Your Cisco IOS Network provides a wealth of advanced Device Manageability instrumentation (DMI) and opportunities for embedded automation. A major shift is going through the network industry - where operational tasks are no longer exclusively seen as external to the network but increasingly Cisco IOS Device Manageability Instrumentation is being used to automate operational tasks within the network infrastructure. This session exposes you to real-life examples along the stages in the life cycle of a network based service: - service planning - deployment and activation - testing and verification - ongoing service assurance - troubleshooting and optimisation and uses the network's Device Manageability Instrumentation (DMI) to achieve, verify and report on critical business objectives. Key technologies being discussed include IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM), Embedded Menu Manager (EMM), Embedded Resource Manager (ERM), Flexible NetFlow (FNF), Generic On-Line Diagnostics (GOLD), Tcl Scripting, and other relevant features. Automation capabilities such as Smart Install and Auto Smartports will also be covered.

Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (Cisco TMS) provides complete scheduling,control and management of TelePresence endpoints and TelePresence conferencing infrastructure; enabling enterprises to improve productivity, reduce costs, and maximise return on their TelePresence investment. Cisco TMS delivers unmatched TelePresence endpoint configuration, conference management, Microsoft Exchange support and One Button To Push functionality with WebEx OneTouch integration. This session will will start with an introduction to Cisco TMS and the differently deployment methods available. We will go over the individual benefits of each deployment method and how they can be integrated with Microsoft Exchange to provide ease of scheduling. While this session will start off with a brief overview of the solution, a base knowledge of TelePresence and Cisco TMS and Microsoft Exchange is assumed.

The key to any successful conferencing service is to make the experience simple, natural, reliable and predictable. Cisco TelePresence Conductor can be used to improve simplicity tremendously by overcoming many of the challenges that the TelePresence MCU administrator would traditionally encounter. Cisco TelePresence technology ensures a simple, natural conferencing experience for every user and every meeting. This session will cover an overview of the Cisco TelePresence Conductor product, how it can be configured, how it can be deployed, and the solutions it provides video administrators.

As today's enterprise networks start to deliver more services that are absolutely critical to the business - Deployment of critical services, Management, Troubleshooting and optimisation of the network from a single pane of glass becomes critical too. This session focuses on Prime Infrastructure - a converged platform from three existing products being LMS, NCS & WAN Assurance. Prime Infrastructure aims to act as a deployment, management, troubleshooting and optimisation tool for your Unified Access Network. Attendees are required to have familiarity with basics of WCS, NCS or LMS. Topics covered in this session are Installing and administrative configuration of Prime Infrastructure, Management of network elements, using templates to configure devices, various dashboards, troubleshooting an element in the network or a user, 360 experience across network elements, actioning alarms, using workflows to effectively manage devices along with enhanced reporting and customisation capabilities.

Learn how Zero Touch Deployment and Cisco Prime Infrastructure can enable assurance in your enterprise. Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) LAN Management Solution (LMS) is a very powerful tool for managing virtually all aspects of your network. With all of its capabilities, it may be easy to overlook some of PI's features that can make configuring, monitoring and understanding your network easier. In this session, we will start with a brief overview of PI, then jump into tips and tricks using various PI features to help you get the most out of your network management platform. Some of the examples discussed will be configuration compliance, flexible configuration templates, advanced reporting, Smart Interactions, and technology readiness assessments. This session is relevant to network management administrators, engineers, and system integrators using Cisco Prime Infrastructure in their enterprise. Attendees should already be familiar with the basics of Prime LMS.

Data Centre consolidation and cloud has changed how applications are delivered to the end users. Network now has critical role in delivering these applications with high quality of experience to end users, while providing tools for network admin to better monitor, troubleshoot, and control application performance. Traditional port-based network does not have granularity to control today applications. This session focuses on how Application Visibility and Control (AVC) solution which consists of NBAR2, FNF, PA, QoS and PfR available with ISR G2, ASR1K can enable application awareness in the network. We will go through each technology and their use cases, how to incorporate AVC into your network, and how AVC provides visibility into application traffic and network and simplifies troubleshooting. We will explain how to use various control technologies including QoS and PfR in AVC, and design consideration when WAAS is present.

Are you stressed out about how to monitor your Cisco TelePresence Video deployment? Collaboration is having an increasing impact to the network, user work style, network applications as well as expectations from the network. Application and network operators are challenged with providing a reliable collaboration service that works every time. However, issues do occur and in this session we will cover strategies for quantifying video conferencing demands, fault identification , isolation as well as expedited resolution. We will cover architectural strategies for both the endpoint and the network as well as the day-to-day tools that provide much improved visibility into application health and performance to assess measure and accelerate troubleshooting of voice/video/data applications. Standard MIBs and alerting mechanisms as well as new management tools, new monitoring features like IOS and MSI performance monitoring, mediatrace and IPSLA VO will be covered. Live demonstrations of the tools and technology will be used to provide tangible context. Join this session, learn about the latest tools and strategies and get back the enjoyment from your TelePresence deployment!

This advanced session will cover the performance aspects of all Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) products as well as the Firewall Services Module (FWSM). A large portion of the presentation will be dedicated to a detailed architectural review of the hardware and software platform operation in order to identity the performance implications at each stage of the traffic path. Interoperability of the advanced firewall features and the network protocols will be discussed as well. Commonly seen performance bottlenecks will be identified and analysed. Various performance optimisation techniques and designs will be presented through theoretical analysis and practical examples. Familiarity with ASA and FWSM features and operation is required.

This technical seminar will cover all aspects of the Cisco Jabber Collaboration Solution from the Desktop Clients on Windows and Mac and Web browsers to the Mobile Clients on iPhone, Android smartphones and tablets.

The session will start with an overview of the clients and capabilities and then move into a detailed look at the overall architecture and how it applies to the different Jabber clients, through detailed infrastructure review, to all aspects of the collaboration back-end including functions like secure remote access.