Alan Wang

Network Engineer, Photographer, and Musician. My opinions are my own

[Tech Field Day | #AIIFD5 June 10 - 11, 2026 @TechFieldDay]

Watch more presentations from Mobility Field Day #MFD14 and more on the Tech Field Day YouTube channel or on our website. #Mobility #WiFi7 #AINetworking #ZeroTrust

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@kmcnam1 Congratulations 🎉

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And that's a wrap from #CiscoLive 2026. Hope to be back in 2027

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#CiscoLive keynote pro tip. Sometimes it can get rather loud in the keynote room, always remember to pack good hearing protection

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subsecond downtime for software updates on the 9350 smart switches, supported on layer 2, layer 3 and fabric based deployments. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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A switch with, yes, an integrated GPU and P2P support. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Rounding out the 9350 smart switch family with 1Gbps and 1/10/25Gbps fiber skus and some additional mgig skus. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Meet the 9550 Smart Switch family - 1/10/25/50G with 400G uplinks #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Hearing about campus networking this afternoon at #TFDx @ #CiscoLive .

Tune in here:
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Building your base policy from your switch, then handing off the rest of policy creation to your security team #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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No sampling here, every packet is monitored by the DPU. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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800Gbps IPSEC from the Nexus Smart Switch NPU for various types of data center interconnect. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Safe guards for deploying new security policies to both optimize policies, checking for shadow policies and flagging shadow policies for removal, and making sure a policy won't break an operating network. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Smart Switches -- allowing for a simplified security operations in the datacenter, let the switch be the firewall. Let the smart switch be both your switch and a distributed firewall at 800Gbps. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Not ready to use the DPU? Nexus Smart Switches can be deployed in a Network Mode where the DPU is disabled, and a datacenter fabric can be deployed and configured through Nexus Dashboard, NX-API, or traditional CLI. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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1 set of hardware, 2 teams to manage it. Nexus Dashboard (NPU only) for the network ops team and Hypershield controller for the network security team (DPU only), with relevant information displayed for each other team. Data can be displayed to each dashboard #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Smart switches utilize the NPU for network traffic, and the DPU for filtering/security with minimal disruption to how traffic is routed. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Nexus Smart Switch models for future deployments. #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Live protect policies can be applied in either monitor mode or enforcement mode. Deploy, analyze, then enforce #TFDx at #CiscoLive

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Vulnerability deployment using shields to cover the patching gap when you have a large number of switches to patch and automating the removal of the shield once a post PSIRT patch is available and applied. #TFDx at #CiscoLive