Taking Control of the Last-Mile Delivery

It was great to have Ixia return to Networking Field Day at our most recent event. In this post, Amy Arnold, one of the delegates at the event, digs into their newly announced IxProbe. This provides traffic stats, link status, and when used in conjunction with Ixia’s Hawkeye, a battery of QoS and link quality tests, going a long way to solving the last mile visibility gap.

One API to Rule Them All, and in the Ether(net) Bind Them

Amy Arnold heard from Itential at Networking Field Day, where they showed off an interesting solution. They created an API accessible platform that takes modern API and abstraction focused principles, and leverages them toward solving this problem of API overload. Can an orchestrator of orchestrators, or an API for APIs, help solve the problem? Amy digs into the details in this post.

Network Change Validation Meets Supersized Network Emulation

In this piece, Amy Arnold considers the classic problem of having to roll out large scale network changes when many engineers lack a full-scale lab to do comprehensive testing. This impacts organizations of all sizes, and can cause no end of headaches. At Networking Field Day, Tesuto made their debut presentation, showing how they leverage the cloud to perform large scale emulation of networks, while allowing engineers to leverage modern automation tools and testing.

Arrcus: An Application of Modern OEM Principles for Whitebox Switches

Arrcus definitely made an impression on Amy Arnold after Networking Field Day. If nothing else, it spurred some pirate puns. But perhaps more importantly, she was impressed by their approach to whitebox switching. They showed off the latest with ArcOS, which now leverages advanced capabilities of the Jericho-2 chipset. Be sure to check out the rest of the post for all the details.

Cisco Live 2019 – a Whirlwind of Networking Goodness

It was great to have Amy Arnold as a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019. At the event, NetBeez’s presentation really stood out to her. She’s long been impressed by the monitoring company, and with their recently announced integration with Cat9K switches, there’s even more utility in their solution. Overall it was a busy event for her, but one with a lot of networking goodness.

“Thirteen hundred APs, no open support tickets” – achieving quality in wireless networks

Amy Arnold takes a look at what Mist Systems presented at Mobility Field Day last month. Utilizing a cloud-based micro-services architecture along with a smattering of AI, Amy looks at how Mist can provide customer focused reliability, visibility, and proactive troubleshooting for wireless networks.