Last week over 5,000 customers, experts and partners gathered at Cisco Live Latin America to learn about the latest Cisco products, solutions and technology trends. Participants were able to attend technical education seminars and clinics, IT management leadership training, hands-on labs, and one-on-one conversations with technical experts.

The World of Solutions (WoS) was a popular location where each day thousands of motivated Cisco customers visited the more than 80 partners and technology providers in the exhibit hall. The World of Solutions also included the Cisco Product Technology area where visitors could take a deep dive into Cisco's products, solutions and services.

In the Cisco Digital Industries area, customers could demo technology with an industry specific view. Additionally the Solutions Theater provided the opportunity to hear from subject matter experts and partners during focused presentations that complemented what visitors where seeing and experiencing in the WoS.

Cisco's Public Sector team was honored to again be part of this year's event and had a strong presence in the Digital Industries area of the WoS exhibition hall. We addressed a number of current national government and public safety issues including the Public Safety Architecture Foundation, wearables and mobile communications and sensors and Connected Public Safety.

We had the good fortune to be joined in our booth by our partner BlueLine Grid who demonstrated GridCommand, their secure collaboration application platform. This solution was very well received and had many customers stopping by for demonstrations. In addition, BlueLine Grid joined us as we presented on a number of Public Safety topics in the Solutions Theater.

The next event in the Cisco Live series will be held February 20 -24, 2017 in Berlin. We look forward to seeing you there was we kick off our 2017 Cisco Live series of events. In the meantime, get more information about our public safety solutions on our website.