By Alex Guckin,
Publication Date: 2026-09-07 15:00:00
The Network Operations Center at Black Hat USA 2026 is a collaborative experience between several enterprise partners to bring the best of network performance, optimization, and security to the staff and attendees during the training and conference days in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 150 Wi-Fi 7 Access Points were deployed onsite to provide general conference wireless and individual wireless service for the industry trainings. A large enterprise-scale network like this was supporting over 20,000 attendees; for such a system network monitoring was needed to verify that the network was running smoothly and that attendees and students are able to access core enterprise services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
To handle this task, Cisco and Black Hat deployed bespoke ThousandEyes agents to monitor the wireless solution. These consisted of more than 30 small network monitors that were deployed around the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and Business Hall in strategic locations where traffic…