As a service provider, you’re on the leading edge of digitization and network transformation. But the world is changing fast, and you’re up against real challenges. Traditional services have become more commoditized, and providers like you face increasing competitive pressure and changing customer expectations. Together, we will achieve success by building agile, cost-effective networks and solutions that support your services.

Labs and Seminars

These Premium Education sessions offer in-depth training with Cisco experts to accelerate your technical knowledge on specific topics. The sessions can be added to any in-person Cisco Live package. Instructor-led Labs take place throughout the week and all Technical Seminars take place on Sunday, June 4. Log in to the Attendee Resource Center to purchase.

Highlighted Labs and Seminars

Learning Maps

Find a curated set of onsite sessions with our Learning Maps. Follow the session journey throughout the week to gain a deeper understanding on the specific Service Provider topic. 

  • Converged SDN Transport Architecture
    Learn about the Converged SDN Transport Architecture which allows you to evolve to a unified underlay transport supporting common overlay services leveraging Segment Routing (SR) and Ethernet Virtual Private Networking (EVPN) technologies. Converge wireline and wireless services onto a cloud ready architecture with common network elements providing resource efficient, software-defined network slicing with scalable traffic engineering, a simplified protocol stack, and low-latency resiliency.
  • Network Programmability, Automation and Security
    Learn about Cisco's innovations and software solutions enabling programmable mass-scale next generation networks. Explore the latest in automation and orchestration model driven operations and programmabilty while trusting cutting edge security capabilities embedded within network elements and software assurance platforms monitoring them.
  • Optical Networking and Optics
    Learn how Cisco's innovations in Optical, Optics and Routed Optical Networking can simplify your network and scale bandwidth to meet today's and future traffic demands. In this track you will learn about key industry trends in Optical networking, Digital Coherent Optics and evolving technologies for network convergence including Private Line Emulation over packet networks. Finally you will learn how these innovations are being used to build the novel Routed Optical Networking architecture.