Service Provider Program

As more businesses rely on networks to help them reach new markets, extend the reach of their workforce, and make smarter use of resources, service providers play an increasingly important role in ensuring the smooth flow of information within and between businesses. At the same time, service providers still face the fundamental challenges of security, network performance, and reliability. They also have to stay ahead of the curve as new paradigms such as cloud computing revolutionize the way companies communicate and collaborate.

The Cisco Live 2012 Service Provider program features new business and technical sessions designed to help service provides gain the knowledge they need on key technologies, such as: IP NGN, data center and cloud, mobility and video. You can also attend sessions in the Networkers program to focus on technologies most relevant to your specific challenges.

Join us for the Cisco Live 2012 Service Provider Program, June 10-14, in San Diego.

Who Should Attend

Cisco Live’s Service Provider program is designed to help technical engineers to product and marketing management.  It offers a unique mix of business and technical sessions in a forum that can help you find answers to the biggest questions facing today’s Service Providers. The program is suited for:

• Service Provider Engineers and Business Managers
• Service Provider Technical Individual Contributors
• Service Provider Technical Decision Makers
• Service Provider IT Managers
• Service Provider Marketing and Product Management

Service Provider General Session and Luncheon

Join us for a Service Provider General Session presented by Cisco executives and customers.

Technical and Business Education

Cisco helps service providers build flexible, scalable, and secure networks that deliver profitable services for sustainable success. The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture supports medianet, mobile internet transformation, data center, and cloud computing solutions.

The tremendous IP traffic growth is fueled by new media applications and customer demand for more interactivity, personalization, mobility, and video. Cisco Network Infrastructure solutions let you deliver personalized, next-generation services and media experiences anywhere, anytime.

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.

Session Topics:

Service Provider Sessions and IP NGN
(IP Next-Generation Network)

The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture supports medianet, mobile internet transformation, data center, and cloud computing solutions. Sessions will delve into the CRS-1, ARS Series and Nexus session to understand new advances and complex troubleshooting.

Sessions include:

• Cisco ASR 1000 System Architecture and the Evolution Towards Converged Network Edge ArchitecturesRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• MPLS Based Carrier Ethernet L2VPN Over IP NGN Configuration and TroubleshootingRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• How to Securely Operate an IPv6 NetworkRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Best Practices to Deploy High-Availability in Service Provider Edge and Aggregation ArchitecturesRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Service Orchestration and Architecture for Multi-Tenant IaaS Cloud Computing ServicesRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Redundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN ServicesRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• The NGN Carrier Ethernet System : Technologies, Architecture and Deployment ModelsRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Emerging Technologies for WAN Interconnections in Packet NetworksRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• 40G and 100G for Data Center and DWDM ApplicationsRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Dynamic DWDM Control PlaneRedundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services
• Deploying Carrier Ethernet Services on ASR 9000

Service Provider Data Center and Cloud

Virtualization allows you to unify network and computing assets while addressing security and application performance. This approach realizes the power of virtualization to help fulfill the promise and create greater application openness and opportunity for you and your customers.

Sessions include:

• Towards Massively Scalable Ethernet: Technologies and Standards
• Introduction to OpenStack Cloud Computing Software
• Energy Efficient Data Center: Best Practices
• Managing and Deploying IaaS for Cloud environment
• Building Cloud with Open Source OpenStack
• Architecting Scalable Clouds using VXLAN and Nexus 1000V
• Cloud Service Orchestration and Management with Cisco’s Cloud Ready Infrastructure – VMDC
• New Cloud Automation Strategies for Infrastructure as a Service and Beyond
• Network APIs Monetizing Network Intelligence

Service Provider Mobility

The way we work, live, play, and learn continues to change dramatically, with mobility delivering a rich communications experience anytime, anywhere. Cisco VNI numbers show that mobile data is continuing its massive growth across the globe. Service Providers are increasingly turning to Cisco as a trusted source for both fixed and mobile networks for offering their customers a seamless Internet experience. Cisco is ranked as the industry’s leading solutions vendor to Mobile Service Providers, with the broadest portfolio and integration experience.

Cisco Live 2012 sessions are completely redesigned and have been structured to include representatives from Engineering, Technical Sales, and Services. Topics will examine how to deliver personalized services, optimization, and monetization. Experts will give share experience from recent deployments, innovations, and advances for EPC, IP RAN, SP Wi-Fi, and more. Attend these sessions to learn how Cisco can help you not only manage the rapid growth in mobile data, but profit from it as well.

Sessions include:

• LTE Design and Deployment Strategies,
• Mobile Offload Architectures and Fixed Mobile Convergence,
• Next Gen Datacenter for Mobile Operators
• IP-RAN Architecture Designs

Service Provider Video

We’ll address the following questions: how to optimize and monetize existing infrastructure, how to manage big data such as video over existing networks, how to accelerate the delivery of content, and how to balance network loads.

Sessions include:

• TV Everywhere
• Video Data Centers for SPs – Evolution of the Video Headend and Service Architecture
• Video Transport Architectures
• Next Gen Video and Interactive Services for the Connected Home
• Videoscape Economic Analysis
• Insertion Strategies for Video
• Deploying IP Video over DOCSIS

Business Sessions

Learn how Cisco Live extends the education for business leaders. IT leaders are rethinking how they deliver technology across their business, and in particular, cloud services are emerging as a primary component in their strategy.

Sessions include:

• Special Interest Program: Monetizing the Cloud
• Network Management KPIs
• Moving cloud from hype to realty: Delivering cloud using management architecture
• IP NGN 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 Network
• Plus Solutions Keynotes from Collaboration & Video, Data Center and Borderless Networks

To round out your education, make sure to:

• Attend a Meet the Engineer session,
• Have lunch while discussing Service Provider during a Table Topic roundtable forum,
• Get your technical questions answered during a Technical Solutions clinic whiteboard session,
• Register for a Free Certification Exam, as part of your Full Conference Pass purchase

Service Provider Special Interest Program: Monetizing the Cloud

Join us for Monetizing the Cloud, a one-day track dedicated to the business of the cloud from a cloud service provider perspective.

Sample Sessions

To get a glimpse into some of the Service Provider sessions from 2011, watch some of the video clips below. And then click on any of the links to be taken directly to Cisco Live Virtual to view 2011 IT Management Program sessions. Login or register for Cisco Live Virtual for free. Once inside, videos will open in a separate window. To view these videos, you will need to enable pop-ups.

• BRKSPV-2201: Watching Video over the Web: Internet Video and Adaptive Streaming Technologies
• BRKSPG-2405: Advanced Scaling for Core and Edge Networks
• BRKSPG-1701: The Networks Role in Cloud
• BRKOPT-2116: 40G and 100G for Data Center and DWDM Applications
• BRKOPT-2108: Packet Optical Transport

• BRKOPT-2105: Next Generation ROADM Architectures

World of Solutions

Leave plenty of time to visit our partners and exhibitors in the World of Solutions. Look for an expanded presence of Service Provider partners and exhibitors.

Networking and Social Opportunities

Plan on attending the numerous social opportunities throughout the week, including some Service Provider only receptions to enhance your networking opportunities.

Cisco Career Certification

Cisco certifications are highly respected IT certifications that bring valuable, measurable rewards to network professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them. Cisco offers five levels of career certifications: Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert, and Architect as well as Specialist certifications that enhance core networking knowledge in specific technologies. Learn More.