Tech-Field-Day

Industry & Events

One Throat to Choke, or Any Silicon You Want: Cisco at NFD40

Cisco showed up to NFD40 selling two different pitches in the same session, and nobody on stage reconciled them.

2026.04.22 · 6 min
Industry & Events

Lightyear at NFD40: Can Software Fix the Telecom Lifecycle?

Anyone who has managed carrier circuits for a living knows the pain. Quoting takes forever. Installs drag on with zero visibility.

2026.04.16 · 5 min
Industry & Events

Nokia at NFD40: Networking in the AI Era

I’ve been building networks for nearly thirty years. I understand leaf-spine fabrics, BGP design, VRF isolation, ECMP, and congestion management.

2026.04.15 · 6 min
Industry & Events

Networking Field Day 40 – Back at it again

I’m Heading to Networking Field Day 40 I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a delegate for Networking Field Day 40, taking place April 8–10, 2026 in Silicon Valley.

2026.02.26 · 4 min
Industry & Events

Introducing Graphiant: The Future of Network-as-a-Service

As businesses continue to shift towards remote and distributed work environments, the need for secure and reliable network infrastructure has never been greater.

2022.12.15 · 3 min
Industry & Events

IP Infusion powering the world from behind the scenes

Founded by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa the founders of GNU Zebra, came together to form IP Infusion back in 1999 as a commercial-grade, hardware-independent …

2017.08.01 · 2 min
Industry & Events

VMware NSX is something something awesome

At times I have trouble focusing on writing articles for some of the presentations I am exposed to at Tech Field Day. Because of that, I really wanted to try something different.

2017.07.31 · 4 min
Industry & Events

PNDA provides scalable and reactive network analytics

During Networking Field Day 15 our friends from the Linux Foundation, including Lisa Caywood, briefed us on a recent “acquisition” from Cisco.

2017.04.13 · 4 min
Industry & Events

Networking Field Day 15 – A new delegate emerges

Yet again I find myself honored, and questioning their selection methods, by being selected for a Networking Field Day event.

2017.03.17 · 2 min
Industry & Events

Ixia Vision ONE – Tap the Planet

Whenever I start talking about network visibility and aggreagation taps I can’t help but think of The Matrix.

2017.02.15 · 2 min
Industry & Events

Forward Networks – A forward approach to formal verification

Forward Networks has stepped out of the shadows to announce their Network Assurance platform, and I was fortunate enough to be a delegate for Networking Field Day 13 to see their …

2017.02.14 · 3 min
Industry & Events

Networking Field Day 13 – Sneak Preview

This is going to be a busy week for the Tech Field Day family.

2016.11.14 · 4 min
Industry & Events

Cisco ISR 4000 – Now with more licensing!

This week at Interop NYC, Cisco launched it’s ISR 4000 Series. This is a new approach for them focused on delivering services to your branch offices.

2014.10.07 · 4 min
Industry & Events

HP talks SDN at Interop NYC 2014

I generally try to avoid oversharing when it comes to my thoughts about presentations, but I have to mention that after sitting down with Glue Networks and their “SDN” …

2014.10.07 · 2 min
Homelab & Misc

Vendor PSA: Words and Phrases to Avoid in Presentations

Over the years IT professionals have sat through countless presentations, conference calls, and keynotes.

2013.06.20 · 2 min
Industry & Events

Brocade and VCS… quite impressive

Our second visit on day 2 of Network Field day was Brocade, who incidentally supplied us with a great lunch!

2011.11.16 · 4 min
Industry & Events

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.

2011.11.04 · 4 min
Industry & Events

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!

2011.11.03 · 3 min
Industry & Events

NEC and ProgrammableFlow Switching

NEC is currently the only Vendor that is shipping an OpenFlow enabled product today.

2011.11.03 · 3 min
Industry & Events

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 …

2011.11.01 · 1 min
Industry & Events

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 …

2011.10.31 · 3 min
Industry & Events

The OpenFlow Symposium

Well, here is the update that I promised you. I’ve spent the last few days with some of the top minds in Networking industry.

2011.10.31 · 3 min
Industry & Events

Tech Field Day: OpenFlow Symposium

What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a proposed standard for exchanging flow data between controllers and networking devices.

2011.10.26 · 1 min
Industry & Events

Networking Field Day 2

Have you heard the news?

2011.10.04 · 2 min