Update 20120531:
Here is my (no longer tentative) Cisco Live 2012 schedule. I’ll try to keep it updated if it changes. Let me know if you’re in these, too. I’ve added (sometimes snarky) comments as to why I’ve chosen each session. Shuffled some stuff around and replaced sessions based on schedule, work priorities, and information from conference PDFs.
Sunday
| Cisco Exam It’s free, why wouldn’t you take one? |
| TECUCC-2500 Enterprise Call Routing and Dial Plan for Unified Communications We deployed a UC system earlier this year, and I’ve been told I should try to understand it… |
Monday
| BRKDCT-2048 | Deploying Virtual Port Channel in NXOS You might not think vPC is worth a whole session, but after looking at the slide deck from 2011, it clearly is. |
| BRKEWN-2017 | Understanding RF Fundamentals and the Radio Design of Wireless Networks Based on last year’s slides, it looks useful for someone who doesn’t do wireless every day. |
| GENSK-4356 | Solutions Keynote: The Future of the Enterprise Network in the Post-PC Era Post-PC/BYOD: It’s all the rage with the kids these days. |
| BRKARC-3466 | Exploring the engineering behind the making of a switch This looks like a new session and the description promises an interesting look into the development process. |
Tuesday
| BRKDCT-2218 | Data Center Design for the Small and Medium Business Hope to get some clues on doing this better! |
| GENKEY-4346 | Keynote and Welcome Address Quality time with Uncle John. |
| CUG-1004 | Cisco Jabber Clients and Conferencing Product Direction Don’t want to deploy CUPC, but Jabber for Windows is a little wonky. Hopefully this will help me figure out where we are going here, and when. |
| Time to Talk to WoS Vendors If you want any chance of finding anything useful at the Expo (I guarantee something you need is there, you just have to find it), you have to schedule some time for it. You won’t get any useful time with a vendor at a reception. |
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| BRKNMS-3021 | Advanced Cisco IOS Device Instrumentation Joe Clarke on making IOS devices do cool stuff you didn’t know they could do. |
Wednesday
| BRKEWN-3014 | Best practices to deploy high-availability in Wireless LAN Architectures Wireless is one of my focusses this year and this looks useful. |
| GENKEY-4347 | Cisco Technology Keynote Quality time with @Padmasree. |
| BRKSEC-2003 | IPv6 Security Threats and Mitigations No one is there, so it’s safe on v6, right? Not so much. |
| More Time for WoS Vendors Realistically, 2h total time set aside for the WoS isn’t enough. There will likely be a session that isn’t quite what I was looking for and that one will provide a bit more time with WoS. |
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| BRKVIR-2017 | The Nexus 1000V on Microsoft Hyper-V We are a Hyper-V shop, so this new shiny is of great interest to me! |
Thursday
| BRKCRS-4381 | Smart Operations – Power Tools for Catalyst switching network operations Work smarter, not harder. Nifty looking stuff in here. I need it. |
| BRKSEC-2022 | Demystifying TrustSec, Identity, NAC and ISE So yeah, how exactly do these bits come together? |
| BRKEWN-2018 | RF Standards Update Good to have some idea what the future holds. |
| BRKNMS-1035 | The NOC at CiscoLive Last year this was a pretty interesting talk. I see no reason it shouldn’t be this year, too. |
FIN
What was your take on “Cisco Catalyst 6500 technical deep dive”, worth the time and funds? Thanks in advance.
Vic
If you are going to be working with the 6500 for the foreseeable future, I would say yes. Lots of details into the architecture of the box and a good bit on the new Sup2T. It’s a long day, but lots of good info.