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Networking Field Day 4

Networking Field Day 4

October 10–October 12, 2012

#NFD4

Who: Networking

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

Gestalt IT’s fourth datacenter networking-focused Field Day event will be held on October 10 through 12 in Silicon Valley! This unique event brings together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders, allowing them to get to know one another. It is a forum for engagement, education, hands-on experience, and feedback. This is Gestalt IT’s third year of Tech Field Day events – learn more at the Tech Field Day site!

NFD4 Introduction


Stephen Foskett and Friends Introduce Networking Field Day 4 from San Jose, CA. This video was recorded prior to NFD4 on October 10, 2012. This video features Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth, Greg Ferro, and Anthony Burke.

NFD4 Day One Wrap Up


The delegates and sponsors of Networking Field Day discuss the first two days of NFD4. Features Toby Smith of Opengear, Jeff Sejourne of Brocade, Doug Hanks from Juniper, delegates Michael McNamara and Colin McNamara and even a rap by Tom Hollingsworth!

Watch Recorded Video



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.

Anthony Burke

@Pandom_

Engineering his way ‘downunder’ to the CCIE.

Bob Plankers

@Plankers

A hardcore IT generalist, virtualization expert, blogger, and vocal end user of technology.

Brent Salisbury

@NetworkStatic

Brent Salisbury works as a Network Architect, CCIE #11972.

Chris Marget

@ChrisMarget

Chris is an independent network consultant, recovering UNIX sysadmin and protocol aficionado

Colin McNamara

@ColinMcNamara

Colin McNamara is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience with network and systems technologies.

Greg Ferro

@EtherealMind

Greg is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer, host of Packet Pushers Podcast and semi-professional writer.

Jeremy L. Gaddis

@JLGaddis

John Harrington

@NetworkSherpa

John Herbert

@MrTugs

CCIE #6727 Emeritus, technology afficionado, scripter, nerd. What’s not to love?

Michael McNamara

@mfMcNamara

Technical Architect and Network Engineer, jack of all master of none.

Paul Stewart

@PacketU

Paul Stewart is a Network and Security Engineer, Trainer and Blogger who enjoys understanding how things really work.

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.

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, Oct 10 13:30-15:30 Statseeker Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Presenters: Stewart Reed
Wednesday, Oct 10 16:00-18:00 Opengear Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Thursday, Oct 11 08:00-10:00 Spirent Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Thursday, Oct 11 11:00-15:30 Brocade Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Friday, Oct 12 08:00-12:30 Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day 4
Friday, Oct 12 13:30-18:00 Juniper Presents at Networking Field Day 4
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 …

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


78 Links with Tag #NFD4

  1. Coverage: OpenGear at Interop – Introducing the CM7100
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  2. Coverage: Time For A Data Diet?
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Statseeker
  3. Coverage: Secret Sunday #2 – Schprokits
    • Networking Field Day 5
    • John Herbert
  4. Coverage: YAML – Yet Another YAML Lover
    • Networking Field Day 5
    • John Herbert
    • Juniper Networks
  5. Coverage: Opengear pmshell ESCAPE sequences
    • Michael McNamara
    • Opengear
  6. Coverage: Opengear Console Servers – Never leave the office without one!
    • Michael McNamara
    • Opengear
  7. Coverage: Why Blog?
    • Networking Field Day 5
    • Paul Stewart
  8. Coverage: The value of Tech Field Day
    • Anthony Burke
  9. Coverage: The Tech Interview
    • Anthony Burke, John Harrington, Paul Stewart
  10. Coverage: Opengear’s Hedgehog – The ACM5504-G-W-I
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  11. Coverage: Compiling Firmware for Opengear ACM5000
    • Chris Marget
    • Opengear
  12. Coverage: Dealing with Corrupt Opegear Firmware
    • Chris Marget
    • Opengear
  13. Coverage: Dancing on the strings of DevOps
    • Networking Field Day 5
    • Anthony Burke, Derick Winkworth, Kurt Bales
    • Juniper Networks
  14. Coverage: Pull My Strings, I’m Your Puppet: Juniper Bringing DevOps to Networking
    • Anthony Burke
    • Juniper Networks, Packet Pushers
  15. Coverage: Test – Throughput alchemy using a snake topology
    • John Harrington
    • Spirent
  16. Coverage: What is Networking Field Day 5 Anyway?
    • Networking Field Day 5
    • John Herbert
  17. Coverage: Gaining Visibility with Opengear VCMS
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  18. Coverage: Gestalt IT Networking Field Day — What is it?
    • Networking Field Day 5
    • Paul Stewart
  19. Coverage: Juniper MX Series — A Book Packed Full of Details
    • Paul Stewart
    • Juniper Networks
  20. Coverage: Opengear ACM5004 – Going Cellular!
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  21. Coverage: Building Custom Firmware for the Opengear ACM5004
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  22. Coverage: One Year of Tech Field Day Video: 90,000 Views!
    • Networking Field Day 3, Storage Field Day 1, Storage Field Day 2, Wireless Field Day 2, Wireless Field Day 3
    • Stephen Foskett
  23. Coverage: Spirent has a Warp Displacement Generator
    • Anthony Burke
    • Spirent
  24. Coverage: Juniper MX Series – Review
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Juniper Networks
  25. Coverage: Customizing Scripts on the Opengear ACM5004
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  26. Coverage: HIT that interface
    • Anthony Burke
    • Juniper Networks, Opengear
  27. Coverage: JNCIA JUNOS review
    • Anthony Burke
    • Juniper Networks
  28. Coverage: Tar-Covered Clouds
    • Anthony Burke
    • Juniper Networks
  29. Coverage: Software Defined Network (SDN) -Looking Toward 2013 – Part 1
    • Brent Salisbury
    • Brocade, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter
  30. Coverage: Mykonos–WAF With an Attitude
    • Paul Stewart
    • Juniper Networks
  31. Coverage: Opengear ACM5004 – Auto-Response First Steps
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  32. Coverage: Opengear ACM5004-G Review
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  33. Coverage: Opengear – More Than A Dumb Terminal (Server)
    • John Herbert
    • Opengear
  34. Coverage: Statseeker
    • Michael McNamara
    • Statseeker
  35. Coverage: Opengear overview by Michael McNamara
    • Michael McNamara
    • Opengear
  36. Coverage: Spirent
    • Michael McNamara
    • Spirent
  37. Coverage: Juniper – Land of Unicorns and Broccoli
    • Derick Winkworth, Tom Hollingsworth
    • Juniper Networks
  38. Coverage: Spirent iTest Lab Optimizer
    • John Herbert
    • Spirent
  39. Coverage: Brocade Acquisition of Vyatta
    • Brent Salisbury
    • Brocade
  40. Coverage: Cisco – Borderless Speed Dating
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Cisco, Cisco Borderless
  41. Coverage: 99 Problems But A Switch Ain’t One
    • Jeremy L. Gaddis, Tom Hollingsworth
    • Cisco, Cisco Borderless
  42. Coverage: Brocade | Michael McNamara
    • Michael McNamara
    • Brocade
  43. Coverage: Brocade – Packet Spraying and SDN Integrating
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Brocade
  44. Coverage: Enterprise testing – Tester not included
    • Spirent
  45. Coverage: Brocade on SDN, Openflow
    • Paul Stewart
    • Brocade
  46. Coverage: Juniper Networks
    • Michael McNamara
    • Juniper Networks
  47. Coverage: Where are we going? What? Who?
    • Michael McNamara
  48. Coverage: Opengear – A Box Full Of Awesome
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Opengear
  49. Coverage: Statseeker – Information Is Ammunition
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Statseeker
  50. Coverage: Cisco Borderless Networks
    • Michael McNamara
    • Cisco, Cisco Borderless
  51. Coverage: Get Fuzzy – Hunting for Zero Days with Spirent
    • John Herbert
    • Spirent
  52. Coverage: Statseeker – The Lone Sysadmin
    • Bob Plankers
    • Statseeker
  53. Coverage: Brocade on SDN at Network Field Day
    • Brent Salisbury
    • Brocade
  54. Coverage: Big Vendor Head Shuffles at the SDN Curling Rink
    • Openflow Symposium 2011
    • Greg Ferro
    • Brocade, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, Juniper Networks
  55. Coverage: Monitoring the “Un-monitorable” with Opengear
    • Paul Stewart
    • Opengear
  56. Coverage: Spirent Communications Looks Toward the Enterprise
    • Brent Salisbury
    • Spirent
  57. Coverage: Get more juice from your network lab
    • John Harrington
    • Spirent
  58. Coverage: Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
    • John Herbert
    • Juniper Networks
  59. Coverage: When Demos Attack
    • Networking Field Day 3
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Infineta, Juniper Networks
  60. Coverage: Statseeker – Keeping An Eye on the Little Things
    • John Herbert
    • Statseeker
  61. Coverage: Juniper Mykonos – Mostly Serious Web Security
    • John Herbert
    • Juniper Networks
  62. Coverage: Networking Field Day 4 – Thoughts and Impressions
    • Michael McNamara
  63. Coverage: Network Field Day 4
    • Brent Salisbury
  64. Coverage: Networking Field Day 4
    • John Herbert
  65. Coverage: Networking Field Day 4 – Thoughts and Impressions
    • Michael McNamara
  66. Coverage: Network Management System NMS – Statseeker
    • Brent Salisbury
    • Statseeker
  67. Coverage: Come join me at Networking Field Day 4
    • Colin McNamara
  68. Coverage: Network Field Day 4 – Live Blogging and Updates
    • Greg Ferro
  69. Coverage: Networking Field Day 4, Final Thoughts
    • Paul Stewart
  70. Coverage: Statseeker — Does it Fit Your Organization?
    • Paul Stewart
  71. Coverage: Show 121 – Tweet My Meat – Network Field Day 4
    • Packet Pushers
  72. Coverage: Network Field Day 4 – Live Blogging and Updates
    • Greg Ferro
  73. Coverage: Network Field Day 4 – Live Blogging and Updates
    • Greg Ferro
  74. Coverage: PQ – Show 14 – NFD4 Statseeker Wrap UP
    • Packet Pushers, Statseeker
  75. Coverage: Networking Field Day 4 — Next Week’s Agenda
    • Paul Stewart
  76. Coverage: Network Field Day 4
    • Tom Hollingsworth
  77. Coverage: Tech Field Day 4–Two Weeks and Counting…
    • Paul Stewart
  78. Coverage: Prepping for Network Field Day Four
    • Greg Ferro

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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