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Networking Field Day 15

Networking Field Day 15
April 5–7, 2017
#NFD15
Who: Networking
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Silicon Valley

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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.

Brandon Carroll

@BrandonCarroll

Consulting System Engineer, Instructor, Blogger, and Technology Fan. CCIE #23837.

Christopher Kusek

@cxi

Technology Evangelist, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard, EMC Elect, BDA, CISSP, MCT, Cloud, Ninja, Vegan, Single, Father, Cat, Humorist, Author

Drew Lentz

@WirelessNerd

A wireless network engineer with over 20 years in the data delivery industry.

John Welsh

@SampleFive

Creator and Host of Engineering Deathmatch, Solutions Architect, and CCIE

Justin Cohen

@CanTechIT

Information Technology Generalist with experience in enterprise, service provider and telecommunications.

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Keith Townsend is the founder of The CTO Advisor LLC and is an IT management consultant with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies.

Kevin Blackburn

@TheRoutingTable

Senior Network Engineer (Cisco CCNP) and currently working towards my Routing and Switching CCIE.

Nicolas Michel

@vPackets

Network Architect with experience in several fields : Routing-Switching, Data Center and Unified Communications

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.

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.

Wednesday, Apr 5 13:00 - 15:00
IP Infusion Presents at Networking Field Day 15
Wednesday, Apr 5 15:30 - 16:30
PNDA Presents at Networking Field Day 15
Presenters: John Evans, Marc Cohn
Thursday, Apr 6 8:30 - 12:30
VMware Presents at Networking Field Day 15
Thursday, Apr 6 13:00 - 15:00
TELoIP Presents at Networking Field Day 15
Thursday, Apr 6 13:30 - 14:30 Gestalt IT Roundtable Podcast Recording
Presenters: Tom Hollingsworth
Friday, Apr 7 8:00 - 10:00
Gigamon Presents at Networking Field Day 15
Friday, Apr 7 10:30 - 11:30 Gestalt IT Roundtable Podcast Recording
Presenters: Tom Hollingsworth
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Megan Robinette

@MegRobinette

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.


Links with Tag #NFD15

  1. Getting to Know IP Infusion
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • IP Infusion
  2. Unmasking Bad Actors with Gigamon
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Gigamon
  3. VMworld 2017 preview: Current state of VMware
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
    • Keith Townsend
    • VMware
  4. IP Infusion powering the world from behind the scenes
    • Tony Mattke
    • IP Infusion
  5. Step by Step – VMware Virtual Network Assessment NSX Free
    • Karel Novak
    • VMware
  6. VMware NSX is something something awesome
    • Tony Mattke
    • VMware
  7. WISP/FISP Design – Building your future MPLS network with whitebox switching
    • Kevin Myers
    • Big Switch Networks, Cumulus Networks, Dell, Dell EMC, IP Infusion
  8. Is it time for virtual switch abstraction to fade?
    • Keith Townsend
    • VMware
  9. NSX – The Network Redefined
    • Justin Cohen
    • VMware
  10. My Experience at InteropITX 2017 / Where was the Wi-Fi?
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Interop ITX 2017
    • Drew Lentz
  11. VMware NSX: Going Big with Micro-Segmentation
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • VMware
  12. Why the Heck Would You Use NSX?
    • John Welsh
    • VMware
  13. Network as a Service provider TeloIP
    • Keith Townsend
    • TELoIP
  14. SD-WAN as a Service: Just Give Me an Ethernet Handoff
    • Phil Gervasi
    • TELoIP
  15. TELoIP and the SD-WAN Cook-off
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • TELoIP
  16. VMWare NSX Distributed Firewall
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • VMware
  17. VMware NSX Unplugged: Networking Field Day
    • VMware
  18. SD-WAN: Redundancy and Optimization
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • TELoIP
  19. Do We Really Need SSL Decryption?
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Gigamon
  20. PNDA provides scalable and reactive network analytics
    • Tony Mattke
    • PNDA
  21. SSL Decryption for Increased Network Visibility
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • Gigamon
  22. Networking Field Day #15: Enhanced Visibility into SSL/TLS Traffic
    • Gigamon
  23. Who is IP Infusion and Why Have You Never Heard of Them?
    • Brandon Carroll
    • IP Infusion
  24. VMWare NSX: A New Method of Datacenter Networking
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • VMware
  25. 3 Linux Foundation networking projects that your business needs to know
    • Keith Townsend
    • Cisco, Intel, PNDA
  26. Software Defined Networking and Its Effects on the Wireless Industry
    • Drew Lentz
    • IP Infusion, TELoIP, VMware
  27. Short Take – The Present Future of the Net
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Intel, PNDA, VMware
  28. IP Infusion: The Enterprise Whitebox Solution
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • IP Infusion
  29. Networking Field Day 15 Preview
    • John Welsh
    • Gigamon, IP Infusion, PNDA, TELoIP, VMware
  30. Presenting Vendor Preview: Gigamon
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Gigamon
  31. Presenting Vendor Preview: PNDA
    • Brandon Carroll
    • PNDA
  32. NFD15 – TELoIP VINO – Part 1
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • TELoIP
  33. Presenting Vendor Preview: IP Infusion
    • Brandon Carroll
    • IP Infusion
  34. [Video] Gigamon Network Field Day 15 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • Gigamon
  35. Presenting Vendor Preview: TELoIP
    • Brandon Carroll
    • TELoIP
  36. #NFD15 – Delegate Selection
    • Kevin Blackburn
  37. Privileged to be invited to NFD15
    • Brandon Carroll
  38. IP Infusion: Network Field Day 15 Preview
    • Keith Townsend
    • IP Infusion
  39. TELoIP at Networking Field Day 15
    • Phil Gervasi
    • TELoIP
  40. Ah… NSX, We Meet Again.
    • Keith Townsend
    • VMware
  41. Networking Field Day 15 – A new delegate emerges
    • Tony Mattke
  42. Selected as NFD 15 Delegate
    • Justin Cohen

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at [email protected] or call +1(508)451-9532.


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