Technology Demos

Technology Demos

 

Cisco Live 2012 is designed to open up new horizons by providing fascinating insight into technology innovation and vision, plus training and networking opportunities. You'll be able to experience firsthand some of the Next Generation technology solutions from Cisco within the World of Solutions which this year brings you more demos than ever before.

Learn. Connect. Collaborate. Together

 

Service Provider New Toys
At the 'ISP New Toys' stand you can see the latest power and space optimised Service Provider products and talk to our engineers about how Cisco is reducing power, real-estate and cooling costs whilst significantly increasing performance and resilience.

On this stand we will showcase new products and solutions including clustered routers, router fabric extension capability, customer programmable router technology and new hardened metro Ethernet switches including:

  • ASR9001 *NEW*
  • ASR9000v *NEW*
  • ASR901 *NEW*
  • ASR903 *NEW*
  • ASR1001 *NEW*
  • ME3600-24-CXM *NEW*
  • 100G optical solutions *NEW*
  • Connected App's (programmable router)*NEW*
  • Updated RAN backhaul solutions *NEW*
  • Latest generation ASR 9000 line cards

 

Service Provider Video
Videoscape introduces a common user experience across Cisco IP set-top boxes, gaming consoles, connected TVs, iPads, and mobile devices. Local experts will demonstrate how the integrated Cisco Videoscape cloud, Network, and client components can deliver a complete video experience with innovative scenarios and we will be showcasing the capabilities of the Videoscape platform at this stand.

 

Service Provider Management
The Cisco Network Management & Operational Support System demo illustrates how Cisco Prime family of products integrated into a live Service Provider management regime. From service catalogue, order entry, resource allocation to provisioning, alarm and performance Cisco Prime delivers functionality, agility, efficiency and resiliency, together with a modular design that supports pre integration and third party devices. Assurance, the solution is a flawless end to end solution. We will demonstrate how a Metro Ethernet pseudo wire is created and maintained, how to monitor Mobile RAN traffic and how to strategise Ethernet OAM maintenance domains in a graphical format. You can also trace paths for BFD, REP and 1588v2 clocking and at the same time control the allocation of the path IDs.

 

Connected Energy
The connected energy demonstration uses Cisco's newly released Field Area Router for wireless mesh communications to provide connectivity for smart meters, remote workers and other intelligent electronic grid devices. In this demonstration we will monitor, manage and control both smart meters and intelligent grid devices via the wireless mesh network. Come see how Cisco Connected Grid Architecture combined with an intelligent converged communications network can be used to make the electrical grid smarter. With management of energy being one of the great challenges of the 21st century, a smarter electrical grid or "Smart Grid" can help utilities around the world manage energy demands, maximise efficiency and reduce costs.

 

Digital Media Suite
The Cisco Digital Media suite has many applications across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, retail, government, education, healthcare, sports and entertainment, safety and security, and transportation. In this demonstration you will see a wide range of passive, dynamic and interactive applications illustrating how Digital Signs are relevant to use cases such as Marketing, Communications and Training, Advertising, Information Sharing and Customer Experience. In addition to the content and application aspects, we will be demonstrating how to build efficiency into content delivery across WAN Environments.

 

Cisco Prime Innovative Management
Cisco Prime for Enterprise is an innovative strategy and portfolio of management products that empower IT departments to more effectively manage their networks and the services they deliver. Cisco Prime is built upon a network services management foundation and a set of common attributes. Cisco Prime supports integrated lifecycle management of networks, services, and endpoints for Cisco Borderless Network, Data Centre, and Collaboration architectures with end-to-end assurance. It helps IT departments achieve:

  • Improved operational efficiencies: Reduce network errors, speed troubleshooting, and improve the delivery of network services.
  • Reduced operating expenses: Speed deployments, minimise IT staffing, and reduce training requirements with easy-to-use tools, workflows, and automated best practices that simplify network management.
  • Lower capital expenditures: Make the most of network investments through converged management and cross-integration with existing operations, systems, and northbound processes.
  • Enhanced service levels: Gain end-to-end visibility and service-aware networking and assurance that simplifies troubleshooting and make the delivery of services more predictable.

 

Borderless Networks

 

Cisco's next generation architecture designed to connect anyone, anything, anywhere, anytime - securely, reliably and seamlessly. Visit the Borderless Networks demonstration area in the World of Solutions to experience how Cisco Borderless Networks transforms the way IT governs networks by linking users, devices, applications, and business processes together.

 

Bring Your Own Device
Learn how Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) and the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for converged user, access, and policy management can enable Enterprise networks to support the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon -- both on a wired and wireless network

 

Cloud Intelligent Network
Learn how the Cisco Cloud Intelligent Network and its scalable routing foundation can deliver enterprise-class services to the end user by utilising end-to-end Borderless Network Services such as Video/Medianet, Application Velocity, WAN Optimisation, and Security, with best-in-class management from Cisco Prime Management Suite.

 

Enterprise Energy Management
Watch Cisco EnergyWise and next-generation Universal Power over Ethernet (UPoE) solutions as they enable seamless delivery and control of power in a heterogeneous campus environment.

 

Video Optimised Networking
See how Cisco MediaNet capable devices add intelligence to the network, allowing in depth troubleshooting for real-time video calls and providing valuable statistics at each hop in the network path.

Collaboration

 

Cisco Collaboration Experience: Dedicated to developing next-generation solutions and an integrated user experience to help business professionals collaborate more effectively, and to connect them to any content on any device, from anywhere.

 

Social
Working Together Better with Video: Come and experience how Cisco business video solutions can help enhance your business by extending the power of video beyond traditional communications. Understand how enterprises can achieve pervasive use of video throughout their organisations through video content. This way, anyone can:

  • Capture video using any device
  • Transform the content so it can be viewed on any device
  • Share the content throughout the organisation.

 

Virtual
Cisco VXI: Enabling a rich collaboration experience on a desktop virtualisation platform
Come and experience Cisco's Virtual eXperience Infrastructure (VXI). Cisco VXI is a service-optimised desktop virtualisation platform that can deliver any application to any device in any workplace environment, support a rich user experience, and provide IT with additional security and control. It combines the architectural benefits of Cisco's Data Centre, Borderless Networks and Collaboration architectures through a phased and synchronised roadmap and validated system-level designs that eliminate the trade-offs and scalability limitations of existing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

 

Visual
Cisco TelePresence, In-person experiences for all: Organisations around the globe are experiencing the transformative power of Cisco TelePresence. Imagine scaling experts to be in more places at once, optimising employee time and driving more innovation throughout your organisation. See how existing customers are gaining competitive advantage through better collaboration and realising that TelePresence is no longer a nice to have-it's a must have.

 

Mobile
Connecting the right people with relevant resources and expertise on the move. Come and see how Cisco is enabling organisations deliver the next generation of mobile productivity, with a rich set of secure, mobile applications supported across all major mobile platforms.

 

Data Centre and Virtualisation

 

Cisco UCSM
This demo highlights the following UCS Management capabilities - Cisco's primary differentiator: Stateless servers, logical server mobility and independence from hardware-based identifiers.

  • Unified Fabric (network and storage, management and IPMI)
  • Centralised management, regardless of scale
  • Building-block entities (policies, pools, templates) to facilitate re-use and rapid server provisioning
  • Comprehensive device manager that provides granular inventory


VM FEX on UCS
These demonstrations are based on the VMware ESXi Hypervisor and show the following:

  • How Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology extends Cisco's Fabric Extender Technology (FEX) to the virtual machines (VM).
  • How VM-FEX unifies the virtual and physical switching infrastructure into a single easy to manage environment.

 

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
These demonstrations show the following:

  • User logging into the Cisco Service Portal (SP) and requests new virtual machines.
  • An approver logging into the Cisco Service Portal and approves the orders submitted by user
  • The Supported Services are:
  • Provision a new Virtual Machine (Currently CentOS 5.6 and Windows 2008 have been tested)
  • Modify Memory or CPU on existing VM
  • Power Off an existing VM
  • Power Cycle an existing VM
  • Take a Snapshot of an existing VM
  • Revert an existing VM to a Snapshot
  • Deprovision a Virtual Machine
  • Cisco Intelligent Automation (CIA) is an IT process automation platform that supports the organisations' goals to increase efficiency and reduce costs by automating IT processes, vendor interoperability, and service-delivery processes across the IT landscape.

 

Cisco VXI Desktop Virtualisation
These demonstrations show:

  • How Cisco and VMware simplify the deployment of Virtual Desktops
  • How Cisco Virtualisation Experience brings Virtual desktops and Media-Rich Collaboration together for end users.
  • Cisco's Virtualisation Experience depicts a Virtual Desktop Environment (VDI), such as VMware View or Citrix XenDesktops running on a Cisco UCS B Series Chassis. Sessions to the remote desktop Environment will be created from Cisco Virtual Experience Clients (VXCs).
  • Zoning of the Hosted Virtual Desktops is accomplished using the Cisco Virtual Security Gateway.
  • The end user is able to see both standard Applications such as MS Office and Cisco CUPC running in on the virtual desktops controlling Cisco 9971 IP Phones

 

Cloud Ready Infrastructure
The demo shows protection from potential security risks such as port scanning and ping sweeps and also how the VMDC architecture protects workloads in a secure container on a shared environment.

The demo highlights the "Nosey" and "Noisy" neighbours and how virtualised work loads are protected from those potential security threats as well as Orchestration and Automation Ready solutions.