For a while now I’ve been playing with NETCONF primarily with Cisco Nexus devices.

Quite frequently I write and build code to control and harvest data from network infrastructure.

A previous post listed the excitement I felt when reading through the Cavium XPliant announcement.

One of my biggest annoyances for a while has been the lack of interest in IPv6 in the UK.

With all of the current trends coming in to the industry around policy based network configuration, network automation and controller value add, do you understand why and where the trends are coming from?

Before we go in to observed trends, let’s put some context on this post and definitions around monitoring.

Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) that produce incumbent profit busting white box switching technology could soon be releasing the next wave of programmable networking based on technology from a silicon company best known for it’s encryption products.

As horizontal scalability demands increase for policy based fabrics such as Cisco’s ACI and performance demands push the development of high speed Ethernet standards like 25G, 50G, 100G and beyond in to 400G, how that data is pushed and pulled on the fabric begins to become a problem.

After watching the Tech Field Day (TFD) events for a while, I decided to fill out the form and apply to be a delegate.