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4 Benefits of a SaaS-Managed Data Center Fabrics: Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is an innovative solution that integrates local switches with SaaS-based management. It is designed to be scalable, secure and simple to deploy.
Cisco Networking: Layer 2 Technologies
This Learning Series covers several key network engineering concepts, including VLANs and Trunks, EtherChannels, and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Through practical labs and real-world scenarios, you'll gain hands-on experience in configuring and managing resilient networks. The journey begins with VLANs and trunking, where you'll learn about network segmentation. Next, you'll explore EtherChannels to enhance link aggregation and redundancy. Finally, you'll master Spanning Tree Protocol to prevent network loops and optimize performance. Ideal for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone looking to expand their knowledge of contemporary network infrastructure.
Cisco Networking: Trunks, VLANs, CDP, LLDP, UDLD
The Cisco Layer 2 Fundamentals Learning Path focuses on key networking concepts including VLANs, Trunks, CDP, LLDP, and UDLD. It starts with understanding how VLANs segment networks for better security and performance, followed by learning how trunk links enable communication between VLANs. You'll explore CDP and LLDP to discover network devices and topologies, and finally dive into UDLD for preventing unidirectional link failures. This path equips you with essential skills to manage, secure, and troubleshoot Layer 2 networks, providing a strong foundation for more advanced networking topics.
Cisco Networking: EtherChannels
The EtherChannel Configuration Learning Path focuses on key concepts and protocols for link aggregation, including static EtherChannels, PAgP, and LACP, with a deep dive into LACP's advanced features. You'll begin by understanding how EtherChannels combine multiple physical links into a single logical connection to enhance bandwidth and redundancy. The path covers how to configure static EtherChannels for manual link aggregation, followed by PAgP for dynamic link aggregation in Cisco-only environments. You'll also explore LACP, an open standard protocol, and its advanced features such as negotiation modes, timeouts, and priority settings for optimizing link performance and fault tolerance. This learning path equips you with the skills to configure, manage, and troubleshoot EtherChannel setups, providing a strong foundation for advanced network design and troubleshooting.
Cisco Networking: Spanning Tree Protocol
This learning path provides a comprehensive guide to mastering Cisco's Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and its variants, including PVST+, RSTP, and MSTP. It covers the fundamentals of STP, such as preventing network loops and ensuring redundancy, while diving into advanced configurations like adjusting STP costs and bridge priority to optimize network performance. The path also emphasizes security features such as Loop Guard, Root Guard, BPDU Guard, and many others, to protect against unintended topology changes and network instability. Additionally, students will engage in hands-on labs to configure STP, allowing them to apply best practices and gain practical experience in designing secure, efficient, and resilient networks."
Control All Your Infrastructure with Cisco Intersight
Learn how you can control your UCS servers, converged infrastructure, and hyperconverged infrastructure using Cisco Intersight.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AI Cluster Overview
A cloud managed, high performance, easy to deploy and operate, consolidated network - integrated with your Al stack.
Modernizing the Data Center to Capitalize on AI with Cisco at Cisco Live! | Beyond the Booth
Generative AI may sit atop the executive agenda, but few organizations are fully prepared to harness the full potential of AI and AI-powered technologies.
While at Cisco Live, we caught up with Cisco's David Jensen and WWT's Justin van Schaik to talk about the need to modernize and scale enterprise data centers for the surging growth in AI. We also talk with David and Justin about managing AI environments and workloads and how Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters make it easy for enterprise customers to build infrastructure to run generative AI models.
The Future of AI with NVIDIA at Cisco Live! | Beyond the Booth
IT leaders are bought into the transformational power of AI, but fatigued with trying to put it into action. Most are experimenting, but a significant majority are looking for a clear roadmap to separate hype from reality.
While at Cisco Live!, we caught up with NVIDIA's Marty Jain and WWT's Neil Anderson to talk what is real when it comes to AI and what is hype. We also talked with Marty about the growing partnership between WWT, NVIDIA and Cisco, and the potential of Cisco Nexus HyperFabric, a breakthrough AI cluster solution with NVIDIA for the data center.
Cisco AI Toolkit Demonstration
In this technology demonstration, we will showcase the deployment of an AI workload using Cisco Intersight automation on a single UCS X-Series blade, leveraging a neighboring X440p (X-Fabric) with an NVIDIA A40 GPU. This demo will highlight the powerful capabilities of both Cisco Intersight and the Cisco AI Toolkit, which includes tools for AI model deployment, system monitoring, and resource management. By utilizing Miniconda for environment management, CUDA for GPU acceleration, and various large language models like Vicuna and Meta OPT, we will feed data into a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model.
Cisco Reveals Nexus HyperFabric AI Clusters, A New Simplified Data Center Infrastructure Solution with NVIDIA for Generative AI
The Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI cluster solution combines Cisco AI-native networking with NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software, and a robust VAST data store.
WWT's Deployment of Codeium on Cisco UCS with NVIDIA L40 GPUs: A Success Story in Security and Productivity
World Wide Technology has partnered with Cisco and NVIDIA to integrate Codeium, a coding assistant, into the software development processes. With this integration, WWT has achieved significant productivity gains, with 30-50 percent efficiency improvements for repetitive tasks.