Cisco Live 2012

I have chosen to attend Cisco Live again this year. Last year I attended VMworld to get a better understanding of virtualization and the challenges/opportunities it presents to network design. This year I’m going back to my networking roots.

I have two of primary goals for this year’s event:

1) Get a better understanding of how implementing L2 between two data centers will affect my network design and stability. I expect that this will become a requirement at my organization in the next year and I want to get a solid handle on how we can implement it without significant fate-sharing implications.

2) Prepare for the introduction of IPv6 in our environment. While I do not have any specific IPv6 techtorials scheduled, I may end up switching into one or more during the course of the week. I would like to exit Cisco Live 2012 with enough knowledge to answer the following questions:

1. Where should we implement IPv6 first? Test DMZ, Internal network, elsewhere?
2. Which IGP should we use internally?
3. How should we allocate our /48 subnet?
4. Where do we implement NAT66? (just kidding)

My secondary goals are to get a better understanding of the CCIE DC technology stack, figure out what TrustSec is and whether I should fear its introduction into my environment, and continue learning network design technologies.

 

Here’s my tentative schedule… If you see me, say hi.

 

Sunday
Start: 10:30 AM End: 12:45 PM		CCDE Written Exam	CCDE Written Exam
Monday
Start: 8:00 AM End: 12:00 PM		TECCCIE-9544 Meeting Room 8	CCIE Data Center Techtorial
Start: 1:00 PM End: 3:00 PM		BRKRST-2335 Meeting Room 17B	IS-IS Network Design and Deployment
Start: 3:30 PM End: 4:30 PM		GENSK-4356 Ballroom 20D	Solutions Keynote: The Future of the Enterprise Network in the Post-PC Era
Tuesday
Start: 8:00 AM End: 9:30 AM		BRKCOM-2001 Ballroom 20D	UCS Deep Dive
Start: 10:00 AM End: 11:30 AM		GENKEY-4346 Hall G/H	Keynote and Welcome Address
Start: 12:30 PM End: 2:30 PM		BRKRST-2509 Ballroom 20D	Mastering Data Center QoS
Start: 3:00 PM End: 4:00 PM		PSOCCIE-9302 Meeting Room 11B	Cornerstones of CCIE Success
Start: 4:00 PM End: 5:30 PM		PNLRST-4001 Ballroom 20A	Panel: LISP Executive Panel
Start: 7:00 PM End: 10:30 PM		DISC4871 Hard Rock Hotel Woodstock Terrace	Data Center Virtualization and Switching Customer Networking Reception
Wednesday
Start: 8:00 AM End: 9:30 AM		BRKDCT-2131 Ballroom 6D	Mobility and Virtualization in the Data Center with LISP and OTV
Start: 10:00 AM End: 11:30 AM		GENKEY-4347 Hall G/H	Cisco Technology Keynote
Start: 12:30 PM End: 2:30 PM		BRKDCT-2223 Meeting Room 32B	Evolution of the Data Center Edge
Start: 3:00 PM End: 4:00 PM		PSODCT-3863 Meeting Room 11B	Journey to the Cloud: Benefits of a IT-as-a-Service
Start: 4:00 PM End: 6:00 PM		BRKARC-3471 Meeting Room 31AB	Cisco NX-OS Software Architecture
Thursday
Start: 8:00 AM End: 9:30 AM		BRKCRT-8862 Meeting Room 8	Cisco Certified Architect: How to complete the journey from CCIE to CCDE to CCAr
Start: 10:00 AM End: 11:30 AM		BRKSEC-2022 Ballroom 6D	Demystifying TrustSec, Identity, NAC and ISE
Start: 12:00 PM End: 1:30 PM		BRKDCT-2214 Ballroom 6E	Ultra Low Latency Data Center Design - End-to-end design approach
Start: 2:00 PM End: 3:00 PM		GENKEY-4358 Hall G/H	Closing Keynote: An Afternoon with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
Start: 3:30 PM End: 5:30 PM		BRKMPL-3101 Ballroom 6AB	Advanced Topics and Future Directions in MPLS