About this episode

Eric and Lee Peterson discuss Cisco Unified Branch and its impact on scaling, automating, and securing distributed environments.

In this sponsored episode, Eric sits down with Lee Peterson, VP of Product Management for Secure WAN, at Cisco. Together they discuss how Cisco Unified Branch is helping organizations scale, automate, and secure their distributed environments. They also define the Branch Network, discuss the major challenges facing network teams, and walk through Cisco’s vision of ... Read more »

People in this episode

Host: Eric

Guest: Lee Peterson

Topics covered

• automation
• AI
• branch networking
• Cisco Unified Branch
• network challenges
• distributed environments

Keywords

• automation
• AI
• branch networking
• Cisco
• network teams
• distributed environments
• Secure WAN

Sponsors

Cisco

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cisco, Cisco Unified Branch, Secure WAN

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