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Networking Field Day 19

Networking Field Day 19
November 7–9, 2018
#NFD19
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.

Al Rasheed

@Al_Rasheed

Systems Administrator | DC VMUG Co-Leader | VMware vExpert

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

Jed Casey

@Wax_Trax

Network Engineer, Service Provider technology enthusiast

Kevin Blackburn

@TheRoutingTable

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

Marina Ferreira

@_MarinaLF

3xCCIE, VCP6-NV, SDN enthusiast, reader, and occasional writer. Chasing diversity and bookmarking the outside. :wq!

Nicola Modena

@NModena

Nicola Modena (CCIE #19119 and JNCIE-SP #986) Network and Security Architect for service provider and large enterprise.

Nicolas Michel

@vPackets

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

Orhan Ergun

@OrhanErgunCCDE

CCIE#26567, CCDE#2014, Network Architect, CCDE Trainer

Pete Welcher

@PJWelcher

Pete is a 25-year CCIE (soon Emeritus) with broad-ranging interests in networking, cloud, and automation.

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.

Ryan Adzima

@RAdzima

Mobility engineer and general tinkerer with a broad background in enterprise technology.

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, Nov 7 10:00 - 12:00
BlueCat Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Jason Davis, Jim Williams, Kevin Wilson, Noel Reynolds
Wednesday, Nov 7 13:00 - 15:00
Illumio Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Anand Ghody, Matthew Glenn, PJ Kirner, Wendy Yale
Wednesday, Nov 7 16:00 - 18:00
Silver Peak Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Alex Amaya, Anusha Vaidyanathan, Damon Ennis, Michael Hakkert
Thursday, Nov 8 8:30 - 10:30
Apstra Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Carly Stoughton, DJ Spry, David Cheriton, Jere Julian, Mansour Karam, Michael Wood, Rags Rachamadugu, Ryan Booth
Thursday, Nov 8 15:00 - 17:00
Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Brandon Carroll, Romain Jourdan, Zee Kallab
Friday, Nov 9 9:00 - 11:30
Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Ankur Bhasin, David Klebanov, Hamzah Kardame, Kureli Sankar, Ramesh Prabagaran, Rohan Grover
Friday, Nov 9 13:30 - 15:30
Kentik Presents at Networking Field Day 19
Presenters: Avi Freedman, Crystal Li, Jim Meehan
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

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 #NFD19

  1. What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
    • Cloud Field Day 8
    • Rich Stroffolino, Tom Hollingsworth
    • Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Silver Peak
  2. Cisco Champion 2020
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
    • Al Rasheed
    • Cisco
  3. Network Neighborhood: Corporate Communications and the IT Community With Dana Iskoldski
    • Ethan Banks
    • BlueCat, Packet Pushers
  4. Drive Your Own Demo With Riverbed
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Riverbed
  5. Making Way for the New With Cisco
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Cisco
  6. Kentik and the Negative Roadmap
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Kentik
  7. Level Up Your NetOps With Apstra
    • Phil Gervasi
    • Apstra
  8. Cisco SD-WAN: On-Ramp to the Cloud
    • Phil Gervasi
    • Cisco
  9. Visual Networking At It’s Finest with Apstra
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Apstra
  10. The Power of a Great Demo with Illumio
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Illumio
  11. The Flux Reactor
    • Al Rasheed
    • Kentik
  12. Illumio Launches Supercluster Technology
    • Illumio
  13. Cisco Champion 2019
    • Al Rasheed
    • Cisco
  14. Will Cisco Viptela continue to be one of the Leaders in SD-WAN ?
    • Orhan Ergun
    • Cisco, Viptela
  15. 2018 was a good and busy year ! Things I have done during the last year
    • Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2019
    • Orhan Ergun
  16. Packets Never Lie…
    • Al Rasheed
    • Riverbed
  17. Apstra in a whiteboard
    • Marina Ferreira
    • Apstra
  18. Operating your Network with Intent-Based Networking
    • Apstra
  19. Hopeful with a Dash of Skepticism: Cisco 9800 Wireless Controllers
    • Phil Gervasi
    • Cisco
  20. Apstra’s NFD19 Experience: Part 2
    • Apstra
  21. Kentik Adds Value, Gets Cloudy
    • Pete Welcher
    • Kentik
  22. Cisco Catalyst Wifi, Take Two
    • Rob Coote
    • Cisco
  23. Routers Getting Routered – Silver Peak SD-WAN
    • Orhan Ergun
    • Silver Peak
  24. BiB 067: Custom APIs For Business Logic With BlueCat Gateway
    • Ethan Banks
    • BlueCat, Packet Pushers
  25. Automating the Mundane with Silver Peak
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Silver Peak
  26. DNS: More Than Just Name Resolution
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • BlueCat
  27. Apstra’s Intent-Based Networking
    • Pete Welcher
    • Apstra
  28. When Is It Not Always DNS?
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • BlueCat
  29. BiB 064: Is Riverbed’s SD-WAN Product Too Late To Matter?
    • Ethan Banks
    • Packet Pushers, Riverbed
  30. Silver Peak is Serious about SD-WAN
    • Pete Welcher
    • Silver Peak
  31. BiB 063: Can An SD-WAN Device Replace A WAN Router?
    • Ethan Banks
    • Packet Pushers, Silver Peak
  32. MPLS for the masses: The need for simplicity and standardization, at least in networking (The wheel has already been invented)
    • Nicola Modena
    • Apstra
  33. BiB 062: Globally Scalable Microsegmentation With Illumio
    • Ethan Banks
    • Illumio, Packet Pushers
  34. Illumio PCE Supercluster Launch: Behind the Scenes
    • Illumio
  35. BlueCat: DNS, DDI + Visibility and Workflow Automation
    • Pete Welcher
    • BlueCat
  36. Illumio: Micro-Segmentation via the Endpoint
    • Pete Welcher
    • Illumio
  37. micro-segmentation at scale
    • Networking Field Day 12
    • Marina Ferreira
    • Illumio
  38. Network Automation and Monitoring with Apstra AOS
    • Jed Casey
    • Apstra
  39. The Glue that brings the Intent together!
    • Al Rasheed
    • Apstra
  40. Apstra’s NFD19 Experience: Part 1
    • Apstra
  41. Riverbed Showcases SD-WAN Enhancements at Network Field Day 19
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Riverbed
  42. Riverbed Enhanced SD-WAN
    • Pete Welcher
    • Riverbed
  43. Meet Wayne McFarkus
    • Al Rasheed
    • Silver Peak
  44. I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt
    • Al Rasheed
    • Illumio
  45. Intent Based Networking , Is it the next big thing ?
    • Orhan Ergun
    • Apstra
  46. Cisco Aggressively Ups Its SD-WAN Game
    • Pete Welcher
    • Cisco
  47. DNS Is A Chump!
    • Al Rasheed
    • BlueCat
  48. Exciting SD-WAN Updates From Riverbed
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • Riverbed
  49. Disrupting DDI @ Networking Field Day (In Tweets)
    • BlueCat
  50. The Recap: Kentik at Networking Field Day 19
    • Kentik
  51. Cisco Catalyst 9800 WLC – The Most Flexible WLC Yet
    • Kevin Blackburn
    • Cisco
  52. Day 1 – Networking Field Day 19
    • Al Rasheed
    • Tech Field Day
  53. Foskett’s Twelve: Network Field Day and SD-WAN
    • Riverbed
  54. Networking Field Day 19
    • Al Rasheed
  55. Anticipating Network Field Day 19 (NFD19)
    • Pete Welcher
    • Apstra, Barefoot Networks, BlueCat, Cisco, Illumio, Kentik, Riverbed, Silver Peak

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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