The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Riverbed
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Personnel: Josh Dobies
Josh Dobies, VP of Product Marketing at Riverbed, introduces the delegates to their new SteelHead SD appliance. This is a converged WAN optimization and SD-WAN device. He walks through what kind of deployments are already using the Steelhead SD, and how it fits into their overall product portfolio.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Riverbed
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Personnel: Vivek Ganti
Vivek Ganti, Technical Marketing Engineer at Riverbed, walks through the free trial the company is offering, available on their site. This is a fully featured trial, and he walks through how to get started from the ground up to see exactly what Riverbed can do for your organization.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Riverbed
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Personnel: Hansang Bae
Hansang Bae, CTO at Riverbed, demonstrates the API capabilities to deploy SD-WAN sites with automation. They do this is a really interesting example, with a custom made Amazon Echo app!
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Riverbed
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Personnel: Zee Kallab
Zee Kallab, Technical Director at Riverbed, goes to the whiteboard to review a typical data center looks like, and how Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution integrates with it. The solution is resilient with inter and intra-cluster communication to make sure the tunnel endpoint to the SD-WAN hardware is always available.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Riverbed
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Personnel: Hansang Bae
Hansang Bae, CTO at Riverbed, demonstrates their cloud networking solution. He reviews how to setup placeholder sites, rules and zones to create a SD-WAN network with a few clicks and through a simple UI. He then shows how the Riverbed solution can do application-defined networking, as well as connecting to Azure and AWS.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Riverbed Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Riverbed
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Personnel: Josh Dobies
Josh Dobies, VP of Product Marketing, gives an update on Riverbed’s movement in the SD-WAN market. This includes a history of the company, as well as a review of recent product releases.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Big Switch
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Personnel: Ganapathi Bhat
Ganapathi Bhat, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer at Big Switch Networks, reviews how Big Cloud Fabric can be used for container networking across Kubernetes orchestration with the Docker runtime. He reviews how to get this rapidly deployed, and the management tools available to administrators.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Big Switch
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Personnel: Arkadiy Shapiro
Arkadiy Shapiro, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer with Big Switch Networks, reviews the updates to their Big Cloud Fabric. They’ve added new solutions with VMware, adding automation and visibility integrations for vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and the vRealize Suite. These solutions are made to give visibility to both the network and VM admins, no matter which hat you’re wearing.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: A10 Networks, Big Switch
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Personnel: Rich Groves, Ted Elhourani
Ted Elhourani, Technical Marketing Engineer at Big Switch Networks, and Rich Groves, Principal Architect at A10 Networks, review the Big Switch integration that allows for advanced DDoS mitigation with the BigSecure Architecture. This is an automated scale-out solution, meant to not only let you know when a DDoS is occurring, but to keep your network working normally from an end-user perspective during it.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Big Switch Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Big Switch
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Personnel: Kyle Forster
Kyle Forster, Found of Big Switch Networks, introduces the company to the delegates. He shows how early bets by the company paid off with a customer focused culture, a interesting product metaphor, and a bold launch portfolio. He then goes into how Big Switch Networks fits into the next wave of software-defined networking.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Nyansa Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Nyansa
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Personnel: Anand Srinivas
Anand Srinivas, CTO and Co-founder at Nyansa, demonstrates the Voyance dashboard for monitoring network traffic. It sorts information into problematic clients, health by location for wireless deployments, and general advisories. Clients can be sorted by type, whether desktop, laptop or mobile. It also shows overall application usage on the network.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Nyansa Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Nyansa
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Personnel: GT Hill
GT Hill, Director of Product and Technical Marketing at Nyansa, reviews their Voyance network monitoring solution. Not only does it analyze existing network data, but it allow you to anonymously compare your performance against similar site. This can be used for support, net ops, and CIO applications.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Chang Kim
Chang Kim, Director of System Architecture at Barefoot Networks, reviews some of the network monitoring, visibility and diagnostic capabilities of Barefoot’s programmable switch. He reviews conceptually how this is accomplished, where current products fall short, and demonstrates this in practice.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Roberto Mari
Roberto Mari, Director of Product Management at Barefoot Networks, demonstrates programming Tofino. He shows the UI that can allow for some configuration. Further, he shows how to compile and push the update to the switch itself.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Roberto Mari
Roberto Mari, Director of Product Management at Barefoot Networks, demonstrates how to program with P4 on Tofino switches. He reviews use cases that P4 can address, including preventing network congestion, load balancing, and getting in-band telemetry.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Ed Doe
Ed Doe, VP of Product Strategy at Barefoot Networks, reviews how Tofino switches can be integrated. The P4 programmability can either be done with direct updates from the OEMs, or handled in house if you’re using a white box configuration. Initial OEM partners include Edgecore Networks and WNC, with more planned throughout 2017.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Dan Lenoski
Dan Lenoski, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Barefoot Networks, goes into a deeper technical review of the Tofino Switch. On top of programmability, it’s also the fastest, able to to 6.5 Tbps. This allows for up to 65 100GE ports on the device. He then goes over some of the capabilities of the compiler, and the debugging tools available.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Nick McKeown
Nick McKeown, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Barefoot Networks, presented on the need for a programmable forwarding plane in the context of network switches. He highlighted the slow development time and fixed functions in silicon as significant drawbacks of current network switches. McKeown drew parallels between the evolution of domain-specific processors in other fields, such as Java and OpenCL, and the potential for similar advancements in networking through programmable switches. Barefoot Networks’ solution to this problem is Tofino, a P4 programmable network switch, which McKeown believes represents the next step in the evolution of network processing.
McKeown explained the inefficiencies of the traditional fixed-function switch model, using the example of VxLAN, a feature that took four years to be implemented in merchant switching silicon. He described the cumbersome process involving multiple teams and stages, from defining the feature to updating the ASIC, which ultimately delays the deployment of new functionalities. This slow pace is at odds with the rapid advancements seen in other tech sectors. McKeown argued that the current model, where features are defined by chip designers and fixed at design time, limits the flexibility and responsiveness of network systems. Barefoot Networks aims to overturn this model by introducing a programmable switch that allows users to define packet processing behavior through a high-level language like P4, which can then be compiled and executed on the switch.
The presentation emphasized the practical benefits of a programmable forwarding plane, particularly in terms of visibility and telemetry. McKeown recounted a scenario where traditional network measurement tools like ping and traceroute were inadequate for diagnosing network issues, highlighting the need for more sophisticated tools. With Tofino and P4, users can gain detailed insights into packet paths, rule matches, queue delays, and queue sharing, all at full line rate without generating extra packets. This level of visibility can significantly enhance network management and troubleshooting. McKeown concluded by addressing potential concerns about the market size and the need for configuration management, asserting that the programmability offered by Tofino aligns with existing firmware and software upgrade practices and is supported by a viable market size, particularly in large data centers.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Barefoot Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Barefoot Networks
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Personnel: Martin Izzard
Martin Izzard, Co-Founder and CEO of Barefoot Networks, introduces the company. He goes through his origin story, as well as the pedigree of the co-founders in the networking industry. Finally he gives an overview of what Barefoot Networks is trying to do: bring programmability to the data-plane.
Event: Networking Field Day 14
Appearance: Anuta Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 14
Company: Anuta Networks
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Personnel: Kiran Sirupa, Praveen Vengalam
Praveen Vengalam, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Anuta Networks, demonstrates how NCX can be used to orchestrate a Cisco iWAN deployment. NCX comes with a number of starter kits for CPE, SD-WAN, and L3 VPNs. These can all be customized, but allow for enterprises without DevOps to smooth deployment of these complex services. Anuta has seen productized Cisco iWAN deployments in as little as two weeks with this approach.
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