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Topic (s) : Cisco Self Defending Network- What's new? Patrick Ramseier, CISSP |
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What's New in the Cisco Self Defending Network Architecture. We will cover Threat Control, Network Admission Control, Secure Communications and Regulatory Compliance. Deploy a Resilient, Reliable, Safe NetworkCisco Self-Defending Network is an architectural solution designed for the evolving security landscape. Security is integrated everywhere and with the help of a lifecycle services approach, enterprises can design, implement, operate and optimize network platforms that defend critical business processes against attack and disruption, protect privacy, and support policy and regulatory compliance controls. Using the network as the platform keeps people and IT assets safe, makes the organization more resilient and reliable, and enables maximum business impact from IT investment. Speakers: Giveaways and Raffle...
Pizza to be served...
If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton. What's Next? - Cisco Unified Contact Center Express- Find out how your company can provide better customer service, to both internal and external customers... Stay tuned. |
Topic (s) : Fluke Networks - Cisco IOS Technologies most users dont know about. Analyze and monitor your network with built in tools already in Cisco IOS |
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Fluke Networks and Cisco IOS Technologies- Deep Dive into Analysis and Performance This is a presentation focused on Cisco IOS Technologies, not a Fluke Networks sales pitch. A discussion on how Cisco IOS Technologies can be leveraged to gain a
better understanding of network, voice, and application performance.
Included in the presentation will be brief demonstrations of products
that can utilize Cisco IOS NetFlow, IP SLAs, and Performance Routing
(PfR) to provide unique views into what's really happening on the
network. Fluke Speakers: Giveaways and Raffle...
If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.
What's Next? - Cisco Unified Contact Center Express- Find out how your company can provide better customer service, to both internal and external customers... Stay tuned.
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Topic (s) : ArcanaNetworks ManageExpress™ VoIP provides a secure web-based centralized provisioning and management solution. |
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Centralized VoIP Management ArcanaNetworks' ManageExpress(r) product suite is built on the XML driven proprietary automation platform called OpsXML(r). The The ManageExpress(r) VoIP solution is a centralized voice management solution that increases efficiency & revenue through automation. It is a secure web-based Multi-site, Multi-Tenant Management Portal offering efficient, rapid deployment of IP communications, responsive solutions for key administrative duties, day-to-day maintenance activities and more. Arcana Speakers: Giveaway...
If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.
What's Next? - Fluke Networks- Find out what is really on your network with Netflow and analysis... Stay tuned.
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Topic (s) : Sendio, World Class Email Security with 100% accuracy, no false positives |
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Sendio Email Security Please join us in welcoming Tim Lee-Thorp with Sendio. Tim is Vice President of Marketing and will be presenting on their Enterprise class service appliance that provides email integrity resulting in 100% spam blocking and 0% false positives. Mr. Lee-Thorp will present the today's growing problem and the only effective solution to email integrity. He will be presenting the architecture of the SAV technology and the Sendio I.C.E. Box appliance. Mr. Lee-Thorp will address the current costs to the business in today's currency and address basis for the success of the current "organized internet crime." www.sendio.com Giveaway...
If we have time:Telepresence Demo: Ife, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Tim Lee Thorpe, VP of Marketing with Sendio
Giveaway!: We will be holding a drawing
for a few Cisco Press Books to give away. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.
What's Next? - Arcana Networks- Cisco IOS GUI Management tools... Stay tuned.
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**Our next meeting is Thursday August 2nd, 2007!** Topic (s) : Voice over Wireless LAN Best Practices from the Field |
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Voice over Wireless LAN The objective of this VoWLAN Best Practice session is to help the audience understand the key design considerations to deploy a successful VoWLAN solution. Some of the latest QoS features added to the Cisco Wireless solution will be discussed as well. Presentation:
Bill Ng - Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Bill Ng is a Systems Engineer in the Commercial West Channels team. Bill has worked at Cisco for the past 10 years. While at Cisco, Bill worked as a Development Test Engineer, a Technical Support Engineer, a Systems Engineer, and as a Technical Marketing Engineer. Prior to joining the field, Bill focused on interoperability testing between Cisco and 3rd party Unified Communications solutions, such as Avaya, Microsoft, and ShoreTel. Giveaway!: We will be holding a drawing
for a new VMWare Padded Laptop Carry bag, we have several new Cisco Logo Pens and a few Cisco Press Books to give away. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT The Cisco Systems Office in Pleasanton.
What's Next? - Arcana Networks Presentation... Stay tuned.
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| June and July were cancelled as we lost our meeting room and 4th of July Holliday 2007 |
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**Our next meeting is Thursday May 3rd, 2007!** Topic (s) : Kiwi Cat Tools and CallManager/ CallManager Express Customization |
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Company: Kiwi CatTools is a freeware application that provides automated device configuration management on routers, switches and firewalls.
Some of the many tasks Kiwi CatTools performs to make your life easier are below. Presentation:
Presenters: Ed Horley, Sr. Network Engineer, Microsoft MVP, Peak IP Solutions, has implemented and managed large scale networks for a number of years. He is a huge fan of Kiwi Cat Tools and will demonstrate the benefits live. Mike Hansen Mike specializes in large scale Microsoft deployments, automated software deployment and Active Directory design and uses Linux Security tools on a regular basis. He is a lead Voice engineer for the Cisco CallManager/ Express solutions and a very sharp engineer. Mike will share the customizations of CallManager with us tonight . Giveaway!: We will be holding a drawing
for a new Cisco Padded Laptop Carry bag, we have several new Cisco Logo Pens and a few Cisco Press Books to give away. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY. What's Next? - Arcana Networks Presentation... Stay tuned. |
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Kelley Bowles IPcelerate was established in 2004 to provide commercial and enterprise customers with enhanced applications and solutions within a VOIP environment. Headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, the company provides clients with highly integrated VOIP solutions that converge with a new or existing telecommunications infrastructure to better utilize investments in resolving business-critical issues. IPcelerate enables the organizations of the world to do more with VoIP IPcelerate technologies continue to develop around feedback from hundreds of existing customers and business partners who adopt VOIP solutions for their production environments. Used by companies across all market segments, IPcelerate’s business-impacting technologies continue to raise market expectations around the impact that can and should be realized from VOIP investments. Companies use IPcelerate technologies to integrate VOIP into their staffing requirements, into their physical security requirements, into the revenue goals – into any and every aspect of information exchange in their organizations. IPcelerate solutions are available globally through a certified family of business partners and resellers. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY. What's Next? - Authenex - Mike Kent |
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday October 5th, 2006!** Topic (s) : Cisco Security Update- Cisco NAC Framework! |
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| Cisco NAC Security Update and more... |
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Weihan Wu, Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc. We will have an update on Cisco NAC from Weihan Wu, CCIE and Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems. Come hear the latest developments on NAC from the source. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION
BELOW!!! WE ARE NOW IN PLEASANTON AT ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY. . What's Next? - Not sure yet. Do you have a suggestion? |
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| Time | Food and beverages at 6:30 ** Meeting will start at 7PM** |
| Location | Robert Half International, Inc., Pleasanton, CA |
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday September 7th, 2006!** Topic (s) : Monitoring, Network Mapping, IDS- NEON Networks,
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| Monitoring, Network Mapping, IDS and more... |
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Wesley Lau, Neon Software Technical Engineer. In today's complex networking environment, it is crucial that the network administrators have a current and accurate picture of their network's physical topology. Manually mapping a network can be a tedious and error prone affair. That's why Neon Software created LANsurveyor.
LANsurveyor automates mapping any-sized network, from a single subnet to an enterprise with thousands of nodes. LANsurveyor also has asset reporting, network management, and intrusion detection features.
In this presentation, you will learn the following:
* An overview of major LANsurveyor features, including network mapping, asset reporting, and intrusion detection capabilities.
* A brief overview of the technical underpinnings of LANsurveyor
* Presentation and discussion of a various sample network maps
* QA For more information please visit www.neon.com Wesley Lau is part of Neon Software's technical staff. He is responsible for supporting both customers and employees and is intricately involved with the design and maintenance of Neon's constantly changing infrastructure.
Wesley holds a BS in computer science from San Francisco State
University and is actively working on Cisco certification. What's Next? - A special meeting at the end of August. We will be merging our meeting with the national Cisco IP Telephony Users Group (CIPTUG). |
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday August 3rd, 2006!** Topic (s) : QoS! SLA's! Performance Management!- NetQoS,
Inc. |
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| How the NetQoS Performance Center manages the network for application performance... |
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Ben Erwin, Sr. Product Manager, NetQos Corporation. How the NetQoS Performance Center manages the network for application performance. The NetQoS Performance Center enables integrated end-to-end application performance monitoring, network traffic analysis, and device performance monitoring through a single management console. According to Cisco IT: "ReporterAnalyzer
is the only complete enterprise solution for NetFlow." ReporterAnalyzer
leverages Cisco NetFlow Technology across entire enterprises, providing
real-time and historical views into the traffic on a network. We
are then only vendor that can provide global visibility for the
world's largest enterprises. Ben Erwin is the NetQoS Performance Center Product
Manager at NetQoS, Inc., where he sets the strategic direction of
the company's product suite and coordinates its sales, marketing,
and development efforts. For more information please visit www.netqos.com What's Next? - A special meeting at the end of August. We will be merging our meeting with the national Cisco IP Telephony Users Group (CIPTUG). |
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday July 6th, 2006!** Topic (s) : Packets Never Lie! - WildPackets, Inc. |
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| Network and Application Performance Management! Go deep into the application layer to understand... |
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Joe Habib, Sr. Systems Engineer, WildPackets Corporation. Network downtime and performance degradation become mission-critical problems, affecting productivity, revenue, and relationships with customers and partners. When network problems occur, how can you resolve them most quickly? By building intelligent network analysis into your network, so that vital information for troubleshooting is always at your fingertips. This seminar presents an overview of packet analysis as a means to identify what is really happening on your network The seminar will include hands on participation, and show how solving real problems quickly. What you will learn... . How to do a network capture Joe Habib is a seasoned executive with proven expertise in Information Technology, eCommerce, and Systems Management. Joe possesses over 10 years experience in designing, developing, and delivering technology and information management solutions. He has managed large information and network services for several Silicon Valley and international companies. Joe holds a BA in Business and Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications from San Jose State University. Joe holds certifications with Cisco and Microsoft For more information please visit www.wildpackets.com What's Next? - NetQoS. A cisco Technology Partner and ctitical component in Cisco's own network -coming in August 2006. |
| **Our next meeting is Thursday January 5th, 2006!** Topic (s) : Network and Application Performance Management!. |
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Irene Kane, Sr. Systems Engineer, NetScout Corporation. We will have interactive discussions will help you come away with the following new knowledge; Unparalleled views, from the granular details to the highest-level views, of network performance - giving real-time and historical visibility into the application performance of your network. Optimized operations, the ability to maintain application availability, help fix network degradation issues, and most importantly answer the question "Is Your Network Ready for Voice?" The ability to leverage and extend all the NetFlow data in your network for advanced application recognition, comprehensive reporting, and integrated troubleshooting. For more information please visit www.netscout.com What's Next?
- LeftHand Networks iSCSI array technology in February, Cisco CallManager
Express Product update in March 2006. |
| **Our next meeting is Thursday December 1st, 2005!** Topic (s) : Port Security with 802.1X and Microsoft's Built
in RADIUS Server. |
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| Configuring
802.1X on Cisco catalyst switches with Microsoft IAS. This
includes Guest VLAN access for non authenticated users |
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Anand Deveriya- CCIE Security # 10401, Author of Cisco Press Book "Network Administrators Survival Guide"
a. 802.1x usiing catalyst switch with MS-RADIUS
server and MS ActiveDirectory users (No Cisco ACS). Anand's book will be for
sale at the meeting. You may have Anand sign your copy after
the meeting... What's Next?
-Netscout is coming in January, Cisco CallManager Express Product
update in March 2006. |
| **Our next meeting is Thursday November 3rd, 2005!** Topic (s) : |
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday October 6th, 2005!** Topic (s) : |
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| Discover, Design, Configure, Quote and Order, Document Voice+IP with a single Tool |
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Kevin Parks, Sales Engineer, Netformx, Inc.
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday September 1st, 2005!** Topic (s) : |
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| Network/Application Troubleshooting methodology with lots of case studies and a Focus on Voice over IP |
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Bo Han, Senior Engineer, Clearsight Networks. This will be an interactive discussion and demonstration of packet sniffing technology and traffic/application analysis. Bo has done troubleshooting on some of largest networks in the US. He will share his troubleshooting methodology with us to help better understand what the applications are doing on our networks today. ClearSight AnalyzerTM is an easy-to-use visual analysis application that helps you pinpoint problems on your network so you can solve them quickly and intelligently. ClearSight Analyzer is the easiest method of real-time network application analysis and troubleshooting. Network problems become crystal clear in real-time with ClearSight Analyzer's monitoring tools. You can eliminate finger pointing with simple visualizations that all of your IT professionals can understand and agree upon. ClearSight Analyzer provides more problem solving information in real-time than other tools, even in forensic post-analysis mode. Learn more at www.clearsightnet.com |
| **Our next meeting is TUESDAY June 14th!** | |
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| Speaker(s) | Sergey Nikiforov- Vice-President of Product
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| Time | 7:00 PM - Food and beverages at 6:30 ** |
| Location | San Ramon Valley Campus of Diablo Valley College |
| **Our next meeting is TUESDAY May 10th!** | |
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| Speaker(s) | Ed Horley, Sr. Network Enginer and overall computing guru, J2 Global |
| Time | 7:00 PM - Food and beverages at 6:30 ** |
| Location | San Ramon Valley Campus of Diablo Valley College |
| **Our next meeting is Thursday April 14th!** | |
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| Speaker(s) | Patrick Ramseier, Security Specialist, Cisco Systems |
| Time | 7:00 PM - Food and beverages at 6:30 ** |
| Location | San Ramon Valley Campus of Diablo Valley College |
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| **Our next meeting is Thursday March 10th, 2005!** | |
| Topic | CallManager Express/ Unity Voice Mail Integration. At the next meeting we will have a live configuration of Cisco CallManager Express integration with Cisco Unity Voice Mail. We will take over where we left off in January configuring a small voice over IP network. This time we will integrate Unity Voice Mail into the mix. You can see how it integrates via an IP only connection and get a look at how to manage, configure, and use the Cisco Unity Voice Mail solution and feature set. |
| Speaker(s) | Douglas Renner (Peak IP Solutions) and Chris Wallace (Intel), Network Engineers. |
| Thursday January 13th, 2004 ** | |
| Topic | At the next meeting we will have
a presentation by Packet Design on routing security issues, anintroduction
to route analytics technology and an overview of how MPLS IP VPN's
work. Packet Design has pioneered a new technology known as IP Route Analytics. IP Route Analytics provides full visibility into the routing operation of an IP network by "listening" to the various routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, EIGRP) and analyzing the information to build a real-time, network-wide routing map. |
| Speaker(s) | Alex Henthorn-Iwane from Packet Design www.packetdesign.com |
| August 12th, 2004 ** | |
| Topic | Our
Speaker is OJ Nguyen who comes to us with a long history of network
integration and consulting background. He
is currently with Qovia Systems and will be providing us with the
technical details around managing a network with specific focus
on the most critical traffic, Voice. The topic is Reliability
Assurance through Monitoring and Management. |
| Speaker(s) | OJ Nguyen, Consultant. Qovia |
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| Topic | We will have Ron Lewis, Product Manager and long time Telephony Specialist covering the newest release of Cisco CallManager Express and Cisco Unity Express. This is a solution where you can run up to 120 phones and up to 50 voice mail boxes on a single router to provide a single small office voice/data solution. More voice mail boxes requires a seperate server... |
| Speaker(s) | Ron Lewis, Product Manager, Cisco Call Manager Express |
| Thursday October 9th, 2003 ** | |
| Topic | WANDoc Network Management- October 9th, 2003 We will have Neil Henderson, the developer of WANdoc, an open source and commercial tool to manage Cisco routed networks. He will be showing off the latest features, tools, and utilities that he and team have incorporated into the platform. Take a look at www.wandoc.com or the open source website at www.wandoc.net. You will find that this is quite a nice utility. Dont miss the chance to speak with the cheif developer to find out how you can provide better realtime management on your network. Neil and Jim will be providing FREE CD's to every member in attendance! |
| Speaker(s) | Neil Henderson, Chief Developer, WANDoc |
| Thursday September 11th, 2003 ** | |
| Topic | Cisco's Voice Strategy- September 11, 2003 We have an exciting topic coming up for the next East Bay Cisco Users Group. Cisco is the leader in IP Telephony and we will have the latest updates given to us by Bill Lulofs, Consulting Systems Engineer in the Service Provider group for Cisco Systems. Bill will be discussing both the Internet side of telephony as well as the Enterprise side. He is an original Stratacom employee and we are looking forward to him sharing his knowledge with us. |
| Speaker(s) | Bill Lulofs, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems |
| Thursday August 14th, 2003 ** | |
| Topic | Storage Networking! Come learn about iSCSI, SAN, NAS, and Storage Networking. We will have a special presentation from a new technology company, Database Appliances. Thanks in advance for sponsoring food for the event. Find out more about Storage Networking and Storage Solutions from Cisco and others. A new startup company, Database Appliances will be discussing iSCSI technology and the benefits of accessing your SAN over the IP network for live DB Backup, Restore or Disaster Recovery with their innovative Oracle and SQL backup solutions. If you run a database or a SAN or NAS solution, this is a must attend. |
| Speaker(s) | Mark Jumaga, Co-Founder and CTO, Database Appliances |
| Time | 7:00 PM - Food and beverages at 6:30 ** |
| Location | Cisco Systems Pleasanton Office |
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Owens Drive, 4th Floor, Fountain View Conference Room Pleasanton, CA 94588 (925) 223-3000 |
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5890 Owens Drive, 4th Floor, Fountain View Conference Center
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About the Speakers
Several speakers are invited to come and present on topics that are chosen by the members. You will often find speakers from Bay Area Companies, CCIE's, Cisco Systems Engineers, and Cisco Product Managers or Technical Engineers. Cisco Partner companies and other companies with networking and management products are invited to speak and give their experience in live networks with Cisco solutions.
If you are interested in speaking or presenting at the event in a strictly technical nature, please see the contacts page and get in touch with the meetings coordinator. We are interested in hearing from Cisco Users on thier experiences and deployments of data, voice, video, content, routing, vpn, security, management or telephony solutions.