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Cisco is expanding the way current and future network pros acquire job-changing skills and prepare to earn certifications with a new educational unit called Cisco U. Cisco U. is a digital learning center that will offer a variety of online and in-person learning tools and classes, including quick-start skills assessments, tailored learning paths for Cisco certifications, and personalized AI-based skills recommendations. “We spoke to our community in terms of the challenges that they’re facing and [asked]…

For nearly 30 years, the Cisco Learning and Certifications organization has been an industry leader with a rich history of developing networking careers by providing cutting-edge technology training to businesses and IT professionals. We are driven by our passion for customer success, but a positive customer experience in a multi-vendor solution world can be challenging. So, we set out with the sole purpose to improve the learner’s experience and knowledge, focusing their talent on transforming…

The network is fundamental to connect users, devices, applications, data, and services no matter where they reside—from edge to cloud; however, much of network administration has not changed meaningfully in 30 years. Why Model-Driven DevOps (MDD) for NetOps? I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Military Cyber Professionals Association’s first national conference – #HammerCon – where I emphasized how Model-Driven DevOps (MDD) is a must for Network Operators to enable mission transformation. Increasingly,…

The Future of Modern Enterprise In a world that is predictably unpredictable, you need to be agile, resilient, and productive whenever and wherever. Organizations need to be able to meet the pressures of the future of work while maintaining the experiences workers, customers, and partners expect. A unified IT team makes unified experiences possible, bridging the boundaries between technologies, locations, organizations, teams, and people to bring the best experiences to your people, customers, and partners. Learn…

As I wrote in my last blog, Cisco and Logicalis have partnered for two decades, combining the Logicalis market-leading menu of value-added services with Cisco world-class hardware and software. This blog highlights two areas of our partnership I’m especially excited about –managed intelligent connectivity and 5G Mobile Private Network Services. Managed Intelligent Connectivity Service Over two thirds of SD-WAN deployments are expected to be delivered as a managed service by 2025. Meanwhile, the shift to…

VPN provider Surfshark became the latest company to pull its servers from India this week, in response to government attempts to regulate encrypted web traffic. The new directive by India’s top cybersecurity agency, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In), requires VPN, Virtual Private Server (VPS) and cloud service providers to store customers’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, know-your-customer records, and financial transactions for a period of five years. SurfShark announced on Wednesday in a…

Listening is at the heart of every good relationship. We all want our voices to be heard, and customers are no different. But when it comes to a company as big as Cisco, listening to customers at scale so that we can build successful relationships with them is a massive undertaking. “88% of customers say the experience a company provides is as important as its product or services—up from 80% in 2020.”– Salesforce, State of…

Wireshark is a popular, free and open-source packet capture tool that enables network and security administrators to take a “deep dive” analysis into traffic moving through a network. Wireshark can be deployed for a variety of purposes including sniffing out security issues, troubleshooting network performance problems, traffic optimization, or as part of the application development and testing process. What Does Wireshark Do? Wireshark is primarily used to capture packets of data moving through a network….

Most major network outages happen as a result of human error, not equipment failures—mistakes in the settings themselves, missed steps in a sequence, steps taken out of order, etc. Automation through scripting is meant not only to speed up network operations activities but, as importantly, to reduce the chance of such mistakes by ensuring consistency. A script executes the same steps, in the same order, every time. Ad-hoc, scripting, or programmatic automation doesn’t eliminate the…

Instead of calling the Meraki API to look for critical network changes, why not have Meraki send alerts using webhooks? Send events, as they happen, to your network monitoring and operations services by having Meraki call them instead. If you are using an existing application, you might struggle sending a webhook directly to it. You will often need to adjust the message format and authentication to match. This is where webhook payload templates come in….