Off the Cuff – NFD20 Wrap Up

From a rainy recording in Silicon Valley, Jordan Martin gathered together some fellow delegates from Networking Field Day to discuss what they heard at the event. They run down each presenter and discuss what stood out and struck their interest. Guests include Mario Gingras, Nick Shoemaker, Richard McIntosh, Brian Gleason, and Drew Conry-Murray.

Juniper Buries the Headline at NFD20

Brian Gleason thought Juniper Networks had one of the best presentations at Networking Field Day last month. Instead of focusing on routing and switching, the company took the time to highlight their free educational tools. NRE Labs particularly impressed Brian. Instead of being a lead-gen bait and switch, NRE Labs is a GitHub-hosted set of learning resources for network engineers not yet comfortable with automation and programming. It has lessons for beginners, but is also designed to help move beyond the basics. It’s a refreshingly helpful set of resources from Juniper.

Fortinet SD-WAN at Network Field Day 20

Brian Gleason got to hear from Fortinet at Networking Field Day earlier this month. The timing couldn’t be better, as the company has achieved a bit of prominence due to the recent rash of massive security breaches. For Brian, solutions like Fortinet FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer are critical for the complext task of monitoring and acting on attack signatures. In this post, he looks at the company’s overall architecture and digs into the technical details of how they provide solutions across SD-WAN, security, endpoint protection, WiFi, and switching.

PathSolutions Presents

Brian Gleason was a delegate at our recent Networking Field Day event. He and the other delegates got to hear from PathSolutions among the many presentations. Despite having a UI that could charitably called functional, Brian was impressed by what he saw from their TotalView monitoring solution. This looks at all interfaces on a network device and polls 19 interface counters to give a complete picture of health, and presents it in a logical layout.

Brian Gleason

Lead network engineer with over 20 years experience in financial, biomedical, and high-tech sectors.