On the second day of Network Field Day 31 BackBox presented their automation tool. Task Automation VS Network Automation Network automation is still in its early stages. Some vertical industries have already adopted automation with a huge impact on business, but most enterprises are still in the study phase. But is …

I'm happy to be part again of the Tech Field Day delegates attending Networking Field Day 31 on April 12-13, 2023. From the beginning of my career in IT, I have always found it important to be up-to-date on the latest technologies. Attending events plays a very important role to learn and exchange ideas and experiences …

Due to Covid restrictions NFD23 as many other events is remote. As a delegate it is my duty to adjust the quality of my home studio to the standards that viewers of Tech Field Day events expect. Warning That's what I wrote in the budget request to pass the WAF test 😜 Here's a brief description of my setup. Webcam My …

The second day of NFD23 with Arista. I already had an opportunity to see Arista at NFD16 in 2017. CloudVision Arista started with the correct first step, declaring upfront the problems they expect to solve with CloudVision: What networking problem are you trying to solve? @AristaNetworks has a plan at #NFD23 …

The third presenter of the second day of NFD23 is Juniper Networks. I'm curious to see how Juniper integrated the MIST features across their portfolio. Marvis After the acquisition of Mist, Juniper started to add AI to it's product line, including EX Switches. The path is clear, weel defined and execution follows the …

PathSolutions show how they think network monitoring should work presenting TotalView at NFD23. TL;DR PathSolutions want to solve a well known problem: quite often monitoring software can't help to troubleshoot, they only offer a bunch of values and counters the network operator needs to interpret. TotalView by …

CatchPoint present their Digital Experience Monitoring platform on the first day of NFD23. How it works, very short version CatchPoint provides a monitoring platform for SaaS and custom services. Monitoring nodes can run on CatchPoint infrastructure and on clients, servers and containers provided by the users. When …

NFD23 kicks off with IPFabric. The presentation performed by the CEO Pavel Bykov, CEO and Co-Founder and Daren Fulwell, Product Evangelist was on point to share the mission of IPFabric and some of its most impressive features. IPFabric in short: a tool to create network snapshots that include configurations and state. …

Day two of NFD16 with Cisco. The presentation was split in two parts. First part for Intersight, second part for Tetration. I'll post here just a few thoughts about Intersight. Merakify all the servers! What's Cisco Intersight? If you're familiar with cloud-managed devices like Meraki the concept is quite similar. A …

Day two of NFD16 started with Apstra and their intent-based networking system. Intent concept is not as broad as SDN but still vendors have different views of this meaning. According to Apstra an intent is "the definition of the expected outcome". The sum of the intents of a network is the source of truth. Read Sasha …

Second part of Tech Field Day NFD16 day 1 continues with Arista. Getting ready for @AristaNetworks #NFD16 pic.twitter.com/SCWXVGsR2l — Gian Paolo (@gp_ifconfig) September 13, 2017 Arista's presentation included 400G (hist: it's fast!), EOS programmability, Network Automation and Telemetry, Routing Architecture …

First day at Tech Field Day NFD16, I'm quite excited to be here among fellow network engineers to share our views on products and technologies. I'm planning to post my takeaways for each vendor with variable lengths based on my knowledge and interest of the specific product. Today's first presenter is Veriflow. Let's …