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.


ZPE Systems Demo: Hands On With Gen 3 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

In this video, see a live demo of a real customer deployment. We will remotely demo an IT admin in Europe managing infrastructure as if they are virtually present in California. Including connectivity, security, automation of critical edge infrastructure.


ZPE Systems Gen 3 Out-of-Band Customer Use Cases

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

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Personnel: Arnaldo Zimmermann, Koroush Saraf

See how the world’s most technologically advanced enterprises transform business processes, increase uptime, and improve security & performance. Explore modern use cases for Gen 3 OOBI, NetOps / NetDevOps, next-gen SD-Branch gateways, and AIOps automation.


ZPE Systems Zero Pain Ecosystem Overview

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

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Personnel: Arnaldo Zimmermann, Koroush Saraf

Explore the gaps in existing solutions and the downtime-inducing issues that inspired development of our Zero Pain Ecosystem. See ZPE’s core elements that enable the world’s largest enterprises to improve network reliability, address personnel & expertise shortages, and strengthen weak security postures. Learn about the latest Gen 3 requirements and see the blueprints for implementing the Zero Pain Ecosystem in data center, campus, colocation, branch, and edge environments.


Intel – Python Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale

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Appearance: Intel AI and Machine Learning Showcase

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Todd Tomashek

This Tech Field Day Showcase is sponsored by Intel and presented by Todd Tomashek, Software Engineering Manager in Machine Learning Performance at Intel.

Key Insights: Intel is working to improve workloads for artificial intelligence (AI) developers and data scientists by offering a wide variety of AI Python optimizations and tools. Whether you are at the beginning of your AI journey and looking to learn more, or you consider yourself a data science veteran, you can find great insight about Intel’s tools and technology offerings through this showcase and the accompanying resources.

For more information, you can view the following resources:
Python Data Science and AI Analytics
Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn Performance


Intel is Enabling AI Everywhere

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Appearance: Intel AI and Machine Learning Showcase

Company: Intel

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Personnel: Nufar Gaspar

Many businesses recognize the value and importance of utilizing AI technologies. However, incorporating AI technologies into work processes successfully can be difficult, and many AI projects tend to fail. In response to this, Intel has determined factors that cause AI projects to fail and has established guiding principles that can help people succeed in using AI in their work. Join Nufar Gaspar, Director of AI Everywhere at the AI Center of Excellence at Intel IT, in this Tech Field Day Showcase where she discusses the company’s vision of transforming work with AI technologies, and the strategies and resources Intel is using in an effort to make that vision a reality.

For more information, you can view these resources from Intel:
How Intel Uses AI to Identify Sales & Marketing Opportunities
Building Intel’s AI Center of Excellence
AI Improves Sales Account Coverage
Push-Button Productization of AI Models
Artificial Intelligence Reduces Costs and Accelerates Time to Market

 


Cisco 5G Packet and RAN Transport Architecture

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Waris Sagheer

The session covers the new transport requirements for 5G (latency, bandwidth, scale, flexible service placement, MEC), Cisco proposed solution converged SDN transport to address those requirements, cloud-agnostic networking to host infra on public clouds, network slicing, and automation through Cisco Crosswork platform.


Arista’s Service Provider Opportunity

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Anshul Sadana

Introduction of Arista’s cloud networking approach and how it is addressing Service Provider transitions. Anshul describes how Arista’s foundation in spine / leaf network designs for the cloud data centers transitioned into the WAN interconnect roles for Arista’s ethernet switches. With the demand for high speed ethernet in the WAN, Arista’s ‘switches’ were pulled into ‘routing’ roles. This demand combined with the more capable merchant silicon chipsets and an investment in modern routing software (protocols, APIs, etc) has allowed Arista to address broader use-cases in routing roles.


Arista Infrastructure-as-Code for Carrier Networking

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Carl Buchmann, Richard Bayliss

Rich discusses the landscape for automating network operations in a service provider environment using software-driven control techniques. Topics include OpenConfig/NetCONFIG/YANG, state-streaming / gRPC, declarative provisioning, and workflow / service automation, and Carl explains Arista’s extensible automation framework and demonstrates a particular use-case for service provisioning using one of Arista’s Ansible Collection integration solutions.


Simplifying the Network Edge and Core with Arista

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Alex Nichol

Alex covers the routing use cases that Arista focuses on, including Provider Edge, Metro Edge, and Backbone Transport use-cases. The session focused on how Arista helps to simplify Service Provider networks using the modern, open protocols and a scale-out architectural approach to network design. A discussion of how EVPN and Segment routing provides a consolidated control plane with options for both modern greenfield deployments and migration options for brownfield deployments (MPLS, RSVP-TE, VPLS).


Arista Merchant Silicon for Service Providers

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Hugh Holbrook

Hugh provides an in-depth look at how merchant silicon hardware-platforms meet modern routing use-case needs, giving customers best-of-breed solutions with time-to-market and economies of scale benefits. Arista’s platform portfolio is based on a variety of merchant silicon architectures, all with a common EOS software approach for operational consistency. Hugh takes us through the basic principles of merchant silicon, how merchant silicon trends apply to service providers, and what Arista does to differentiate merchant silicon with software abstraction techniques that help in product quality and execution.


Arista Cloud Grade Routing Overview

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

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Personnel: Shyam Kota

While Arista doesn’t build legacy ‘routers’, Arista very much does provide modern ‘routing’ for cloud, service provider, and enterprise use-cases. Shyam discusses Cloud Grade Routing and Arista’s software-first approach to Internet routing, aligning with the modern internet transitions to support over-the-top video, mobile/5G, provider edge, AI-driven compute, and edge compute deployments. Arista has pioneered application of cloud networking principles of scale-out, simplify, software-driven networking. Arista is transforming Routing based on these principles, delivered on Arista’s 7280R/R2/R3 Universal Leaf as well as 7500R/R2/R3, 7800R3 Universal Spine platforms (10G, 100G, 400G), powered by Arista EOS® with its modern publish-subscribe and resilient architecture. Arista EOS supports a broad routing stack including internet scale routing, modern protocols like EVPN and Segment Routing, and automation tools such as state-streaming, and OpenConfig/gNMI.


Cisco 8000 Series Portfolio Update

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Ammar Khan, Iqbal Syed, Mauricio Cruz Covarrubias

Cisco 8000 is the newest addition to the Cisco’s Service Provider Routing portfolio and is the fastest growing routing platform in the industry. This session provides a high-level overview of the Cisco 8000 series routers and you’ll see the entire Cisco 8000 series portfolio and its differentiated value proposition.


Cisco Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Case Studies for Service Provider and Data Center Network

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jiri Chaloupka

In the presentation by Jiri Chaloupka, a deep dive into Cisco’s Ethernet VPN (EVPN) over IOS XR portfolio was provided, emphasizing the ongoing investment in service overlays. Chaloupka outlined the evolution of network underlays and overlays, highlighting the transition from traditional MPLS and IP-based underlays in service provider and data center networks to more unified and simplified approaches using Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) and EVPN. The core of the discussion revolved around the advantages of employing EVPN as a single control plane across diverse network environments, enabling seamless integration and operation between service provider cores, access layers, and data centers.

Chaloupka detailed various case studies and deployment scenarios, illustrating how EVPN facilitates not only Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN) services but also Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN) services across all network domains. He emphasized the critical role of EVPN in bridging the gap between service provider networks and data centers, especially in the context of 5G and virtualization, where the convergence of these traditionally separate domains is increasingly important. The presentation covered the technical challenges of integrating EVPN in brownfield deployments, the interoperability between different network technologies, and the benefits of a unified BGP control plane for end-to-end service delivery.

A significant portion of the discussion was dedicated to explaining how EVPN can simplify network operations, enhance scalability, and improve network resilience. Chaloupka also touched upon the future direction of integrating EVPN with various data plane technologies, including MPLS, SRv6, and VxLAN, to cater to the specific needs of different network deployments. The presentation underscored Cisco’s commitment to advancing EVPN technology and its applicability across a wide range of networking scenarios, from service provider networks to data center interconnects.


Cisco Segment Routing IPv6 (SRv6) – Record Speed Standardization and Deployment

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jose Liste

In this session, you will learn the latest SRv6 standardization news and the key milestones reached for mainstream adoption. You’ll also learn about SRv6 network programming and how the game-changing technology, micro-programming, can be used to bring massive scale to existing networks.


Cisco Secure Zero-Touch with IOS XR: Seamless Trust Enabled on Day Zero

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Akshat Sharma

This session does a deep dive into the RFC-8572 compliant Secure ZTP implementation on IOS-XR. Cisco showcases how this allows Cisco Service-Provider platforms to enable standards-based, end-to-end secure workflows on Day 0 of network deployment, for the first time in the industry.


Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) 3.0 Update

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Krishnan Thirukonda

Crosswork Network Controller is automation solution enabling SDN for transport networks and provides service and transport provisioning with advance SLAs using Traffic Engineering, and provides path computation, visualization, monitoring and optimization as well as service health monitoring capabilities for large scale transport networks. This session focuses on the new innovations that are now available as part of the latest release of Cisco Crosswork Network Controller 3.0.


Cisco Routed Optical Networking: Why it’s Time for IP and Optical

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Rana El Desouky Kazamel

This session covers the Cisco Routed OpticaI Networking architecture, which is a key architecture shift towards IP and Optical convergence that can achieve up to 45% TCO savings. Cisco showcases its new innovation on routing silicon, optics, optical and Crosswork automation driving this architecture transition. Learn about how network operations is simplified via Crosswork Automation that provides a single pane of glass to manage multi-vendor, multi-domain IP and Optical networks.


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