Networkers Sessions

This year’s lineup of technical training is organized into distinct tracks incorporating core technology education, allowing you to dive deep into a single topic or design your own agenda that crosses multiple tracks. Each track offers a wide-ranging curriculum on a technology topic that is critical to empowering businesses to 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. Whether you work for an up-and-coming enterprise or an industry leader, the knowledge and insight available at Cisco Live 2009 can give you and your company a powerful competitive edge.For the full agenda, including detailed session descriptions, visit our online interactive session catalog.

Technical Breakout Sessions

Business Video

Video has the potential to revolutionize everything from collaboration to business travel, while helping improve the bottom line. The sessions in this track help you understand the range of available video technologies, from IPTV services to Cisco TelePresenceto desktop solutions, with insight on designing, planning, building, and managing a video-ready network infrastructure. Cisco experts, customers, and partners share their views on best practices, how to avoid common pitfalls, and how to oversee a successful video deployment.

Business Video Sample Sessions:

• DMS Integration in Enterprise IP Network
• WebEx Integration with Unified Communications Systems
• Cisco TelePresence Network Infrastructure Design for Enterprise
• Designing and Deploying IP Video Telephony Networks
• Network Design and Implementation for IP Video Surveillance

Data Center & Virtualization

This track provides an overview of the strategies and technologies involved in the design,deployment, and maintenance of a next-generation data center. It offers an in-depth look at topics such as application networking solutions,server virtualization, high-performance computing, and storage area networking. You’ll also gain new insight into current datacenter trends— including environmental and energy concerns—and explore solutions to common challenges such as limited floorspace, power and cooling, and compliance with federal, state, and industry regulations.

Data Center & Virtualization Sample Sessions:

• Data Center Architecture Strategy and Planning
• Introduction to Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
• Fibre Channel Storage Area Network Design
• Utility Computing Infrastructure Design
• Deploying Data Center Virtualization
• Troubleshooting the Application Control Engine (ACE)
• Introduction to Web Application Security

Emerging Technology and Innovations

Just added this year, the Emerging Technologies& Innovations Track is designed to provide a holistic view of the technologies and solutions that are collectively driving the direction of the IT and communications industry for today and tomorrow. Topics featured may include products and technology available today, as well as those now being discussed for future development. The sessions may include Cisco’s own current emerging technologies such as IPICs, DMS, or TelePresence, as well as sessions focused on Web2.0 technologies that enable user collaboration,including how Cisco is embracing these technologies to achieve the next wave of productivity. Emerging Technologies is also where you’ll find topics addressing Cisco’s recent acquisitions.

Emerging Technology And Innovations Sample Sessions:

• Enterprise medianet Overview and Directions
• WebEx Integration with Unified Communications Systems
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch Architecture
• Design and Deployment for802.11n WLAN
• The Cisco ASR 9000 Architecture

Mobility

Whether you are enabling a warehouse with Wi-Fi or equipping a field sales force with wireless SFA applications, you can deepen your understanding of how to design and develop a secure and scalable unified mobility platform for more efficient and effective ways of doing business. Sessions cover the critical elements of a mobility platform, including, unified communications, wireless, network systems, network management, and security. You’ll learn how to design, implement,and manage a unified wireless network, including,guest access, voice over WLAN,wireless intrusion detection and prevention,precise location tracking, Network Admission Control, and more.

Mobility Sample Sessions:

• Designing a Service Control Implementation for 3GPP Mobile Wireless Operators
• Cisco Motion: Design and Deployment of Context-Aware Mobility Service for WLANs
• 3G UMTS Femtocell Architecture and Design
• Managing an Enterprise WLAN with Wireless Control System
• Designing Guest Access with the Cisco Unified Wireless Network
• Integrated Defense-in-Depth Security for WLANs

Network Infrastructure and Systems

Want to extend your existing Cisco network infrastructure and systems to create a more intelligent, adaptable, and secure network platform? Sessions in this track cover protocols,architectures, troubleshooting, and deployment for Cisco solutions in LAN switching, enterprise routing, IP Multicast, IP MPLS,Cisco IOS® software, and network management. You can learn architecture and design principles specific to campus, branch, datacenter, and wide-area networks while gaining insight into trends such as virtualization, automation, high-availability networking, business continuity and disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance.

Network Infrastructure & Systems Sample Sessions:

• Troubleshooting Cisco IOS Router Operation
• Accounting and Performance Management with Network Based Application Recognition
• EIGRP Design and Deployment
• Layer 3 VPN PE/CE Operation and Deployment
• Advanced IPv6 Deployment and Services
• Troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst 3750,3550, and 2900 Series Switches

Security

Sessions in this track focus on building the knowledge and skills you need to develop an integrated security approach that improves regulatory compliance, protects against data leakage, and defends against evolving security threats. You’ll gain a better understanding of firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion prevention products, as well as email and web security. Sessions explore current trends in information and network security, including the ubiquitous nature of web applications and services, the erosion of barriers separating trusted and untrusted users, and preventing information attacks beyond cyber-vandalism from for-profit businesses.

Security Sample Sessions:

• Security Considerations and Design Framework for the Internet Edge Enterprise Network
• Cisco Security Manager and Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System Integration and Deployment
• You’ve got Spyware! Seriously, You Do.
• Advanced IPSec with GET VPN
• Advanced Topics in Encryption Standards and Protocols

Unified Communications and Collaboration

From network infrastructure, security, and management products to wireless connectivity and life-cycle services, the Unified Communications track will improve your understanding of how to integrate your current Cisco video, voice, data, and mobility solutions into a single unified network strategy. Sessions cover the multiple technologies needed to deploy and manage a unified communications environment. You’ll also learn which trends are reshaping how we do business today, as well as strategies for adapting to growing communication complexity and increasingly mobile workers. You’ll gain a unique perspective on which unified communications and collaboration technologies are developing most rapidly and how to adapt to growing communication complexity and an increasingly mobile workforce.

Unified Communications and Collaboration Sample Sessions:

• Unified Communications over Satellite Design and Implementation
• Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal and Video Contact Center Update and Roadmap
• Planning and designing a Parent/Child Contact Center Enterprise Deployment
• Designing UC Gateways and DSP Engineering in Enterprise Networks
• Planning and Designing a Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise Deployment