I have one way to describe the Broadcom session at NFD22, that term is NERDGASM! The presenters had to be some of the guys who are designing these chips, the depth of knowledge they had was incredible.

Broadcom are the engineers that make the merchant silicon chips that manufacturers like Cisco, Juniper, Arista, etc all use in their hardware. As you can see from the slide above, Broadcom is the heart of the unit as it is the silicon inside the switch/router.

Recently I attended Networking Field Day 22 (NFD22) in San Jose, CA as a delegate. By attending NFD you may be exposed to companies that you may not normally come across. The company that I am going to talk about here is called Gluware and more specifically about how they can help with keeping your network configurations in compliance with the desired state.

What Gluware is wants to do you for your business is be the solution that can solve the automation and configuration compliance challenges. Their mission is “to apply powerful intelligence to enable transformative automation.” They also did state that they are a multivendor and multidomain ( LAN / WAN / Wireless) solution, which in my experience is important as multi-vendor networks are common.

There was something they mentioned that resonated with me. It was how they summed up the current state of automation into three main parts:

Recently I attended Networking Field Day 22 (NFD22) in San Jose, CA as a delegate. By attending NFD you may be exposed to companies that you may not normally come across. The first company that presented, DriveNets, was one of those companies and here is their story.

DriveNets was founded a little over 4 years ago with a mission to “disrupt network economics with growth-ready cloud-based infrastructure.” Their main target market is the Tier 1 ISP ( ATT, NTT, Level3, etc). They started with four things in mind.

1. Software-Based
2. Scale
3. Open Architecture
4. Simple Operation

When you look at a “legacy service provider” network, you will see that there are four primary layers. You have

• Last Mile (CE Router)
• Metro Aggregation (Metro)
• Provider Edge (PE Router)
• Core (P Router)