Alan Wang

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

@kmcnam1 That's a flip flop of sorts (the logic kind)

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@TracketPacer Bird scientist

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

@Cisco_East_SE But it's not Wi-Fi 7 😜

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

@NetEng_Ian I spy a 3650 above the pix 🤓

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

@TracketPacer @Dayvee87 I have to wonder what the unknowing passerby's reaction to finding a large could of cable in a freezer is 😅

[Tech Field Day @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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[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

@kmcnam1 Congratulations 🎉

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

Tune in here:
https://t.co/qhtrKhOHq4

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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

[Alan Wang @lightingguy32]

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