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Designing, Managing, and Acquiring Highly Available Wired and Wireless Networks - Webinar - presented by CCA Financial
Where: Webinar/Virtual
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET
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Workshop Organizers: Conor O'Brien of CCA Financial and Jacob Darling of Artista Networks
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: Free
Non-Member: Free
Event Overview
Arista’s vision and framework for the Cognitive Campus Network leverages cloud capabilities and state-of-the-art merchant silicon to deliver critical services that automate deployment, configuration, visibility, troubleshooting, and security. The Arista Cognitive Campus consists of three building blocks: Always-on Modern Networking, AI-Driven Operations, and Zero Trust Architectures, all based on a single EOS image. As campus networks become the foundation for business-critical applications, the need to build a highly available Wired & Wi-Fi network has never been greater. For Educational institutions, downtime means a pause in student learning, a new bottleneck in research, and more.
CCA works closely with Arista Networks to provide a range of funding options for Higher-Ed Institutions. CCA helps schools acquire the technology they need, work around budget constraints, and, more importantly, keep the institution on the bleeding edge of tech. As a self-funded, independent financing source, CCA has maximum flexibility in structuring financing for technology initiatives.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Achieve an Always-on Modern Network Operating Model
- Implement AI-driven Network Operations
- Enforce Policy With Zero Trust Architectures
- NaaS – stay current through flexible funding models
Accessibility
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Jacob Darling, Systems Engineer, Campus Technical Lead. – Arista Networks
Jacob is a member of the Northeast Arista customer engineering team. He has designed and implemented modernized campus networks for over 16 years. As a former network engineer in the healthcare space, he's had a firsthand look at how critical network uptime is for organizations, especially those performing life-saving care. More recently, spending time in manufacturing and higher education, he continues to assist organizations in achieving that critical network uptime
Conor O’Brien, VP Sales, CCA Financial
Conor O’Brien, VP Sales, has 15+ years of experience in the Equipment Financing industry, working on both the independent/private side of the business as well as the Bank side. Conor is based in the Boston area and has a deep understanding of how to work alongside the equipment OEM’s, regional/national solution partners, as well as the Higher-Education institutions themselves to customize an acquisition model that fits each school’s needs. Conor works closely with NERCOMP and the member Institutions to provide flexible and solution-oriented funding models so they can acquire the technology they need.
Will Stenberg, Regional VP Sales, CCA Financial
-11+ years in the Technology/Equipment Financing industry
- Spearheading CCA Financial's Higher-Education vertical with Conor O’Brien
-Specializes in creative financial solutions to help our clients implement technology initiatives