Cisco Champion Radio

How do you know for certain that a router in your network has not been altered with since you deployed it? Wouldn’t it be great if you can cryptographically challenge your router to provide its unique identity? In addition to this, what if the underlying OS provides a secure mechanism to detect if the software has been tampered with during boot time and runtime? Tune in to this podcast to understa...

Cognitive Collaboration brings together intelligence and context throughout all collaboration experiences. Bridging AI and ML capabilities with insight and the context of the meeting or customer interaction creates more meaningful experiences and outcomes. Cognitive Collaboration fosters human relationships, enhances customer interactions, and builds high-performance teams across boundaries, enabl...

We are excited to launch Cisco Live as a truly worldwide event for customers and partners around the globe, from the Americas to EMEAR to APJC. This combined global digital event, Cisco Live 2021, will be held on March 30 – April 1, 2021, replacing Cisco Live EMEAR (February) and Cisco Live (June). With events and conferences continuing to be digital for a large part of 2021, we’ve reimagined the...

Cisco Fastlane+ is a co-developed solution with Apple that significantly improves the experience of any Wi-Fi 6 capable iPhone or iPad connected to a Cisco Catalyst 9130 Access Points. Cisco’s existing Fastlane solution has provided an enhanced user experience on iPhones, iPads, and Mac devices with optimized QoS prioritization of time-sensitive applications. Tune into this episode to learn how Fa...

How do you create exceptional customer experiences? Contact centers play an essential role in shaping a company’s direction and have become a strategic imperative to driving customer loyalty, innovation and business growth. No other part of your organization touches customers more closely. Tune in to this episode to learn more about Cisco Contact Center and hear how the next-generation contact cen...

Intersight Workload Optimizer is an exciting new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that helps customers solve the critical problem of assuring workload performance while maximizing infrastructure utilization, both on-premises and in the public cloud. Tune in to this episode to learn how Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer simplifies application resource management across complex, hybrid cloud...

Machine Reasoning is a new category of AI/ML that you will soon hear a lot about. It saves your IT team time by automating complex and tedious networking tasks. It can also bridge the skill gap by providing automated workflows that empower your newer engineers to perform complex troubleshooting. Cisco is proud to demonstrate industry leadership with these advanced capabilities in our Enterprise ne...

Data helps businesses make sound decisions, and Meraki MV smart cameras have made it easy for organizations of any size to derive additional value from their smart camera deployments. But as powerful as these cameras are, with machine learning technologies and rich analytics, there are simply some physical attributes - like temperature or humidity - that cannot be easily determined by the camera....

Traditional approaches were not designed to handle the data volume, velocity, and variety that occurred with the rise of digital transformation. The advent of big data created a need for a different kind of infrastructure architecture. Hadoop distributions became ubiquitous as the volume of data continued to soar. Now more than a decade after the big data trend started, the market has consolidated...

Cisco Champion Radio will be on a holiday break until we return to kick off Season 8 on Monday, January 4. We wish you a relaxing and safe holiday season.

SecureX is a cloud-native, built-in platform experience that connects our Cisco Secure portfolio and your infrastructure. It is integrated and open for simplicity, unified in one location for visibility, and maximizes operational efficiency with automated workflows. It radically reduces threat dwell time and human-powered tasks to stay compliant and counter attacks. Tune in to hear from the Cisco...

The COVID-19 pandemic set a new high bar for organizations and their need for increased business resiliency. When the pandemic hit, thousands of organizations around the world found themselves forced to rethink how to keep things running while keeping their employees safe and serving customers and the community. Cisco was one of them. When work-from-home policies took effect in March, Cisco sent h...

Identifying who and what is on the network is a challenge for many organizations. Incomplete visibility makes it difficult to implement advanced security policies and recommendations, and unknown endpoints can increase the threat surface. There is growing evidence that bad actors are taking advantage of these weaknesses. Cyber-attacks on IoT devices surged by over 300% in 2019, and over 75% of vul...

Join this episode, featuring three Cisco partners, as they discuss the ins and outs of DevNet Specialization for partners. DevNet Specialization is a catalyst for Cisco’s ecosystem partners to build and enhance their software development practices, with a focus on automation and application development with Cisco platforms and APIs. Achieving this Specialization recognizes their expertise and abil...

As networks become more complex, automation can tame the complexity and provide agility to meet business requirements for connectivity. ngena provides this agility and simplicity in deploying Cisco SD-WAN for the as-a-service market. Tune in to learn how the ngena solution delivers end-to-end automation, and the impact that they can provide for your SD-WAN services, in addition to other services....

A critical component of any zero-trust strategy is securing the workplace that everyone and everything connects to. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) enables a dynamic and automated approach to policy enforcement that simplifies the delivery of highly secure network access control. ISE empowers software-defined access and automates network segmentation within IT and OT environments. Join us as...

Design thinking is a framework and methodology for creative problem-solving. It helps define problems, design solutions, test and deliver. It can be used by any business or function to achieve extraordinary results. Tune into this episode to learn more about Cisco Design Thinking principles. Hear how Cisco applies Design Thinking in real-world scenarios and projects with partners and customers to...

The changing global environment has transformed how enterprise users connect to applications. The SASE architecture delivers important networking and security capabilities to deliver a seamless application experience—irrespective of whether the user is in the office, at home or in a remote location. The core elements of the SASE architecture are built on a converged SD-WAN and cloud security. Cisc...

We have entered an era where the way people work is forever changed. With a large portion of the world continuing to work from home, many are wondering how the workplace will evolve as the doors open again. Join us to see how Cisco Webex is transforming the way you operate, respond to change and reimagine how people work together. From the personal office to the boardroom, learn how Cisco Webex is...

Today, organizations are facing changes so large, so fast, and so many—seeing acceleration of already established trends as well as unprecedented disruption—that’s making their business models highly vulnerable, or more acutely, at risk of extinction. Tune in to this episode to hear from Cisco CTO, Stephen Smith, and Cisco Champions as they discuss the changes to the way we work today. And the imp...

What better way to kick off the 2020 IT Blog Awards season than to bring together technical bloggers, vloggers and podcasters to share their unique experiences? In this episode, you'll gain insights into what inspired some of our Cisco Champion bloggers, vloggers and podcasters to pursue their craft; what challenges they faced (and overcame); and some of the amazing outcomes of pursuing their pass...

From low data rate wireless, such as low-power-wide area technologies that are designed for small devices running on batteries, to the emergence of high data rate wireless technologies, such as 5G, and Wi-Fi 6, decision makers and network experts face a broad choice of wireless technologies. But when it comes too industrial wireless technologies, one size doesn't fit all. Tune into this episode an...

IT organizations that get the most out of their technology investments tend to grow faster than their peers. As a result, they are always exploring enhancements to existing products that can improve operational efficiency and reduce costs. Listen in as Cisco Champions sit down with the Cisco expert to discuss using HyperFlex as an iSCSI target to address block storage use cases, such as externaliz...

The IT landscape has become exponentially complex due to rising consumer demand and the insatiable appetite for an always-on environment. We need a simplified way to automate, orchestrate, and secure the infrastructure while leveraging analytics and policy-based models that deliver the best application experience. However, operationalizing multiple domains (e.g. cloud, campus, etc.) is challenging...

Cisco Ultra Cloud 5G Core solution is an evolutionary jump delivering advanced 5G features, automation, higher resiliency and deployment simplicity into the Service Provider networks. Tune in as we discuss the new 5G SA Core architecture and associated 5G capabilities (i.e., Slicing, Service Based Architecture, Security) required to deliver new enhanced use cases. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com...