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Silver Peak Internet Breakout Automation with Rolf Muralt

Rolf Muralt, VP of Product Management at Silver Peak, reviews some of the current customer implementations of their SD-WAN solution with the delegates. He then gives a demo of their Internet Breakout Automation with their Unity Orchestrator platform to build out an SD-WAN network rapidly.

Silver Peak Overview with Damon Ennis

Damon Ennis, SVP for Products at Silver Peak, starts the presentation with a review of the company product portfolio. This includes SD-WAN, WAN optimization, and replication acceleration. He further reviews what Silver Peak sees as the purpose of SD-WAN, which is ultimately to connect users to apps. Their SD-WAN solution can do this with simple […]

Juniper Networks Extension Toolkit (JET) APIs with Gurudatt Shenoy

Gurudatt Shenoy, Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks, reviews the Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) APIs. This is a framework that provides developers with access to a set of high-speed APIs to change and retrieve state information for control and management plane services. He closes out the presentation with a demonstration of JET in action.

Juniper Networks Streaming Telemetry with Dmitry Shokarev

Dmitry Shokarev, Senior Product Manager at Juniper Networks, reviews their streaming telemetry available to Junos. This is highly scalable distributed collection engine designed to help network operators stream statistics and event states for real-time analysis. He further demonstrates using this with an OpenConfig plugin to get this information.

Juniper Networks Data Models with Nilesh Simaria

Nilesh Simaria, Senior Software Engineer at Juniper Networks, reviews the company’s data modeling practices. This includes a review of their Data Definition Language (DDL), a precursor to YANG. He demonstrates the ability to support multiple YANG models, including OpenConfig and BYOY options as defined by end users.

Juniper Networks Junos Automation with Gurudatt Shenoy

Gurudatt Shenoy, Director of Product Management at Juniper Networks, reviews the Juniper vision of the “self-driving network”. This allows service providers and enterprises to provision multiple simultaneous services instantly for a simply customer experience. Gurudatt further reviews what Juniper Networks identified to make this happen, and how they are meeting each milestone.

Software Development at Juniper Networks with Nitin Kumar

Nitin Kumar kicks off the Juniper Networks presentation. He reviews the company’s software development strategy. The cloud has affected their philosophy for the Junos operating system. He reviews what they think the cloud is on a basic level and where they think it will push their software going forward.

Kentik DDoS and Anomaly Detection with Dan Ellis

Dan Ellis, CTO at Kentik, demonstrates the capabilities that Kentik Detect has to find network anomalies and to detect DDoS attacks. This is integrated with APIs to allow mitigation services to be activated once a DDoS is detected.

Kentik Data Engine with Dan Ellis

Dan Ellis, CTO at Kentik, reviews the Kentik Data Engine. The Engine is currently handling 125 billion flows per day, and stores 75TB of flow per day. He reviews specifically how the engine is able to capture all the diverse sources, the custom database Kentik designed to handle this flow, and how this is analyzed […]

Kentik Detect Overview with Avi Freedman

Avi Freedman, CEO at Kentik, gives a high level demo on Kentik Detect, their network monitoring solution. He reviews how they gather peering analytics and how they’re conceptually managing it on the backend. This is all presented in the Kentik Direct Dashboard, which provides a user friendly interface for all this information.

Introduction to Kentik with CEO Avi Freedman

Avi Freedman, CEO at Kentik, gives an overview and introduction of the company to the delegates. The company is focused on providing infrastructure provides with network analytics. They do this by taking a broad view of sources to give a comprehensive view of everything going on with the network.

What’s Next for Riverbed in 2017 with Kevin Glavin

Kevin Glavin, Senior Director of Product Management at Riverbed, reviews what the company has planned for 2017. This includes multi-VRF, new topologies for Hyper Scale deployments, and the improved integration of SteelHead with the SteelConnect Manager.

Riverbed Steelhead SD with Josh Dobies

Josh Dobies, VP of Product Marketing at Riverbed, introduces the delegates to their new SteelHead SD appliance. This is a converged WAN optimization and SD-WAN device. He walks through what kind of deployments are already using the Steelhead SD, and how it fits into their overall product portfolio.

Riverbed Free Trial Quick Tips with Vivek Ganti

Vivek Ganti, Technical Marketing Engineer at Riverbed, walks through the free trial the company is offering, available on their site. This is a fully featured trial, and he walks through how to get started from the ground up to see exactly what Riverbed can do for your organization.

Voice-Defined WAN with Hansang Bae

Hansang Bae, CTO at Riverbed, demonstrates the API capabilities to deploy SD-WAN sites with automation. They do this is a really interesting example, with a custom made Amazon Echo app!

Riverbed SD-WAN and Your Data Center with Zee Kallab

Zee Kallab, Technical Director at Riverbed, goes to the whiteboard to review a typical data center looks like, and how Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution integrates with it. The solution is resilient with inter and intra-cluster communication to make sure the tunnel endpoint to the SD-WAN hardware is always available.

Riverbed Cloud Networking Demo with Hansang Bae

Hansang Bae, CTO at Riverbed, demonstrates their cloud networking solution. He reviews how to setup placeholder sites, rules and zones to create a SD-WAN network with a few clicks and through a simple UI. He then shows how the Riverbed solution can do application-defined networking, as well as connecting to Azure and AWS.

Riverbed Market Update with Josh Dobies

Josh Dobies, VP of Product Marketing, gives an update on Riverbed’s movement in the SD-WAN market. This includes a history of the company, as well as a review of recent product releases.

Big Cloud Fabric for Kubernetes or Docker Container Networking with Ganapathi Bhat

Ganapathi Bhat, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Big Switch Networks, reviews how Big Cloud Fabric can be used for container networking across Kubernetes orchestration with the Docker runtime. He reviews how to get this rapidly deployed, and the management tools available to administrators.

Big Switch Big Cloud Fabric for VMware SDDC with Arkadiy Shapiro

Arkadiy Shapiro, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer with Big Switch Networks, reviews the updates to their Big Cloud Fabric. They’ve added new solutions with VMware, adding automation and visibility integrations for vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and the vRealize Suite. These solutions are made to give visibility to both the network and VM admins, no matter which hat […]

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