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Strategic Design for Places in the Network—Open to All Attendees

Changes in your network create new ways of doing business. Just think how real-time collaboration can change your company. This track describes the architectural designs and strategies for network evolution that can revolutionize your business.

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Tuesday, April 29
10:15 am–11:00 am	Sponsor Sessions The Video Ready Network - Sponsored by Cisco (Location: Breakers L ) From Youtube to TelePresence, digital video is transforming the way people interact. People are consuming video at unprecedented rates, and producing it professionally and recreationally. This session demystifies the impact that video will have on your LAN and provides strategies to manage video. We will discuss how the Campus Communications Fabric provides a framework for deploying this revolutionary technology. Speaker - Kumar Srikantan, Director, Campus Switching, Cisco Speaker - Marie Hattar, VP, Network Systems & Security Solutions Marketing, Cisco The Network Systems and Security Solutions team is responsible for partnering with CDO and the field to develop the strategic vision and marketing plans that integrate technologies across key solution areas. Marie has extensive marketing, product management, and technology experience in both Enterprise and SP networking infrastructure including Routing, Switching, L4-7 Load Balancing, Subscriber Carrier Services Aggregation, Subscriber Policy Management and Security both inside and outside of Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, Marie held leadership marketing, technology architecture and solutions management positions at Nortel Networks, Alteon and Shasta. Marie has an MBA from York University and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto
2:15 pm–3:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions Empowered Branch: The Platform for Business Success - Sponsored by Cisco (Location: Breakers L ) With the increased proliferation of branches, the quality of customer experience is vital to drive loyalty and increased business. Learn how to address Web 2.0 trends, globalization and collaboration needs while monetizing on IT as a strategic asset. This session addresses branch trends and innovations. Speaker - Rahul Tripathi, Manager, Access Routing Technology Group, Cisco Speaker - Shashi Kiran, Senior Manager, Network Systems, Cisco Systems Shashi Kiran leads the Access Routing team for the Network Systems group at Cisco. In this capacity, he is also spearheads Cisco's solution initiative for the branch as a place in the network focusing on routing, unified communications, security, mobility and WAN optimization. Kiran has 13 years of experience in designing, architecting and building networks for hosted businesses, service providers and enterprise networks. Previously he worked as a Senior Product Line Manager with Nortel focusing on the areas of VPNs, Security services and Metro Ethernet products. Kiran has published hundreds of columns as an honorary consultant and columnist to various technology magazines and was instrumental in launching India's first e-mail based course on Networking in the mid-1990s, which was subsequently syndicated. Shashi Kiran holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and an MBA degree in Strategic marketing. He has been an active contributor to various standards bodies and a speaker at industry events
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Wednesday, April 30
10:15 am–11:00 am	Sponsor Sessions The Business Relevance of Security - Sponsored by Cisco (Location: Breakers L ) Security continues to be an area of growth as risks continue to rise along with sophistication of attacks - from botnets and spam to fraud and much more. In this session we will discuss the vision and innovations in Network Security, Content Security, and Application Security. We will share key solutions that address customers' business relevant security problems such as compliance, data loss prevention, and threat management. Speaker - Calvin Chai, Marketing Manager, Cisco Speaker - Fred Kost, Director, Security Marketing, Cisco
3:15 pm–4:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions Switching Is Strategic - Sponsored by Cisco (Location: Breakers L ) When you buy a switch, you are buying--and buying into--the switching vendor's architecture. In other words, you are adopting as your own that switching vendor's concept and strategy for how business should be conducted.Know what kind of strategic decisions are you making when you purchase a given vendor's switch. In this session we will discuss four categories of switching architecture and the strategic decisions network managers make when they buy them. Speaker - Berna Devrim, Manager, Access Switching Marketing, Cisco
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Thursday, May 1
1:00 pm–1:45 pm	Sponsor Sessions Transforming the WAN Edge - Sponsored by Cisco (Location: Breakers L ) During this session, we will describe in detail the services and framework needed at the WAN edge to meet global business demands for collaboration by delivering constant, reliable access to rich media and applications with uncompromising security and network performance. Speaker - Stefan Dyckerhoff, VP/GM, Midrange Routing, Cisco Systems Mr. Dyckerhoff is the Vice President & General Manager of the Midrange Routing Business Unit in Cisco's Service Provider Group. In this role, he is responsible for managing a $1 Billion routing portfolio including the Cisco 7200, 7300, 7400 and 10720 router product lines as well as major next-generation developments targeted at both service provider and enterprise markets. In addition to running the Midrange Routing Business Unit, Mr. Dyckerhoff also has key cross-functional responsibilities such as setting the CPU strategy across business units, being the executive sponsor for some of Cisco's biggest customers as well as being a senior member on the Enterprise and Service Provider Boards at Cisco. Mr. Dyckerhoff joined Cisco in 2004 as the director of product marketing for the Midrange Routing Business Unit. Mr. Dyckerhoff has eleven years of experience defining, developing and marketing leading-edge networking products. Prior to joining Cisco, he was a product line manager at Juniper Networks responsible for managing the Juniper T-series product line targeted at SP core networks. Also at Juniper Networks, Mr. Dyckerhoff was a senior engineering leader with technical leadership and senior management roles focusing on chip development and system architecture. As one of the first 25 employees at Juniper Networks, Mr. Dyckerhoff was instrumental in building the company's foundation. His manifold technical and leadership contributions included three generations of Juniper packet forwarding ASICs and filing seven patent applications, of which five have been granted. Mr. Dyckerhoff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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