SnapRoute Company Overview with Glenn Sullivan

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: SnapRoute Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: SnapRoute

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Personnel: Adam Casella, Glenn Sullivan

Founded in August 2015 by former Apple data center network engineers to deliver a disaggregated network OS that has operations experience baked in. From late 2017 onward, focus is on bringing Cloud Native principles to networking – with native support of embedded Kubernetes running atop whitebox hardware.

CN-NOS focuses on the use of Cloud Native tools with direct and native control of the network device using kubernetes. Solving the challenges seen by operators is the focus – no technology for technology’s sake. This is an overview of the CN-NOS containerized microservices architecture and components, with specific focus on design decisions and their benefits.


Nokia Network-Assisted DDoS Mitigation

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Nokia

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Personnel: Andrew Henkart, Philippe Bergeon

This session with introduce Deepfield Defender (DDoS Detection) and a review of key capabilities and workflows, as well as volumetric DDoS mitigation based on Nokia FP4 router silicon.


Nokia Automated Peering Engineering

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Nokia

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Personnel: Hamid Ould-Brahim, Reda Laichi

In this session, Nokia gives a presentation and demo of their express peering, which covers egress peering engineering (EPE), inbound route optimization, and latency-based traffic optimization.


Nokia Network Analytics and Multi-Dimensional Insights

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Nokia

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Personnel: Andrew Henkart

In this session, Nokia gives an overview of their Deepfield solution, including discussion of cloud genome and a cloud intelligence demo.


Nokia Internet Peering with Craig Labovitz

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Nokia

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Personnel: Craig Labovitz, Jeffery Sugimoto

Nokia discusses trends, challenges and evolution, and how insight-drive automation can help evolve and enhance peering engineering and peering security.


Nokia Company Introduction

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Nokia Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Nokia

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Personnel: Houman Modarres

Learn more about Nokia and their networking roots in service provider networks and how they are building for the future of applications and cloud.


Kemp Per App Load Balancing with Jason Dover

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Kemp Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Kemp

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Personnel: Jason Dover

Per-app/per-service ADC/load balancing is an attractive approach to address the requirements associated with new application deployment patterns but requires a feasible commercial model and relevant technical solution capabilities to enable automation and scalability. Here we’ll cover what’s required to make this possible.

Demos in this session will also cover how the deployment of load balancing services at scale can be achieved through native capabilities as well as by leveraging common orchestration frameworks such as Ansible. Also covered is the importance of an analytics and monitoring ecosystem that increases observability in the context of your load balancing infrastructure.


Kemp Company Overview with Jason Dover

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Kemp Technologies Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Kemp

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Personnel: Jason Dover

Kemp’s product portfolio is centered on helping customers deliver an always-on application experience (AX) by addressing the requirements of modern application load balancers across common public and private cloud platforms. The core components are Kemp LoadMaster, Kemp 360 Central and Kemp 360 Vision.

Traditional load balancer solution planning models can get in the way of new application deployment approaches and present unique challenges in the context of on-demand, just-in-time infrastructure. We’ll cover these in detail and explore key questions customers should be asking.


Netrounds Solution Demos

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Netrounds Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Netrounds

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Personnel: Jonas Krogell

This video is made up of three comprehensive live demos:

  1. Active monitoring of a Global VPN with multicloud connections
  2. Automated cloud deployment of Netrounds, including advanced testing and monitoring.
  3. Using active traffic to sectionalize a service chain comprising three virtual network functions: Router, IPS, and Firewall

Presented by Jonas Krogell


Netrounds Product Architecture

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Netrounds Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Netrounds

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Personnel: Jonas Krogell

Netrounds positioning in the assurance landscape. Overview of testing capabilities and an outline of the three main deliveries from the Netrounds solution.

Presented by Jonas Krogell


Netrounds Company Overview

Event: Networking Field Day 20

Appearance: Netrounds Presents at Networking Field Day 20

Company: Netrounds

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Personnel: Mats Nordlund

What Netrounds does, why the company was created and a 10 year timeline in just 1 minute. Plus, why generating traffic on the data path is important to ensure that end-users are happy.

Presented by Mats Nordlund


SolarWinds – Active Directory: Gateway to a Breach

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Jim Hansen

Jim Hansen, VP of Products, Security and Cloud at SolarWinds discusses Access Rights Manager


SolarWinds – Machine Learning, Anomaly Detection, and Database Performance Analyzer

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Karlo Zatylny, Tom LaRock

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek and Karlo Zatylny, Distinguished Engineer at SolarWinds discuss machine learning, anomaly detection, and Database Performance Analyzer.


SolarWinds – Observability: Metrics Traces, and Logs Aren’t Enough

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Keith Kuchler

Keith Kuchler, SolarWinds VP of Engineering discusses observability and when metrics, traces, and logs aren’t enough.


SolarWinds – Better Monitoring for Networks Both New and Old

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Chris O'Brien

SolarWinds Group Product Manager Chris O’Brien discusses Better Monitoring for Networks New and Old.


SolarWinds Strategy and Vision

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: SolarWinds

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Personnel: Joe Kim

Joe Kim, EVP of Engineering and Global CTO discusses the SolarWinds Strategy and Vision


Day 365 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, walk through the year as an admin. In this third video, they discuss scalability. How do we do this again? They also demonstrate vROPS and Quick Start.


Day 180 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, walk through the year as an admin. In this third video, they discuss what do to when everything is “on fire”. They dig into the status quo of life in the datacenter and discuss what to do when help is needed. They demonstrate vSphere Support Assist/Humbug.


Day 0 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, introduces VMware’s presentation at Tech Field Day Austin, 2019. He then walks through the year as an admin, getting things off the ground on “day 0”. Nicholson and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, discuss the progress made to simplify day 0 operations and demonstrate EasyInstall and Quick Start.


Day 30 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin

Event: Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18

Company: VMware by Broadcom

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Personnel: John Nicholson, Nigel Hickey

John Nicholson, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, walks through the year as an admin. In this second video, he discusses health checks, covering vSAN and vSphere health. How do these proactive alerts work to keep vSphere environments in shape? Nicholson and Nigel Hickey, Technical Marketing Engineer, also demonstrate vSphere and vSAN health and remediation methods.