Broadcom Ethernet Fabric for AI ML at Scale Wrap Up

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Broadcom

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Personnel: Mohan Kalkunte

Broadcom’s silicon solutions and network operating systems drive an ecosystem that promotes Ethernet as a cost-effective and high-performing alternative to InfiniBand. They offer advanced capabilities through silicon solutions like Tomahawk 5 and Jericho 3 AI, which can be complemented by various network operating system options. Ethernet’s impressive network performance has been proven through success stories in platforms like AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, where it has outperformed InfiniBand and provided significant cost savings. As a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Broadcom actively contributes to the development of innovative Ethernet standards, further enhancing its appeal for large-scale cloud data centers. The success stories highlight Ethernet’s effectiveness across diverse applications, solidifying its position as a compelling technology choice for various industries.


Broadcom AI Interconnect and Tomahawk AI Fabrics

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Broadcom

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Personnel: Pete Del Vecchio

Broadcom’s Tomahawk solution is a game-changer in the AI interconnect realm, offering tailored solutions to hyperscalers with diverse needs. The Tomahawk Fabric provides high bandwidth and high radix, catering to flatter network topologies. To optimize network performance, load balancing, traffic spraying, and advanced telemetry are implemented. Fast link failover ensures uninterrupted traffic flow during link failures, enhancing network reliability. The solution supports various congestion management mechanisms, with flexibility for customization. With Tomahawk 5’s native support for 800 GigE ports, the solution meets the rising demand for higher bandwidth in modern AI architectures. Broadcom’s Tomahawk solution sets new standards in efficient and reliable AI interconnectivity, adapting to the evolving industry requirements.


Broadcom Jericho3 AI Ethernet Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Broadcom

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Personnel: Henry Wu

Broadcom offers scheduled fabric solutions, with a focus on switch-based architecture using the Jericho and Ramon families. This architecture ensures congestion-free operations and perfect load balancing for AI workloads. The leaf devices handle switch functionality, lookup, queuing, and scheduling, while the spine devices interconnect the leaf devices and are optimized for AI workloads. The fabric allows for traffic segmentation and reassembly in cells, with hardware-based mechanisms ensuring no impact from network failures. The scalable architecture can support networks ranging from a few hundred boxes to tens of thousands, with the latest generation devices allowing for scaling from 18K to 32K nodes and 400GB to 800GB Ethernet. It provides multi-tenancy and job isolation for AI clusters, and offers hardware-based telemetry and diagnostic tools for visibility into network performance. The future-proof design ensures adaptability to evolving AI models and workloads.


Broadcom Ethernet Fabric for AI and ML at Scale

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Broadcom Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Broadcom

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Personnel: Mohan Kalkunte

In this discussion, Mohan Kalkuntay, VP of Architecture and Technology at Broadcom, highlights the significance of Ethernet fabric and introduces Broadcom’s solutions tailored for AI applications. AI applications are characterized by their complex requirements, including large models with billions of parameters. GPUs play a vital role in AI processing, and networking is essential for interconnecting and coordinating large GPU clusters. The compute, communication, and synchronization phases are crucial in AI training, where large neural networks are trained and gradients and parameters are exchanged. Networking in AI is unique, with fewer flows, high bandwidth, synchronization, bursty traffic, and potential challenges like flow collisions and link failures. Tail latency greatly impacts the performance of AI training, and minimizing it leads to faster job completion. To improve AI networking, techniques like network telemetry, packet spraying, load-aware ECMP, zero impact failure, and credit control mechanisms are employed.


Is Edge Networking Important to Edge Computing?

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Networking Field Day 32 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Edge is one of the hottest topics in the enterprise today. Companies are exploring the suitability of edge computing for a variety of workloads. But how can edge computing work with modern networks to provide value? In this Networking Field Day delegate roundtable you’ll hear discussions of the complexity in redefining workloads for the edge, how transport networks can cause issues with edge computing resources, and how the cloud is changing the way we look at data aggregation.


Is SONiC The Future of Switching?

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Networking Field Day 32 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Modern switches need modern operating systems. We’ve seen innovation all around with the latest software offerings from a variety of vendors. How does the open source community stack up? The Networking Field Day delegates discuss SONiC, the open source NOS from Microsoft and how it compares. Discussions include suitability for the enterprise, governance and stewardship by the community, and potential for disruption in the switch OS market.


Anuta ATOM Core Competencies Service Lifecycle Automation with Cross Domain Automation

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Anuta Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Anuta Networks

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Personnel: Kiran Sirupa

In this final session Kiran, VP of Marketing shares ATOM Cloud-Native Platform advantages such as Multi-Tenancy, Scale, Out-of-Box integrations and customization.


Anuta ATOM Cross Domain Automation Use Cases and Demo

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Anuta Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Anuta Networks

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Personnel: Sitaram Jakka

Sitaram Jakka, Principal Solutions Architect with Anuta Networks, explores diverse applications of Cross-domain Automation. The session demonstrates the integration of multiple domain controllers and shares details of complex implementations such as 5G O-RAN, Closed-Loop Assurance, and Cloud On-Ramp.


Cross Domain Automation with Anuta ATOM

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Anuta Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Anuta Networks

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Personnel: Kiran Sirupa

Kiran Sirupa, VP of Anuta Networks, introduces Anuta Networks and highlights Anuta ATOM’s differentiators in Cross-Domain Automation. The session also deep-dives into ATOM’s latest enhancements including the advanced Workflow automation platform and it’s role in elevating the customer experience.


Extending the Principles of Zero Trust Security to Enterprise Access Networks with Nile

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Suresh Katukam, Todd Ellison

Security and network design have traditionally been tackled separately. Mostly because the enterprise network elements traditionally did not speak the language of the cybersecurity team. Join us to learn how Nile’s full stack solution for enterprise access networks is making it possible to eliminate complex policy definitions via VLANs, ACLs and NAC configs, and instead to rapidly translate zero trust security policies to the enterprise edge.


Live Demo: Simplified IT and End User Experience on Your Nile Network

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Austin Hawthorne, Rishit Lakhani, Suresh Katukam

In this live demo, team Nile demonstrates how IT administrators can easily gather insights with regards to user experience on a Nile network, quickly start any troubleshooting efforts towards resolution and allow for end users to access their own experience metrics using my.nilesecure.com portal.


Nile Introduces Data Centric Lifecycle Management for Enterprise Networks

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Austin Hawthorne, Suresh Katukam

Closed loop automation for IT operations across the enterprise network has never been possible: the ability to figure out network issues before they happen and to take action. IT leaders have been trying to script their way out of complexity or rely on AI Ops to solve a portion of their problems. Join us to learn how Nile is tackling the challenge by making use of a lean and unified data set across the technologies that are part of its enterprise access network service.


Live Demo: Controlling your Nile Network Performance without Operational Burden

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Austin Hawthorne, Rishit Lakhani

In this live demo, team Nile demonstrates how the Nile service eliminates the burden of traditional network management with a laser focus on guaranteed capacity, coverage, and availability. Ease of orchestration of custom services such as Guest Access is also demonstrated.


Nile Brings Cloud-like Resiliency and Guaranteed Performance to Enterprise Networks

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Promode Nedungadi, Suresh Katukam

It has been an unfortunate reality for IT networking teams to pick cost vs reliability and performance. A radical shift in technology delivery for day 0-1-2 operations and consumption model (licenses, upgrades, cost metric) are required for us to stop doing the same thing and expect a different result. Join us to learn how Nile is enabling reliability and production engineering best practices for cloud infrastructures at the enterprise edge and guarantee uptime in the process.


Live Demo: Your Day 0-1 Experience as a Nile Customer

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Austin Hawthorne, Rishit Lakhani

In this live demo, team Nile demonstrates the automated steps that allow for its customers to enjoy a seamless onboarding experience. Topics such as work order management to get ready for physical installation efforts and project management automation via Nile’s service delivery managers are discussed.


Changing the Way Enterprises Design Build and Consume Access Networks with Nile

Event: Networking Field Day 32

Appearance: Nile Presents at Networking Field Day 32

Company: Nile

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Personnel: Suresh Katukam

Enterprise networks are never about networking alone. They are almost always about the changes in behavior for users, devices and applications. These changes present unique opportunities for us to re- evaluate how enterprise networks are designed, consumed and operated. Join us to learn how Nile is taking action and is delivering its unique solution as agile and innovative as the latest generation of digital innovations that it helps connect.


Security is Hard and You Just Need to Deal With it

Event: Security Field Day 9

Appearance: Security Field Day 9 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Tom Hollingsworth

Security is a complicated discipline of IT that requires attention and skill. Defenders are constantly on edge trying to prevent data breaches and ransomware attacks. How can professionals keep on top of the latest trends and protect their users? Should we rely on tools to solve our problems? And how do the goals of the business impact our planning? In this Tech Field Day Roundtable the Security Field Day delegates discuss these topics and more.


Secure Multicloud Infrastructure at Scale with Cisco Multicloud Defense

Event: Security Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Security Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Anubhav Swami

Today applications are no longer restricted to the boundaries of a data center; applications are deployed everywhere – this change brings a need for a solution that can provide end-to-end visibility, control, policy management, and ease of management. Cisco Multicloud Defense is a highly scalable, on-demand “as-a-Service” solution that provides agile, scalable, and flexible security to your multicloud infrastructure. It unifies security controls across cloud environments, protects workloads from every direction, and drives operational efficiency by leveraging secure cloud networking.


Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series Appliances and Threat Defense 7.4 Software Overview

Event: Security Field Day 9

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Security Field Day 9

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Andrew Ossipov

We will discuss the innovation behind the newly-launched Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series appliances, including the focus on encrypted traffic handling and scalability. To complement these hardware platforms, the session will also cover Threat Defense software capabilities and corresponding use cases accumulating in recently-released 7.4 software. Some of the topics include application-based traffic engineering, Zero Trust application access, ML-driven inline threat blocking, firewall policy abstraction, and integration with cloud and application security solutions.


Unlocking Security Investigations with Cribl Search

Event: Security Field Day 9

Appearance: Cribl Presents at Security Field Day 9

Company: Cribl

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Personnel: David Cavuto

Cribl Search turns the legacy security and forensics experience on its head. With Cribl Search, security professionals can conduct analytics directly on data housed in AWS S3, Azure Blob, and Google GCS, amplifying their investigations when their SIEM issues alerts. Beyond facilitating both threat hunting and event investigation, Cribl Search provides multidimensional aggregates, exposes statistical deviations, offers lookups, and fosters data federation through both structured and unstructured data. All of these benefits come without the need for expensive, vendor-specific storage.


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