Episode 41: Veytec – Finding Value in Earning the Cisco Advanced CX Specialization

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.”

Go under the hood of a ChatGPT outage, H&R Block’s Tax Day disruption, and more incidents from the past few weeks. The Internet Report team will also discuss Microsoft’s update on recent subsea cable cuts and the latest global outage trends. ——— CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:57 ChatGPT Outage 03:35 Revisiting West Coast of Africa Cable Cuts 09:07 H&R Block Outage 11:32 Sky Mobile Outage 12:25 Outage on unpkg CDN 14:06 PlayHQ Outage 16:40 Outage Trends: By the Numbers 19:33 Get in Touch ——— For more insights, check out the links below: - The Internet Report: Pulse Update blog: https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-pulse-update-chatgpt-outage-more-news?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=na_fy24q3_internetreportpulse34_podcast - Explore the ChatGPT outage in the ThousandEyes platform (no login required): https://akhdjionjdupmjvkqfyigkaorlxgzgir.share.thousandeyes.com - Review Microsoft’s post-incident report on the west coast of Africa cable cuts (see the entry labeled March 14, tracking ID: VT60-RPZ): https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status/history/ - Also watch Microsoft’s related Azure Incident Retrospective video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypU_UuwW_w8&list=PLmsFUfdnGr3xomlYbZPAYTtFdkcvbv2ye ——— 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 for the Pulse Update series to hear from the Internet experts at ThousandEyes as they 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

This Earth Day we celebrate the people behind #sustainability efforts at Cisco! In this episode of CX EMEA Unplugged, we meet Esther Roure Vila, Saumya Dubey, and Tiziano Canovai, and we find out how a surfer, a PhD student, and an avid camper brought their passion for sustainability to Cisco.

B sits down with Denise Lee, Cisco’s VP Engineering Sustainability Office, for a great chat on a wide range of sustainability topics, from circular design to embedding sustainability principles into business practices to achieving overall sustainability goals. This is also a great conversation for anyone looking to explore the diversity within sustainability roles that exist at companies like Cisco.

Join Dana Abrams, our Success Tracks Partner Go-to-Market Strategy Lead as she discusses Success Tracks and how partners benefit and monetize from CX Cloud, PX Cloud, APIs, and service creation only offered through Success Tracks.

With tax season coming to a close in the United States, IT teams at tax preparation companies and other organizations in the industry will be taking extra care to make sure that their systems can handle a spike in traffic due to a potential last-minute rush of filings. Tune in to hear The Internet Report hosts discuss how IT teams can navigate major spikes in demand and give customers the best possible digital experience, whether it’s Tax Day, Black Friday, or another high-traffic period. They’ll also unpack recent outages at companies including Apple and WhatsApp, and explore why a sudden reduction in page load times may indicate functional issues rather than true improvements to the customer’s digital experience. ——— CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 01:11 Navigating U.S. Tax Season and Spikes in Demand 06:37 Pulse Update: Outage Analysis 06:40 Apple Outage: App Store, TV+, and Music 13:35 WhatsApp, Other Meta Services Disrupted 15:04 Square Outage 17:19 Performance as a Cyber Indicator: XZ Utils 20:48 Panera Bread Outage 22:33 Ray AI Disruption 24:13 Outage Trends: By the Numbers 27:05 Get in Touch ——— 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 for the Pulse Update series to hear from the Internet experts at ThousandEyes as they 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