Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

Ward Cobleigh from VIAVI and Chris Greer from Packet Pioneer presented at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2025 on using AI for PCAP analysis. In this post I review the results and conclusions, and provide some of my own observations. When I do my part, I am talking out of my butt here, so it’s not impossible that I’m way off the mark when I voice an opinion. I am also not an expert at AI, just a pessimistic network engineer, so that tends to color my viewpoint.

I’ve hit every year since 2013, and made it to San Diego this year for another Cisco Live! It was fun, but … there were some noticeable … “things” …

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.