Cisco#
133 picked talks across 27 digests with a speaker from Cisco, newest first.
RIPE 93#
- When Routing Evidence Conflicts: Measuring IRR and RPKI for BGP Filtering · Core — Antonis Chariton and Usama Ejaz, Cisco ThousandEyes
NANOG 98#
- Digital coherent optics - Deployment and operation · Core — Philip Bedard – Cisco
OCP Global Summit 2026#
- Traffic Engineering in AI DCI/WAN for AI Traffic · Core — Yuanchao SU (Alibaba Cloud), Clarence Filsfils (Cisco)
- Open, Trusted, and Secure SONiC at Scale presented by Cisco · Core — Will Eatherton (Cisco), Dina Papagiannaki (Microsoft)
AusNOG 2026#
- BGP EVPN. A view from the field · Core — Alex Mitev - Cisco System
NLNOG Day 2026#
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to IPv6: Don't Panic… We've Only Got 30 Minutes · Adjacent — Nicole Wajer (Cisco)
IETF 126 (Vienna)#
- SRv6 for Deterministic Path Placement in AI Backends · Core — Ahmed Abdelsalam (Cisco), on behalf of co-authors from Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, NVIDIA and Arrcus.
- BGP Link-State Extensions for BGP-only Networks · Core — Ketan Talaulikar, Aravind Babu MahendraBabu, Clarence Filsfils, Krishna Swamy (Cisco), Shawn Zandi (LinkedIn), Gaurav Dawra, Muhammad Durrani (Oracle).
- EVPN First Hop Security · Core — Ali Sajassi, Lukas Krattiger, Krishna Ananthamurthy (Cisco), Jorge Rabadan (Nokia), Wen Lin (Juniper).
Netdev 0x1A (Rome, 13-16 July 2026)#
- SRv6 Workshop · Core — Chair: Stefano Salsano (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata), with Cisco, Ericsson contributors
Cisco Live US 2026 (Las Vegas)#
- Building AI/ML Fabrics at Hyperscale: Architecture Evolutions, Challenges, Open Standards, Performance Characterization and Validation on Cisco SiliconOne-based Platforms. - BRKMSI-2014 · Core — Masiuddin Mohammed (Cisco), Evan Knipp (Cisco)
- Designing RoCEv2 Networks for Distributed AI Training with Cisco Nexus 9000 - BRKDCN-2688 · Core — Praveen Poojary (Cisco)
- Real World Deployments: Architectural lessons learnt from a 100+ Node AI Factory Deployment - BRKXAR-2039 · Core — Dave Lucas (Cisco), Nandu Shankar (Cisco)
- Cisco Nexus 9000 Architecture - BRKDCN-3939 · Core — Faraz Taifehesmatian (Cisco)
- Silicon One Unveiled: Diving into the power of Cisco silicon - BRKNWT-2624 · Core — Ramesh Sivakolundu (Cisco), Dave Zacks (Cisco)
- 400G, 800G, and Terabit Pluggable Optics: What You Need to Know - BRKOPT-2699 · Core — Mark Nowell (Cisco), Errol Roberts (Cisco)
- VXLAN EVPN: A Deep Dive into Packet Forwarding - BRKDCN-3966 · Core — Lukas Krattiger (Cisco)
- Modern Multi-Homing in VXLAN EVPN: Enabling vPC and ESI+ in Today's Data Centers - BRKDCN-2940 · Core — Parth Patel (Cisco)
- Troubleshooting SONIC on Cisco 8000: Learn how to Troubleshoot BGP, ACL, VxLAN on SONIC - TACMSI-2001 · Core — VASU Thatipalli (Cisco)
- Beyond the (Switch)-Port: Exploring the World of Host Networking - BRKNWT-2620 · Core — Bruce McDougall (Cisco), Chris Lapp (Cisco)
- Life of a Packet in Kubernetes: A Network Engineer's Guide - BRKCLD-3734 · Core — Nico Vibert (Cisco)
- Unifying Kubernetes and the Data Center: Isovalent Private Networks over EVPN/VXLAN - BRKDCN-3668 · Core — Marcos Hernández (Cisco)
- Hijacking Trust: Weaponizing Stolen Cookies and Tokens - BRKSEC-2132 · Core — Stefan Duernberger (Cisco)
- Reclaiming Your Agency: MCP, OAuth 2.1 and the Power to Automate Anything - BRKSEC-2065 · Core — Jeremiah Williams (Cisco)
- Hunting the Invisible Army: Visibility for AI Agents & Non-human Identities - BRKSEC-2067 · Core — Tal Kronrod (Cisco)
- Your AI Agents Don't Talk to My AI Agents - Let's Fix That! - BRKETI-1009 · Core — Sabitha Krishnamurthy (Cisco)
- Pig-in-the-Middle - TLS Decryption and Encrypted Visibility Engine Deep Dive on Cisco Secure Firewall - BRKSEC-3320 · Core — Carol Trincia Dsouza (Cisco)
- Safeguarding the Internet's Backbone: Unleashing the Power of RPKI for Unbreakable IPv4 and IPv6 BGP Security - BRKENT-2179 · Core — Jeffry Handal (Cisco), John Shea (Cisco)
- Control your destiny in the token-based AI economy with pluggable optics innovations - PSOMSI-1005 · Adjacent — Ray Nering (Cisco), Yoav Schreiber (Cisco)
- AI Gave Every Attacker a Kubernetes Playbook. Isovalent Takes It Away - PSOSEC-2345 · Adjacent — Duffie Cooley (Cisco)
- Zero Trust for Agents - PSOSEC-2344 · Adjacent — Tsailing Merrem (Cisco), Prabhu Barathi (Cisco)
- The New, QUIC Based Encrypted Protocol Stack Taking over the Internet and How to Deal with It - BRKSPM-2024 · Adjacent — Andreas Enotiadis (Cisco), Bart Van de Velde (Cisco)
- A Quantum Leap in Networking: Cisco's Blueprint for Tomorrow's Infrastructure - CENETI-1281 · Wildcard — Ramana Kompella (Cisco)
- Failure Patterns in Modern Distributed Systems: Lessons from Major Internet Outages - BRKOPS-2000 · Wildcard — Mike Hicks (Cisco)
RIPE 92 (Edinburgh)#
- Redefining Netflix BGP architecture · Adjacent — Elise Vennegues, Netflix; Frederic Cuiller, Cisco
- RPKI: Do we need Garbage Collection now? · Adjacent — Antonis Chariton, AS4601 | Cisco
ITNOG10#
- SRv6 uSID: Deterministic AI Backend Networking and Unified DC Frontend Design · Core — Alberto Donzelli — the slides filename ("Cisco-final") indicates a Cisco-affiliated session; treat as a vendor-informed design pattern, not a neutral case study
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026#
- Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future · Core — Nick Young & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco; Katarzyna Łach & Rostislav Bobrovsky, Google; Norwin Schnyder, Airlock
- Navigating the Gateway API Maze: 40+ Implementations, 55+ Features, and a Path to Portability · Core — Beka Modebadze, Google & Christine Kim, Isovalent at Cisco
IETF 125 (Shenzhen)#
- BGP Link-State Extensions for BGP-only Networks · Core — Ketan Talaulikar (independent), Aravind Babu MahendraBabu, Clarence Filsfils, Krishna Swamy (Cisco), Shawn Zandi (LinkedIn), Gaurav Dawra, Muhammad Durrani (Equinix)
- IP Fast Reroute for AI/ML Fabrics · Core — Francois Clad, Clarence Filsfils (Cisco), Roy Jiang, Dennis Cai
GTC 2026#
- Transforming Bottlenecks into Breakthroughs: Scaling Secure AI Networks for AI Factories (Presented by Cisco Systems) · Adjacent — Will Eatherton (Cisco) — Talk, Wednesday, March 18
CHNUG #2#
- Leveraging an Open Source NetOps-Stack: A Practical Approach for Orchestration and Observability · Core — Patrick Mosimann (Cisco)
Cisco Live Europe 2026 (Amsterdam)#
- 400G, 800G, and Terabit Pluggable Optics: What You Need to Know - BRKOPT-2699 · Core — Mark Nowell (Cisco), Errol Roberts (Cisco)
- Advancements and Applications of Coherent Pluggable Technology in High Bandwidth Transport Networks - BRKOPT-2556 · Core — Anuj Malik (Cisco)
- Lessons Navigating from Proof of Concept to Production with IP/Optical Convergence: How DT is Evolving their Transport Network with Cisco Routed Optical Networking - CSSENS-2717 · Core — Nils Warnke (Deutsche Telekom), Silke Bauten (Cisco)
- How the World's Largest Backbone Provider is Leveraging the AI Opportunity - CSSAI-1596 · Core — Abeel Choudry (Cisco), Dariusz Solowiej Solowiej (Arelion)
- Cisco Nexus 9000 Architecture - BRKDCN-3939 · Core — Faraz Taifehesmatian (Cisco)
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Power in Routers and Switches (and Quite a Bit More) - PSOGRN-2161 · Core — LJ Wobker (Cisco), Lane Wigley (Cisco)
- VXLAN EVPN: A Deep Dive into Packet Forwarding - BRKDCN-3966 · Core — Lukas Krattiger (Cisco)
- Demystifying AI Infrastructure for a Network Engineer - BRKDCN-2971 · Core — Paresh Gupta (Cisco)
- Benchmarking AIML Infrastructure at Scale: AIML Architectures, AI Workloads and Reproducibility for High Performance Data Centers - BRKDCN-2651 · Core — Rakesh Kumar (Cisco), Ram Gandikota (Cisco)
- Redefining Netflix BGP Architecture with IOS-XRv 9000 Route-Reflector Appliance - CSSENS-2442 · Core — Frederic Cuiller (Cisco), Elise VENNEGUES (Netflix)
- Life of a Packet in Kubernetes: A Network Engineer's Guide - BRKCLD-3734 · Core — Nico Vibert (Cisco)
- Are You Prepared for the Next Typhoon? - BRKGEN-2499 · Core — Paul Giralt (Cisco)
- Designing Zero Trust Data Center Segmentation Architecture - BRKDCN-2930 · Core — Cesar Obediente (Cisco), Brenden Buresh (Cisco)
- The New, QUIC Based Encrypted Protocol Stack Taking over the Internet and How to Deal with It - BRKSPM-2024 · Core — Andreas Enotiadis (Cisco), Bart Van de Velde (Cisco)
- Hijacking Trust: Weaponizing Stolen Cookies and Tokens - BRKSEC-2132 · Core — Stefan Duernberger (Cisco)
- Rethinking Identity, Policy, and Access Control (IPAC) for Agentic AI - BRKETI-2623 · Core — Marcelo Yannuzzi (Cisco)
- Enterprise-Ready Agentic Workflows: Hardening MCP with Policy-as-Code - DEVNET-2685 · Core — Lori Jakab (Cisco)
- Cisco Nexus One: An Architecture for your Cisco Datacenter of Tomorrow - BRKDCN-2602 · Adjacent — Max Ardica (Cisco)
- Agile Services Networking: Scaling Across Data Centers and Workloads - PSOMSI-1186 · Adjacent — Krithika Moorthy (Cisco), Tim Hu (Cisco)
- Designing Next-Generation DC and WAN Networks for the Neo-Cloud Era with Cisco 8000, SONiC and XR - BRKMSI-1471 · Adjacent — Krithika Moorthy (Cisco), Jiri Chaloupka (Cisco)
- Introduction to eBPF - BRKSEC-2169 · Adjacent — Liz Rice (Cisco)
- How to Network LLMs. Splitting Large Language Models Running on GPUs Across a Network - BRKOPS-2931 · Wildcard — Dave Zacks (Cisco), Patrick leMaistre (Cisco)
- Preparing for AI Workloads: Options for Integrated Rack Power and Cooling Systems - BRKCOM-2530 · Wildcard — Christopher Liljenstolpe (Cisco), Fabio Gori (Cisco)
- Preparation Guide to Emergency Comms and Networking using Amateur Radios (HAM) - BRKGEN-1012 · Wildcard — Jimmy Alignay (Cisco)
NANOG 96#
- AI Backend: Deploying SRv6 uSID and SONiC for Deterministic Load Balancing · Core — Pablo Camarillo — Cisco Systems; Rita Hui — Microsoft
- EVPN Interconnect Architecture for Resilient Multi-Domain Fabrics · Core — Patrice Brissette — Cisco Systems
- Redefining Netflix BGP architecture · Core — Fred Cuiller — Cisco; Elise Vennegues — Netflix
- Shaping the Future of BGP Observability: BMP Evolution at IETF · Core — Narasimha Prasad S — Cisco (with Paolo Lucente, NTT DATA; Thomas Graf, Swisscom)
- The BGP Clock and the BGP Observatory: Hunting Stuck Routes · Wildcard — Kemal Sanjta — Cisco ThousandEyes
FOSDEM 2026#
- Scaling Secure Network Functions: High-Performance IPsec with FD.io VPP for VNFs and CNFs · Core — Benoît Ganne (Cisco, VPP committer)
- Optimizing eBPF loading with reachability analysis · Core — Dylan Reemerink (Isovalent/Cisco; Cilium committer, ebpf-go maintainer)
- Scaling GoBGP: Lessons from Building a Dynamic, API‑Driven BGP Control Plane · Core — Maxime Peim (Cisco)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025#
- QEMU in the Fast Lane: Accelerating KubeVirt Networking With eBPF · Core — Daniel Borkmann & Anton Protopopov, Isovalent at Cisco — Core
IETF 124 (Montreal)#
- Fast Network Notifications Problem Statement · Core — Jie Dong (Huawei), Mike McBride (Futurewei), François Clad (Cisco), Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang (Juniper), with contributors from China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, Tencent, Telefónica, and Turkcell
- BGP best path next-hop selection enhancements · Core — Olivier Vroonen, Stéphane Litkowski (Cisco)
RIPE 91 (Bucharest)#
- What happens when you overshare? A Look into the BGP Maximum-Prefix Feature · Adjacent — Orlando Eduardo Martínez-Durive — NetAI & IMDEA Networks (work done as a research intern at Cisco ThousandEyes); Antonis Chariton — Cisco
- The BGP Clock and the BGP Observatory: Hunting Stuck Routes · Adjacent — Antonis Chariton, Cisco
- What's new at the IETF? · Adjacent — Suresh Krishnan, Cisco (IAB)
OCP Global Summit 2025#
- eCore: Architecture and Whitebox Evolution of Alibaba's Service-oriented DCI network · Core — Speakers: Dennis Cai (Alibaba), Manish Mukherjee (Cisco)
- Driving Innovation in Network Infrastructure: Key Advances from the Sonic Routing Workgroup · Core — Speakers: Patrice Brissette (Cisco Systems Inc.), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)
Netnod Tech Meeting 2025#
- SRv6 uSID: fundamental transformation of the IP stack · Core — Ahmed Abdeslam — Cisco
AusNOG 2025#
- Transport Protocols Evolution or how to migrate your configuration today. · Adjacent — Alex Mitev — Cisco
Cisco Live US 2025 (San Diego)#
- 400G, 800G, and Terabit Pluggable Optics: What You Need to Know - BRKOPT-2699 · Core — Mark Nowell (Cisco), Errol Roberts (Cisco)
- Advancements and Applications of Coherent Pluggable Technology in High Bandwidth Transport Networks - BRKOPT-2556 · Core — Anuj Malik (Cisco)
- Ethernet Evolution and Challenges in the world of AI - BRKNWT-2504 · Core — Kapil Mehta (Cisco)
- How Cisco build AI readiness IP Backbone with 8000 Series - BRKMSI-3000 · Core — Rob Piasecki (Cisco), Ruben Lopes da Fonte (Cisco)
- Optimizing AI-Ready WAN Infrastructure with Microsoft and Cisco - CSSENT-2100 · Core — Sarav Subramanian (Microsoft), Ruben Lopes da Fonte (Cisco), Gaisin Rustam (Microsoft)
- Groq: An AI Success Story - Deploying High-Performance, and Low-Latency AI Networks Using Cisco Nexus 9000 - CSSDCN-2005 · Core — Swetha Velamuri (Cisco), Cameron Ferdinands (Groq)
- Cisco Nexus 9000 Architecture - BRKDCN-3939 · Core — Faraz Taifehesmatian (Cisco)
- VXLAN EVPN: A Deep Dive into Packet Forwarding - BRKDCN-3966 · Core — Lukas Krattiger (Cisco)
- SONiC Architecture and Deployment Deep Dive - BRKMSI-2004 · Core — Jiri Chaloupka (Cisco)
- Deployment of Micro-Segmentation in Cisco NX-OS VXLAN EVPN Fabrics with VXLAN Group Policy Option (GPO) - BRKDCN-2633 · Core — Max Ardica (Cisco)
- Security superpowers with eBPF and Tetragon - BRKSEC-2167 · Core — Liz Rice (Cisco)
- The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Native Networking - BRKCLD-1012 · Core — Raymond De Jong (Cisco)
- Are You Prepared for the Next Typhoon? - BRKSEC-2499 · Core — Paul Giralt (Cisco), Steve Nowell (Cisco)
- Innovative Authentication: Beyond Passwords - BRKSEC-2584 · Core — Stefan Duernberger (Cisco)
- Deep Dive into Cisco's Use of QUIC, MASQUE and OS Native Capabilities to Deliver Frictionless Zero Trust Access - BRKSEC-3027 · Core — Vinny Parla (Cisco)
- Impact of AI Traffic in Transport Networks - BRKSPG-1180 · Adjacent — Virginia Teixeira (Cisco)
- Multi-Tier Fabrics: Network Designs for the Modern Data Center - BRKDCN-2999 · Adjacent — Marina Ferreira (Cisco)
- Connecting Your Data to LLMs: Identity, Functions and Agents are all you Need - BRKETI-2411 · Adjacent — Guillaume De Saint Marc (Cisco)
- EVPN Fabric in the Real World: Securing Critical Infrastructure in Finance and Aviation - BRKENS-2655 · Adjacent — Daniel Cantor (Fiserv), Ekta Ghosh (Adani Airports Holding Limited), Rahul Kachalia (Cisco)
- Packet Buddy - Chatting with your PCAPs, via the Cloud or Locally on Your Own Machine! - AIHUB-2000 · Wildcard — Dave Zacks (Cisco), Prapanch Ramamoorthy (Cisco)
- Packets in Space: Networking for the Final Frontier - CISCOU-1057 · Wildcard — Lexie Cooper (Blue Origin), Eric Peterson (Blue Origin), Patrick Garggan (Cisco)
- An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Computing, and Networking - BRKETI-1401 · Wildcard — Tim Szigeti (Cisco)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 (London)#
- Simplifying the Networking and Security Stack With Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon · Core — Bill Mulligan & Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent at Cisco; Bowei Du, Google; Amir Kheirkhahan, DBSchenker — Core
- Making the Leap: What Gateway API Needs To Support Ingress-NGINX Users · Core — Rob Scott, Google & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco — Core
Cisco Live Europe 2025 (Amsterdam)#
- Advanced Innovations in SRv6 uSID and IP Measurements - BRKSPG-3198 · Core — Speakers: Alexey Gorovoy (NEBIUS), Pablo Camarillo (Cisco Systems, Inc.)
- Ethernet Based Fabric for AI Cluster - Powered by Silicon One & SONiC, an Ultra High Performance, Scalable & Non-Blocking Ethernet Fabric - BRKCOC-3005 · Core — Speakers: Lieven Colman (Cisco), John Banner (Cisco)
- IP/Ethernet Storage Networking for AI Infrastructure - BRKDCN-2945 · Core — Speakers: Paresh Gupta (Cisco)
- VXLAN EVPN: A Deep Dive into Packet Forwarding - BRKDCN-3966 · Core — Speakers: Lukas Krattiger (Cisco)
- VXLAN BGP EVPN Multi-Site - BRKDCN-2913 · Core — Speakers: Lukas Krattiger (Cisco)
- Advancements and Applications of Coherent Pluggable Technology in High Bandwidth Transport Networks - BRKOPT-2556 · Core — Speakers: Anuj Malik (Cisco)
- Designing Routed Optical Networks: IP/MPLS Considerations - BRKSPG-2029 · Core — Speakers: Emerson Moura (Cisco)
- Kubernetes (K8s) Infrastructure Connectivity for ACI Network Designs for the Modern Data Center - BRKDCN-2663 · Core — Speakers: Camillo Rossi (Cisco)
- Observing GenAI-Infrastructure: You Can't Protect What You Can't See - DEVNET-3310 · Core — Speakers: Shannon McFarland (Cisco)
- Deep Dive into Cisco's Use of QUIC, MASQUE and OS Native Capabilities to Deliver Frictionless Zero Trust Access - BRKSEC-3027 · Core — Speakers: Vinny Parla (Cisco)
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Power in Routers and Switches (and Quite a Bit More) - BRKGRN-2161 · Core — Speakers: LJ Wobker (Cisco), Lane Wigley (Cisco)
- Multi-Tier Fabrics: Network Designs for the Modern Data Center - BRKDCN-2999 · Core — Speakers: Marina Ferreira (Cisco)
- Deployment of Micro-Segmentation in Cisco NX-OS VXLAN EVPN Fabrics with VXLAN Group Policy Option (GPO) - BRKDCN-2933 · Core — Speakers: Max Ardica (Cisco)
- Using Ethernet for AI Networking - CISCOU-2038 · Core — Speakers: Peter Jones (Cisco)
- Connecting Your Data to LLMs: Identity, Functions and Agents are all you Need - BRKETI-2411 · Adjacent — Speakers: Marcelo Yannuzzi (Cisco)
- The New, Encrypted Protocol Stack Taking over the Internet and How to Deal with It - BRKSPM-2024 · Adjacent — Speakers: Andreas Enotiadis (Cisco), Bart Van de Velde (Cisco)
- QKD Impact on Optical System and PQC Solution - BRKOPT-3086 · Adjacent — Speakers: Maurizio Gazzola (Cisco)
- Cisco 8000 and OVHcloud a Successful Adoption since 2020 - CSSSPG-2389 · Adjacent — Speakers: Antoine Petit (Cisco Systems, Inc.), Laurent Galais (Cisco), Simon Peccaud (OVHcloud)
- Secure Operations for an IPv6 Network - BRKSEC-2044 · Adjacent — Speakers: Eric Vyncke (Cisco)
- AI-Ready Data Center - Sustainability vs. Infrastructure Requirements - How to get your Data Center Ready for the Coming AImagedon - BRKGRN-2419 · Adjacent — Speakers: Christopher Liljenstolpe (Cisco), Heiko Ebermann (Vertiv), John Bean (GR Cooling)
- Packet Buddy - Chatting with your PCAPs, via the Cloud or Locally on Your Own Machine! - AIHUB-2000 · Wildcard — Speakers: Dave Zacks (Cisco), Prapanch Ramamoorthy (Cisco)
- Securing the Olympics: The Cybersecurity Architecture for Paris 2024 - BRKSEC-2019 · Wildcard — Speakers: Piotr Jarzynka (Cisco)
- Using Agentic IaC for Managing Infrastructure: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - BRKETI-2286 · Wildcard — Speakers: Peter Bosch (Cisco)
ONE Summit 2024#
- Applying AI/ML Methods to Diagnose Network Issues Using Telemetry Data - Frank Brockners, Cisco · Core — Frank Brockners, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco (Outshift/CTO division)