Cisco Live 2025: Community, Balance, and Big Dreams for AI

At Cisco Live 2025, the focus centered on fostering a sense of community, achieving balance within the tech ecosystem, and exploring ambitious expansions in artificial intelligence capabilities. The event showcased Cisco’s commitment to integrating AI more deeply into network management, security solutions, and customer experience enhancements. For further insights into this topic, visit the coverage provided by Justin Cohen.

Upstack Your Thinking – With APIClarity

Justin Cohen of Can I Tech It? digs into the recent app release by Cisco: APIClarity. The tool keeps tabs on your microservices’ API calls, and is free on Github. Don’t forget to reach the end of the piece for a great demo of the tool!

How Cisco Live! Changed My Career…

With Cisco Live US happening this week, Justin Cohen is thinking back to how the event changed his career. He’s been attending since 2012, and got to know the community after meeting Tom Hollingsworth there. Things changed after 2016, when he got invited to Networking Field Day. Today, Justin is working as an Innovation Architect at Cisco, his dream job. It’s been a long journey centered around the event.

#CiscoChampion Radio, S4|Ep.14: All About Tech Field Day

Cisco presented at last month’s Tech Field Day and Networking Field Day events, and has a long history of excellent presentations. Stephen Foskett was their guest on their Cisco Champion Radio podcast and discussed what makes the events special.

NSX – The Network Redefined

Justin Cohen takes a look at VMware NSX, which he saw a lot of at Networking Field Day in April. This is a comprehensive review of the network virtualization solution, best summed up by Justin: VMWare does for the network what it did for servers. It’s not quite as simple as that, and Justin does a good job of showing what VMware is doing different to account for the realities of networking. It’s a good read, and gives a thorough overview of the solution.

Vault7 Lessons – Zero Trust

Whenever you begin a piece about network trust with a quote from a Nicholas Cage film, you’re doing something right. Justin Cohen uses a quote from Con-Air as a springboard to the benefits of a zero trust network policy. He looks at how increased use of encrypted traffic requires a new methodology to secure networks, as it effectively kills deep packet inspections. Justin looks at solutions from Cisco and Illumio, which can be used as solutions in this new zero trust world.