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Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Row 1 (L-R): Rati Jokhadze, Tom Hollingsworth, Vince Schuele
Row 2 (L-R): David Penaloza Seijas, Nick Buraglio, Chris Cummings
Row 3 (L-R): Drew Lentz, Orhan Ergun, Kerstin Mende-Stief
Row 4 (L-R): Chris Grundemann, Faisal Khan, Kevin Myers

Networking Field Day: Service Provider
December 8–9, 2021
#NFDSP1
Who: Networking
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Virtual

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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.

Chris Cummings

@CrankyNetMan

Chris Cummings is a Network Engineer with broad experience in the various networking and IT arenas, with expertise in Service Provider Networking, Enterprise Networking, Optical, Wireless, Security, Network Automation, and more.

Chris Grundemann

@ChrisGrundemann

Creative|Technologist. Curious. Boisterous. Autotelic Autodidact. Heretic. Rider of Boards. Writer of Words. (((Technology, Marketing, & Strategy consultant)))

David Penaloza Seijas

@DavidSamuelPS

Network engineer passionate about learning, sharing and hugging, and with an uncanny ability to over-speak.

Drew Lentz

@WirelessNerd

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

Faisal Khan

@MFaisalK

A networking and virtualization enthusiast.

Kerstin Mende-Stief

@Fraustief_in_IT

Publisher & Editor in Chief data-disrupted.de | Analyst | Content as a Service mende.media for B2B ICT only, open source first | Cocktail Mixer | House Electrician | Cat-tamer

Kevin Myers

@StubArea51

Kevin is a network architect that consults globally for WISP/Wireline ISPs and large enterprises.

Nick Buraglio

@ForwardingPlane

Network Architect, engineer, researcher, and blogger.

Orhan Ergun

@OrhanErgunCCDE

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

Rati Jokhadze

@PacketStack

Network Architect with 10 years of experience designing, planning and implementing large scale networks

Vince Schuele

@Schuele22

Network architect with passion for disruptive innovation

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, Dec 8 8:00-10:00
DriveNets Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider
Presenters: Dudy Cohen, Eli Kosharovsky, Run Almog, Yuval Moshe
Thursday, Dec 9 08:00-12:30
Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider
Presenters: Akshat Sharma, Ammar Khan, Iqbal Syed, Jiri Chaloupka, Jose Liste, Krishnan Thirukonda, Mauricio Cruz Covarrubias, Rana El Desouky Kazamel, Waris Sagheer
Thursday, Dec 9 13:00-15:00
Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider
Presenters: Alex Nichol, Anshul Sadana, Carl Buchmann, Hugh Holbrook, Richard Bayliss, Shyam Kota
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is an Event Manager and brings nine years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT

Rachael Fritz

Event Coordinator at Gestalt IT

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 #NFDSP1

  1. Networking Field Day: Service Provider – Arista VPLS
    • Vince Schuele
    • Arista Networks
  2. From “Disaggregated Networking” to “Network Cloud”
    • Faisal Khan
    • DriveNets
  3. Underlays and Overlays – A Networking Field Day Service Provider Retrospective
    • Chris Cummings, Kevin Myers, Nick Buraglio, Vince Schuele
    • Arista Networks, Cisco, DriveNets
  4. A Recap of Networking Field Day – Service Providers
    • DriveNets
  5. Arista Lines Up Merchant Silicon-Based Routing Products for Service Provider Networks
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Arista Networks
  6. Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning With Cisco’s New Implementation on IOS XR
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Cisco
  7. A Service Provider Network Is Not Your Enterprise Network
    • Chris Cummings, Nick Buraglio, Tom Hollingsworth, Vince Schuele
    • On-Premise IT
  8. Get Ready for Networking Field Day: Service Provider!
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Arista Networks, Cisco, DriveNets
  9. Meet Field Day Delegate – Vince Schuele
    • Vince Schuele
  10. Start Your Engines for Networking Field Day – Service Provider
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Tech Field Day

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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