In this episode, Cisco Champions Aaron Kirk discuss the NOC\xa0 at Cisco Live with Joe Clarke.\n\nCisco Champion Host\nAaron Kirk (https://twitter.com/amkirk), Cisco Champion member, Technical Marketing Engineer\n\nCisco Guest\nJoe Clarke, Cisco Distinguished Services Engineer\n\nModerator\nBrett Shore (https://twitter.com/brettshore), Cisco Champion Program Management\n\nPodcast Discussion Topics\n- The importance of automation in the NOC\n- The numbers behind the NOC\n- What the Cisco Live NOC team looks like in terms of size and roles\n- What equipment is used to build the NOC\n- Preparing for a Cisco Live event\n- What the NOC team does once Cisco Live starts\n- How and why the MetroCluster are set-up for Cisco Live\n- Cisco Live stories, surviving worse case scenarios and tools that the team created and uses\n- How Webex Teams comes into play\n- The most important lesson Aaron and Joe have learned\n- What Aaron and Joe would change for future shows\n\nMore information and resources here: https://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/ciscochampion-radio-s5ep14-noc