We Didn’t Just Build the Internet—We Constantly Reimagine It – An IPV6 Campus of the future

2017 North American IPv6 Summit: Speakers: Loghs Srinivasan, Mei Fan & Travis Norling, Cisco

Cisco’s Enterprise engineering team, in collaboration with the Cisco IT team (Known within Cisco as the IPV6 transformers), took the lead in converting one of Cisco’s buildings, building 23 (known internally as “The v6 Island”) in San Jose to an IPv6-only network. Building 23 houses more than 500 employees with at least two devices per person. This translates into more than 120 access points and 20 network devices (Wireless/Switching/Routing). The Cisco IPV6 transformers are here to share this exhilarating journey to roll out the first IPv6-only building in the industry servicing the typical daily business traffic of a large enterprise. Beyond the excitement, it had been a Herculean effort to make sure that critical services were migrated with minimal disruption.

Bio: Loghs Srinivasan is an Engineering Director at Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group, responsible for delivering outcome based Solutions for Enterprise Customers. Some of the key solutions delivered by Loghs’ team are Network as a Sensor, Network as an Enforcer, Easy QoS, DNA-Campus Fabric and IPV6-only Solution for Enterprise. Loghs is passionate about creating a Customer-First Culture and is deeply involved in ensuring Cisco’s products and solutions deliver good customer experience. He is also the BU executive sponsor for 5 large enterprise customers in Media, Webscale, healthcare and technology fields. Loghs has 18+ years of extensive experience in networking (Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, and Tellabs) in multiple facets of product development: Development, Release Engineering/Operations, Release Management, Feature/System Test, Solutions Design/Test, Automation Tools and product maintenance. Loghs believes in leveraging the power of Cisco’s internal enterprise to improve customer experience for Cisco’s Enterprise customers. Together with Cisco IT, his team has developed an alpha network to deploy and harden Enterprise Wireless/Switching/Routing/Security Products and Solutions within the IT production network prior to release. Recently Loghs’ team together with Cisco IT team, pioneered transition of an entire building’s IT network (Routing, Switching, Wireless) to a Single stack IPV6 only deployment.
Mei Fan, Cisco
Bio: Mei is a Sr. Manager at Cisco Enterprise Customer Solution group, where she works on end-to-end solution validation for Cisco’s large enterprise customers across financial, healthcare and technology sector. During her time with Cisco for the past 17 years, Mei has served various roles in software development, black box/white box testing, solution design, validation, and deployment. Mei’s technical focus is on Enterprise WAN and Campus. Currently, her team is part of Cisco DNA solution validation and deployment, prior to that, Mei was responsible for system testing of Cisco iWAN solution. Mei has led various IPv6 projects including IPv6 Branch Cisco Validation Design, IPv6 world Day in 2012 and IPv6 launch at Cisco. Currently, her team is validating and deploying IPv6 only network solution for multiple web scale enterprise customers, Mei and team earned the name of cisco-ipv6-transformer by successfully transforming a Cisco office building to IPv6-only network using Cisco routing, switching and wireless gears. This is the first IPv6 building in Cisco occupying 500+ users.
Travis Norling, Cisco
Bio: Travis is currently the Manager of Cisco’s Global Infrastructure Services – Early Technology Evaluation team, a group targeted at designing, building and running infrastructure that hasn’t been labeled “business as usual” just yet. Prior to his current role, Travis was a lead engineer on the same team specializing in Cisco Datacenter technologies and Campus/Access Network architecture. He has worked in depth on Cisco switching platforms using IPv6, virtualization, and convergence in the network and streamlining IT processes to affect faster change. Within the ETE team, Travis helped deploy Cisco’s World IPv6 Day offering as well as a number of PoCs and special event networks leveraging IPv6. Recent highlights include a partnership with Cisco Enterprise Customer Solution group to re-implement the IT networks in an entire Cisco San Jose campus building to IPv6 as well as design and build-out of an IPv6 only Enterprise VPN solution. Travis is most interested in technical and organization challenges that unsettle areas that have aged passed well-worn into comfortable.