perfect all right we're good uh muhammad you ready yeah i have a watery eyes always so i always tell my interviewers or the producers that sometimes it shouldn't there shouldn't be a problem in the 10-minute window but well yeah so do that while i'm talking you'll see it on the return feed it's a little delayed but and most people have tears when they see dave vellante yeah i i have that effect on people thanks for that okay we all said we good leonard why don't you go alex bye-bye yeah alex got the i just got the thumbs up we're good okay muhammad here we go on dave in five four three we continue now with the network powering hybrid work now we just heard from lawrence wang on the rapid move to wi-fi 6e which is going to increase wi-fi efficiency enable routers and devices to more efficiently use bandwidth and that additional spectrum that lawrence talked about that means more wi-fi channels which is really going to help reduce overlap between networks and make a noticeable difference especially in crowded places we're here now with muhammad imam who's senior director of product management for catalyst switching this is a multi-billion dollar business for cisco if you ever listen to cisco's earnings calls you'll hear the cfo scott heron he'll talk about the catalyst 9000 and double-digit growth and switching this is the fastest ramping product in cisco's history so muhammad that's got to make you feel pretty good yes indeed thank you david and thank you for having me here yeah great to have you so uh look catalyst 9000 it's been really successful what does the 9000x bring to the table for your customers yeah absolutely and um indeed the catalyst 9000 family of switches have been extremely popular with our customers as you said fastest ramping product in cisco's history and the last four or five years we have really evolved the catalyst 9000 family of switches to a very comprehensive product portfolio um addressing the various enterprise use cases that that we that we address but now we see increase in demand on the networks and that really stems from some of the most recent trends that we are seeing right part of it is hybrid workspaces is going to be a video dominant hybrid workspace right a lot of cases is going to be high definition 4k 8k videos we are seeing cloud-based applications everywhere right my spreadsheet is used to be on excel sheet now it's either an office 365 or smartsheets my files used to be on my computer now it's on in the dropbox right so these are trends that are really uh putting pressure on our networks we are also seeing trends where vr headsets are becoming common they are being used for trainings and education use cases webex hologram in certain industries we are seeing robotics are becoming more and more popular and they come with a lot of um applications that are very latency sensitive and as lawrence mentioned earlier wi-fi 6e is really making over the year multi gigabit wi-fi possible right and for all of these different trends and the recent technologies that that are evolving we really need the network that can really address and deliver for these applications and that's where we are bringing the catalyst 9000 x that addresses the increase in network demand we are expanding the catalyst 9000 family with top-of-line premium introductions in the access layer of the switches of the network as well as in the aggregation and core layers so we are bringing 400 gig high-speed core and enterprise core and edge layers of the network we are bringing point-to-point ip ipsec security which will give you 100 gig of ipsec encryption um high density of multi-gigabit which is becoming very common as we evolve our wi-fi networks because we don't want our wired infrastructure to be the bottleneck when the wireless infrastructure is capable of going more than a gig high density of 90 watt powering the smart buildings use cases right right um these are all different use cases that are being enabled by the catalyst 9000 and the new getless 9000x family is really addressing some of these new trends and applications well it's good because the metaverse is coming too and we're going to need some help with that right who knows how much bandwidth will need for metabolism absolutely yeah guarantee will be a lot more but so i want to i want to hear more about the the new products that you've just launched and maybe how these offerings are going to help with this new hybrid work model that we've just been discussing absolutely so let me start with the catalyst 9300 we are introducing the catalyst 9300x which is the highest density full multi-gigabit platform with 100 gig uplinks and 90 watt of power on every port available right that's an industry first that we are bringing on the catalyst 9300 family it is also capable of one terabit per second of a stacking which is also unheard of in the industry this will serve our customers with all the new trends that we talked about including the hybrid world um and some of the new trends that are going to come in the next decade but 9300x is not just a high-end campus switch it can also be a lean branch and a box solution where you don't really need an sd van but you do need an encryption point to point from the catalyst 93 from your front branch with the catalyst 9300x to the data center or to the cloud so for the first time we are introducing the ipsec based encryption natively in the hardware and that means no compromise on performance and you can get up to 100 gig of encrypted traffic with the catalyst 9300x second is the catalyst 9400 we are introducing soup 2 and soup 2 xl with 100 gig uplinks enhancing and the the scale and performance giving our customers options for fully loaded line rate multi give it board on a 10 slot chassis right it will give you two to three times bandwidth boost to your existing line cards since it completely removes the over subscriptions and you know the soup 2 on the catalyst 9400 is coming up with the version of the asic that we used in the past on the catalyst 9600 that means it's also bringing the core capabilities that we used that we today have on 9600 on the catalyst 9400 and that brings high density 10 gig um ports on the catalyst 9400 without over subscription right with the core capabilities then we have the catalyst 9600 where we are introducing is supervisor 2 which really triples the bandwidth per slot on the catalyst 98600 it introduces 400 gig uplink and truly drives the transition to 200 gig in the core get 6k customers uh with excel scale requirements now they can transition to the cat 9k with soup 2. and by the way we are also introducing a combo line card on the catalyst 9600 which means now you don't have to burn a whole slot for your uplink pores in fact you can get up to 400 gig of uplink with this new line card um so that's that's a bunch of things that we are bringing on the catalyst 9600 in line with catalyst 9600 we are also introducing catalyst 9500x 100 gig box with 400 gig uplinks in a fixed form factor and all the benefits that i just talked about on the on the supervisor 2 and 9600 it's also available in a fixed form factor on catalyst 9500x got it so that's in summary kind of the multiple uh product lines that we are introducing yeah it's a lot to unpack there i mean your the big theme there of course is optionality you got a lot of choices for customers i love the encrypt everything without a trade-off you know no performance impact and anytime you can reduce my oversubscription it's going to make me happy you know muhammad we've reported in our breaking analysis segments the importance of custom silicon and not every company has the resources or the expertise to develop their own silicon cisco of course does catalyst 9k is bringing silicon 1 based products with this launch tell us more about that why is this important yeah that's really exciting development that we have on the cad 9k family because you know the silicon one is a powerful asic that enables high performance and high scale with modern silicon architecture bringing the architect a converged architecture for switching as well as routing cad 9k as we know has been running on a uadp asic which has been a programmable asic it has served us really well so far on the cat9k family but with the silicon one we are taking it to another level silicon one brings the capabilities of uadp asic and unlocks the excel scale and high performance in the enterprise switches this is a critical and foundational element to meet the core requirement for the next ticket silicon one is a 12.8 terabits per second chip supports up to 10 million routes supports much deeper buffers brings multi-slice voq architectures with this new architecture silicon 1a6 has paved the way to transition the cad 6k xl deployments to cat 9k right so that's kind of the the um the silicon one uh importance in the ket99k family that we are bringing now yeah and it brings differentiation a lot of people kind of sometimes don't appreciate that but but when you have the control like that you can do things that you might not be able to do with off-the-shelf silicon but so but i i want to ask you what about customers that previously purchased from you as you evolve the portfolio to 9k x how do you protect their investment yeah thank you for asking that question because when we started building the cad 9k we always thought about investment protection for our customers so if you buy today how you will have a very long life for that for that product and you will be able to unlock new powers on that platform that you have purchased maybe five years back right that's exactly what we are doing with the catalyst 199000x talking about modular right on the modular side the supervisors that that that we are introducing now are backward compatible with the line cars that you already have in some cases the lime card throughput is doubling and tripling because now you have a new machine that is going to power these line cards right so you don't have to change your line card you just change your supervisor and you have much higher performance and scale with this new supervisor similarly on the stackables you can stack with the existing catalyst 9300s for example and you will be able to you don't have to rip and replace everything it's not a forklift upgrade for our customers you can continue benefiting from your existing catalyst 9000 deployments and add to the power with the catalyst 9000x components as well as new platforms that we are introducing nice that's key this just speaks to the software content that you guys i know you have a lot of software engineers running around and this is welcome to the 2020s folks new world you know i i muhammad zero trust was kind of a buzzword before the pandemic but it's really become a mainstream topic today we talked about the infrastructure we know security has to be built in from the start it can't be bolted on and zero trust is really top of mind for customers how are their security requirements changing as a result of hybrid work and and how do you make sure that as we shift to hybrid that these new security requirements are addressed what are you doing there absolutely and we know as you said security is top of mind for our customers in fact security has been highlighted as the number one reason why a lot of customers pick cisco and cat9k we have a comprehensive zero truss architecture with software defined access where we started with segmentation and expanded into endpoint classification and visibility now we are taking that to the next level and we are introducing talus powered truss assessment for unmanaged endpoints to further make the the workplace is stronger with zero trust and software defined access truss analytics it detects traffic from end points that are exhibiting unusual um behavior by pretending to be um using a mag spoofing or probe is spoofing or man the metal techniques when truss analytics detects such anomalies it signals endpoint analytics to lower the trusted score so we have a trusted score system when when the trusted score goes down it shows up on the dashboard and the network admin can completely deny or limit the access to the network from these endpoints from other security aspect that we are introducing and i touched on that briefly earlier is um for non-sdvan internet only branches where we are where where services security services might be in the cloud right that's a trend that we are seeing to secure that connectivity from a lean branch to the cloud we are introducing the ipsec capability with the catalyst 9300x and that's built in as as we just talked about and as far as the automation is concerned for these use cases they are we are bringing those automation with our command center the cisco dna center and we are bringing the full life cycle of automation as well as assurance for the secure connectivity that is being provided with the with the cisco dna center well a couple takeaways there for me i mean endpoint security has really become much more important up for obvious reasons when you have remote workers the built-in ipsec just that really emphasizes that you got to have it you know built in from the ground up you can't just bolt it on and the automation is key the number one problem that csos face is you know lack of talent so automation you know definitely helps helps with that so okay muhammad thank you so much really appreciate you coming on in a moment we'll look at private 5g and what's been happening at mobile world congress you're watching cube's coverage of the network powering hybrid work made possible by cisco

>> From San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, brought to you by Girls in Tech. >> Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here at theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, about 700 professionals. It's a really cool conference. It's a single track, two days. All the presentations are about 15, 20 minutes of people telling their stories, vast majority of women, a couple of men. I think they brought in some younger kids to get inspired. So we're excited to be here. Been coming for a couple years. And our next guest, many time CUBE alum, I just know her as Sandy Carter. She does have a title, VP of Enterprise Workloads at AWS, but I dunno, Sandy, how long have you been coming on the CUBE, how many years? >> Oh, wow, I don't know. >> Too many to count, and we don't want to admit to it. >> Yeah, it's true, but thank you guys for supporting events like this, Jeff, because I know that you guys have been supporting Women in Tech, and Girls in Tech for so long, and we really appreciate that very much. Thank you. >> And it's so important, and we love to do it, and we especially love when it's right in our backyard. It makes it really easy just to grab some crew and run up here. >> (laughing) That's right. >> So give us an update. You are chairman of the board now, and I think we've probably talked to probably three or four board members today. It's a really impressive group of people, and Adriana has done amazing things with this organization in the last 11 years. And you're sittin' watching it grow internationally, the number of events, the types of events. Give us your perspective. >> Yeah, so I think Girls in Tech is an amazing organization. That's why I decided to join the board and then to take on the chairman of the board position. And the reason I think it's so powerful is that it's really focused on young women, millennial women who are looking to become business owners, leaders, entrepreneurs and who want to apply technology to make themselves more competitive. You know, I know Adriana came up with this in 2007, but even today, the mission and the values are still really relevant. These are the top things that women need to know about today, and this is really about filling up the pipeline, sharing experiences. The conference today, I don't know if you got to hear any of the sessions, but they're really not about, you know, let me do technical skills. It's really about how do you break through the next level, how do you grow your business, how do you scale. And so it's really those type of topics that we can share experiences as experienced businesswomen with others so that they can learn and grow from that. >> Right, and just really simple stuff, like raise your hand, take the new assignment, take a risk. >> You got it, the crooked path. >> The crooked path, that was the one I was looking for. And do something that you don't necessarily have experience in, whether it's finance or accounting or HR or product management, sales. You know, take a risk, and chances are you're going to get paid off for it, and I think those simple lessons are so, so important. And then, of course, which comes up time and time again is just to have role models, senior role models who've been successful, who have an interesting story, they have a crooked path, it wasn't easy it wasn't even defined, but here they are as successful so that the younger women can look up to them. >> Yeah, absolutely, and I think that it's, you know the big message today, I think, for women was have the confidence. Basically that sums up what you just said, right? Be confident, and even if you don't feel confident, show confidence. >> Right, right. >> Which I think is so important.. >> Fake it 'til you make it, right >> That's right. You got it, you got it. >> 'Cause everybody else is, you just don't know it. >> That's right. >> You think they know what they're doing. They're doing the same thing. >> That's right. Well, it's interesting, one of the stats today said that men will apply for a job if they have 60% of the qualifications. Women will only apply if they have between 90 or 95%. So I think being able to know that you're confident and that you're going to make it, that you're going to do things and going ahead and taking that risk is really important. >> So the other big shift that we've seen in this conference is really the corporate sponsorship. So AWS is here obviously. You're here. You're on the board. But the amount of logos, the size of the companies on the logos has really grown a lot since I think we were first at this one in Phoenix in 2016. >> Phoenix, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> So not only, again, is that the right thing to do, but it's also really good business to get involved, and you great ROI for being involved in these types of organizations. >> That's right. You know, innovation is really about having diversity of thought, and so having women, having different colleges, having different sexual orientation, just diversity really helps you to innovate. >> Right. >> 93% of CEOs said that innovation is their number one competitive advantage. So we're seeing a lot of companies now pick up on that and know that they've got to come and they've got to be attractive, not only as a company that people would want to work at, an employer, but also just as a company that you might want to do business with. So today, I love the story of GoDaddy. She was saying GoDaddy was targeting small businesses. Well, most of those are run by women, but they weren't doing the right targeting. So I think it's a phenomenal change that we're seeing with companies like this doing the support. AWS, Amazon Web Services is proud to be one of the major sponsors. We had Charlie, one of our SVPs on stage today, chatting about lessons he've learned, but we've also don't things like understanding how women are buying, and we're doing focus groups, and we're doing different things like that to really help us gain insight. >> Right, so final question, from the board point of view as you look forward in the expansion opportunities, they seem almost unlimited between the countries, the participants and the variation in types of events that you guys are undertaking. It's really quite a bit to bite off. >> Well, you know, we have kind of a two prong mission. One is for entrepreneurs, and so you're seeing us really emphasize classes and things like our Amplify event where we have women come and pitch ideas that really grow that side of the business. In fact, I was just in Cuba last week, on behalf of Girls in Tech, talking to female entrepreneurs there and how we could help them because they really want us to set up some classes there to teach these entrepreneurs how to grow. And the second prong of our mission is around technology and coding. So we've got classes. We've got things with AWS like We Power Tech, so that women can learn technology and use it for their competitive advantage. So while it seems like we're doing a lot of things, it's really around that two prong mission, entrepreneurship and that coding technology focus. >> Alright, well, Sandy, thanks again for stopping by, and really congratulations to you, not only in what you do at AWS, but really just some very, very important work with Girls in Tech. >> Great, thank you, and thank you for being so supportive. We appreciate it very much. >> Our pleasure. Alright, She's Sandy Carter. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE from Girls in Tech Catalyst in downtown San Francisco. Thanks for watchin'. (upbeat electronic music)

>> From San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, brought to you by Girls in Tech. >> Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here at theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, about 700 professionals. It's a really cool conference. It's a single track, two days. All the presentations are about 15, 20 minutes of people telling their stories, vast majority of women, a couple of men. I think they brought in some younger kids to get inspired. So we're excited to be here. Been coming for a couple years. And our next guest, many time CUBE alum, I just know her as Sandy Carter. She does have a title, VP of Enterprise Workloads at AWS, but I dunno, Sandy, how long have you been coming on the CUBE, how many years? >> Oh, wow, I don't know. >> Too many to count, and we don't want to admit to it. >> Yeah, it's true, but thank you guys for supporting events like this, Jeff, because I know that you guys have been supporting Women in Tech, and Girls in Tech for so long, and we really appreciate that very much. Thank you. >> And it's so important, and we love to do it, and we especially love when it's right in our backyard. It makes it really easy just to grab some crew and run up here. >> (laughing) That's right. >> So give us an update. You are chairman of the board now, and I think we've probably talked to probably three or four board members today. It's a really impressive group of people, and Adriana has done amazing things with this organization in the last 11 years. And you're sittin' watching it grow internationally, the number of events, the types of events. Give us your perspective. >> Yeah, so I think Girls in Tech is an amazing organization. That's why I decided to join the board and then to take on the chairman of the board position. And the reason I think it's so powerful is that it's really focused on young women, millennial women who are looking to become business owners, leaders, entrepreneurs and who want to apply technology to make themselves more competitive. You know, I know Adriana came up with this in 2007, but even today, the mission and the values are still really relevant. These are the top things that women need to know about today, and this is really about filling up the pipeline, sharing experiences. The conference today, I don't know if you got to hear any of the sessions, but they're really not about, you know, let me do technical skills. It's really about how do you break through the next level, how do you grow your business, how do you scale. And so it's really those type of topics that we can share experiences as experienced businesswomen with others so that they can learn and grow from that. >> Right, and just really simple stuff, like raise your hand, take the new assignment, take a risk. >> You got it, the crooked path. >> The crooked path, that was the one I was looking for. And do something that you don't necessarily have experience in, whether it's finance or accounting or HR or product management, sales. You know, take a risk, and chances are you're going to get paid off for it, and I think those simple lessons are so, so important. And then, of course, which comes up time and time again is just to have role models, senior role models who've been successful, who have an interesting story, they have a crooked path, it wasn't easy it wasn't even defined, but here they are as successful so that the younger women can look up to them. >> Yeah, absolutely, and I think that it's, you know the big message today, I think, for women was have the confidence. Basically that sums up what you just said, right? Be confident, and even if you don't feel confident, show confidence. >> Right, right. >> Which I think is so important.. >> Fake it 'til you make it, right >> That's right. You got it, you got it. >> 'Cause everybody else is, you just don't know it. >> That's right. >> You think they know what they're doing. They're doing the same thing. >> That's right. Well, it's interesting, one of the stats today said that men will apply for a job if they have 60% of the qualifications. Women will only apply if they have between 90 or 95%. So I think being able to know that you're confident and that you're going to make it, that you're going to do things and going ahead and taking that risk is really important. >> So the other big shift that we've seen in this conference is really the corporate sponsorship. So AWS is here obviously. You're here. You're on the board. But the amount of logos, the size of the companies on the logos has really grown a lot since I think we were first at this one in Phoenix in 2016. >> Phoenix, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> So not only, again, is that the right thing to do, but it's also really good business to get involved, and you great ROI for being involved in these types of organizations. >> That's right. You know, innovation is really about having diversity of thought, and so having women, having different colleges, having different sexual orientation, just diversity really helps you to innovate. >> Right. >> 93% of CEOs said that innovation is their number one competitive advantage. So we're seeing a lot of companies now pick up on that and know that they've got to come and they've got to be attractive, not only as a company that people would want to work at, an employer, but also just as a company that you might want to do business with. So today, I love the story of GoDaddy. She was saying GoDaddy was targeting small businesses. Well, most of those are run by women, but they weren't doing the right targeting. So I think it's a phenomenal change that we're seeing with companies like this doing the support. AWS, Amazon Web Services is proud to be one of the major sponsors. We had Charlie, one of our SVPs on stage today, chatting about lessons he've learned, but we've also don't things like understanding how women are buying, and we're doing focus groups, and we're doing different things like that to really help us gain insight. >> Right, so final question, from the board point of view as you look forward in the expansion opportunities, they seem almost unlimited between the countries, the participants and the variation in types of events that you guys are undertaking. It's really quite a bit to bite off. >> Well, you know, we have kind of a two prong mission. One is for entrepreneurs, and so you're seeing us really emphasize classes and things like our Amplify event where we have women come and pitch ideas that really grow that side of the business. In fact, I was just in Cuba last week, on behalf of Girls in Tech, talking to female entrepreneurs there and how we could help them because they really want us to set up some classes there to teach these entrepreneurs how to grow. And the second prong of our mission is around technology and coding. So we've got classes. We've got things with AWS like We Power Tech, so that women can learn technology and use it for their competitive advantage. So while it seems like we're doing a lot of things, it's really around that two prong mission, entrepreneurship and that coding technology focus. >> Alright, well, Sandy, thanks again for stopping by, and really congratulations to you, not only in what you do at AWS, but really just some very, very important work with Girls in Tech. >> Great, thank you, and thank you for being so supportive. We appreciate it very much. >> Our pleasure. Alright, She's Sandy Carter. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE from Girls in Tech Catalyst in downtown San Francisco. Thanks for watchin'. (upbeat electronic music)