Ethan Banks had a briefing with ReSTNSX, and they demoed their VMware NSX-enhancing platform to him. Have a listen for Ethan’s impressions of the demo.
BiB 034 Virtual Instruments at A3 Technology Live Feb 2018
Virtual Instruments has visibility and testing tools for FibreChannel networks.
BiB 033 – Micron Technologies at A3 Technology Live
Are there signs of change in the storage marketplace ? Yes, I think so.
BiB 32: Netscout Adds Security Chaining To nGenius PFS5000
Netscout talked to Ethan Banks about how they are unifying visibility fabrics inside of an IT team with features like security tool chains.
BiB 31: VMware NSX 6.4 Release Notes Round Up
Ethan Banks does a quick walk through of VMware’s official release notes for NSX 6.4.
BiB 30: Mellanox, Ixia & Cumulus At NFD17 – VXLAN & Whitebox
Mellanox, Ixia, and Cumulus Networks shared the presentation stage at Networking Field Day 17 to talk EVPN VXLAN, whitebox switching, open source, and data center design and performance validation.
BiB 029: Cisco At NFD17 – Automation, Telemetry & Intent
Cisco Systems presented at Networking Field Day 17. Three broad themes emerged from the presentations: intent, automation, and telemetry.
BiB 028: VMware NSX At NFD17 – SD-WAN & Security
VMware presented at Network Field Day 17. The company covered several topics, including an update on VeloCloud, NSX-T features, and a dive into the latest version of vSphere.
BiB 027: Juniper Networks At NFD17 – A Platform Emerges
Juniper Networks presented for a second day at Network Field Day 17, this time focusing on Appformix for analytics & automation; and PeerBot, a BGP configuration application.
BiB 26: Extreme Networks At NFD17 – Composing Workflows For Mean Time To Payrise
Extreme Networks demonstrates network automation via Workflow Composer and StackStorm at Network Field Day 17.
BiB 25: ThousandEyes At NFD17 – Expanding Into User Experience
ThousandEyes presented at Network Field Day 17 on Internet visibility, monitoring customer experience, and improving mean time to innocence for the network.
BiB 24: Juniper OpenContrail At NFD17 – One Fabric To Bind Them
Juniper brings OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation & expands the commercial Contrail for security and multi-cloud. Recorded live at Network Field Day 17.
BiB 023: netYCE Is Orchestrated Control Of Your Network
NetYCE gives Ethan Banks an overview of their platform and shares some of the latest capabilities they’ve baked in.
BiB 022: CloudPassage Adds Container Security To Halo Platform
CloudPassage talked with the Packet Pushers about Container Secure, a product announcement they made at AWS re:Invent earlier this year. Ethan Banks shares his impressions.
BiB 021: LightStep Performance Monitoring For Cloud Native Applications
LightStep cofounder Ben Sigelman briefed Ethan Banks on their SaaS performance monitoring product with microsecond resolution for cloud native apps.
BiB 20: Broadcom Tomahawk 3 Announced With 32x400G ports
Holy cow. Broadcom Tomahawk 3 is a 32 x 400G ASIC at lower power, latency and reduced cost/100G speed. Built for the cloud it signals the next generation of 200G/400G Ethernet is on its way.
BiB 019 – Juniper Networks Moves OpenContrail to Linux Foundation
If you have the word “open” in your product then you must be open. The transition from ‘mine’ to ‘sharing a bit’ to ‘open’ seems to have been painful for Juniper. This isn’t leadership, this is being forced to move to open by customers. …. announcing its intent to move the codebase for OpenContrail™, an…
BiB 018: Juniper Announces Bots For Network Automation
Juniper Networks has announced a trio of bots that aim to accelerate the adoption of automation in enterprise networks.
BiB 017: Barefoot Networks Introduces Deep Insight
Barefoot Networks is big in the programmable networking space, known for their Tofino chip as well as the P4 programming language. In this briefing, Barefoot announced Barefoot Deep Insight, a network monitoring system they claim goes deep on every packet in the network. Ethan Banks reports.
BiB 016: Automated Microsegmentation With Cisco Tetration #NFD16
Cisco Tetration came out of the gate as a deep analytics and insights platform and is rapidly iterating on a variety of use cases. In this briefing, Cisco discussed how Tetration can be used for network security. Ethan Banks discusses.
BiB 015: Kemp 360 Vision Proactively Monitors Application Delivery Fabric #NFD16
Kemp 360 Vision is a SaaS product helping enterprises understand their application delivery fabric and stay ahead of problems using proactive monitoring.
BiB 014: GigaSECURE Feeds IPFIX To Splunk #NFD16
Ethan Banks summarizes a briefing he received at NFD16, where Gigamon describes sending rich metadata feeds as IPFIX records from GigaSECURE to Splunk.
BiB 013: Arista Networks On 400G #NFD16
Ethan Banks highlights interesting points from a presentation on 400G by Arista Founder, Chief Development Officer, and Chairman Andy Bechtolsheim.
BIB 012 – VMware NSX buys Velocloud – Analysis
Velocloud is an SD-WAN company that has focussed on software-only solution. SD-WAN products tend to split into different types – router replacements like Viptela/Cisco where the SD-WAN functions are device centred. Velocloud has built a network of POPs around the world and traffic is routed to those POPs. The POPs then backhaul the traffic over…
BIB 011 – Fibre Mountain Connect L-Series
Fibermountain has released the AllPath® Connect L-Series. Its a little difficult to explain what Fibermountain does, its not something you encounter every day. This is a software-controlled Layer 1 switch with 5 nanosecond port-to-port latency. You can path cables directly using a controller / GUI / CLI and universal physical tap solution that you can…
