Cisco Podcast Network

Small Business, Big Solutions: Building Your Business Through Technology

Owning a small or medium business brings with it many unique challenges – from choosing which manufacturer to go with for your technology needs all the way to how to continue to grow and scale your business. The shift to hybrid work magnified to this, creating a new layer of complexity to both managing a business as well as employee satisfaction and retention.
To sift through these challenges, and how he has successfully navigated them, today I am joined by Scott Kauffman, President of HighNoon, a full-service marketing agency located in Phoenix, AZ. Scott shares his perspective on business, technology and even provides a marketing tip for our listeners.

Episode 11: Managed Services with Alexandra Zagury

In this episode of the CX Partner Perspective Podcast, Alexandra Zagury and host Scott Schell talk about why managed services are the way customers want to consume technology today and how in the Age of the Partner, the partner is leading the way.

Cisco Optics Podcast Ep 40. Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of (6 of 9)

Lasers have been around for over six decades. Since their invention, they have found their way into many applications that have changed our lives. Optical communications is of course one of them, and there are many that may surprise you. There is also still plenty of room to take laser performance to new heights, leading to even more new applications. In Episode 40, we continue our conversation with laser and optics expert Juliet Gopinath, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Here she describes techniques she’s developed for creating femtosecond laser pulses, including phase locked laser arrays and time lensing. – Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager
Juliet Gopinath is the Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at MIT. She was a member of technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. Since then, she has led a research group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her current research interests include ultrafast lasers, nonlinear optics, mid-infrared materials, spectroscopy, orbital angular momentum and adaptive optical devices. She has published 78 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 97 conference presentations. She is the recipient of an R&D 100 Award (2012) and is an Optica Fellow. She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Photonics Society Journal (2011-2017), the Associate Director for Cubit (2019), and currently is an Associate Editor for Optica.
Take Juliet’s course on Active Optical Devices for free! https://www.coursera.org/specializations/active-optical-devices
Related links
Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/
Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop
Cisco Optics Product Information: https://copi.cisco.com/
Additional resources
Cisco Optics Podcast: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticspodcast Cisco Optics blogs: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticsblog (subscribe at https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CiscoOpticsBlog )
Cisco Optics YouTube playlist: http://cs.co/9008BlQen
Cisco Optics landing page: cisco.com/go/optics
Timestamps
2:59 Ultrafast (short pulse) lasers in semiconductors
5:51 Upper state lifetime
7:42 Two-photon absorption
10:01 Phase and frequency controlled laser array
12:04 Time lens
14:17 Electrically pumped ultrafast laser for neuroscientists
15:53 Difficulty of phase controlled laser arrays
17:06 Devices for time lensing
Music credits Sunny Morning by FSM Team | https://www.free-stock-music.com/artist.fsm-team.html Upbeat by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com

Episode 10: Customer Success from a Partner’s Perspective

World Wide Technology is back for another podcast. This time, Scott talks with Laura Kuehner about the past, present and future of WWT's customer experience practice.

Episode 15: Part 2 with VQ Communications

In this month's Part 2 episode, Kevin Adamson sits down with Giles Adams and Steve Holmes and discuss why VQ Conference Manager is an exciting partnership to watch​ and other new updates

Cisco Optics Podcast Ep 39. Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of (5 of 9)

Lasers have been around for over six decades. Since their invention, they have found their way into many applications that have changed our lives. Optical communications is of course one of them, and there are many that may surprise you. There is also still plenty of room to take laser performance to new heights, leading to even more new applications. In Episode 39, we continue our conversation with laser and optics expert Juliet Gopinath, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Next is her research using quantum light for fiber based sensors. – Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager
Juliet Gopinath is the Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at MIT. She was a member of technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. Since then, she has led a research group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her current research interests include ultrafast lasers, nonlinear optics, mid-infrared materials, spectroscopy, orbital angular momentum and adaptive optical devices. She has published 78 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 97 conference presentations. She is the recipient of an R&D 100 Award (2012) and is an Optica Fellow. She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Photonics Society Journal (2011-2017), the Associate Director for Cubit (2019), and currently is an Associate Editor for Optica.
Take Juliet’s course on Active Optical Devices for free! https://www.coursera.org/specializations/active-optical-devices
Related links
Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/
Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop
Cisco Optics Product Information: https://copi.cisco.com/
Additional resources
Cisco Optics Podcast: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticspodcast Cisco Optics blogs: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticsblog (subscribe at https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CiscoOpticsBlog )
Cisco Optics YouTube playlist: http://cs.co/9008BlQen
Cisco Optics landing page: cisco.com/go/optics
Timestamps
2:52 Fiber based sensors with quantum light (squeezed light)
7:07 Lower noise, higher sensitivity with Mach-Zehnder
interferometer
8:35 Higher performance in photon-starved regime with quantum
light
Music credits Sunny Morning by FSM Team | https://www.free-stock-music.com/artist.fsm-team.html Upbeat by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com

Episode 9: World Wide Technology and EA Software Adoption

Sean McDonald from World Wide Technology joins Scott Schell to talk about their lifecycle practice and what that means for ongoing customer success.

Episode 13: Breaking down the true meaning of Smart Cities with Joe Dignan & Stu Higgins

In this month’s episode, Rosie and Collette are joined by Stu Higgins, Head of Smart Cities and IoT at Cisco & Joe Dignan, Assoc Vice President and Head of IDC Government Insights Europe with a deep dive into Smart Cities 🏙️ and how Sustainability🌱 is driving decisions across business, politics and communities around the world → 🌍

Episode 8: The ePlus Customer Experience Journey

Scott Schell and Kevin Detsch discuss how ePlus began their Customer Experience journey and how they became Cisco's first certified North American Partner in the PLS-Support program.

Cisco Optics Podcast Ep 38. Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of (4 of 9)

Lasers have been around for over six decades. Since their invention, they have found their way into many applications that have changed our lives. Optical communications is of course one of them, and there are many that may surprise you. There is also still plenty of room to take laser performance to new heights, leading to even more new applications. In Episode 38, we continue our conversation with laser and optics expert Juliet Gopinath, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Next is her project in multi-photon microscopy and super-resolution imaging. – Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager
Juliet Gopinath is the Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at MIT. She was a member of technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. Since then, she has led a research group at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her current research interests include ultrafast lasers, nonlinear optics, mid-infrared materials, spectroscopy, orbital angular momentum and adaptive optical devices. She has published 78 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 97 conference presentations. She is the recipient of an R&D 100 Award (2012) and is an Optica Fellow. She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Photonics Society Journal (2011-2017), the Associate Director for Cubit (2019), and currently is an Associate Editor for Optica.
Take Juliet’s course on Active Optical Devices for free! https://www.coursera.org/specializations/active-optical-devices
Related links
Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/
Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop
Cisco Optics Product Information: https://copi.cisco.com/
Additional resources
Cisco Optics Podcast: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticspodcast Cisco Optics blogs: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticsblog (subscribe at https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CiscoOpticsBlog )
Cisco Optics YouTube playlist: http://cs.co/9008BlQen
Cisco Optics landing page: cisco.com/go/optics
Timestamps
2:44 Multi-photon microscopy
3:10 Super-resolution imaging, Stimulated Emission Microscopy
(STED)
6:16 Delivering donut beam through fiber
8:32 Use of fluorescence and donut beam
10:44 Optogenetics
Music credits Sunny Morning by FSM Team | https://www.free-stock-music.com/artist.fsm-team.html Upbeat by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com