Networking Field Day 38
21 Episodes
Enterprise networks are complicated but outsourcing all of the operations team doesn’t lead to better outcomes. It’s important to remember that enterprise covers a wide range of network definitions. In this episode, Ed Weadon, Chris Grundemann, and Jody Lemoine join Tom Hollingsworth as they discuss how businesses see the network and IT in general as a cost center instead of value generation. They also talk about the various sizes of networks and why each of them has issues with the most popular outsourcing methods. They also discuss the human factor and why not all managed providers can give you the same level of service.
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Nathan Nielsen on the Rapid Evolution of Networking and Its Future - Delegate Dialogues
Episode 1
Nathan Nielsen, Principal Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology and a new delegate at Networking Field Day 38, shares his experience engaging in peer-to-peer conversations with fellow industry experts. With a focus on campus and branch networking, Nathan reflects on the rapid evolution of ...
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Exploring AI & Data Center Networking with Ryan Harris - Delegate Dialogues
Episode 2
Ryan Harris, one of Tech Field Day’s newest delegates and a participant in Networking Field Day 38, shares insights from his work with client networks, focusing on security and infrastructure. He discusses what he learned about AI and data center networking during a recent presentation, and how t...
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Experience the Energy of Networking Field Day!
Episode 3
Networking Field Day 38 is set to run July 9–10 with a strong lineup of presenters and new delegates. The event kicks off with Aviz Networks, exploring the relationship between AI and networking, followed by a popular roundtable session and a return from Hedgehog, joined by a customer to share re...
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65. Enterprises Shouldn't Be Outsourcing Their IT Anymore - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 4
Enterprise networks are complicated but outsourcing all of the operations team doesn’t lead to better outcomes. It’s important to remember that enterprise covers a wide range of network definitions. In this episode, Ed Weadon, Chris Grundemann, and Jody Lemoine join Tom Hollingsworth as they disc...
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Aviz Network Copilot with Thomas Scheibe
Episode 5
Aviz Networks introduced Network Copilot (NCP), their private AI platform built for NetOps, emphasizing their vision of "Networks for AI, AI for Networks" and enabling open networking with SONiC and LLMs. Aviz Networks, a software networking company founded in 2019, aims to revolutionize networki...
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49:41Episode 6
Aviz Networks Network Copilot Demo
Episode 6
In this Networking Field Day session, Aviz Networks introduced Network Copilot (NCP), their private AI platform built for NetOps, emphasizing their vision of "Networks for AI, AI for Networks" and enabling open networking with SONiC and LLMs. The demonstration showcased NCP as a self-hosted softw...
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Networking Field Day Delegate Roundtable: Networking Needs to Evolve
Episode 7
In a roundtable discussion, the delegates at Networking Field Day 38, led by Tom Hollingsworth, explored the evolving role of networking within organizations, moving beyond the traditional "boring is good" approach. The key question revolves around whether the network should remain a commoditized...
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How Zipline Uses Hedgehog for AI Training
Episode 8
Zipline is a drone delivery company that trains AI on private cloud infrastructure to autonomously fly drones and drop packages in precise delivery locations. Florian Berchtold, Zipline's Principal Engineer responsible for AI developer productivity, highlighted Hedgehog's crucial role in their op...
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15:38Episode 9
Hedgehog VPC Peering Demonstration
Episode 9
Hedgehog CTO Manish Vachharajani reviewed how Hedgehog simplifies AI networking with a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) abstraction used by customers like Zipline, emphasizing the complexities of designing modern GPU training networks with multiple ports and intricate configurations. Hedgehog addresse...
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41:15Episode 10
Hedgehog Gateway Demonstration
Episode 10
Hedgehog CTO Manish Vachharajani explained how Hedgehog gateway peering functions as a new component to overcome limitations of switch-based VPC peering. While switch-based peering offers full cut-through bandwidth, traditional switches lack the CPU and RAM for stateful network functions like fir...
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17:16Episode 11
cPacket Introduction with Mark Grodzinsky
Episode 11
cPacket's presence kicked off by revisiting highlights from previous Networking Field Day and Security Field Day events, providing an overview of the evolution of cPacket's Network Observability platform and introducing AI-driven innovations, framed by their Value Equation and Customer Value Jour...
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cPacket Service Assurance: Realtime Video Production
Episode 12
Real-time video environments demand precision and speed. Troubleshooting can't wait for decoding or downstream analysis. In this session, cPacket explored how packet-level observability enables immediate detection of transport-layer issues like encoder faults, fiber/switch errors, and edge-to-clo...
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19:26Episode 13
cPacket Service Assurance: MTTR Reduction
Episode 13
When service disruptions or connection issues impact key applications, speed of diagnosis is everything. This session highlighted how cPacket enables real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and triage using packet-level data. It showcased how IT teams can use LLM-powered interaction, Observabili...
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cPacket Proactive Service Assurance and Compliance
Episode 14
Latency issues don't always wait for end users to notice and neither should your operations team. In this session, cPacket demonstrated how they enable proactive latency detection using leading indicators, full-path packet monitoring, and anomaly detection. With integrations into LLM-powered work...
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13:05Episode 15
cPacket NOC–SOC Convergence: Compliance
Episode 15
At Security Field Day 13, cPacket explored how Network Observability empowers SecOps teams to elevate their threat detection and response. In this session, they shifted the lens to NetOps, examining the growing convergence between NOC (Network Operations Center) and SOC (Security Operations Cente...
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17:59Episode 16
cPacket Observability for AI
Episode 16
Modern AI workloads rely on high-performance, low-latency GPU clusters, but traditional observability tools fall short in diagnosing issues across these dense, distributed environments. In this session, cPacket explored how they augment GPU and storage telemetry (DCGM/NVML/IOPS) with full-fidelit...
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HPE Aruba Networking Executive Overview with James Robertson
Episode 17
James Robertson, VP & GM, kicked off the session by outlining HPE Aruba Networking's focus on two significant industry shifts: AI for networking (AI-powered NetOps) and networking for AI. The former aims to enhance network efficiency and effectiveness using AI, while the latter is positioned as a...
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Simplify Network Management with HPE Aruba Networking Central
Episode 18
Learn about AI, deep platform intelligence, self-optimizing, observability, troubleshooting and more. Dobias van Ingen, CTO and VP for System Engineers at HPE Aruba Networking, detailed the evolution of Aruba Central, emphasizing its role in addressing common enterprise challenges like domain fra...
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Modernize Virtualization Stack with HPE Aruba Networking CX Switches
Episode 19
Marty Ma, Director of Product Management for HPE Aruba Networking's CX switching strategy, presented on modernizing the virtualization stack with HPE Aruba Networking CX Switches. He introduced new products and recent integrations that unify HPE's offerings. The CX switch portfolio, established i...
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Expanding Access Points as a Platform Capabilities
Episode 20
This presentation shows the features & benefits of Wi-Fi 7 APs including flex-radios, dynamic antennas, IoT, containers and more. Jerrod Howard, a hardware product manager at Aruba, introduced the concept of the Access Point (AP) as a platform, highlighting how HPE Aruba Networking is building it...
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Edge to Cloud Security: Harnessing NAC, SASE and ZTNA
Episode 21
See new Central cloud native NAC; SASE with SSE, SD-WAN & NAC; new ZTNA natively in SD-WAN Gateways. Adam Fuoss, VP of Product for EdgeConnect SD-WAN, outlined HPE Aruba Networking's integrated SASE portfolio, comprising SSE (Security Service Edge) for cloud-based security focused on ZTNA (Zero T...