Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Forward Networks Visibility in the Cloud
• YouTube: Forward Networks Visibility in the Cloud

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Forward Networks The Breach That Changed My Life
• YouTube: Forward Networks The Breach That Changed My Life

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Forward Networks Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Forward Networks

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Forward Networks All Teams Need Network Data
• YouTube: Forward Networks All Teams Need Network Data

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Network to Code Examines Synchronizing Data to Create a Single Source of Truth
• YouTube: Network to Code Examines Synchronizing Data to Create a Single Source of Truth

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Network to Code Demos Using ChatOps to Talk to Your Network
• YouTube: Network to Code Demos Using ChatOps to Talk to Your Network

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!

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Network to Code NetDevOps-Driven Configuration Compliance
• YouTube: Network to Code NetDevOps-Driven Configuration Compliance

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Network to Code Automates Circuit Maintenances
• YouTube: Network to Code Automates Circuit Maintenances

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: Network to Code

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Network to Code Nautobot App Platform Overview
• YouTube: Network to Code Nautobot App Platform Overview

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ZPE Systems Demo: Go Beyond Standard Out-of-Band
• YouTube: ZPE Systems Demo: Go Beyond Standard Out-of-Band

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ZPE Systems Demo: Hands On With Gen 3 Out-of-Band
• YouTube: ZPE Systems Demo: Hands On With Gen 3 Out-of-Band

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ZPE Systems Gen 3 Out-of-Band Customer Use Cases
• YouTube: ZPE Systems Gen 3 Out-of-Band Customer Use Cases

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.

Event: Networking Field Day 27

Appearance: ZPE Systems Presents at Networking Field Day 27

Company: ZPE Systems

Video Links:

• Vimeo: ZPE Systems Zero Pain Ecosystem Overview
• YouTube: ZPE Systems Zero Pain Ecosystem Overview

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.

Event:

Appearance: Intel AI and Machine Learning Showcase

Company: Intel

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Intel – Python Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale
• YouTube: Intel – Python Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale

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

Event:

Appearance: Intel AI and Machine Learning Showcase

Company: Intel

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Intel is Enabling AI Everywhere
• YouTube: Intel is Enabling AI Everywhere

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

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Cisco

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Cisco 5G Packet and RAN Transport Architecture
• YouTube: Cisco 5G Packet and RAN Transport Architecture

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.

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Arista’s Service Provider Opportunity
• YouTube: Arista’s Service Provider Opportunity

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.

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Arista Infrastructure-as-Code for Carrier Networking
• YouTube: Arista Infrastructure-as-Code for Carrier Networking

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.

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Simplifying the Network Edge and Core with Arista
• YouTube: Simplifying the Network Edge and Core with Arista

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).

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Arista Merchant Silicon for Service Providers
• YouTube: Arista Merchant Silicon for Service Providers

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.

Event: Networking Field Day: Service Provider

Appearance: Arista Presents at Networking Field Day Service Provider

Company: Arista

Video Links:

• Vimeo: Arista Cloud Grade Routing Overview
• YouTube: Arista Cloud Grade Routing Overview

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.