The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Aruba Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Mani Ganesan, Samuel Perez
Aruba’s SD-WAN Orchestrator removes the need to manually configure VPN tunnels and IP routes between branch and headend gateways in an SD-WAN consisting of hundreds or thousands of branch locations with multiple data centers.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Aruba Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Ramanan Subramanian
Aruba’s SD-Branch combines best-in-class wireless, wired and WAN infrastructure with assurance and orchestration features to maximize both performance and operational efficiencies. Using SD-Branch, IT organizations enjoy cloud-based management to simplify the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of all branch locations
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Aruba Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Kishore Seshadri
SD-WAN solutions are evolving to address the rise of Cloud, IoT, and increased complexity at the branch. This requires a comprehensive solution across not only the WAN but the wired and wireless networks at the branch. Thus, SD-Branch (a superset of SD-WAN) addresses the entire distributed enterprise from edge to cloud to core, with strong security and a greatly simplified IT experience.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Aruba Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Partha Narasimhan
Partha Narasimhan, CTO, gives a brief introduction of Aruba and a high-level overview of today’s discussions.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Forward Networks
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Personnel: Natale Ruello, Nikhil Handigol
Nikhil introduces a new feature in the Forward platform, enabling network engineers to use Forward’s Network Query Engine (NQE) to easily build custom checks for network behavior by querying a normalized, structured data set.
Natale highlights some key lessons learned in building an enterprise-grade product: the need for scalability, accuracy, performance, and ease of use.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Forward Networks
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Personnel: Fabrizio Maccioni
Network automation and verification go hand-in-hand, as Fabizio demonstrates in this example using Forward Enterprise in conjunction with Ansible. Network verification closes the loop on network automation and allows network operators to quickly verify network behavior.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Forward Networks
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Personnel: Sivasankar Radhakrishnan
Siva provides an overview of API integrations with the Forward platform and shows how one of the company’s large customers uses a Slackbot to query network behavior and return instant results.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Forward Networks
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Personnel: Brandon Heller
What does it mean to have a mathematical model (or “digital twin”) of the network? Brandon explains how the Forward Networks team built the software platform, and demonstrates the core functionality of Forward Enterprise to search, verify, and predict network behavior.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Drew Schulke, Tomoo Esaka
In this session Dell EMC’s Drew Schulke provides a high-level overview and VMware’s Toomo Esaka demonstrates the new Dell EMC SD-WAN solution. This is a one-stop solution combining Dell EMC hardware and VMware SD-WAN software by VeloCloud, along with a Dell EMC managed infrastructure.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Bops Puliyanda, Ram Haridasa
In this session, Dell EMC’s Ram Haridasa provides a high-level product overview and VMware’s Bops Puliyanda demonstrates the new Dell EMC SmartFabric Director solution co-developed by Dell EMC and VMware. This solution greatly simplifies data center fabric design, deployment and operations and includes enhanced visibility across virtual and physical networks.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Ram Haridasa
In this session, Dell EMC’s Ram Haridasa provides a high-level product overview of the new Dell EMC SmartFabric Director solution co-developed by Dell EMC and VMware. This solution greatly simplifies data center fabric design, deployment and operations and includes enhanced visibility across virtual and physical networks.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Dell EMC Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Dell EMC
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Personnel: Ihab Tarazi
In this session, Dell EMC’s Ihab Tarazi discusses the Dell EMC-VMware partnership on SDN – from Edge to Core to Cloud.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Arrcus Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Arrcus
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Personnel: Dave Thelen
In this section, Dave Thelen and Mayur Shetty do a live demo of ArcOS BGP/EVPN solution including the ability to track workload mobility within the fabric across racks. In addition, they highlight how ArcIQ has an alert mechanism when these workloads move.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Arrcus Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Arrcus
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Personnel: Murali Gandluru
In this section, Murali Gandluru will showcase how ArcOS + ArcIQ enables simple, scalable and secure network solutions
Highlights the ArcOS ability to scale to internet routing scale and the maximum ACL scale on the latest J2 platform
Ability to use a combination of ArcOS+ArcIQ and a third party DDoS platform to show a DDoS mitigation solution
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Arrcus Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Arrcus
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Personnel: Keyur Patel
In this section, Keyur Patel will go into an architectural overview of ArcOS, why ArcOS was built from first principles and how the ArcIQ analytics platform provides real-time visibility, granular control and security to switching and routing environments.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Arrcus Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Arrcus
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Personnel: Murali Gandluru
In this section, Murali Gandluru will go over the following key topics:
– Company Overview
– Talk about ArcOS and ArcIQ capabilities and fundamental product differentiators
– Also go into the supported use cases
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Network to Code
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Personnel: Jeremy Stretch, John Anderson
Hear directly from the creator of NetBox, Jeremy Stretch, and fellow NetBox maintainer John Anderson on what NetBox is, what it is not, and bit more into advanced features of NetBox like its APIs, data models, custom scripts, and much more. Even learn about how Network to Code is offering commercial support for NetBox!
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Network to Code
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Personnel: Jason Edelman
Understanding workflows and the consumers of those workflow is absolutely critical for a successful network automation journey. This session explores how Network to Code helps its clients manage networks and automation through ITSM (ServiceNow), Chat (Slack), and data management (NetBox) platforms catering to the individual needs of each user type within an organization.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Network to Code
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Personnel: Damien Garros
Deploying Network Automation is a journey.and this session takes a glimpse into how it’s possible to jump start a network automation journey examining steps like building an inventory, a source of truth, along with focusing on high-value read-only network automation workflows.
Event: Networking Field Day 21
Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 21
Company: Network to Code
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Personnel: John Anderson
Don’t make the mistake of deploying automation tools without having a proper architecture. This session reviews several key components Network to Code believes are required in an end to end network automation architecture.
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