my Cisco Live 2013 US program

Once again I'll be attending Cisco Live 2013 in the United States. This year it's in Orlando, Florida. Below is my tentative schedule although there were some overlap with a few other session that I would have liked to attend. Hope to see a lot of the people I've met at previous Networkers and Lives there too :-)

This is my schedule. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Monday

BRKOPT-2106 DWDM 101
BRKNMS-2517 Operations Architecture
BRKCOM-3003 UCS Ethernet Troubleshooting of the uplinks to the Data Center LAN Switches

Tuesday

BRKOPT-2117 High Speed WAN Interconnections - Evaluating existing and emerging technologies
GENKEY-1295 KEYNOTE: Tomorrow Starts Here
BRKARC-3470 Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch Architecture
BRKRST-3321 Scaling BGP

Wednesday

BRKARC-3472 NX-OS Routing & Layer 3 Switching
GENKEY-1296 KEYNOTE: Unlocking the Value of Innovation
BRKSPG-2904 ASR-9000/IOS-XR hardware Architecture, QOS, EVC, IOS-XR Configuration and Troubleshooting
BRKARC-3453 Nexus 6000 - Architecture of the next-generation Switch for

Thursday

BRKRST-3371 Advances in BGP
BRKOPT-2116 High Speed Data Networks - 40G, 100G & Beyond
BRKSPG-2333 Securing Cisco ASR 9000 Routers
GENKEY-1297 Celebrity Closing Keynote
BRKSPG-2905 ISSU on high-end routers

My Cisco Live 2012 program

My Cisco Live 2012 program is below. I was able to select most of the sessions although there were some overlap with one session (something ARC overlapping with another ARC). You might note that the closing keynote is by the guys who play Mythbusters on TV - that'll most likely be a fun filled event! I'll blog about my pre-event feelings if I have the time and interest ;-)

Cisco Live 2012

Personal Schedule

Printed below is your personal schedule.

Sunday
8:00 AM 5:00 PM	TECCOM-2001	Cisco Unified Computing System Technical Day
Monday
8:00 AM 9:30 AM	BRKNMS-2658	Securely Managing Your Networks with SNMPv3
10:00 AM 12:00 PM	BRKSEC-3021	Maximizing Firewall Performance
1:00 PM 3:00 PM	BRKRST-2335	IS-IS Network Design and Deployment
Tuesday
8:00 AM 9:30 AM	BRKRST-2310	Deploying OSPF in a Large-Scale Network
10:00 AM 11:30 AM	GENKEY-4346	Keynote and Welcome Address
12:30 PM 2:30 PM	BRKARC-3470	Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch Architecture
4:00 PM 6:00 PM	BRKSEC-4054	DMVPN Deployment Models
Wednesday
8:00 AM 9:30 AM	BRKSEC-3013	Advanced IPSec with FlexVPN and IKEv2
10:00 AM 11:30 AM	GENKEY-4347	Cisco Technology Keynote
12:30 PM 2:30 PM	BRKSPG-2402	Best Practices to Deploy High-Availability in Service Provider Edge and Aggregation Architectures
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Cisco Network^WLive! 2011 Las Vegas Conference report, part 2

Part 2... where we take a stab at the food served one gets for 1700 (thereabouts) bucks at conferences.

Breakfast

When: every day 0700-0800 (one hour only)

What's available: cereal + milk, sugary doughnuts, croissants, bottles of juice or soda pop.

Grade: C-. The time could be longer and the stuff available isn't exactly from the food pyramid either. I did this once and the rest of the time paid for hotel breakfast which was excellent.

Lunch

When: 11-13 (or thereabouts)

What's available: different menu every day, lots of choices, veggie, meat, fish, salad, etc. Drinks water, icea tea, lemonade, soda pop

Grade: B+. Certainly isn't a Michelin restaurant experience but seemed nutritious enough, wasn't all greased up, there were plenty of choice each day (beef/fish, fish/chicken, chicken, etc.) and always a veggie choice.

Snacks

When: around 1000, around 1400

What's available: granola bars, sugary coated doughnuts, coffee, tea, water, some fruit, juice, ice cream, ... depending on the day

Grade: B-. Lots of choice. Sometimes the snacks went quite quickly so I didn't get some on a few days when the presentation ended later than planned. Either there were too little snacks to start with or some people stocked Continue reading