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Networking Field Day 8

Networking Field Day 8

September 10–September 12, 2014

#NFD8

Who: Networking

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

Click here to add the Networking Field Day 8 presentations to your calendar!

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Presenting Sponsors

Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Amy Arnold

@AmyEngineer

Amy Arnold is an engineer and blogger with a love for all things networking.

Bob McCouch

@BobMcCouch

Bob is a career network engineer/architect with over 20 years experience in enterprise, OEM, and integrator roles.

Chris Marget

@ChrisMarget

Chris is an independent network consultant, recovering UNIX sysadmin and protocol aficionado

David Gee

@DaveDotDev

Network consultant, enthusiast, netdevops promoter and blogger.

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

Jason Edelman

@JEdelman8

Runs a consulting company bridging the gap between DevOps and Networking. CCIE 15394, VCDX-NV 167.

John Herbert

@MrTugs

CCIE #6727 Emeritus, technology afficionado, scripter, nerd. What’s not to love?

Jonathan Davis

@SubNetwork

JD is CWNE #366, CWISE #5, and a co-founder of The Wi-Fi Awards.

Josh Kittle

@JoshuaRKittle

Collaboration Engineer with a background in Route Switch / Datacenter / Security

Lindsay Hill

@NorthlandBoy

Sr Network Engineer

Matt Oswalt

@Mierdin

Matt Oswalt is a network software developer and blogger.

Ryan Booth

@that1guy_15

Network Engineer with a passion for routing & switching and all things Data Center. CCIE#50117

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Sep 10 09:30-11:30
ThousandEyes Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Presenters: Doug Royer, Joao Antunes, Mohit Lad, Ricardo Oliveira
Wednesday, Sep 10 13:00-15:00
Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Wednesday, Sep 10 16:00-18:00
Pluribus Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Presenters: Alessandro Barbieri, Dave Ginsburg, Noah Wallach, Sunay Tripathi
Thursday, Sep 11 08:00-10:00
Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Presenters: Joe Onisick, Paul Lesiak
Thursday, Sep 11 10:30-12:30
Brocade Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Thursday, Sep 11 13:30-15:30
Spirent Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Thursday, Sep 11 16:00-18:00
Nuage Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Friday, Sep 12 08:00-10:00
A10 Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 8
Friday, Sep 12 10:30-12:30
Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 8
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


59 Links with Tag #NFD8

  1. Coverage: The Next Step: Brocade
    • Networking Field Day 9
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Brocade, Tech Field Day
  2. Coverage: labs.bigswitch – 1,000 users and counting
    • Big Switch Networks
  3. Coverage: Whiteboarding Cisco ACI on Software Gone Wild
    • Networking Field Day 9
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  4. Coverage: NFD8 Recap: Nuage Networks – One to Watch
    • Bob McCouch
    • Nuage Networks
  5. Coverage: Big Switch Is Getting Bigger. Much Bigger.
    • John Herbert
    • Big Switch Networks
  6. Coverage: BigSwitch Networks Unveils Big Cloud Fabric 2.5
    • Nick Buraglio
    • Big Switch Networks
  7. Coverage: News Analysis: Big Cloud Fabric 2.5 Released
    • Ethan Banks
    • Big Switch Networks
  8. Coverage: Updated Big Switch Labs
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Big Switch Networks
  9. Coverage: News Analysis: Brocade Vyatta Controller Gets a Developer Wiki
    • Ethan Banks
    • Brocade
  10. Coverage: Big Switch Chaos Monkey Network Testing
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Big Switch Networks
  11. Coverage: Using Schprokits to Automate Big Switch’s Big Cloud Fabric
    • Jason Edelman
    • Big Switch Networks
  12. Coverage: APIs Alone Aren’t Enough
    • Lindsay Hill
    • ThousandEyes
  13. Coverage: The A10 Health Monitor You Didn’t Know About
    • John Herbert
    • A10 Networks
  14. Coverage: A10 – That Global Health Monitor Warning
    • John Herbert
    • A10 Networks
  15. Coverage: A10 Service Failure Recovery
    • John Herbert
    • A10 Networks
  16. Coverage: Secrets Behind A10 Health Monitors
    • John Herbert
    • A10 Networks
  17. Coverage: Cisco ACI Fabric Forwarding In A Nutshell
    • Ethan Banks
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  18. Coverage: VMware Meets The Physical Network — What If?
    • Jason Edelman
    • Big Switch Networks, VMware by Broadcom
  19. Coverage: Getting to know Cisco ACI…
    • Amy Arnold
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  20. Coverage: Big Switch and Big Cloud Fabric
    • Ryan Booth
    • Big Switch Networks
  21. Coverage: Server, meet switch: a brief introduction to Pluribus Networks
    • Amy Arnold
    • Pluribus Networks
  22. Coverage: Moving Ones & Zeros: Nuage Networks – NFD8
    • Ryan Booth
    • Nuage Networks
  23. Coverage: Apple Working Hard to Improve Siri?
    • John Herbert
    • Brocade
  24. Coverage: IPv6 Adoption in the UK
    • David Gee
  25. Coverage: Runt Post: Big Tap Monitoring and its Wireshark goodness
    • Amy Arnold
    • Big Switch Networks
  26. Coverage: What The Heck Is SPDY?
    • A10 Networks, Packet Pushers
  27. Coverage: The Atomic Weight of Policy
    • Wireless Field Day 7
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Brocade, Extreme Networks, OpenDaylight
  28. Coverage: Moving Ones & Zeros: Abstracting the Network
    • Ryan Booth
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, Nuage Networks
  29. Coverage: Managing the Network as a Fabric — About Time!
    • Bob McCouch
    • Big Switch Networks, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, Nuage Networks, Pluribus Networks
  30. Coverage: Show 206 – Brocade’s OpenDaylight-Based Vyatta Controller
    • Brocade, Packet Pushers
  31. Coverage: The Big Picture – Big Cloud Fabric
    • Amy Arnold
    • Big Switch Networks
  32. Coverage: Knowing Your Audience…and Showing It
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Brocade, Spirent
  33. Coverage: Runt Post: Quality troubleshooting, what it looks like
    • Amy Arnold
    • ThousandEyes
  34. Coverage: Gigamon & Big Switch: Network Monitoring Fabrics
    • David Gee
    • Big Switch Networks, Gigamon
  35. Coverage: Deconstructing Big Switch Networks at NFD8
    • Big Switch Networks
  36. Coverage: Network Troubleshooting with ThousandEyes
    • Matt Oswalt
    • ThousandEyes
  37. Coverage: The Chassis Switch is Dead
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Big Switch Networks, Pluribus Networks
  38. Coverage: Testing Solutions from Spirent
    • Josh Kittle
    • Spirent
  39. Coverage: All Eyes on voice…
    • Amy Arnold
    • ThousandEyes
  40. Coverage: [SDN Protocols] Part 4 – OpFlex and Declarative Networking
    • Matt Oswalt
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  41. Coverage: Cisco ACI: Allowing the smarts to scale
    • David Gee
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  42. Coverage: Big Switch Labs for SDN Learning: A Sneak Peek!
    • Nick Buraglio
    • Big Switch Networks
  43. Coverage: No More Single Panes of Glass
    • Lindsay Hill
  44. Coverage: Network Field Day 8
    • David Gee
    • Tech Field Day
  45. Coverage: ThousandEyes – NOC for the Internet?
    • Lindsay Hill
    • ThousandEyes
  46. Coverage: ThousandEyes Network Monitoring Use Cases
    • Ethan Banks
    • ThousandEyes
  47. Coverage: public cloud vs private cloud, it’s all about cost
    • Joe Onisick
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  48. Coverage: Network Monitoring Videos from NFD8
    • John Herbert
    • Big Switch Networks, Gigamon, Pluribus Networks
  49. Coverage: Network Monitoring – So Many Choices!
    • John Herbert
    • Big Switch Networks, Gigamon, Pluribus Networks
  50. Coverage: Deconstructing Nuage Networks at NFD8
    • Nuage Networks
  51. Coverage: No more duplicate frames with Gigamon Visibility Fabric
    • Chris Marget
    • Gigamon
  52. Coverage: Integrating Spirent into an Automated Workflow Test Methodology
    • Jason Edelman
    • Spirent
  53. Coverage: Nuage Networks Demo at NFD8
    • Nuage Networks
  54. Coverage: Networking Field Day 8
    • Stephen Foskett
  55. Coverage: NFD8 Is Coming!
    • John Herbert
    • A10 Networks, Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, Gigamon, Nuage Networks, Pluribus Networks, Spirent, ThousandEyes
  56. Coverage: Moving Ones & Zeros: Networking Field Day 8
    • Ryan Booth
  57. Coverage: A10, aXAPI, and Another Awesome App
    • John Herbert
    • A10 Networks
  58. Coverage: Big Switch “Big Cloud Fabric”. Big Deal?
    • John Herbert
    • Big Switch Networks
  59. Coverage: Network Field Day 8 – I’m Going!
    • Lindsay Hill
    • A10 Networks, ThousandEyes

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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