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You are here: Home / Events / Networking Field Day 13

Networking Field Day 13

Networking Field Day 13

November 17–November 18, 2016

#NFD13

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.

Amy Arnold

@AmyEngineer

Amy Arnold is an engineer and blogger with a love for all things networking.

Bob McCouch

@BobMcCouch

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

Carl Fugate

@CarlFugate

Public Cloud Center of Excellence lead for a healthcare software firm

David Davis

@DavidMDavis

David Davis is a well-known author, speaker, and trainer covering datacenter technologies.

David Varnum

@Overlaid

Network and Data Center engineer, architect, consultant and blogger. CCIE DC #45880

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

James Green

@JDGreen

James is Partner & Content Czar at ActualTech Media where he is responsible for developing unique content offerings that help enterprise IT vendors accomplish their most critical content marketing objectives.

Pete Welcher

@PJWelcher

Early CCIE with broad knowledge of IT topics

Phil Gervasi

@Network_Phil

Senior Network Engineer currently working in security.

Rob Coote

@Rob_Coote

20+ year Networking and Virtualization geek, pivoting into Security. Wannabe hacker, but unable to exit Vim since 2014.

Scott McDermott

@ScottM32768

Network consultant and trainer specializing in Wi-Fi and anything else that uses RF. CWNE #299

Tim Miller

@BroadcastStorm

Senior IT Engineer that loves all things networking and HPC.

Tony Mattke

@tonhe

Network guy turned Security Engineer. Jack of all trades, master of none; I love to learn about everything.

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.

Thursday, Nov 17 08:00 - 10:00 SolarWinds Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Thursday, Nov 17 11:00 - 13:00 VeloCloud Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Thursday, Nov 17 14:00 - 16:00 Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Thursday, Nov 17 16:30 - 18:30 Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Presenters: Derick Winkworth, Jeremy Schulman
Friday, Nov 18 8:00 - 10:00 Ixia Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Friday, Nov 18 11:00 - 13:00 NEC Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Friday, Nov 18 14:00 - 16:00 Viptela Presents at Networking Field Day 13
Friday, Nov 18 16:30 - 17:30 GestaltIT Roundtable Podcast Recording
Moderator: Tom Hollingsworth
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …

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.


42 Links with Tag #NFD13

  1. Coverage: Improving Network Management Tools
    • Pete Welcher
    • SolarWinds
  2. Coverage: Apstra to Demonstrate Intent-Based Data Center Network Automation with VMware vSphere Integration at VMworld
    • James Green
    • Apstra
  3. Coverage: Apstra’s Unique Approach to Networking
    • Pete Welcher
    • Apstra
  4. Coverage: WAN Design Is Changing: What That Means for You
    • Pete Welcher
  5. Coverage: Assuring your network will do what you think it…
    • Tim Miller
    • Forward Networks
  6. Coverage: Network Verification with Veriflow
    • Pete Welcher
    • Veriflow
  7. Coverage: Ixia: Good Defense Leads to a Good Offense
    • Pete Welcher
    • Ixia
  8. Coverage: To SD-WAN or Not to SD-WAN — and How?
    • Networking Field Day 9
    • Pete Welcher
    • Cisco, VeloCloud, Viptela
  9. Coverage: SD-WAN Series Part 4: Viptela
    • Eyvonne Sharp
    • Viptela
  10. Coverage: Viptela: SD-WAN for Enterprise
    • Pete Welcher
    • Viptela
  11. Coverage: OpenFlow – Basic Concepts and Theory
    • David Varnum
    • NEC Networking, OpenDaylight
  12. Coverage: Ixia Vision ONE – Tap the Planet
    • Tony Mattke
    • Ixia
  13. Coverage: Forward Networks – A forward approach to formal verification
    • Tony Mattke
    • Forward Networks
  14. Coverage: SD-WAN from VeloCloud
    • Pete Welcher
    • VeloCloud
  15. Coverage: NFD13: SolarWinds Presents Its New NetPath Tool
    • Pete Welcher
    • SolarWinds
  16. Coverage: See in the Fog with Ixia CloudLens
    • David Varnum
    • Ixia
  17. Coverage: Apstra’s Ethereal Network State
    • Ethan Banks
    • Apstra, Packet Pushers
  18. Coverage: NFD13: Forward Networks Comes Out of Stealth to Impress
    • Pete Welcher
    • Forward Networks
  19. Coverage: Generating Maps of Your Traffic
    • Networking Field Day 12, Tech Field Day 10
    • Tim Miller
    • NetBeez, SolarWinds
  20. Coverage: On Network Blindness
    • Derick Winkworth
    • Apstra
  21. Coverage: Ixia Works Out Its Network Trust Issues
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Ixia
  22. Coverage: Capture, Filter, See – Ixia Vision ONE
    • Ethan Banks
    • Ixia, Packet Pushers
  23. Coverage: Enterprise Focused SD-WAN with Viptela
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Viptela
  24. Coverage: Trust But Verify: Lossless End-To-End Visibility from Ixia
    • Phil Gervasi
    • Ixia
  25. Coverage: Forward Thinkers, Forward Networks
    • Rob Coote
    • Forward Networks
  26. Coverage: The Quest for Verification with Forward Networks
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Forward Networks
  27. Coverage: Forward Networks – go ahead, break it
    • Amy Arnold
    • Forward Networks
  28. Coverage: Shiny new NetPath Services
    • Amy Arnold
    • SolarWinds
  29. Coverage: State of the Industry: Network Analytics
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Forward Networks, SolarWinds
  30. Coverage: Why design simplicity is bad for your network
    • Kevin Myers
    • Packet Pushers
  31. Coverage: OpenFlow Is Dead. Long Live OpenFlow.
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • NEC Networking
  32. Coverage: Coming to SD-WAN: The Build vs. Buy Decision
    • Bob McCouch
    • VeloCloud
  33. Coverage: SolarWinds NPM 12 NetPath
    • Jody Lemoine
    • Packet Pushers, SolarWinds
  34. Coverage: Apstra intends greatness beyond Sparta
    • David Varnum
    • Apstra
  35. Coverage: Networking Field Day 13 – Sneak Preview
    • Tony Mattke
    • Apstra, Forward Networks, Ixia, NEC Networking, SolarWinds, VeloCloud, Viptela
  36. Coverage: NFD13 Forecast – Cloudy With a Chance of Software
    • Bob McCouch
  37. Coverage: Looking forward to Networking Field Day
    • Scott McDermott
    • AppFormix, Forward Networks, Ixia, NEC Networking, SolarWinds, VeloCloud, Viptela
  38. Coverage: SD-WAN with VeloCloud at Networking Field Day 13
    • Phil Gervasi
    • VeloCloud
  39. Coverage: Networking Field Day 13: Previewing the Sponsors Part 2
    • Pete Welcher
    • NEC Networking, SolarWinds, Viptela
  40. Coverage: Facebook Wedge 100 – The Future of the Data Center?
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Apstra, Big Switch Networks
  41. Coverage: My Take on #NFD12 Heading Into #TFD12 and #NFD13
    • Networking Field Day 12, Tech Field Day 12
    • Tim Miller
    • Tech Field Day
  42. Coverage: Networking Field Day 13: Previewing the Sponsors
    • Pete Welcher
    • Apstra, Forward Networks, Ixia, Riverbed, VeloCloud

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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