Tech Field Day

The Independent IT Influencer Event

  • Home
    • The Futurum Group
    • FAQ
    • Staff
  • Sponsors
    • Sponsor List
      • 2025 Sponsors
      • 2024 Sponsors
      • 2023 Sponsors
      • 2022 Sponsors
    • Sponsor Tech Field Day
    • Best of Tech Field Day
    • Results and Metrics
    • Preparing Your Presentation
      • Complete Presentation Guide
      • A Classic Tech Field Day Agenda
      • Field Day Room Setup
      • Presenting to Engineers
  • Delegates
    • Delegate List
      • 2025 Delegates
      • 2024 Delegates
      • 2023 Delegates
      • 2022 Delegates
      • 2021 Delegates
      • 2020 Delegates
      • 2019 Delegates
      • 2018 Delegates
    • Become a Field Day Delegate
    • What Delegates Should Know
  • Events
    • All Events
      • Upcoming
      • Past
    • Field Day
    • Field Day Extra
    • Field Day Exclusive
    • Field Day Experience
    • Field Day Live
    • Field Day Showcase
  • Topics
    • Tech Field Day
    • Cloud Field Day
    • Mobility Field Day
    • Networking Field Day
    • Security Field Day
    • Storage Field Day
  • News
    • Coverage
    • Event News
    • Podcast
  • When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to go to the desired page. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures.
You are here: Home / Appearances / SolarWinds Presents at Networking Field Day 13

SolarWinds Presents at Networking Field Day 13



Networking Field Day 13


This Presentation date is November 17, 2016 at 08:00 - 10:00.


SolarWinds NetPath Update with Chris O’Brien


Watch on YouTube
Watch on Vimeo

Chris O’Brien, Product Manager at SolarWinds, give the Networking Field Day delegates an update on their NetPath technology. He gives an update on development progress, and shows how NetPath can be used. Chris shows the delegates how the NetPath tool visualizes the network path and performance.

Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds Mapping Paths with Chris O’Brien


Watch on YouTube
Watch on Vimeo

Chris O’Brien, Product Manager at SolarWinds, demonstrates how to make a path with NetPath. He asks the Networking Field Day delegates for their own URLs as an example, and uses NetPath to run the paths live.

Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds Netpath Progress with Chris O’Brien


Watch on YouTube
Watch on Vimeo

Chris O’Brien, Product Manager at SolarWinds, give an update on the progress of NetPath. He includes a look at the number of unique services monitored, the port numbers monitored, and some of the issues they’ve uncovered in networking.

Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds How Netpath Works with Chris O’Brien


Watch on YouTube
Watch on Vimeo

Chris O’Brien, Product Manager at SolarWinds, answers some questions about how specifically NetPath works. The origins of the tool was based on traceroute, and how NetPath was created to cover the many inadequacies of traceroute for diagnosing issues.

Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds Network Monitoring with Chris O’Brien


Watch on YouTube
Watch on Vimeo

Chris O’Brien, Product Manager at SolarWinds, discusses some of the design decisions behind NetPath. SolarWinds specifically developed the tool to hide as much data as needed to make it easier to find the true troubleshooting issues. Chris further goes over some of the tradeoffs inherent in any kind of network monitoring solution.

Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds Network Insight with Chris O’Brien


Watch on YouTube
Watch on Vimeo

Chris O’Brien, Product Manager at SolarWinds, shows how the company is addressing monitoring of the increasing number of load balancers, proxies, and firewalls. These devices are relatively few in number, but generally tend to be at critical bottlenecks. SolarWinds’ Load Balancing Platform aims to begin to monitor these devices, and show their relationships with the rest of the network.

Personnel: Chris O'Brien


  • Bluesky
  • LinkedIn
  • Mastodon
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Event Calendar

  • May 28-May 29 — Security Field Day 13
  • Jun 4-Jun 5 — Cloud Field Day 23
  • Jun 10-Jun 11 — Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025
  • Jul 9-Jul 10 — Networking Field Day 38
  • Jul 16-Jul 17 — Edge Field Day 4
  • Sep 10-Sep 11 — AI Infrastructure Field Day 3
  • Oct 29-Oct 30 — AI Field Day 7

Latest Links

  • Exploring Cloud Resilience, AI, and Data at Cloud Field Day 23
  • Compliance Does Not Equal Security
  • Meraki Campus Gateway: Cloud-Managed Overlay for Complex Networks
  • Exploring the Future of Cybersecurity at Security Field Day 13
  • 5G Neutral Host: Solving Enterprise Cellular Coverage Gaps

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2025 · Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in