Episode 45: Partner Profitability, Sustainability, and Longevity with Gabby McGee

In this episode, host Brandon Copeland is joined by ThousandEyes Partner of the Year 2023, WWT. They discuss how they built their ThousandEyes practice, how they received executive buy-in, and the lessons they learnt along the way. Subscribe to our Partner Newsletter: https://www.thousandeyes.com/partners/newsletter/ Join our ThousandEyes Partners LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12831038/

Hear from Valérie Poulain, Cisco Sales Business Development Manager for Paris Olympics 2024, and Andrea Vitali, Cisco Solutions Development Architect, as they discuss their experiences with One Cisco, Many Careers. For questions, comments, or feedback, please contact [email protected]

On this episode, Scott Schell sits down with Brian Dixon at CDW to discuss the moments that matter around Enterprise Agreements (EAs), software adoption, and the customer lifecycle across the two.

Multi-mode fiber has been the workhorse for fiber optic communication within a data center for years, as well as the choice for Ethernet backbones in office buildings. It has a rich history that goes all the way back to the first optical fiber standards when 100 megabits per second was a huge data rate. Anybody remember those days? In Episode 53, we continue our conversation with Hao Dong, market technology development manager for Corning’s optical communications business. We get into the difference between single-mode and multi-mode fiber. – Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager Hao Dong is a market technology development manager for Corning’s optical communications business. Within this role, he focuses on technology and market trends to identify, evaluate, and develop leading optical network solutions that form the backbone of today’s connected world. Hao has over 18 years of industry experience and has held various positions in engineering, development, and marketing within the fields of optical components, fiber lasers, and optical communications. Hao holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Wuhan University and a Ph.D in physics from the University of Connecticut. Related links Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/ Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop Cisco Optics Product Information: https://copi.cisco.com/ Additional resources Cisco Optics Podcast: https://optics.podcastpage.io/ Blog: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticsblog Cisco Optics YouTube playlist: http://cs.co/9008BlQen Cisco Optics landing page: cisco.com/go/optics Music credits Sunny Morning by FSM Team | https://www.free-stock-music.com/artist.fsm-team.html Upbeat by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com

Explore what happened during recent outages at google.com, X (formerly Twitter), and CDN service jsDelivr. The Internet Report team will also discuss why a detailed understanding of every component in your service delivery chain is vital to maintain the availability and resiliency of your service. If even one component encounters challenges, the entire service can be impacted. In jsDelivr’s case, for example, the detail at issue was an expired cert, which created problems serving content and impacted many websites that rely on the CDN service. Listen now to learn more or use the timestamps below to jump to the sections that most interest you: CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:52 google.com Outage 05:26 X Outage 10:33 jsDelivr Outage 15:02 Outage Trends: By the Numbers 17:27 Get in Touch ——— For more insights, check out the links below: - The Internet Report: Pulse Update blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-x-jsdelivr-google-outages?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=na_fy24q4_internetreport_q4fy24ep1_podcast - Explore the X and google.com outages in the ThousandEyes platform (no login required): X outage: https://aitcvdgvbgkzdxlzjvazipwezvmjeljr.share.thousandeyes.com google.com outage: https://azraqdwpahxlrnviylmbvpumoonabsnh.share.thousandeyes.com ——— Want to get in touch? If you have questions, feedback, or guests you would like to see featured on the show, send us a note at [email protected]. Or follow us on X: @thousandeyes ——— ABOUT THE INTERNET REPORT: This is the Internet Report, a podcast uncovering what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Tune in every other week to hear the Internet experts at ThousandEyes share the latest data on ISP outages, public cloud provider network outages, collaboration app network outages, and more. Then, the hosts dig into the most interesting outage events from the prior week, examining popular service outages and discussing what went awry—was it the Internet, or an application issue? Catch all the episodes on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-internet-report/id1506984526 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ADFvqAtgsbYwk4JiZFqHQ?si=00e9c4b53aff4d08&nd=1&dlsi=eab65c9ea39d4773 - SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ciscopodcastnetwork/sets/the-internet-report

AB sits down with Joe Vaccaro, GM, Cisco ThousandEyes, for a great conversation on the unique technology of ThousandEyes and how it is becoming the de facto digital experience assurance solution across Cisco products and beyond, helping customers deliver excellent digital experiences. Beyond the tech talk, Joe also discusses his passion for family, the great outdoors, and a lot more.

When it comes to cyber security, you're not just protecting your business, you're also protecting your employees and clients. As a small or medium business, the threat of cyber security attacks are imminent. The reality is, you have to be prepared to survive an attack, not prevent one. In this episode, we recap previous conversations that host Ian Thompson has had with guests around the topic of cyber security. He explores sobering statistics, essential strategies, and tangible steps every business should take to protect itself in an increasingly digital world. Learn more about Cisco solutions for SMBs at cisco.com/go/smb.

In this episode, we interview Justin Roberts, Technical Leader in Next-Gen Firewalls in the US. He takes us, in a very technical episode, through the artchitecture of Cisco Firewalls, how they work and how performance and security are two concepts that are very related. In this story, a customer is seeing applications performance issues after the start of Covid as employees all work from home. However, load is not the problem and their beefy security appliances should handle it without any problem. Where could the problem be ?

Multi-mode fiber has been the workhorse for fiber optic communication within a data center for years, as well as the choice for Ethernet backbones in office buildings. It has a rich history that goes all the way back to the first optical fiber standards when 100 megabits per second was a huge data rate. Anybody remember those days? In Episode 52, we begin a new conversation with Hao Dong, market technology development manager for Corning’s optical communications business. We begin with his start in semiconductor lasers for telecom before switching to fiber lasers. – Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager Hao Dong is a market technology development manager for Corning’s optical communications business. Within this role, he focuses on technology and market trends to identify, evaluate, and develop leading optical network solutions that form the backbone of today’s connected world. Hao has over 18 years of industry experience and has held various positions in engineering, development, and marketing within the fields of optical components, fiber lasers, and optical communications. Hao holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Wuhan University and a Ph.D in physics from the University of Connecticut. Related links Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/ Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop Cisco Optics Product Information: https://copi.cisco.com/ Additional resources Cisco Optics Podcast: https://optics.podcastpage.io/ Blog: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticsblog Cisco Optics YouTube playlist: http://cs.co/9008BlQen Cisco Optics landing page: cisco.com/go/optics Music credits Sunny Morning by FSM Team | https://www.free-stock-music.com/artist.fsm-team.html Upbeat by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com

Join Gabby McGee, Cisco's Partner Renewals Leader for EMEA as she navigates partner profitability. “Profitability is about sustainability and longevity for partners. It’s exactly about relevance. If our partners aren’t profitable, they likely can’t continue to operate, and they certainly can’t reinvest and grow.”