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SDN Connect Live

SDN Connect Live
Who: Networking, Wireless
What: Exclusive, Live, Meru
When: Past
Where: Silicon Valley

“SDN enables application performance, ease of management and simplicity of use for the unified wired and wireless access network. Meru is working toward truly open, standards-based networks where best-in-class solutions win, removing complexity from access network deployment and management – without requiring additional training and equipment replacement.” – Ajay Malik, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Products, Meru Networks

Tech Field Day joins Meru Networks at a live event in Sunnyvale, CA on September 18. Meru will be joined by partners like Microsoft and NEC as well as end users and the panel of independent Tech Field Day delegates for a discussion of SDN and Wi-Fi. This event also features panel sessions moderated by Stephen Foskett as well as a Tech Field Day Delegate Roundtable.

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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.

Alex Lewis

@AlexLewis

20 yr telecom and UC vet and UC SDN pioneer.

John A. Cook

@JohnACook

John is a Unified Communications Engineer specializing in Microsoft Technologies such as Lync and Exchange.

Jonathan Davis

@SubNetwork

JD is a network engineering, audio producing, blog writing, beekeeping, motorcycle riding, coffee drinking, meat eater.

Ryan Adzima

@RAdzima

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

Teren Bryson

@SomeClown

Network, Programming, Unix Geek; Whisky Taster; Brain Hacker; Student of Everything; Cancer Survivor; Freelance Writer; Automata; PGP: https://goo.gl/49FMp9 - Coming from the aether.

Order of the Day

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

09:00 SDN Connect Kickoff
Featuring: Ajay Malik, Bami Bastani

Bami Bastani, CEO, Meru Networks introduces the event and Ajay Malik, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Products, Meru Networks, discusses the state of SDN and Wi-Fi.

09:40 Panel Discussion: SDN Requirements in Vertical Markets
Featuring: Avi Bhagtani, Dan Pitt, Manish Rai, Sarosh Vesuna

Stephen Foskett moderates a panel featuring Avi Bhagtani, Director Product Management, Sarosh Vesuna, VP&GM, and Manish Rai, VP Corporate Marketing, of Meru. Also on the panel is Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation.

10:30 Partner Presentation: NEC
Featuring: Don Clark

Don Clark, GM at NEC, presents

11:00 SDN Use Cases and Demonstrations
Featuring: Avi Bhagtani, Lakshmi Dronadula, Stace Hipperson

Short presentations on Meru Collaborator, Meru Personal Bonjour, Real-Status, and CN Labs

13:30 Tech Field Day Delegate Roundtable: SDN Connect
Featuring: Stephen Foskett

The Tech Field Day Delegate panel will discuss the day’s content and provide their insight.

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd


Links with Tag #SDNConnect

  1. SDN Use Case: Content Filtering
    • Networking Field Day 7
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Tail-f Systems
  2. Why is Lync The Killer SDN Application?
    • Wireless Field Day 7
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Aruba, Extreme Networks, Meru Networks

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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