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The staff located in the GSC will be able to support customers in order to plan, build and manage their network and solution. In order to replicate the issues that customers may face, there are two laboratories; the main one will be part of a worldwide network of laboratories accessed both on site and remotely by our engineering staff in order to solve the most complex customer issues. The labs also help to re-create environments to prove configurations and designs before its deployment. Current supported technologies are Routing and Switching, Collaboration, Security, DataCenter, Mobility, Wireless, SP Video, and TelePresence.

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Cisco Connected Roadways addresses the interoperability requirements based on the Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture:

ConfD is a mature, proven management agent framework with a rich set of APIs for developers of physical and virtual networking devices. Currently in use by more than 75 network equipment providers, ConfD provides the industry-leading implementation of the NETCONF protocol driven by the YANG data modeling language. The no-cost Basic ConfD is feature-rich and will be available for production use without additional fees for NETCONF. The premium version of ConfD, including a complete set of north-bound interfaces including CLI, REST and SNMP, continues to be commercially available.

The City Operations Center solution integrates N3N's Innowatch software solutions with Cisco's Video Surveillance Manager, video storage, collaboration, and other Cisco core technologies running on the Cisco Unified Computing (UCS) System architecture.

The Collaboration Certification portfolio will now include an associate level and professional level, offering a complete career path for collaboration, voice and video network engineers who want to enhance their skills to embrace the new way of working. Cisco's expertise in providing collaboration solutions and training will prepare engineers to deploy collaboration systems and services that increase user productivity, improve the experience for end users and provide a seamless user experience. This expands on the previously available Expert level certification and addresses the needs of the changing workforce.

Cameras in both host venues will be connected directly to Cisco switches and Connected Stadium networks, enabling the NBA to share photos with fans and media on a global scale and in near-real time.

Overlay networks provide the foundation for scalable multi-tenant cloud networks. VXLAN, developed by Cisco along with other virtualization platform vendors, has emerged as the most widely-adopted multi-vendor overlay technology. In order to advance this technology further, a scalable and standards-based control plane mechanism such as BGP EVPN is required. Using BGP EVPN as a control-plane protocol for VXLAN optimizes forwarding and eliminates the need for inefficient flood-and-learn approaches while improving scale. It also facilitates large scale deployments of overlay networks by removing complexity, fosters higher interoperability through open standard control plane solutions, and access to a wider range of cloud management platforms.

As organizations, such as utilities, oil, gas and energy companies, and municipalities, look to leverage new IoT applications, demand is growing for a quick and simple way to deploy Field Area Network (FAN) pilots, as well as reduce the cost of deploying a secure network infrastructure for medium and small size deployments.

In terms of topline traffic growth, the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast projects that global mobile data traffic will reach an annual run rate of 292 exabytes by 2019, up from 30 exabytes in 2014. These predicted 292 exabytes would represent: