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Aruba SaaS Express

A key challenge in the WAN is the rapidly growing rate of SaaS traffic (such as Office 365, Box, or Salesforce) over the Internet. It’s often difficult to identify the best path for maintaining high performance of these applications. Aruba’s SaaS Express finds the closest SaaS application servers and monitors their health, dynamically steering traffic […]

Aruba SD-WAN Application Polices

Aruba supports end-to-end QoS for over 3200 applications which includes prioritization, traffic shaping, and CoS. Aruba goes beyond traditional QoS by enhancing visibility with user-role context from a hardened policy enforcement firewall. This approach enforces WAN policies within the branch gateway for both inbound and intra-branch traffic.

Aruba Virtual Gateway Orchestration for Public Clouds

Aruba Virtual Gateway (vGW) is an entry point into the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments provided by AWS, and the virtual networks (VNET) in Microsoft Azure. Aruba’s rapid spin-up and lifecycle management of public cloud endpoints improves performance across branches and enterprise headends, while maintaining the convenience of public cloud hosting.

Aruba Seamless SD-WAN Orchestration

Aruba’s SD-WAN Orchestrator removes the need to manually configure VPN tunnels and IP routes between branch and headend gateways in an SD-WAN consisting of hundreds or thousands of branch locations with multiple data centers.

Aruba SD-Branch Solution Overview

Aruba’s SD-Branch combines best-in-class wireless, wired and WAN infrastructure with assurance and orchestration features to maximize both performance and operational efficiencies. Using SD-Branch, IT organizations enjoy cloud-based management to simplify the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of all branch locations

Aruba Why SD Branch?

SD-WAN solutions are evolving to address the rise of Cloud, IoT, and increased complexity at the branch. This requires a comprehensive solution across not only the WAN but the wired and wireless networks at the branch. Thus, SD-Branch (a superset of SD-WAN) addresses the entire distributed enterprise from edge to cloud to core, with strong […]

Aruba Company Introduction with Partha Narasimhan

Partha Narasimhan, CTO, gives a brief introduction of Aruba and a high-level overview of today’s discussions.

Forward Networks Demo: Custom Checks

Nikhil introduces a new feature in the Forward platform, enabling network engineers to use Forward’s Network Query Engine (NQE) to easily build custom checks for network behavior by querying a normalized, structured data set. Natale highlights some key lessons learned in building an enterprise-grade product: the need for scalability, accuracy, performance, and ease of use.

Forward Networks Demo: Closed Loop Automation

Network automation and verification go hand-in-hand, as Fabizio demonstrates in this example using Forward Enterprise in conjunction with Ansible. Network verification closes the loop on network automation and allows network operators to quickly verify network behavior.

Forward Networks API Integrations + App Team Self Service Demo

Siva provides an overview of API integrations with the Forward platform and shows how one of the company’s large customers uses a Slackbot to query network behavior and return instant results.

Intro to Forward Networks + UI Demo

What does it mean to have a mathematical model (or “digital twin”) of the network? Brandon explains how the Forward Networks team built the software platform, and demonstrates the core functionality of Forward Enterprise to search, verify, and predict network behavior.

Dell EMC SD-WAN Solutions Overview and Demo

In this session Dell EMC’s Drew Schulke provides a high-level overview and VMware’s Toomo Esaka demonstrates the new Dell EMC SD-WAN solution.  This is a one-stop solution combining Dell EMC hardware and VMware SD-WAN software by VeloCloud, along with a Dell EMC managed infrastructure.

Dell EMC SmartFabric Director Demo

In this session, Dell EMC’s Ram Haridasa provides a high-level product overview and VMware’s Bops Puliyanda demonstrates the new Dell EMC SmartFabric Director solution co-developed by Dell EMC and VMware. This solution greatly simplifies data center fabric design, deployment and operations and includes enhanced visibility across virtual and physical networks.

Dell EMC SmartFabric Director Overview

In this session, Dell EMC’s Ram Haridasa provides a high-level product overview of the new Dell EMC SmartFabric Director solution co-developed by Dell EMC and VMware. This solution greatly simplifies data center fabric design, deployment and operations and includes enhanced visibility across virtual and physical networks.

Dell EMC and VMware Networking Partnership

In this session, Dell EMC’s Ihab Tarazi discusses the Dell EMC-VMware partnership on SDN – from Edge to Core to Cloud.

Arrcus ArcOS BGP-EVPN with Workload Mobility & Analytics

In this section, Dave Thelen and Mayur Shetty do a live demo of ArcOS BGP/EVPN solution including the ability to track workload mobility within the fabric across racks. In addition, they highlight how ArcIQ has an alert mechanism when these workloads move.

Arrcus Switching and Routing Demos

In this section, Murali Gandluru will showcase how ArcOS + ArcIQ enables simple, scalable and secure network solutions Highlights the ArcOS ability to scale to internet routing scale and the maximum ACL scale on the latest J2 platform Ability to use a combination of ArcOS+ArcIQ and a third party DDoS platform to show a DDoS […]

Arrcus Architectural Overview

In this section, Keyur Patel will go into an architectural overview of ArcOS, why ArcOS was built from first principles and how the ArcIQ analytics platform provides real-time visibility, granular control and security to switching and routing environments.

Arrcus Product Overview

In this section, Murali Gandluru will go over the following key topics: – Company Overview – Talk about ArcOS and ArcIQ capabilities and fundamental product differentiators – Also go into the supported use cases

Network to Code NetBox with Jeremy Stretch and John Anderson

Hear directly from the creator of NetBox, Jeremy Stretch, and fellow NetBox maintainer John Anderson on what NetBox is, what it is not, and bit more into advanced features of NetBox like its APIs, data models, custom scripts, and much more. Even learn about how Network to Code is offering commercial support for NetBox!

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