Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Monitoring Devices with Paessler with Benjamin Day
• YouTube: Monitoring Devices with Paessler with Benjamin Day

Personnel: Benjamin Day

Benjamin Day, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, reviews how PRTG is agile enough to create custom monitoring models for a variety of applications hosts and other hardware. This includes a look at best practices, creating custom sensors, and generating maps and reports over time.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Paessler Sensors, Thresholds, and Notifications with Benjamin Day
• YouTube: Paessler Sensors, Thresholds, and Notifications with Benjamin Day

Personnel: Benjamin Day

Benjamin Day, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, goes into a deep dive into how PRTG uses an array of sensors to get a comprehensive view of system performance across a variety of metrics. He then shows how these can be configured with thresholds and notifications to get meaningful feedback from your monitoring.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Paessler Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Paessler

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Paessler Introduction at CLUS 2017 with Benjamin Day
• YouTube: Paessler Introduction at CLUS 2017 with Benjamin Day

Personnel: Benjamin Day

Benjamin Day, Senior Systems Engineer at Paessler, introduces the company to the delegates and situates where the company’s PRTG monitoring solution fits into their overall solutions portfolio. He introduces Paessler’s definition of a sensor, and how PRTG scales from virtual to physical hosts.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Opengear Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Opengear

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Opengear Lighthouse 5 Demo with Rob Waldie
• YouTube: Opengear Lighthouse 5 Demo with Rob Waldie

Personnel: Rob Waldie

Rob Waldie, Distinguished Engineer at Opengear, demonstrates the all new Lighthouse 5 centralized management solution. This is a zero touch enrollment process, with robust support for automation. He then demonstrates the RESTful API, showing a basic ChatOps workflow via Slack.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Opengear Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Opengear

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Opengear Lighthouse 5 – Centralized Management VM with Rob Waldie
• YouTube: Opengear Lighthouse 5 – Centralized Management VM with Rob Waldie

Personnel: Rob Waldie

Rob Waldie, Distinguished Engineer at Opengear, introduces the delegates to Lighthouse 5, which launched at Cisco Live US 2017. This runs on a VM, and has been rearchitected with a new Linux distribution, UI, CLI, and management architecture.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Opengear Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Opengear

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Opengear Introduction and Background with Marcio Saito
• YouTube: Opengear Introduction and Background with Marcio Saito

Personnel: Marcio Saito

Marcio Saito, CTO at Opengear, introduces the company history and mission to the delegates. This focus is on network remediation via resilience and provisioning. To that end, the company announced Lighthouse 5, which automates the deployment of out-of-band infrastructure.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Assurance Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Digital Network Assurance and Closed-loop Automation via Analytics
• YouTube: Cisco Digital Network Assurance and Closed-loop Automation via Analytics

Personnel: Tim Szigeti

Tim Szigeti, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, looks at how their Digital Network Architecture (DNA) provides an abstraction for policy and enables closed-loop automation via analytics. Network administrators build their network, hope for the best, and react to alarms. This reactive approach leads to perpetual fire-drills with operation teams running down issues to placate disgruntled users. The presentation looks at the top-down approach Cisco is taking with network assurance and the bottoms-up “gates-to-GUI” architecture that is being built to deliver it.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmability Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Application Hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches with Jeff McLaughlin
• YouTube: Application Hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches with Jeff McLaughlin

Personnel: Jeff McLaughlin

Jeff McLaughlin, Principal Marketing Engineer with Cisco, reviews Cisco Open IOS XE, which can now do much more than move packets, it can host applications in Linux containers or VMs directly on a network device. Cisco’s IOx provides the framework for packaging and delivering applications to network devices. He goes over how it works, use cases for app hosting, and look at a live demo of application hosting on Cisco Catalyst 9000.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmability Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Network Programmability Using APIC-EM APIs with Saurav Prasad
• YouTube: Cisco Network Programmability Using APIC-EM APIs with Saurav Prasad

Personnel: Saurav Prasad

Saurav Prasad, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the Cisco DNA Center provides a single point of control to simplify the operation of your enterprise network. The DNA controller (Cisco APIC-EM) exposes a rich REST based Northbound APIs to allow other applications to take advantage of the controller capabilities and unlock the power of the underlying network infrastructure. He talks about the controller REST API capabilities,  enablement capabilities available from DevNet and provide some examples on how some of their ISV partners are using these APIs to enhance their product offerings. The presentation also discusses upcoming features.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmability Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Open APIs for Network Device Programmability with Kevin Kuhls
• YouTube: Cisco Open APIs for Network Device Programmability with Kevin Kuhls

Personnel: Kevin Kuhls

Kevin Kuhls, TME Enterprise Solutions at Cisco, gives an overview of open APIs. These are available on network devices. Something besides CLI (Command Line Interface) actually does exist! In this introductory talk, he discusses open APIs for use in environments to support configuration management, along with the ability to retrieve (or stream) operational data. He also discusses protocols/encodings (NETCONF/RESTCONF and XML/JSON) along with how the data from devices are described through YANG with IETF/OpenConfig/Native models.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmability Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Policy Federation – Normalizing Policy Across any Domain with Victor Moreno
• YouTube: Cisco Policy Federation – Normalizing Policy Across any Domain with Victor Moreno

Personnel: Victor Moreno

Victor Moreno, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, reviews that network, security and cloud operations remain very much domain specific tasks with domain specific functionalities, yet the behavior across these different environments can be expressed in a consolidated policy. He explores the architecture, language and interactions that make this Federation possible across Network and Security domains of multiple manufacturers and across multiple cloud services.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Encrypted Traffic Analytics Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics – Why Network Security Matters with Saravanan Radhakrishnan
• YouTube: Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics – Why Network Security Matters with Saravanan Radhakrishnan

Personnel: Saravanan Radhakrishnan

Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, looks at how the rapid rise in encrypted communications and security impacts the network. How prevalent is encrypted traffic is in your enterprise? Did you know that encryption is being used by evasive applications and malicious software to escape detection in corporate networks? Can you pinpoint end-points in your network that are using weak cipher suites exposing their communications and making them vulnerable? The network plays a critical role in addressing these challenges. Cisco’s network architecture provides a platform for security focused network telemetry and analytics that can detect an in-progress attack (even when encrypted) and rapidly trigger policy driven remediation to mitigate the attack. Saravanan describes network security solutions including innovations at the ASIC level that enable the software and security analytics.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Software-Defined Access Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Software-Defined Access – Campus Fabric with DNA Center Automation & Assurance with Shawn Wargo
• YouTube: Cisco Software-Defined Access – Campus Fabric with DNA Center Automation & Assurance with Shawn Wargo

Personnel: Shawn Wargo

Shawn Wargo, Principal Engineer, EISG Technical Marketing at Cisco, reviews how the new Cisco DNA Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) solution combines the Campus Fabric and IWAN overlay solutions with Cisco TrustSec, into a common API-driven GUI ecosystem comprised of DNA Center: APIC-EM, ISE, NDP and others.

The Presentation introduces the SD-Access and DNA Center, and some of the key technologies that bring this solution to life.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Virtualization Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Secure Agile Exchange – Architecture Building Blocks with Miles Davis
• YouTube: Cisco Secure Agile Exchange – Architecture Building Blocks with Miles Davis

Personnel: Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco, reviews how the company plans to use virtualization, switching fabrics, VNFs, and orchestration to manage security policy at the edge of enterprise networks. This includes going through some of the use cases that SAE has to offer including SaaS, IaaS, Private Cloud, and Extranet connectivity.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Virtualization Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco eNFV – An Open Solution for Virtualizing Network Functions with Matthias Falkner
• YouTube: Cisco eNFV – An Open Solution for Virtualizing Network Functions with Matthias Falkner

Personnel: Matthias Falkner

Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, explores the openness of the eNFV solution, showing how every layer of the solution stack is exposing the APIs. Support for 3rd party Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and application workloads running on NFVIS is explained. The session also introduces the 3rd party Ecosystem support process, which provides the environment for ENFV certified 3rd party VNFs.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Virtualization Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: The Building Blocks of Cisco eNFV with Matthias Falkner
• YouTube: The Building Blocks of Cisco eNFV with Matthias Falkner

Personnel: Matthias Falkner

Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Engineer, Technical Marketing with Cisco, reviews supported hardware platforms, the Network Function Virtualization infrastructure Software (NFVIS), supported VNFs, and the management and orchestration stacks. Particular emphasis is given to the newly announced Enterprise Network Compute System ENCS 5104.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Virtualization Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Review of Cisco Virtualizing Network Functions in the Cloud with Tony Banuelos
• YouTube: Review of Cisco Virtualizing Network Functions in the Cloud with Tony Banuelos

Personnel: Tony Banuelos

Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, reviews how the company delivers enterprise networking VNF technologies available on public cloud marketplace platforms like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Learn how the Cisco CSR1000V helps meet the demands of businesses moving core applications to public cloud by delivering enterprise class network services inside the public cloud networking fabric.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Virtualization Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco’s End-to-End Virtualization Strategy for the Enterprise with Tony Banuelos
• YouTube: Cisco’s End-to-End Virtualization Strategy for the Enterprise with Tony Banuelos

Personnel: Tony Banuelos

Tony Banuelos, Product Marketing Manager with Cisco, gives an overview of Cisco’s virtualization solution strategy to enable businesses to deliver a network platform that is agile, secure and extensible. The end-to-end virtualization solution delivers the ability to provision, change and grow network services based on rapidly changing user demands and needs for internally hosted and externally hosted business services

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA Programmable Infrastructure Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches – A New Era of Networking with Muhammad A Imam
• YouTube: Cisco Catalyst 9000 Switches – A New Era of Networking with Muhammad A Imam

Personnel: Muhammad Imam

Muhammad A Imam, Senior Manager Technical Marketing at Cisco, introduces the Catalyst 9000 Family and will talk about the common foundational elements and attributes of the C9K family of switches that takes us in the new era of networking. It talks about UADP 2.0 and Open IOS XE as the basis of Cat9K Family. The session goes through the details of the platforms and how it enable our customers to address the challenges of the new era in networking. 

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

Appearance: Cisco DNA ML and AI Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2017

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: What Cisco Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Can do for the Network with JP Vasseur
• YouTube: What Cisco Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Can do for the Network with JP Vasseur

Personnel: JP Vasseur

JP Vasseur, PhD, Cisco Fellow, discusses how after 30 years of research and progress in the area of Artificial Intelligence, the number of applications is growing exponentially: self driving cars, recommendation systems, automatic reading, biology. This leads to the discussion of two major Machine Learning based products: a massively distributed architecture to detect 0-day attacks (shipped in 2016) and a new cloud-based Machine Learning architecture for network assurance (with the first public demo!), currently being developed.