Register for one or all of the April CKN webcasts listed above here: https://communities.cisco.com/community/solutions/sp/news-and-announcements/blog/2014/03/17/cisco-knowledge-network-ckn-webcast-schedule-april-2014

1. Cisco Knowledge Network (CKN) Webcast Schedule: April 2014
Posted by Kellie Wong
April 2014, we will be holding four Service Provider related webcasts as part of
the Cisco Knowledge Network (CKN). Below is a schedule of our upcoming webcasts
and all the information you need to know to register.
Topic When Speaker Register Now
The Economic Benefits of Virtualized
Customer Premises Equipment
Service providers are faced with the
challenge of evolving their networks to be
more agile, simple, and profitable. They are
presented with extraordinary opportunities for
transforming how they do business using
software-defined networking (SDN) and
network function virtualization (NFV).
NFV offers the promise of reducing
operational expenses, improving time to
service delivery, and adding new sources of
revenue. In this webcast we will focus on the
financial and operational implications for
service providers using virtualized customer
premises equipment technology.
Join us at 8 a.m. Pacific Time/11 a.m.
Eastern Time, April 1, 2014, to learn about
the economic benefits of virtualization in an
evolved programmable network.
April 1,
2014
8-9am
Pacific
Time TBD
Register for the
April 1 Webcast
in the link
provided in
description
below
Introduction to Cisco Intelligent
Automation for Cloud
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud unifies
cloud management by providing a flexible
platform and self-service portal for automated
cloud services orchestration. This framework
enables service providers to scale from a
single cloud to complex multicloud
deployments and deliver richer application
sets such as platform as a service (PaaS) to
customers on demand.
April 2,
2014
8-9am
Pacific
Time TBD
Register for the
April 2 Webcast
in the link
provided in
description
below

2. Topic When Speaker Register Now
Attend this webcast to learn:
 - Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
architecture overview, features and benefits
 - What is new in 4.0
 - Sample Service Provider use cases and
deployment architectures
 - Technical demonstrations
Videoscape Cloud DVR Solution
Attend this webcast to learn:
 Cisco’s cloud strategy for virtualization and
cloud orchestration technology allows you to
automatically provision and elastically scale
critical media functions for content recording,
storage, and playback, offering greater
deployment flexibility and agility than legacy
systems.

 You can transition from a device- or account-
centric account management approach to
one that enables authorization and
personalization for multiple users under the
same account. With Videoscape Control
Suite, you will be able to adjust policies to
upsell your subscribers with additional
recording capabilities and service tiers,
create personalized offers based on
recording-driven recommendations,
authenticate additional devices for recording
playback, enable new functionality such as
content download, and more.

 Videoscape’s flexible media storage options
enable you to optimize content storage and
archiving using local recorder-based storage
and object-based storage across public,
private, and hybrid infrastructures.
April 9,
2014
8-9am
Pacific
Time TBD
Register for the
April 9 Webcast
in the link
provided in
description
below
Cisco UCS Invicta Series
Cisco is evolving the Cisco Unified
Computing System architecture. Solid-state
April
15,
2014
TBD
Register for the
April 15 Webcast
in the link
provided in

3. Topic When Speaker Register Now
memory is now integrated into the fabric
computing domain to significantly accelerate
application performance.
The holistic solution also means a simplified
data center: Customers can provision
computing, I/O, and solid-state memory
capacity from a single management
interface.
In this session, you will learn how your
business can benefit from data acceleration.
You will gain insight into the technology that
underlies data acceleration and understand
how the Cisco UCS architecture incorporates
the unique Cisco UCS Invicta series
products.
8-9am
Pacific
Time
description
below
Dynamic Advertising Management
TV advertising is evolving. With the move to
TV everywhere and new technologies
coming to market, service providers have an
opportunity to increase their advertising
revenues.
In this session we will present Cisco
Videoscape Advertising Suite, which gives
service providers the ability to better
monetize multiscreen video services. It
provides new tools to increase ad revenues,
deliver more relevant ads over more
channels, and increase the value of content
and advertising inventory.
April
16,
2014
8-9am
Pacific
Time TBD
Register for the
April 16
Webcast in the
link provided in
description
below
Delivering on the Heterogeneous
Network Promise
In this session, you will hear the latest
information about the Cisco Small Cell
solution, with a focus on best practices for
deploying small cells in an enterprise. With
more than 2 million small cells deployed
around the world, Cisco will delve into the
best practices it has learned from these
deployments. Topics will include:
April
22,
2014
8-9am
Pacific
Time
TBD
Register for the
April 22
Webcast in the
link provided in
description
below

4. Topic When Speaker Register Now
 Business enablers of universal small cells
for new revenue streams
 The intelligent use of modular 3G, 4G, and
Wi-Fi radio technology to lower CapEx
 Using both distributed and centralized SON
to optimize network performance and lower
OpEx
 Utilizing flexible and secure mobile backhaul
options that meet varying deployment needs
Building Layer 2 VPNs with Provider
Backbone Bridging Ethernet VPN:
Implementation and Use Cases
After a brief technical overview of PBB-
EVPN, this session will focus on Cisco’s
PBB-EVPN implementation. Through theory
and live demonstrations, the session guides
the audience on how to implement the
technology, from design to configuration to
troubleshooting. Lastly, the presentation
examines current and planned functionality
to facilitate migration strategies from existing
VPLS brownfield deployments.
Agenda:
In this session you will learn the following
concepts related to Cisco’s PBB-EVPN
implementation:
 Implementation highlights on Cisco ASR
9000 and Cisco IOS-XR Software
 Use cases and supported multihoming
device/network access topologies
 Control and data-plane handling
 Main configuration tasks
 EoMPLS/VPLS migration strategies
April
23,
2014
8-9am
Pacific
Time
TBD
Register for the
April 23
Webcast in the
link provided in
description
below