Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

Opengear was the one non-Cisco presentation for the Wednesday, June 5th presentation at Tech Field Day extra (#TFDx) of Cisco Live 2024 in Las Vegas this year …

In an effort to solidify concepts I might need to know for the exam, we look at things from a different point of view. Why Spanning-Tree bridge priorities are the way they are (at least in Cisco-land).

My experiences and review of Cisco Live 2023, including two of those days being spent with the Tech Field Day crew participating in Tech Field Day Extra. Also, a bit about me and why it took almost a month to get this review up.

Who is it? Well, let me just say it’s entirely possible that this year I’ll be staying all the way through to the end …

Registration is now open for Cisco Live 2023, including conference hotels. Here’s what I know so far … which is mainly just a summary of key points from the website.

Catchpoint and Kentik presented their solutions for network observability at Network Field Day 29. Both solutions seek to provide the necessary evidence to say “It’s not the network”, but with different philosophies. I try no to show too much opinion in this post as to which one seemed more complete to me, and encourage you to watch both presentations for yourself.

Opengear presented on the first day of Network Field Day 29 and talked about using your out of band access more effectively, including using your serial connectivity for more than just emergencies.

My overall experience as a first-time delegate of Network Field Day is chronicled here.

I will be a delegate for Network Field Day 29. What is it? What’s involved? This post will explain what I know so far and provide links to more information, including where to find streams of the presentations.

Cisco Live 2022 (for the US) is done and dusted. How did it go? Was COVID an issue? Is there anything they could do differently? Are in person events safe? Well, let’s talk about all that.