Our second visit on day 2 of Network Field day was Brocade, who incidentally supplied us with a great lunch! We spent a little time going through the expected marketing presentation, fortunately they kept it short and to the point… Next up was another short presentation from Jon Hudson, aka @the_socialist, who started things out […]
Juniper QFabric, Junosphere, Automation, and More
The second day of Network Field Day 2 started early at the Juniper EBC, luckily Abner Germanow was prepared with breakfast for the weary and slightly hung over delegates. He gave us an overview of Juniper Networks as a whole including some back history of how they started innovating by putting routing code into ASICs. […]
Gigamon and the Great Pumpkin
I could’ve just as easily called this article Gigamon… fixing problems you didn’t know about or Why Gigamon scares the crap out of me — but I wont, because they already did! But what I will say, is that Gigamon has become a very interesting product to me… Gigamon’s product line-up mainly consists of optical […]
NEC and ProgrammableFlow Switching
NEC is currently the only Vendor that is shipping an OpenFlow enabled product today. So naturally, their presentation led off with a message about what they’re bringing to the market. If you don’t know anything about OpenFlow, please read my previous post covering the OpenFlow Symposium. Currently, NEC is shipping their OpenFlow implementation as ProgrammableFlow […]
Network Field Day 2 — Comic Edition
During the coarse of NFD2 I found an iPhone app called Halftone, and later, one named ComicStrip that allow you to add some fun effects and speech bubbles to your photos… So, I started in on some of the photos that I took during the trip. After putting a few of them on twitter they […]
Cisco Systems Awesomesauce aka Full Tilt Boogie
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone from Cisco Systems for inviting us into the CCIC (Cisco Cloud Innovation Center), this was an amazing room to hold our discussions. We started off with a greeting from Omar Sultan who then brought our old friend Ron Fuller. Ron gave us a quick […]
