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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 […]

BigSecure Architecture with Big Switch and A10 Networks with Rich Groves and Ted Elhourani

Ted Elhourani, Technical Marketing Engineer at Big Switch Networks, and Rich Groves, Principal Architect at A10 Networks, review the Big Switch integration that allows for advanced DDoS mitigation with the BigSecure Architecture. This is an automated scale-out solution, meant to not only let you know when a DDoS is occurring, but to keep your network […]

Big Switch Introduction with Kyle Forster

Kyle Forster, Found of Big Switch Networks, introduces the company to the delegates. He shows how early bets by the company paid off with a customer focused culture, a interesting product metaphor, and a bold launch portfolio. He then goes into how Big Switch Networks fits into the next wave of software-defined networking.

Nyansa Demo with Anand Srinivas

Anand Srinivas, CTO and Co-founder at Nyansa, demonstrates the Voyance dashboard for monitoring network traffic. It sorts information into problematic clients, health by location for wireless deployments, and general advisories. Clients can be sorted by type, whether desktop, laptop or mobile. It also shows overall application usage on the network.

Nyansa Introduction with GT Hill

GT Hill, Director of Product and Technical Marketing at Nyansa, reviews their Voyance network monitoring solution. Not only does it analyze existing network data, but it allow you to anonymously compare your performance against similar site. This can be used for support, net ops, and CIO applications.

The Future of Network Monitoring with Barefoot Networks with Chang Kim

Chang Kim, Director of System Architecture at Barefoot Networks, reviews some of the network monitoring, visibility and diagnostic capabilities of Barefoot’s programmable switch. He reviews conceptually how this is accomplished, where current products fall short, and demonstrates this in practice.

Barefoot Networks Tofino P4 Demo with Roberto Mari

Roberto Mari, Director of Product Management at Barefoot Networks, demonstrates programming Tofino. He shows the UI that can allow for some configuration. Further, he shows how to compile and push the update to the switch itself.

Barefoot Networks World of Advanced Apps with Roberto Mari

Roberto Mari, Director of Product Management at Barefoot Networks, demonstrates how to program with P4 on Tofino switches. He reviews use cases that P4 can address, including preventing network congestion, load balancing, and getting in-band telemetry.

How Can You Get Your Hands on Barefoot Networks Technology with Ed Doe

Ed Doe, VP of Product Strategy at Barefoot Networks, reviews how Tofino switches can be integrated. The P4 programmability can either be done with direct updates from the OEMs, or handled in house if you’re using a white box configuration. Initial OEM partners include Edgecore Networks and WNC, with more planned throughout 2017.

A Deeper Dive Into Barefoot Networks Technology with Dan Lenoski

Dan Lenoski, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Barefoot Networks, goes into a deeper technical review of the Tofino Switch. On top of programmability, it’s also the fastest, able to to 6.5 Tbps. This allows for up to 65 100GE ports on the device. He then goes over some of the capabilities of the compiler, […]

Why Does the Internet Need a Programmable Forwarding Plane with Nick McKeown

Nick McKeown, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Barefoot Networks, presented on the need for a programmable forwarding plane in the context of network switches. He highlighted the slow development time and fixed functions in silicon as significant drawbacks of current network switches. McKeown drew parallels between the evolution of domain-specific processors in other fields, such […]

Who is Barefoot Networks with Martin Izzard

Martin Izzard, Co-Founder and CEO of Barefoot Networks, introduces the company. He goes through his origin story, as well as the pedigree of the co-founders in the networking industry. Finally he gives an overview of what Barefoot Networks is trying to do: bring programmability to the data-plane.

Anuta Networks NCX Demo: Cisco iWAN Orchestration with Praveen Vengalam and Kiran Sirupa

Praveen Vengalam, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Anuta Networks, demonstrates how NCX can be used to orchestrate a Cisco iWAN deployment. NCX comes with a number of starter kits for CPE, SD-WAN, and L3 VPNs. These can all be customized, but allow for enterprises without DevOps to smooth deployment of these complex services. Anuta […]

Anuta Networks NCX Architecture with Kiran Sirupa

Kiran Sirupa, Director of Marketing with Anuta Networks, goes over an architectural overview of their NCX solution. This uses a layered model driven architecture that allows for it users to work with services across multiple network vendors. NCX is built to model all of these and reconcile any differences completely autonomously, without the customer having […]

Anuta Networks Customer Case Studies with Kiran Sirupa and Praveen Vengalam

Kiran Sirupa, Director of Marketing with Anuta Networks, walks through several use cases for their NCX solution. This includes branch automation with a Tier 1 MSP, enterprise connectivity in a managed data center, and a real world deployment with Telstra Managed Services. Kiran answers questions from the delegates with Praveen Vengalam, Co-Founder and VP of […]

Introduction to Anuta Networks NCX with Kiran Sirupa

Kiran Sirupa, Director of Marketing at Anita Networks, introduces the delegates to the company. He reviews their NCX network orchestration tool. NCX is designed to offer multi-vendor network orchestration across a variety of deployments, including campus, data centers, and carrier networks.

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