation, and Cisco is the bridge to help them accomplish great things. In the opening keynote session, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins shared his vision of the impossible that becomes possible, and how Cisco focuses on unleashing new solutions that bring new opportunities. Throughout the week, the main stage
The week was packed with workshops and sessions where speakers and attendees shared and expanded on methods and ideas, ranging from security and multi-cloud environments to data centers & virtualization, IoT edge platforms to DNA center smart city technology. The Cisco Live campus offered walk-in and instructor-led labs, think tanks, collaboration village, gaming zone, tech seminars, certification courses, strategy overviews, solutions theaters, leadership training, big idea talk groups and more. The DevNet Zone offered opportunities to next-generation engineers to explore coding and engineering principals. So many topics to choose and only five days to enjoy. If all this stimulating technology weren’t enough, Cisco added in a night of music entertainment at Petco Park, featuring the Foo Fighters and Weezer, and a closing keynote conversation with award-winning actress and environmentalist Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Smart City staff in San Diego worked hand in hand with lead technicians at Cisco to make sure installation targets were met and systems worked properly. The dedication of Smart City’s technical and customer services teams and attention to the needs of the Cisco Live team allowed nearly 30,000 attendees to move over 65 TB of data around the San Diego campus and help make Cisco Live 2019 a huge success.
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