Looking Forward To NFD36!
This is the first of what I hope will become many blogs here on LinkedIn, as I will be using LinkedIn as the new home for my blogs. Before you ask: without the overhead of maintaining e.g. a WordPress website.
I’m also looking forward to being a delegate at Network Field Day 36, #NFD36, November 6-7, along with several other folks I haven’t seen in quite some time!
About the NFD36 Sponsors
As of today (10/17/2024), the presenting firms will be those listed below. Of course, more vendors may be added as the event gets closer. Or not.
NFD has a page dedicated to all the content from each sponsor: recorded presentations, known blogs, etc. After NFD36, this is where you’ll find links to the recorded presentations and delegate blogs.
The following lists each NFD36 vendor’s website, followed by the URL for the vendor-specific TFD/NFD content page. Great way to start learning more about the sponsors!
pathSolutions
PathSolutions sells an all-in-one network, security, cloud, telecom management product, TotalView. My impression is that its focus is on providing key network (etc.) management essentials within a fairly compact network management tool, one that might be particularly useful for fairly small organizations while also capable of supporting them as they grow. One of the selling points is in fact the light hardware footprint required to run TotalView.
My prior blogs about pathSolutions:
They have no blurb about themselves on their TFD page. But hey, their CiscoLive blurb quotes me!
"You might describe (pathSolutions’) TotalView as broad with occasional depth, representing a selected (curated!) set of high-priority management capabilities. To get a feel for that, the?product features page?is impressive!”
aviz
Ok, aviz is new to me, looking forward to learning more about them.
Their NFD blurb:
“Aviz Networks leads Networking 3.0 era by providing “end to end SONiC Stack” – a Networking stack built for providing Open-, Cloud-, AI-first networks. It provides all elements of a Networking Stack. Aviz enables SONiC deployments in data center & edge networks by delivering platform and ASIC agnostic, easy-to-use applications for network observability, orchestration, and assurance. Aviz is ensuring SONiC becomes a ubiquitous, accessible, and intelligent NOS for every stakeholder.”
meter
Meter is also new to me. They reached out to me a few weeks back and I did a drive-by skim of their website. I just read Dave Varnum’s blog at https://overlaid.net/2024/10/15/meter-sets-the-bar-for-network-as-a-service/, and learned that there’s a lot more to Meter than I’d caught in my first pass.
Key takeaway (my version): Meter provides NaaS with its own hardware, like Graphiant perhaps, but offers managing everything as a service.
Meter’s NFD blurb:
“Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, we were founded in 2015 to build enterprise-grade networks that are faster, more accessible, and more secure. Our full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Our long-term ambition is to evolve Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility."
Elisity
I’ve been watching Elisity for some time now. They’ve been adding features at an impressive rate, and have a very interesting sales pitch.
Their key selling point is quickly installing the product and getting your arms around all the IOT/OT devices in e.g. a hospital. Which can be a LOT of devices and vendors!
The goal being to then segment and secure them.
Elisity supports selected Cisco, Arista, and Juniper switches, with segment enforcement in hardware. My impression is that it does a lot that Cisco ISE does, with a narrower focus on device/user identification and segmentation.
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I’ve blogged enough about Elisity that I’m going to be slightly lazy here. See both:
Note that the NetCraftsmen site may be going away soon (so copy off any old blogs you might want a copy of.
Elisity’s supported devices link:
Elisity’s NFD blurb:
“Elisity is a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented in days, without downtime, upon implementation the platform rapidly discovers every device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive device insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph?. This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.”
Arista
I admit it, I haven’t been tracking Arista very closely, just tended to not run across their gear that often. I’ve heard they’re popular for cost, quality, and performance in large and cloud datacenter. Looking forward to NFD36 to get updated on Arista. (What are the odds “AI” will be in a title?)
Their NFD blurb:
“Arista Networks is an industry leader in software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center and campus environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation analytics and security through CloudVision? and Arista EOS?, an advanced network operating system. For more information visit https://www.arista.com."
itential
I’ve been keeping an eye on Itential for a while, for looking like a strong presence in the Networking Automation and Orchestration fields. “SaaS platform for hybrid cloud automation”: a unified automation approach across your networking in other words.
I’m looking forward to learning more about their product, hoping to see some demos to get a feel for what it looks like to a user.
They don’t have a NFD blurb posted. Their TFD page lists presentation topics such as Network Infrastructure As Code.
Itential has made a number of prior Tech Field Day presentations: see the TFD link page URL below.
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