Cisco Live!

Technology Demos

Technology Demos

 

Cisco Live 2013 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.

Smart Solutions

BYOD Smart Solution


The Cisco BYOD Smart Solution provides a comprehensive approach to effectively design, manage, and control the access of a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) network. Cisco BYOD enhances user experiences and productivity.

This complete solution starts with Cisco design guides and professional services that lead you from planning and design to day-to-day operations. This BYOD solution also provides the necessary infrastructure, including access points, controllers, security and network management.

VXI Smart Solution


The Cisco VXI Smart Solution combines Cisco data centre, network, and collaboration technologies along with services and an industry-leading partner ecosystem to offer a comprehensive solution that simplifies deployment, reduces costs and risks.

Along with its broad partner ecosystem, VXI has been built do deliver virtualisation, facilitate collaboration and introduce genuine workspace mobility.

Collaboration

Remote Expert


The Remote Expert Smart Solution enables interactive virtual face-to-face meetings with high-definition video. Now you can easily connect remote specialists in various industry segments like banking, government, retail and healthcare advisors with customers at any branch in real time, allowing expert services in any location.

Collaboration-Enabled Business Transformation


CEBT is a technological approach to simplifying and accelerating business processes. By inserting collaborative capabilities such as presence, IM, voice, video and WebEx into existing workflows, organisational agility and speed to market can be improved.

Any-To-Any Video


TelePresence enables everyone, everywhere to interact face-to-face, increasing effectiveness of communication through lifelike and natural communication. From software running on the latest smartphones and tablets to dedicated hardware next generation visual communications empowers people to work together to transform businesses, accelerate innovation and do more with less.

WebEx Social


WebEx Social is a collaboration platform that combines the power of social networking, content creation and real-time communication. It helps employees increase productivity by assisting them securely share information and access resources across departments, regions and countries.

Capture, Transform, Share


Video solutions help enhance your business by extending the power of video beyond traditional communications. Businesses can achieve pervasive use of video by capturing it on any device, transforming content so that it can be viewed on any device and shred throughout the organisation.

Borderless Networks

Branch Office in a Box


Highlights the comprehensive service integration available on the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) G2 with Cisco UCS E Series server module.

Help Secure and Optimise Cloud Traffic


Demonstrates how customers can experience the performance improvements of direct branch-to-cloud connections without compromising security.

Medianet


Cisco Medianet, aided by endpoint and network innovations, enhancesapplication visibility, provides differentiation among applications in their usage of network resources, and also accelerates their troubleshooting.

Deploy an Application-Aware Network


Showcases how powerful Layer 4-7 application services like Cisco Application Visibility and Control and Cisco Media can simplify application deployment and delivery.

Unified Access: One Policy


Trustec, ISE and the brand new Catalyst 3850 combine to facilitate on-boarding for both wired and wireless devices. This integrated approach enables ease of policy setting across all types of users, devices and networks.

Unified Access: One Management


Prime Infrastructure 2.0, Aironet 3600 Access Point and Catalyst 3850 work together to deliver one comprehensive management solution for wired and wireless networks that simplify operations and provide complete control.

Unified Access: One Network


Converged Access through the new Catalyst 3850 enhances the way wired and wireless is controlled, managed and monitored. Learn about consistent workflows to adopt for BYOD, enable application optimisation, enforce business policies and gain network-wide visibility across wired and wireless, while achieving high resiliency and unmatched scale.

Unified Access: Secure User Segmentation


Learn about network segmentation of employee owned devices on the corporate network with Cisco Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and Cisco TrustSec (SGT/SGACL) solution enabled by Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 4500 Switches.

Meraki Cloud-Managed Networking


Discover the possibilities of a 100% cloud managed network that includes wireless, switching, security and mobile device management for midmarket enterprises.

Connected Physical Security


Cisco Physical Security solutions are scalable, flexible, and comprehensive. Built for network and security system deployments and enabled by Cisco Medianet, unified data centre, and virtualisation technologies, they support video surveillance, access control, incident management, and security operations.

Intelligent-Building Networking


The Cisco Commercial Facilities Network (CCFN) transforms the traditional siloed technology networks within buildings, Essential building services such as access control, security CCTV, lighting, HVAC, building telephony and wifi services can now all use a robust, high speed, managed IP network.

Connected Energy


As the world's utilities modernise the electrical grid, new operations and communications solutions are needed to help reduce costs, increase interoperability, and deliver multiple applications and services. At the Connected Energy stand see live demonstrations of: Cisco Field Area Networks supporting Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) SmartMeters, Distribution Automation (DA) and Remote Workforce Management; Substation Automation addressing cybersecurity concerns; and Network Management Solutions securely managing multivendor, multi-technology and multi-service utility communication networks.

Industrial Networking


A static display of equipment to allow customers to "touch and feel" all models of: IE3000, IE2000, IE3010, C819, AIR1552, ESR5915, ESR5940

Cisco Connected Industries


This demonstration utilises the Cisco 819 M2M router and Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches to show how telemetry can be collected from a mining vehicle and backhauled over a Cisco wireless mesh infrastructure to a central data centre. The data can be securely monitored for abnormal fluctuations from a remote location using Cisco's VPN and ASA Firewall technologies. The detection of an abnormality can be used to generate warning alerts via management systems, IP Telephony and Instant Messaging.

Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences


Harness the power of BYOD through advanced location analytics to provide an online, connected customer experience that extends to the device, in and out of a retail environment.

The New Generation of Cisco Aironet Access Points


Cisco is first to market with the new 802.11ac standard, providing faster throughput to devices on WiFi networks.

Data Centre and Virtualisation

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud


Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cisco IA for Cloud) is a self-service provisioning and orchestration software solution for cloud computing and data centre automation. It helps enable secure, on-demand, and highly automated IT operations for both virtual and physical infrastructure across compute, network, storage, and applications.

Featured Products and Technologies:

  • Cisco Service Portal
  • Cisco Process Orchestrator
  • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
  • Nexus 7000
  • MDS 9000
  • ESXi 4.1/5.0
  • UCS Manager
  • VMware Virtual Centre

Unified Fabric Management


The demonstration highlights the benefits of Cisco's DCNM latest release 6.1 and how it manages Cisco Unified Fabric. Cisco Data Centre Network Manager (DCNM) optimises the overall uptime and reliability of the data centre infrastructure and helps improve business continuity.

This demonstration shows the following:How Cisco Unified Fabric features such as FabricPath / vPC's can be dynamically managed with DCNM

Featured Products and Technologies:

  • FlexPod Architecture
  • Nexus 7K
  • Nexus 2232PP
  • Nexus 5548UP, Nexus 5548P
  • MDS 9000 with MDS Supervisor 2a and MDS DS-X9708-K9 (Mira)
  • UCS C Series Servers
  • DCNM 6.1.1 (DCNM-SAN, DCNM-LAN, DCNM Converged)
  • VMware Virtual Centre

UCS Management


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

This demo will also demonstrate how UCS Central, the new and easy way to grow and manage multiple UCS domains across Data Centre simplifies management and reduces complexity for both new and existing UCS deployments across multiple data centres representing the newest and easiest way to grow and manage multiple UCS domains.

Featured Products and Technologies:

  • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
  • Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM) v. 2.0
  • Nexus 7000
  • MDS 9000
  • DCNM (DCNM-SAN, DCNM-LAN, DCNM Converged)

Cisco Nexus1000v with vCloud Director


These demonstrations show how Nexus 1000V provides Scalable Network isolation with full integration of vCloud Director.

Featured Products and Technologies:

  • Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
  • Nexus 7000
  • MDS 9000
  • EMC Storage Systems
  • ESXi 5.0
  • VMware Virtual Centre
  • Nexus 1000V
  • Cisco VSG
  • vCloud Director

Service Provider

Cisco Service Provider Wi-Fi


See locations of wireless users visiting our Cisco Live Booth displayed on an RF heatmap; try browser-based single-click web authentication; observe navigation filtering enabled by URL blacklisting; guess and see which mobile platforms are most popular visiting our booth; see how Cisco Clean Air reporting depicts interference sources and quality.

Next Generation of Cisco Carrier Management


Prime Carrier Management - Efficient Service Lifecycle Management for IP NGNs, Data Centres, and the Mobile Internet: As service providers deploy converged networks to maximise revenue opportunities, today's disjointed management systems contribute to operational inefficiencies, leading to higher costs and adversely impacting end-user experiences. Cisco Prime for IP NGN, Prime for Data Centres and Cisco Prime for Mobility help address these challenges by providing operators centralised access to cross-domain workflows. This integrated approach combined with extensive automation capabilities facilitates highly efficient execution of service lifecycle management tasks. Our demos will showcase these capabilities.

Cariden - The Cariden solution provides network planning, design, and traffic management. It offers network visibility to enable planners, engineers, and operations to perform with efficiency. Cariden has built a full traffic management platform that offers discovery, abstraction and normalisation. The platform is based on a vendor-independent discovery in its collector platform, which retrieves data from router configurations, SNMP MIBs, traffic collectors, and a run time control plane.

Cisco ASR 9000 nV Technology

Network Virtualisation (nV) Technology
Simplifying Network Edge


Cisco has developed an innovative technology that runs on the ASR 9000. Test drive the nV technology via an interactive demo: with a click of the mouse you will take control of the live ASR 9000 system and see for yourself how you can turn up new services for thousands of subscribers in less than two minutes.
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Next Generation Optical

100G Ultra Long Haul DWDM Demo
High performance 100G DWDM System without regeneration on distance of 4700 km.


Ultra Long Haul DWDM system demonstrating 100G Transmission over distance of 4700 km without signal regeneration and 'Chromatic Dispersion Compensation'. This setup is based in Monza and utilising Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP platform with 100G Transponders. The DWDM system leverages standards based G.652 and G.652 ULL optical fibre.

IPoDWDM and nLight Technology Demo
IPoDWDM Management capabilities and Multi-Layer Integration between IP and DWDM systems.

Omni-Directional and Colourless capabilities are used to interconnect CRS3 and ASR9K routers, demonstrating Proactive Protection and Management capabilities for IPoDWDM solutions as well as Control Plane Integration for dynamic service activation and restoration achieved using GMPLS NNI/UNI interfaces.