Cisco Tech Stories

In this episode, we interview Liz Rice, a contributor to eBPF. She tells us what this technology means for the linux kernel but also for future security app, for kernel observability and last but not least for container networking. A technology so good it's even coming to Windows.

In this episode, we interview Jean Christophe Rode, principal engineer working in the IOS-XR engineering team. He also specalizes in SONIC support. He explains how this open source operating system is gaining ground and what are the difference with Cisco proprietary IOS-XR.
No blue Hedgehogs are mentioned in this episode

In this episode , Tristan takes us through a tour of what Cisco is doing to make all network devices more secure, not just the new products. Security concerns are not just about security vulnerabilities, your base configuration has the biggest impact actually ...

Resilient Infrastructure overview: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/trust-center/resilient-infrastructure.html#~overview 
Feature Deprecation details: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/trust-center/docs/cisco-resilient-infrastructure-feature-deprecation-and-removal-details.pdf 
Alternatives:  https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/trust-center/docs/cisco-infrastructure-resilience-feature-removal-and-suggested-alternatives.pdf  
Additional links on threat landscape in 2026: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/doubling-down-on-resilient-infrastructure 
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/salt-typhoon-analysis/

In this episode, Kristopher Gabrielsen, Principal Engineer in Switching technologies tells us about his most critical and high-pressure situations and we talk about the future of LAN switching.

In this episode, Venkat Kirishnamurthy, a principal Architect at Cisco, explains what are the ins and outs of designin an AI datacenter. How is it different from another datacenter ? What kind of scale are we talking about ? What is the throughput required to connect 1000 GPUs together ?

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