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Networking Field Day 9

Networking Field Day 9

February 11–February 13, 2015

#NFD9

Who: Networking

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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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.

Bob McCouch

@BobMcCouch

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

Brandon Carroll

@BrandonCarroll

Consulting System Engineer, Instructor, Blogger, and Technology Fan. CCIE #23837.

Brandon Mangold

@SDNgeek

SDN enthusiast, Uber Geek, Unicorn stable keeper, Mavs fan, PC gamer, Gear-head, CCIE

Charles D. Galler Jr.

@twidfeki

Charles is a network and UC engineer for an integrator.

Ivan Pepelnjak

@IOSHints

Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is a network architect and independent blogger at ipSpace.net AG.

Jody Lemoine

Network Greasemonkey, Matrix Anarchitect, Packet Macrame Specialist, Virtual Pneumatic Tube Transport Designer and Connectivity Nerfherder. Independent consultant. CCIE 41436, MTCRE, MTCINE

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.

Jordan Martin

@BCJordo

Principal Architect at WWT (CCIE# 43772)

Lindsay Hill

@NorthlandBoy

Sr Network Engineer

Nick Buraglio

@ForwardingPlane

Network Architect, engineer, researcher, and blogger.

Pete Welcher

@PJWelcher

Early CCIE with broad knowledge of IT topics

Stephen Occhiogrosso

@StephenO86

Sr. Network Engineer CCNP, CCIP, CCDP, CCNP:S, CCNA:W #CiscoChampion Scotch & Coffee Drinker Hard Rock/Metal fan

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, Feb 11 9:30 - 11:30 VeloCloud Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Kangwarn Chinthammit, Sanjay Uppal, Steve Woo, Tim Van Herck
Wednesday, Feb 11 12:30 - 14:30 Cumulus Networks Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: David Sinn, Dinesh Dutt, JR Rivers, Matt Peterson
Wednesday, Feb 11 16:00 - 18:00 Pluribus Networks Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Alessandro Barbieri, Dave Ginsburg, Siva Mandalam, Sunay Tripathi
Thursday, Feb 12 8:00 - 10:00 NetBeez Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Panos Vouzis, Stefano Gridelli
Thursday, Feb 12 10:30 - 12:30 SolarWinds Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Joel Dolisy, Rob Hock, Rob Johnson
Thursday, Feb 12 13:30 - 15:30 NEC Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Aravind Sukumar, Don Clark, Toshal Dudhwala
Thursday, Feb 12 16:00 - 18:00 CloudGenix Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Aaron Edwards, Vijay Sagar
Friday, Feb 13 8:00 - 10:00 Cisco Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Carly Stoughton, Joe Onisick, Soni Jiandani
Friday, Feb 13 12:00 - 14:00 Brocade Presents At Networking Field Day 9
Presenters: Jon Hudson, Lisa Caywood, Robert McBride, Santosh Rajvaidya
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.


87 Links with Tag #NFD9

  1. Coverage: Container-Based WAN Monitoring
    • Tech Field Day 20
    • Pete Welcher
    • Cisco, NetBeez, ThousandEyes
  2. Coverage: Advice To Tech Field Day Sponsors
    • Networking Field Day 10, Networking Field Day 14
    • Greg Ferro
    • Arista Networks, Barefoot Networks, Cisco, Tech Field Day
  3. Coverage: What is your netflow strategy?
    • Networking Field Day 7
    • Nick Buraglio
    • LiveAction, NetScout, SolarWinds
  4. Coverage: Pluribus Networks… 2 Years Later
    • Networking Field Day 16
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Pluribus Networks
  5. Coverage: Troubleshooting Lessons Learned
    • Pete Welcher
    • NetBeez
  6. Coverage: To SD-WAN or Not to SD-WAN — and How?
    • Networking Field Day 13
    • Pete Welcher
    • Cisco, VeloCloud, Viptela
  7. Coverage: Moving Ones & Zeros: Current Trends in DC Networking
    • Ryan Booth
    • Cumulus Networks
  8. Coverage: Ask Me About My Beez! A Look at NetBeez, 18 Months On.
    • Networking Field Day 12
    • John Herbert
    • NetBeez
  9. Coverage: Cumulus, Dell, Red Hat Demo Linux as Full Stack SDDC
    • Networking Field Day 11
    • John Herbert
    • Cumulus Networks, Dell, Dell EMC
  10. Coverage: What is SD WAN?
    • Networking Field Day 10, Tech Field Day Extra at ONUG Spring 2015
    • John Herbert
    • Cisco, Cisco Borderless, CloudGenix, Nuage Networks, Riverbed, Silver Peak, VeloCloud
  11. Coverage: Solarwinds Orion from a UNIX user perspective
    • Nick Buraglio
    • SolarWinds
  12. Coverage: NetBeez – Private Distributed Monitoring
    • John Herbert
    • NetBeez
  13. Coverage: Solarwinds NPM 11.5 Has Some Really Neat Features
    • Brandon Carroll
    • SolarWinds
  14. Coverage: The Next Step: Brocade
    • Networking Field Day 8
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Brocade, Tech Field Day
  15. Coverage: Oh no, not Brocade!
    • Charles D. Galler Jr.
    • Brocade
  16. Coverage: NetBeez Review
    • Lindsay Hill
    • NetBeez
  17. Coverage: Brocade does a double down on SDN
    • Nick Buraglio
    • Brocade
  18. Coverage: Brocade impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • Brocade
  19. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9 Wrap-up on Software Gone Wild
    • Bob McCouch, Brandon Carroll, Brandon Mangold, Ivan Pepelnjak, Nick Buraglio
    • Brocade, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, Cumulus Networks, NEC Networking
  20. Coverage: NetBeez, a tool for performance monitoring and baselining your network.
    • Nick Buraglio
    • NetBeez
  21. Coverage: Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN
    • Pete Welcher
    • CloudGenix, Gluware, VeloCloud
  22. Coverage: Networking Field Day – Afterwards – Brocade SDN
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
    • Brocade
  23. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9 in review
    • Charles D. Galler Jr.
  24. Coverage: GeekTools: SolarWinds Wireless Heat Maps
    • Jonathan Davis
    • SolarWinds
  25. Coverage: Cisco ACI – a Stretched Fabric That Actually Works
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  26. Coverage: Cisco ACI impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  27. Coverage: Response: Why Technology Still Matters
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Big Switch Networks, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, NEC Networking
  28. Coverage: Cloudgenix impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • CloudGenix
  29. Coverage: Thoughts on Building Tools versus “Programming”
    • Bob McCouch
    • Brocade
  30. Coverage: Broadcom ASIC table utilization metrics, DevOps, and SDN
    • Cumulus Networks
  31. Coverage: What It Is, And What It Beez Like
    • Brandon Carroll
    • NetBeez
  32. Coverage: NEC impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • NEC Networking
  33. Coverage: Response: We Dislike People Quoting Gartner
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Tech Field Day
  34. Coverage: SD-WAN FAQ from Networking Field Day 9
    • VeloCloud
  35. Coverage: Networking Field Day – Afterwards – Cisco ACI
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  36. Coverage: BGP Configuration Made Simple with Cumulus Linux
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Cumulus Networks
  37. Coverage: VeloCloud & Information Brokerage
    • Lindsay Hill
    • VeloCloud
  38. Coverage: A Look Into Cumulus Networks
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Cumulus Networks
  39. Coverage: Networking Field Day – Afterthoughts – New SolarWinds features
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
    • SolarWinds
  40. Coverage: Solarwinds impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • SolarWinds
  41. Coverage: NEC brings a strong offering to the SDN table
    • Nick Buraglio
    • NEC Networking
  42. Coverage: NFD9: Cumulus Networks
    • Lindsay Hill
    • Cumulus Networks
  43. Coverage: NetBeez impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • NetBeez
  44. Coverage: Recommended Resource For SDN
    • Brandon Carroll, Ivan Pepelnjak
  45. Coverage: Pluribus impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • Pluribus Networks
  46. Coverage: Why Do TFD Delegates Hate Gartner?
    • John Herbert
    • Tech Field Day
  47. Coverage: Networking Field Day – Afterthoughts – NetBeez & Wireless Monitoring
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
    • NetBeez
  48. Coverage: Brief Update on Netbeez Testing and Embedded Video
    • Brandon Carroll
    • NetBeez
  49. Coverage: Hypermyopia In The World Of Networking
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • CloudGenix, VeloCloud
  50. Coverage: The Buzz About NetBeez
    • Bob McCouch
    • NetBeez
  51. Coverage: Cumulus impressions from #NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • Cumulus Networks
  52. Coverage: Software Defined Reality – NFD9 Redux
    • John Herbert
    • Brocade, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, CloudGenix, Cumulus Networks, NEC Networking, NetBeez, Pluribus Networks, SolarWinds, VeloCloud
  53. Coverage: Myths That Refuse to Die: Scalability of Overlay Virtual Networking
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Nuage Networks, Pluribus Networks
  54. Coverage: Velocloud impressions from NFD9
    • Brandon Mangold
    • VeloCloud
  55. Coverage: How To Get To The Point Of Understanding Technology
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Tech Field Day
  56. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9 Recap
    • Brandon Carroll
  57. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9: Brief Recap
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Brocade, CloudGenix, Cumulus Networks, NetBeez, Pluribus Networks, SolarWinds, VeloCloud
  58. Coverage: Questions I’m Asking Myself About SD-WAN Solutions
    • Ethan Banks
    • CloudGenix, VeloCloud
  59. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: Cisco
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  60. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: Brocade
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Brocade
  61. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: CloudGenix
    • Brandon Carroll
    • CloudGenix
  62. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: NEC
    • Brandon Carroll
    • NEC Networking
  63. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: Solarwinds
    • Brandon Carroll
    • SolarWinds
  64. Coverage: What’s happening Friday at Network Field Day 9?
    • Pete Welcher
    • Brocade, Cisco
  65. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: NetBeez
    • Brandon Carroll
    • NetBeez
  66. Coverage: Per-Packet Load Balancing on WAN links
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • VeloCloud
  67. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: Pluribus Networks
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Pluribus Networks
  68. Coverage: What’s happening at Network Field Day 9?
    • Pete Welcher
    • CloudGenix, NEC Networking, NetBeez, SolarWinds
  69. Coverage: What’s happening Wednesday at Network Field Day 9
    • Pete Welcher
    • Cumulus Networks, Pluribus Networks, VeloCloud
  70. Coverage: Networking Field Day
    • Dominik Pickhardt
  71. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: Cumulus Networks
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Cumulus Networks
  72. Coverage: Presenting at Networking Field Day 9: VeloCloud
    • Brandon Carroll
    • VeloCloud
  73. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9 Is Almost Here!
    • John Herbert
    • Brocade, Cisco, CloudGenix, Cumulus Networks, NEC Networking, NetBeez, Pluribus Networks, SolarWinds, VeloCloud
  74. Coverage: Event Reminder: NFD9
    • Brandon Carroll
  75. Coverage: Whiteboarding Cisco ACI on Software Gone Wild
    • Networking Field Day 8
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  76. Coverage: Early thoughts on Network Field Day 9 vendors
    • Brandon Mangold
    • Brocade, Cisco, CloudGenix, Cumulus Networks, NEC Networking, NetBeez, Pluribus Networks, SolarWinds, VeloCloud
  77. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9 First look: Generation-SDN -Part 1
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
    • CloudGenix, Cumulus Networks
  78. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9: First look- Monitor the network with NetBeez?!
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
    • NetBeez
  79. Coverage: Field Trip: Networking Field Day
    • Stephen Occhiogrosso
  80. Coverage: What’s Network Field Day 9 (NFD9) About?
    • Pete Welcher
    • Brocade, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, CloudGenix, Cumulus Networks, NEC Networking, NetBeez, Pluribus Networks, SolarWinds, Tech Field Day, VeloCloud
  81. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9
    • Nick Buraglio
  82. Coverage: NFD9 Prep: SD-WAN
    • Lindsay Hill
    • CloudGenix, VeloCloud
  83. Coverage: NFD9 Homework: CloudGenix
    • Jordan Martin
    • CloudGenix
  84. Coverage: NFD9 Prep: NetBeez
    • Lindsay Hill
    • NetBeez
  85. Coverage: Network Field Day 9
    • Lindsay Hill
  86. Coverage: Networking Field Day 9, Here I Come!
    • Brandon Carroll
  87. Coverage: Riding the SD-WAN Wave
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • CloudGenix

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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