Enabling Scalable Enterprise Automation with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Rich Martin

Common and repeatable network requests, whether triggered by users or events, can account for a large portion of a network engineer’s workload. In this Networking Field Day session, Rich Martin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Itential, will demonstrate how to publish end-to-end automations as self-service catalogs and APIs for use with IT systems and event management tools within the Itential Automation Platform.


Integrating a Federated Source of Truth with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Karan Munalingal

Maintaining a single source of truth for network configurations is challenging due to the proliferation of tools and processes such as IPAMs, CMDBs, and IT systems. In this Networking Field Day session, Karan Munalingal, Head of Solutions Engineering at Itential, will demonstrate how the Itential Automation Platform federates a distributed source of truth by integrating multiple systems and automating the change management process associated with network changes.


Automating Configuration Standardization with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Rich Martin

Automation across modern network environments and teams requires automated configuration standardization to ensure any changes do not violate an organization’s network standards. In this Networking Field Day session, Rich Martin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Itential, demonstrates how to simplify configuration standardization with the Itential Automation Platform and create the compliance guardrails needed for secure and reliable end-to-end network automation.


Onboarding Existing Automations with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Peter Sprygada

Most network engineers are automating some tasks on their networks through a combination of open-source tools such as Ansible and one-off scripts like Python. In this Networking Field Day session, Peter Sprygada, VP of Product Management at Itential, demonstrates how to onboard existing network automations with Itential Automation Gateway (IAG) and share them across the networking organization, while ensuring proper authorization, security, and accountability.


Delivering Network Automation at Scale with Itential

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Itential Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Itential

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Personnel: Peter Sprygada

Network engineers are stuck spending their days working through never-ending backlogs of network change requests across multiple network technologies including CLI devices, API-enabled controllers, and public cloud networking elements as well as ensuring adjacent tools are updated to reflect each change. In this Networking Field Day presentation, Peter Spyrgada, VP of Product Management at Itential, introduces the Itential product portfolio and discusses how Itential is helping enterprise organizations deliver network automation at scale.


Innovation in Your Network Service Using IP Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: IP Fabric Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: IP Fabric

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Personnel: Daren Fulwell, Hugo Tinoco


Augmenting Network Operations with IP Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: IP Fabric Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: IP Fabric

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Personnel: Daren Fulwell

Daren Fulwell will present some example use cases of just how customers use IP Fabric to improve their operational processes, and use data from IP Fabric to enrich their wider tooling infrastructure as part of an ecosystem.


Baselining Your Network with IP Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: IP Fabric Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: IP Fabric

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Personnel: Daren Fulwell

Daren Fulwell will show how IP Fabric discovers and models your network of networks, to show just how your users are connected to their services, your sensors to their data stores, and your workloads to the outside world. And then how we run the rule over that model to present insight into the real network’s behavior.


Network Assurance with IP Fabric

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: IP Fabric Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: IP Fabric

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Personnel: Daren Fulwell

Daren Fulwell, IP Fabric Product Evangelist, will introduce the panel to our view of network assurance – gaining full visibility of your multi-vendor network of networks and analysing it to determine that it is delivering service as you intended.


Forward Networks Fireside Chat with Andreas Voellmy

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

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Personnel: Andreas Voellmy, Brandon Heller

Andreas Voellmy, Engineering Director at Forward Networks, sits down with CTO & Co-founder Brandon Heller to answer the hard questions about the evolution of Network Query Engine: “Why did you create a programming language? HOW did you create a programming language? Why not Python?”


Forward Networks Never Quit Evolving with Network Query Engine

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

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Personnel: Kevin Kuhls

How can network operators move beyond the CLI to tackle everyday challenges and get ahead on the path to network automation? Kevin Kuhls, Senior Technical Solutions Architect at Forward Networks, shares the latest improvements to Forward’s Network Query Engine (NQE), a game-changing way to interact with critical network data.


Forward Networks Visibility in the Cloud

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

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Personnel: Craig Johnson

What happens when old money meets new money? Their clouds must merge! Craig Johnson, Senior Technical Solutions Architect at Forward Networks, demonstrates how a Fortune 150 company was able to merge AWS cloud infrastructures following a significant acquisition — without disrupting customers or security policies.


Forward Networks The Breach That Changed My Life

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

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Personnel: Derick Winkworth

“They caught the guy HOW?” Derick Winkworth, Senior Technical Solutions Architect at Forward Networks, dives into the sordid true-network-crime details of “The Breach from Hell” and how it could have been avoided with advanced network modeling software.


Forward Networks All Teams Need Network Data

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

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Personnel: Brandon Heller

How can ALL teams, including security, cloud, compliance, applications, and network ops, benefit from access to network data? Brandon Heller, Co-founder and CTO of Forward Networks, shares a story about a very unique hack-a-thon and explains how Forward’s customers achieve network agility, reliability, and security.


Network to Code Examines Synchronizing Data to Create a Single Source of Truth

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

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Personnel: John Anderson

It is extremely important that a Source of Truth (SoT) be the intended state of the network when the SoT is used to power network automation. However, it is near impossible to store the authoritative data required to manage network configurations in any single application. This is why it is critical to have a framework that synchronizes data from IPAM/DDI platforms, CMDBs, circuit databases, or any other tool that is the authoritative source for that specific dataset into a Single Source of Truth like Nautobot. This allows users to use existing tools while getting the data into a Single Source of Truth that then has a unified view into ALL data and can be used to power network automation.


Network to Code Demos Using ChatOps to Talk to Your Network

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

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Personnel: Tim Schreyack

With network automation, you must consider how not only your network team interacts with the network but also your INTERNAL CUSTOMERS. Who opens every network request you work on? How often are you fielding requests to get data and relay it to another team? Wouldn’t it be great to have a bot respond to requests to bounce a port, check an interface’s VLANs, check a rack elevation diagram, view inventory, view dashboards in tools like Grafana, and a whole lot more? This session showcases network-centric ChatOps demos that combine Microsoft Teams, Webex Teams, Slack, and Mattermost chatting with Arista CloudVision, Cisco ACI, Cisco Meraki, Grafana, Nautobot, IP Fabric, Kentik, Ansible, and more!


Network to Code NetDevOps-Driven Configuration Compliance

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

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Personnel: Tim Schreyack

Network Automation is a journey, and there are still growing trends around NetDevOps learning skills and tools such as JSON, YAML, Jinja2 templating, Python, and Ansible. Many engineers make the potentially risky decision of getting started with automating configuration changes. This session walks through how you can take a gradual path to learning and how you can apply those skills to achieve NetDevOps-Driven Configuration Compliance.


Network to Code Automates Circuit Maintenances

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

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Personnel: Tim Fiola

Managing circuit maintenances and notifications is a well-known problem by network operators. The problem is best seen at the intersection of Source of Truth, circuit management, and network automation. Envision how circuit maintenances are scheduled by Network Service Providers (NSPs), which temporarily affects the actual state of a circuit, and what must be done to ensure network operators and automation tools know the state of a circuit that is ultimately dictated by carriers. This session explains how you can forget about reading notifications and updating your SoT for each circuit maintenance you receive (and there are a lot!) and let Nautobot automatically take care of fetching notifications, normalizing their data (the most common case is that every NSP has its own notification template) and finally updating the SoT, keeping track of past, present and future changes related to circuit maintenances.


Network to Code Nautobot App Platform Overview

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

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Personnel: John Anderson

Network to Code introduced Nautobot last year in 2021, and it has gained significant traction as a Source of Truth. However, going beyond Source of Truth, Nautobot is a low-code network automation development platform that enables “apps” to be built on top of Nautobot to compliment any network automation journey. This session focuses on Nautobot as an App Platform, why the concept of a platform is important, and finally introduces some existing open source Nautobot Apps.


ZPE Systems Demo: Go Beyond Standard Out-of-Band

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

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Personnel: Rene Neumann

This demo goes beyond the standard of remote access. ZPE will show the open ecosystem that makes IT wishes come true by enabling flexible automation & orchestration by Zero Touch/Zero Trust Provisioning, and open 3rd party orchestration stack as well as 3rd party tools like Rumble scanners, pen testing, and automation playbooks.


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