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Educational Tracks

Whether you work for an up-and-coming enterprise or an industry leader, the knowledge and insight available at Cisco Live 2012 can give you and your company a powerful competitive edge.

Each track offers an array of coursework addressing technology topics that are critical to helping businesses collaborate, innovate, and thrive today and in the future. In addition to exploring new ideas, established best practices, and emerging technologies, you’ll have the chance to earn the Cisco certifications that demonstrate your skill and initiative.

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Data Center and Virtualization

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. Sessions will focus on application-aware networking, storage systems, compute systems, data center networking, virtualization, Cloud, and the architecture that ties all these technologies together. This track includes a mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, from advanced troubleshooting, to basic implementation, to Cisco IT and external case studies, to business justification.

Sample sessions:

• Overlay Transport Virtualization
• End-to-End Data Center Virtualization
• Troubleshooting the Cisco UCS Compute Deployment

Mobility

The Mobility track is designed to deepen your understanding of how to design and develop a secure and scalable unified mobility platform—one you can use to deliver applications that transform business operations for greater efficiency and flexibility. This track includes a mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, from advanced troubleshooting, to basic implementation, to Cisco IT and external case studies, to business justification.

Highlights:

• Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility
• Service and Policy Architectures for Mobile Operators
• Managing the Mobile Device Wave: Best Practices

Network Infrastructure and Systems

The Network Infrastructure and Systems track features sessions to help build your expertise in Layer 2 and Layer 3 control plane services and the hardware and software components needed to implement them. Sessions will address cutting-edge topics such as MPLS, IPv6, WAAN optimization, and network management. This track includes a mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, from advanced troubleshooting, to basic implementation, to Cisco IT and external case studies, to business justification.

Highlights:

• Enterprise IPv6 Deployment
• Smart Grid: Developing a Communications Architecture for the Utility of the Future
• Network Diagnosis: Prevent Prepare Repair

Security

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. This track includes a mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, from advanced troubleshooting, to basic implementation, to Cisco IT and external case studies, to business justification.

Highlights:

• Securing Cloud Computing
• Security and Virtualization in the Data Center

Service Provider

This year, look for new technical and business sessions focused on a wide range of topics. Our sessions will dig deep into the latest technologies including IP NGN, SP WIFI, mobile packet core, LTE and 100GE. Sessions will delve into the CRS-1, ARS Series and Nexus session to understand new advances and complex troubleshooting. Key engineers from data center, mobility, video, cloud and other Service Provider areas will be presenting technical sessions designed to help you gain the knowledge you need to remain competitive and to bring support the latest services demanded by consumer.

Technical sessions will include:

• Redundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Deploying Business Services over DOCSIS
• How to Securely Operate an IPv6 Network
• Troubleshooting Cisco CMTS Based Services
• Managing and Deploying IaaS for Cloud environment
• LTE Design and Deployment Strategies
• Mobile Offload Architectures and Fixed Mobile Convergence
• Next Gen Datacenter for Mobile Operators and IP-RAN Architecture Designs
• Cisco Videoscape Management Solution
• Transcoding
• Insertion Strategies for Video
• Video Data Centers for SPs – Evolution of the Video Headend and Service Architecture

Business sessions will include:

• A Special Interest Program: Building Your Cloud Business
• Making a case for Cloud Services
• Collaboration as a Service
• Virtual Private Clouds
• Marketing Cloud Services
• Winning the Market: Selling Cloud Services
• Network Management KPI’s
• Moving cloud from hype to realty: Delivering cloud using management architecture
• IPNGN Performance Management: Network Performance Management and Capacity Monitoring for Your Evolving IP NGN Infrastructure
• Service Provider IPv6 Deployment
• Network Diagnosis: Prevent Prepare Repair
• How to Securely Operate an IPv6 Networkb

Unified Communications and Collaboration

The Unified Communications and Collaboration track offers the latest information on combining your current Cisco video, voice, data, and mobility products and applications into a single architecture that enables a more collaborative business model. This track includes a mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, from advanced, to basic implementation, to Cisco IT and external case studies, to business justification.

Highlights:

• Planning and Design of a SIP-based Contact Center with UCCE and CVP
• Troubleshooting Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise

Video

Video has the potential to revolutionize everything from collaboration to business travel, transforming the way we do business and improving the bottom line. Sessions in this track help you understand the range of available business video technologies, solutions, and architectures, including TelePresence, surveillance, digital media, and desktop solutions. Sessions will provide fresh insight on medianet as the video platform. Cisco experts will also share their views on best practices. This track includes a mix of sessions covering a wide range of topics, from advanced troubleshooting, to basic implementation, to Cisco IT and external case studies, to business justification.

Highlights:

• Media Transformation and Analytics: Connecting People and Media across Devices and Applications
• Pervasive Business Video — Understanding the Cisco / Tandberg Infrastructure Product Line