Networkers 2005 is designed to open up new horizons for you, with fascinating insights into technology innovation and vision, plus training and networking opportunities.
This year you'll be able to experience first hand some of the Next Generation technology solutions from Cisco. Demonstrated live at the event, they bring to life the latest possibilities of emerging technologies.
This year's technology demonstration program will feature the following technologies:
Cisco IP Communications is a comprehensive system of powerful, enterprise-class solutions, including IP telephony; unified communications; IP video, audio, and data conferencing; and customer contact. The system helps organizations realize business gains by improving operational efficiencies, increasing organizational productivity, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
All of the following components are covered in the IP Communications demonstration:
Cisco IP Phones
Cisco IP phones combine the functions of a traditional telephone with an Ethernet connection and optional customizations such as access to stock quotes, employee extension numbers, and Web-based content. Cisco IP Communicator, a software-based application that delivers enhanced telephony support through the PC - is designed to meet diverse customer needs by serving as a supplemental telephone when traveling, a telecommuting device, or as a primary desktop telephone. Cisco 7985 video enabled phone will allow users to seamlessly video conference each other by simply dialing an extension that is also video capable i.e. Cisco VTA. Cisco's 7940 & 7960 model phones have been revamped (7961, 7941) with a high definition black and white screen so as to improve application interaction and customer experience. Cisco's 7971 ip phone is identical to the 7970 ip phone except that it has 10/100/1000 Mb connectivity options.
Cisco CallManager
Cisco CallManager software extends enterprise telephony features and capabilities to packet telephony network devices such as IP phones, media processing devices, voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateways and multimedia applications. In addition it is the enabler for data, voice, and video services such as unified messaging, multimedia conferencing, collaborative contact centers, and interactive multimedia response systems. With the introduction of Video Telephony supporting SCCP and H.323 video, CallManager extends the same administration and user experience for voice to video.
CallManager integration with 3 rd party application appliances is also demonstrated to show Business-Impacting New Convergence Features.
Cisco Unity
Cisco Unity integrates with the desktop applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, that you use everyday to improve communications, boost productivity, and enhance customer service capabilities across your organization. With Cisco Unity, you can listen to your e-mail over the telephone, check voice messages from the Internet, and (when integrated with a supported third-party fax server) forward faxes to any local fax machine -- increasing organizational productivity while improving customer service and responsiveness.
Cisco Personal Assistant
Cisco Personal Assistant is a new-world telephony application that operates with Cisco Unity and streamlines communications by helping users manage how and where they want to be reached.
IP/VC
The Cisco IP videoconferencing (IP/VC) solution—an integral component of the Cisco IP Communications system—enables face-to-face discussions among videoconference participants in several locations.
Cisco MeetingPlace
Cisco MeetingPlace is an integral component of the Cisco IP Communications system. It is a complete rich-media conferencing solution that seamlessly integrates voice, video, and Web conferencing capabilities. This solution integrates directly with an organization's private voice and data networks and enterprise applications, providing significant cost savings, high security, and an enhanced user experience. Cisco MeetingPlace delivers a superior user experience by providing intuitive interfaces that make setting up, attending and managing meetings simple and straightforward. The feature-rich voice, video and Web conferencing capabilities enable a range of meeting applications. Meetings can range from highly collaborative through to training sessions and presentations.
Wireless LANs enable users to establish and maintain a wireless network connection throughout or between buildings, without the limitations of wires or cables. Cisco provides a family of wireless LAN products that combine the mobility and flexibility users want from a wireless LAN product with the throughput and security they demand from a enterprise LAN.
Products and solutions shown as part of the Wireless and IP Mobility demonstration are :
The Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN)
SWAN is a framework to integrate and extend wired and wireless networks to deliver the lowest possible total cost of ownership for companies deploying wireless LANs (WLANs). Cisco SWAN extends "wireless awareness" into important elements of the network infrastructure, providing the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment, and management for wireless LANs that organizations have come to expect from their wired LANs.
Aironet 1200 Access Point
The Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point sets the enterprise standard for high performance and secure, manageable, and flexible wireless LANs (WLANs). The modular design of the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series allows single or dual radio configuration for up to 54-Mbps connectivity in both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands and is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards.
CiscoWorks Wireless Lan Solution Engine
The CiscoWorks WLSE is a centralized, systems-level solution for managing the entire Cisco Aironet wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure. The advanced radio frequency (RF) and device management features of the CiscoWorks WLSE simplify the everyday operation of WLANs, ensure smooth deployment, enhance security, and maximize network availability, while reducing deployment and operating expense. The CiscoWorks WLSE enables administrators to detect, locate, and mitigate rogue access points and RF interference. The assisted site survey feature automates the previously manual, expensive, and time consuming process of determining optimal access point settings including transmit power and channel selection. The CiscoWorks WLSE automatically configures access points and bridges, assures the consistent application of security policies, and proactively monitors faults and performance
Cisco Wireless Security Suite
The Cisco Wireless Security Suite for Cisco Aironet® products fulfills the need for a consistent, reliable, and secure mobile networking solution. The Cisco Wireless Security Suite provides industry-leading enterprise-class security services. Based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) 802.1X standard and many innovative Cisco enhancements, this solution provides reliable, scalable and centralized security management with mutual authentication and dynamic encryption features to protect the privacy of transmitted data.
Mobile IP Client
Birdstep's Intelligent Mobile IP Client is a client-based application that allows users and applications to seamlessly connect and reconnect across different types of infrastructures without application down time or user intervention. The Birdstep Mobile IP Client has followed an open, standards-based approach to provide seamless roaming for operators and enterprises
Wireless Lan Services Module
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless LAN Services Module (WLSM) is a key component of the Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN) framework. The Catalyst 6500 Series WLSM delivers fully integrated wireless services into the award-winning Catalyst 6500 Series switch for enterprises, midsize businesses, universities, and service providers who want an enterprise-class wired and wireless LAN with simplified management, security, scalability and mobility.
Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controllers
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers are responsible for system wide wireless LAN functions, such as security policies, intrusion prevention, RF management, quality of service (QoS), and mobility. They work in conjunction with Cisco 1000 Series Lightweight Access Points and the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) to support business-critical wireless applications. From voice and data services to location tracking, Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers provide the control, scalability, security, and reliability that network managers need to build secure, enterprise-scale wireless networks-from branch offices to main campuses.
Cisco Wireless Control System
The Cisco WCS is an optional network component that works in conjunction with Cisco 1000 Series Lightweight Access Points and Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers. With Cisco WCS, network administrators have a single solution for RF prediction, policy provisioning, network optimization, troubleshooting, user tracking, security monitoring, and wireless LAN systems management. Robust graphical interfaces make wireless LAN deployment and operations simple and cost-effective. Detailed trending and analysis reports make Cisco WCS vital to ongoing network operations.
Cisco Wireless Location Appliance (2700)
The Cisco Wireless Location Appliance facilitates the deployment of new and important business applications by integrating tightly with a spectrum of technology and application partners through a rich and open application programming interface (API). This integration helps enable the deployment of powerful location-based applications such as Enhanced 911 (E911) services, asset management and workflow automation. Customers deploying this solution include enterprise businesses and vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing and government organizations.
Cisco Aironet 1000 Series Lightweight Access Point
Dual-band 802.11a/b/g enterprise-class access point designed for environments and deployments that require coverage flexibility. Works in conjunction with a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller.
The security demonstration centres on modelling a real-world architecture of a central office/branch office organisation.
We use Cisco Integrated Network Security Solutions in this mock organization to effectively show how to protect productivity gains and reduce network operating costs. The comprehensive security offering from Cisco combines a management framework, hardware devices, identity services, software functionalities, and applications into a single, secure infrastructure. We also demonstrate the Cisco Self-Defending Network, an initiative to increase network intelligence in order to enable the network to automatically identify, prevent, and adapt to security threats.
Specific products and features we demonstrate are:
MARS
We will demonstrate a solution for faster mitigation of intrusion attempts or attacks, including worm or virus outbreaks mainly in branch office and remote access networks in a dynamic and highly automated fashion based on information collected from intrusion activity sensors distributed around the enterprise network. Thanks to its ability to correlate events from various security solutions, MARS is capable to dramatically reduce the number of possible attack to investigate by only reporting relevant incidents.
Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
The ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances are purpose-built solutions that combine best-of-breed security and VPN services with an innovative Adaptive Identification and Mitigation (AIM) architecture. Designed as a key component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, the Cisco ASA 5500 Series provides proactive threat defense that stops attacks before they spread through the network, controls network activity and application traffic, and delivers flexible VPN connectivity. We will demonstrate its ability to deeply inspect packet up to the application layer in order to prevent malformed crafted packet (http and ftp), tunneled application (P2P or IM).
Cisco Security Agent (CSA)
Cisco Security Agent provides threat protection for server and desktop computing systems, also known as endpoints. It identifies and prevents malicious behavior, thereby eliminating known and unknown ("Day Zero") security risks and helping to reduce operational costs. The Cisco Security Agent aggregates and extends multiple endpoint security functions by providing host intrusion prevention, distributed firewall capabilities, malicious mobile code protection, operating system integrity assurance, and audit log consolidation, all within a single product. Using version 4.5 will demonstrate its ability to take in account the user profile, but also the localization thanks to different languages supported by the user interface.
Network Admission Control (NAC)
Network Admission Control (NAC) is a Cisco Systems sponsored industry initiative that uses the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources, thereby limiting damage from viruses and worms. Using NAC, organizations can provide network access to endpoint devices such as PCs, PDAs, and servers that are verified to be fully compliant with established security policy. NAC can also identify noncompliant devices and deny them access, place them in a quarantined area, or give them restricted access to computing resources. With Phase 2, we will be able to demonstrate the integration with 802.1x, providing the ability to allocate the end-point to a different vlan depending of its security compliance, but also the integration with 3 rd party vendors for the remediation.
Cisco Integrated Security
Cisco IOS ® Advanced Security Feature Set, and the security services modules for Cisco Catalyst ® 6500 Series switches are integrated security solutions that best represent the Cisco security philosophy. Each of these products integrates comprehensive firewall, intrusion protection, and VPN technologies in a cost-effective, single-box format. Cisco IOS Firewall, and the Firewall Services Module (FWSM) for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches are Cisco's flexible integrated firewall solutions. Based on modular, scalable platforms, each offering is designed with a particular feature set, to better secure different network environments. These solutions can be independently deployed to secure specific areas of the network infrastructure, or can be combined for a layered, defense-in-depth approach following the design best practices described in the SAFE Blueprint from Cisco.
Intrusion Detection
The Cisco IDS includes essential elements that when combined provide a secure, efficient, and comprehensive intrusion protection solution:
Accurate threat detection - The Cisco IDS Sensor Software detects nearly all potential threats and is the first step in providing a secure environment.
Ease of management - Browser-based tools simplify user interaction while providing powerful analytical tools that aid rapid and efficient responses to threats.
Cisco Identity Based Networking Services
Cisco Identity Based Networking Services such as 802.1X is an integrated solution combining several Cisco products that offer authentication, access control, and user policies to secure network connectivity and resources. Cisco IBNS solution enables greater security while simultaneously offering cost-effective management of changes throughout the organization.
This demo focus's on how the intelligence of the network can be used to interact with a stock trading application.
It shows 3 use cases:
The user registers to be notified if a given stock drops below a certain value. If such an event is captured in the network the user will be alerted on his IP phone
The user issues a stock trade request. The network is used to intercept this request that is sent via SOAP over HTML, convert the message format from FIX to FIXML and changes the transport protocol to interface the trading application that is using an MQ queue
Policies can be embedded in the network that will trigger an alarm when violated, for example in this demo we use the policy that a supervisor must be notified when a user tries to trade a large number of shares (100,000)
Virtualization (I/O, Host) and High Performance Computing with Infiniband (SFS, v-frame, MDS)
Cisco provides intelligent interconnect solutions based on Infiniband technology, designed for the data-center computing needs, for
- High-Performance Computing
to achieve supercomputing performance at commodity computing prices.
- Grid / Utility Computing
to dynamically provision computing resources on demand.
- Database Clusters
to scale distributed databases to meet their full potential.
This demo will concentrate on the last two items. The solution with a 10Gbps, low-latency Infiniband fabric simultaneously uses the underlying fabric for networking, interprocess communication, and storage, and therefore reduces the number of host adapters to just one, including the redundant second port. By creating virtual storage and network adapters in each server, traffic is aggregate and load balanced across virtual interfaces, providing for peak loads and improving high availability
VFrame software embeds policy and provisioning intelligence into the server switch hardware. This intelligence enables the server switch to automatically create virtual servers with the right combination of resources at the right time, based on policies defined by the data center manager. As conditions change, the server switch is programmed to add and remove resources from virtual servers as necessary.
The IP in Motion area will illustrate the connected moving fleet environment. Demonstrating currently deployed application in the public transport environment, we will be able to show the on-board Mobile router and the application devices attached, together with the Mobile IP architecture which allows seamless Wireless WAN connectivity through WLAN, EDGE and more...
Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) bring together IP telephony, firewall, intrusion protection and data for a highly integrated router, all managed from the easy-to-use Security Device Manager. This demonstration will showcase how the Cisco Business Communication Solution builds on the Cisco ISR platform to provide a "right-sized" solution for the smaller office location.
