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In this podcast, we discuss recent features, enhancements, and deployment strategies for Cisco SD-Access.
 
New features have enabled additional ways to evolve an existing network into a modern, automated, and secure SD-Access network in gradual steps that minimize disruption to business or users. Network Administrators can choose their starting point in the network evolution journey depending on the status of their existing network and decide their destination based on their business needs, adding benefits at each step along the way. 
 
New segmentation capabilities and deployment flexibility have enhanced SD-Access to support Layer 2 switched access networks as a migration step in the journey.
 
New features also enable use cases that allow flexible routing of traffic from Layer 2 access networks to destinations outside the fabric. This is very useful in multitenant networks.
 
We also discuss the deep visibility that SD-Access features such as AI Endpoint Analytics and Group Based Policy Analytics bring that helps administrators determine what endpoint devices are on the network and how communication flows between them and other resources. This visibility lets them craft effective and granular access policies, which they can enforce automatically through device configurations that segment the network.
 
Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/software-defined-access/index.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469
 
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Jonathan Cuthbert, Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer, ENB

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S8|E21 Simple Steps to SD-Access Adoption

This is an introductory episode to the Tech stories podcast. We explain the podcast concept with our guest Buffy Ransom, SVP of Cisco CX. Buffy tells us about the CX organisation, which will be our pool for inviting guests on the show and also tells us about stories of her own.
This show is hosted by Tristan Van Egroo and Nicolas Darchis.

Tech Stories - ep00 - Introduction with Buffy Ransom

In this episode, Tristan tells us a story about a Cable service provider facing random outages, with a cause well beyond what we could think of.
Every month, Nico and Tristan present us interesting and unusual tech stories from Cisco CX centers. Subscribe to Cisco Podcast Network to be sure not to miss the next one.
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Tech Stories - ep01 - The power of that thing in your pocket

In the first peak in the Covid outbreak, a hospital uses wireless handheld phones to communicate between nurses and doctors but suddenly calls drop and have terrible quality. The issue is reported by nurses and doctors but the partner engineers cannot reproduce and with the pandemic, they cannot go onsite anymore. Now, Cisco's A-team has to resolve the problem remotely and without talking to the end users !

Tech Stories - ep 02 - Healthcare drama during Covid

Jens Depuydt takes us with him on a journey where a large city has a great IoT project connecting all their buses to a central server to provide for connected services onboard. The testing went great, but when the project goes live, buses start to go missing from the central app and it's not really possible to call the buses back for troubleshooting as they are live.

Tech Stories - ep 03 - IoT City buses gone wild !

We interview Distringuished Engineer Ramses Smeyers from CX Datacenter who tells us two stories. In one, dozens of RMAs are done for a UCS server and each one makes the problem a little worse. In the other, Ramses prevents ACI to be released on time because it doesn't work in his lab. We also get his feelings about the Cloudization of this world.

Tech Stories - ep 04 - 99 problems and an RMA is one

00:00 Introduction
02:30 Nathan flies to Malaysia
13:00 Discussing SD-access and switching


In this episode, Nathan Pan, Switching and SD-access Technical Leader, tells us about his trip onsite to Malaysia. We engage on a long discussion about Cisco SD-access as well as the evolution of switching technologies.

Tech Stories - ep 11 - Switching Gears: The Flicker Board Fiasco and the Intricacies of SD-Access

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