AI Networks Can't Use SDN. Netris Built What's Next.
Alex Saroyan had about ninety seconds onstage before he made the architectural claim that the rest of the AI-networking conversation has been ducking.
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AI NOC, Not AI-on-NOC: Aviz Flips the Stack
Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud.
Vendor PSA: A Field Guide to Field Day
Field Day vendors pay real money to get in front of a room full of independent engineers. These engineers have zero obligation to write a post, produce content, or even discuss anything they see.
Ethernet Commoditizes Everything. Except EOS
Halfway through Tom Emmons’ scale-out segment at NFD40, a fellow delegate looked at Arista’s load-balancing slide and said what most of us were thinking… this could have any vendor’s logo on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 networking software company.
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.
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.
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. Networking Field Day 15 kicks off April 6 and 7th in San Jose California.
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.
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 first public …
Networking Field Day 13 – Sneak Preview
This is going to be a busy week for the Tech Field Day family. They have delegates en-route to Tech Field Day 12 this morning, and Wednesday the crew for Network Field day 13 arrive.
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.
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” presentation, it was truly a …
Vendor PSA: Words and Phrases to Avoid in Presentations
Over the years IT professionals have sat through countless presentations, conference calls, and keynotes.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Tech Field Day: OpenFlow Symposium
What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a proposed standard for exchanging flow data between controllers and networking devices.
Networking Field Day 2
Have you heard the news?