Event: Mobility Field Day 2

Appearance: Mist Systems Presents at Mobility Field Day 2

Company: Juniper Mist AI

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Mist Systems Introduction with Jeff Aaron
• YouTube: Mist Systems Introduction with Jeff Aaron

Personnel: Bob Friday, Jeff Aaron, Sudheer Matta

Jeff Aaron, VP of Marketing, introduces Mist Systems and discusses the unique product solutions around wireless analytics, assurance, and reliability. Co-founder and CTO Bob Friday also gives a quick overview of the ideas behind Mist Systems’ founding, to leverage the latest AI and cloud technologies to allow enterprises to deliver user centric wireless experiences. This includes using AI to automate deployment and management, and using Bluetooth Low Energy in conjunction with Wi-Fi to get pinpoint indoor accuracy. Using their cloud, Mist Systems allows enterprises to move to a wireless-as-a-service paradigm, with robust services built into their platform.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

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

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: NetApp FlexPod SF Deep Dive Q&A with Jeremiah Dooley
• YouTube: NetApp FlexPod SF Deep Dive Q&A with Jeremiah Dooley

Personnel: Jeremiah Dooley

Jeremiah Dooley, Senior Manager, NGDC at NetApp, engages with a question and answer session on FlexPod architecture and Cisco integrations with the delegates.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

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

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: NetApp FlexPod SF Technical Overview with Jeremiah Dooley
• YouTube: NetApp FlexPod SF Technical Overview with Jeremiah Dooley

Personnel: Jeremiah Dooley

Jeremiah Dooley, Senior Manager, NGDC at NetApp, gives the delegates an architectural review of the FlexPod SF. This marks the first architectural change since the FlexPod solution was introduced over seven years ago. This still runs the same ElementOS, so existing integrations remain intact. He reviews how this works with Cisco’s line of Catalyst switches, and how it will integrate overall into your datacenter.

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2017

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

Company: NetApp

Video Links:

• Vimeo: NetApp SolidFire FlexPod SF CLUS Introduction with Keith Norbie
• YouTube: NetApp SolidFire FlexPod SF CLUS Introduction with Keith Norbie

Personnel: Keith Norbie

Keith Norbie, Senior Manager of Business and Alliances Development at NetApp, introduces the FlexPod SF to the delegates, which is designed specifically non-storage admins, instead it’s built for agility in VM use cases. Lee Howard, Cisco Alliance CTO at NetApp, then walks through the evolution of the FlexPod line.

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.