Cisco and WWT: Delivering Seamless and Secure Networking Solutions for the Modern Enterprise

 

Cisco and WWT deliver seamless and secure networking solutions for campus and branch environments, ensuring that users enjoy uninterrupted access to applications and data at any time, from any location, regardless of where those applications are hosted. With a comprehensive and flexible portfolio, Cisco ensures frictionless connection for users and devices in the most complex environments with AI and security embedded from the start. 

The Battle of AI Networking: Ethernet vs InfiniBand

This article is not an exploration of who does Ethernet better so much as a direct examination of technology itself. Numbers will be reported as an aggregate means between major players in the AI Networking market and contrasted with equivalent InfiniBand performance. The goal is to answer, at an atomic level, one question: eliminating all other variables, is Ethernet good enough?
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•Nov 3, 2024

Simplify IT and Network operations: Leverage AI/ML, automation, and enhanced visibility to provide a simplified, scalable network management solution with a centralized cloud-based dashboard, enabling efficient control and configuration of both wired and wireless networks from anywhere. It enhances visibility and security through integrated analytics and real-time insights, ensuring optimized performance and protection for critical network resources.

Support the future of work: Transform how connectivity and security are approached, allowing any user to seamlessly connect to any application in the multicloud era. This is achieved through a cloud-native SD-WAN overlay that is built on a SASE-enabled architecture, offering robust security and optimized performance. By integrating Cisco SD-WAN, organizations can ensure secure and reliable access across diverse environments, enhancing productivity and collaboration in an increasingly digital world.

Optimize application experiences: Swiftly detecting and address any degradation in network performance and user experience. This is achieved through end-to-end visibility and AI-driven insights that span both private and public networks, facilitated by native integration with Cisco ThousandEyes. With this powerful combination, organizations can proactively monitor and enhance network health, ensuring consistently high performance and a seamless experience for users interacting with critical applications.

See and Secure: Enhance the identification, verification, monitoring, and protection of users, devices and applications by implementing policy and segmentation by integrating network telemetry with advanced security analytics to provide comprehensive visibility and control. By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can ensure that their network environment is both secure and efficient, effectively managing access and safeguarding critical resources against potential threats.

WWT experts and the AI Proving Ground in our Advanced Technology Center (ATC) support the latest in Cisco Networking solutions.

Why WWT for Cisco Networking?

With over 600 skilled developers worldwide and many successful business transformation applications delivered, our Application Services (AS) team is a tremendous asset to customers. Offerings include software and application development and third-party platform integrations.
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Whether you need help strategizing and implementing enterprise architecture, solidifying your segmentation business case, assessing the risks and maturity of your current approach, improving operational efficiencies or building and executing a plan to fill gaps — we can help. Our services range from briefings, assessments and workshops to long-term consulting and technical engagements.

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Our Advanced Services team helps equips organizations with their new technology as quickly as possible to start driving outcomes. Through our proven methodologies and global integration and logistics capabilities, we offer a broad set of deployment solutions for Cisco networking solutions with products ranging from campus access layers, WAN migrations, mobility and data center networking.

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With more than four million square feet of space on three continents, we are positioned to provide robust logistics and life-cycle management internationally. Services range from basic, just-in-time logistics to configuration and staging. Networking-specific offerings include imaging and configuration, asset management and rack integration. In addition, process automation allows us to integrate with customer systems for seamless device delivery and management.

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Leveraging the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), we are able to demonstrate the capabilities and features of Cisco Networking solutions. More importantly, the power of the ATC comes through with all the integrations with other systems and services such as ServiceNow, Ansible and O365. This allows us to quickly showcase automation of business process.

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Cisco Networking labs and learning paths in the ATC

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.18.x)

This Sandbox environment features a pre-configured network topology designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The incorporated set of components within the lab topology includes Controllers and IOS-XE WAN Edges (Catalyst 8000V), all running on 20.18.1/17.18.01a code.
Sandbox Lab
3 launches

Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2

This lab is a continuation of the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1 to allow students to explore the basics of ACI Constructs, building an Application Profile, EPGs and Bridge domains, Policy Filters, and Contracts. The students then connect the ACI fabric to external layers 2 and 3 devices. The lab then finishes with ACI micro-segmentation inside an EPG to show a zero-trust model. Unlike Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, which uses a simulator due to resource sharing with other students, this lab uses the latest ACI hardware and allows the student to test real-world data plane connectivity inside and outside the fabric.
Foundations Lab
899 launches

Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1

This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6.1(3f), emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity. The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)
Foundations Lab
2984 launches

Manage and Monitor SD-Routing Devices

With Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN 20.13, learn to onboard traditional routing devices into Catalyst Manager just like SD-WAN devices, enabling advanced monitoring capabilities and troubleshooting tools.
Advanced Configuration Lab
121 launches

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Foundations Lab (20.9.5)

The Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Cisco's SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Foundations Lab
819 launches

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.16.x)

This Sandbox environment features a pre-configured network topology designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The incorporated set of components within the lab topology include Controllers and IOS-XE WAN Edges (Catalyst 8000V), all running on 20.16.1/17.16.01a code.
Sandbox Lab
21 launches

Cisco Networking: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

This Learning Series covers essential OSPF routing concepts and skills, forming a critical foundation for modern network engineering. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you'll gain practical experience configuring and troubleshooting OSPF in various environments. The journey begins with OSPF Foundations, where you'll learn about link-state routing, neighbor relationships, and area design. Next, you'll dive into OSPF Intermediate concepts such as network types, LSA behavior, route summarization, and redistribution. Ideal for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone seeking to deepen their expertise in scalable, dynamic IP routing using OSPF.
Learning Series

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.15.x)

This Sandbox environment features a pre-configured network topology designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The incorporated set of components within the lab topology include Controllers and IOS-XE WAN Edges (Catalyst 8000V), all running on 20.15.1/17.15.01a code.
Sandbox Lab
77 launches

Cisco Networking thought leadership

Segmentation in the Data Center With Cisco Nexus Dashboard

This post reviews the steps needed to define and configure data center segmentation policies using Cisco's Nexus Dashboard platform alongside the results of these actions in a lab topology.
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•Aug 14, 2025

6 Steps to Understanding Cisco ACI

When understood, these six concepts will help anyone new to ACI to understand a more detailed technical discussion.
Article
•Jul 28, 2025

The NVIDIA–Cisco Spectrum-X Partnership: A Technical Deep Dive

NVIDIA and Cisco's Spectrum-X partnership combines best-of-breed software and hardware into a multivendor ecosystem. This partnership enhances scalability, flexibility, and vendor interoperability, addressing the critical demands of AI/ML workloads. The collaboration promises a high-performance Ethernet fabric, redefining load balancing and congestion control for the AI era.
Blog
•Jul 3, 2025

The Versatile Data Center Smart Switch: Cisco N9300

The Cisco Nexus N9300 Smart Switch revolutionizes data center infrastructure with its convergence of high-performance switching, network security and application services. Featuring Cisco Silicon One ASICs and a Data Processing Unit, it offers intelligent, service-aware capabilities. Optional Hypershield enhances zero-trust security, making it ideal for AI, hybrid cloud and security-conscious environments.
Blog
•Jun 25, 2025

Cisco Live 2025: Networking Takeaways

Our Networking team's highlights from an exciting week in San Diego.
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•Jun 18, 2025

Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) for 6 GHz Wi-Fi

This blog post traces the history of Wi-Fi technology from its humble beginnings to its current applications and discusses the regulatory and technical obstacles that hinder the full utilization of the 6 GHz spectrum
Blog
•May 9, 2025

Troubleshooting a Wireless Network - Information Gathering

This video covers essential wireless troubleshooting strategies, focusing on isolating issues through a structured approach. It highlights key information to gather, such as client behavior, device type, and signal strength metrics. Learn how to quickly assess symptoms, correlate data, and determine root causes in dynamic Wi-Fi environments.
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•18:37
Apr 28, 2025

Troubleshooting a Wireless Network - Information Gathering

This covers essential wireless troubleshooting strategies, focusing on isolating issues through a structured approach. It highlights key information to gather, such as client behavior, device type and signal strength metrics. Learn how to quickly assess symptoms, correlate data and determine root causes in dynamic Wi-Fi environments.
Blog
•Apr 23, 2025

Cisco Networking certifications and awards

WWT employs 367 Cisco-certified engineers and holds more than 6,060 individual Cisco certifications. Notable certifications include many CCIE routing and switching, CCIE data center and CCIE collaboration certifications. Other CCIE-certified resources span security, service provider, storage, networking, voice and wireless.

  • Cisco Gold Integrator
  • Cisco Master Networking Specialized
  • Cisco Master Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Specialized
  • Cisco Master Service Provider Technology Specialized
  • Cisco Advanced Enterprise Networks Architecture Specialized
  • Cisco Hybrid Cloud Networking Specialized
  • Cisco Hybrid Work from Office Specialized
  • Cisco IoT Advantage Specialized
  • Cisco SASE Specialized
     

WWT was also recognized with sixteen Cisco Partner of the Year awards in 2024

View all of WWT's Cisco certifications and awards
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