Cisco Tech Stories
Episodes
29 - Rack and Roll - Scaling AI DCs
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 dif...
28 - Qubit the bullet - quantum entanglement
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tim Szigeti, Distinguished Engineer talks to us about Quantum computing, the latest progresses and what are the potential impact and ...
27 - Crypto Key insights
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Frederic Detienne, a Distinguished Cisco CX Engineer takes us through the evolution of cryptography in IT, the latest changes and cha...
26 - Kendra's SD-WAN war stories
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kendra Dodson, CX Technical Leader in the RTP TAC, tells us about the SD-WAN technology and her personal troubleshooting stories : co...
25 - Ransom Where ? PSIRT adventures
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we interview Roberto Petrillo who works for Cisco Product Security Incident Response team. He works on and assesses vulnerabilities on...
24 - Snoop Dogged - NexusOS Crisis
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Brandon tells us about the time a critical problem surfaced the day before the Cisco Live US event started and how the clock started ...
23 - Dead Air
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we host Dimitar Dimitrov a Collaboration expert in Webex Calling who tells us a story about dead air. All calls are working fine exce...
22 - Breaking (CX) Lab
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we receive Regis Baudin, Technical Leader for the CXLabs department in Europe. He is responsible for the operations of the biggest la...
21 - It's a hard NOC life (Cisco Live)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A special Cisco Live EMEA Amsterdam episode where Nico interviews NOC team members on how they manage to deploy an entire network in a matter of days....
20 - Asynchronous secrets and pythonic powers
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview Jonathan Slenders, lead python developer at Cisco who takes us on adventure along his automation tools developped before...
19 - Richards' time machine rollercoaster
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Yates, Service provider Technical Leader, tells us about his career story. Starting from the air force and analog phone switchboards through...
18 - Splunk around and find out
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Devon Herron, a Splunk support engineer based in the UK. Devon only handles network down P1 situations and he has seen a few doozies duri...
17 - Dive into threat hunting with JF
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview Jean Francois Dive : threat hunting for Cisco internal Security. He takes us through the stakes of a few very recent and...
16 - The return of X.25
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview Alain Lanssiers, Service Provider Technical Leader at Cisco CX who knows more protocols than anyone around here. One day...
15 - Cruise Control
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Special episode where we interview 3 engineers : Tristan, Jaroslav and Maren who troubleshooted network issues on boats and cruise ships. Some even ha...
14 - From spanning trees to saving trees
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Esther Roure Villa remembers her days of troubleshooting Service Providers and spanning-tree loops. Esther is now a Sustainability ...
13 - Crash course : automating problem resolution with RADKit
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we host our first non-Cisco guest Richard Atkin from ITGL. He tells us how he combines network engineering and programming in his j...
12 - Rogue (AP) One - A Cisco TAC story
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tiago Antunes takes remote troubleshooting to the next level where guiding someone collecting a wireless packet capture on site allow...
11 - Switching Gears: The Flicker Board Fiasco and the Intricacies of SD-Access
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Introduction 02:30 Nathan flies to Malaysia 13:00 Discussing SD-access and switching In this episode, Nathan Pan, Switching and SD-access Techn...
10- Firewalls play "Tag ! you're it !"
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Intro 02:06 Justin Roberts In this episode, we interview Justin Roberts, Technical Leader in Next-Gen Firewalls in the US. He takes us, in a ve...
9 - April's fool episode : 2 truths and a lie
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00 Intro 00:59 Welcome 01:57 Jaro's story 16:20 Ivan's story 31:56 Rik's story Today, we interview Jaroslaw Gawron, Ivan Shirshin and ...
8 - Spotless but spot on
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steven Janssens takes us through his most memorable Collaboration mysteries.In one story, Steven is faced with random Webex endpoint...
7 - The missing chassis and Christmas Ski Chaos
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we host Philip Smeuninx, Principal Engineer in Collaboration technologies in CX. He tells us stories about missed upgrades during christmas, mi...
6 - Automation Pandemonium : The day SNMP broke the Datacenter
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We receive our audio editor but first of all DataCenter guru Kris Vandecruys. He tells us about SAN and the storage technologies, FiberChannel, the di...
5 - Hacking UCS servers like an old gaming console
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ricardo Galvan tells us about the time he had to hack into a UCS to troubleshoot it when he went onsite to a customer who had random ...
4 - 99 problems and an RMA is one
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Ramses Smeyers, Distinguished Engineer for CX Datacenter. He tells us a story of non-stop RMAs and another story where he prevents ACI to...
3- City buses gone wild !
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jens Depuydt is taking us on a project where buses receive an IoT router that allows telemetry from the buses to be centralized as we...
2 - Healthcare drama during covid
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first peak in the Covid outbreak, a hospital uses wireless handheld phones to communicate between nurses and doctors but suddenly calls drop an...
1- The power of that thing in your pocket
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tristan tells us a story about a Cable service provider facing random outages, with a cause well beyond what we could think of. Every...
0 - introduction with Buffy Ransom
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CX SVP Buffy Ransom helps us introduce the podcast concept and shares her insights about the future of CX and technology. She also shares her own trou...