Apstra at Network Field Day #23
October 2020
Apstra Company Overview and Updates
Apstra delivers a unified solution to automate the architecture and operations of the data center network. Apstra’s flagship product, AOS, empowers organizations to automate all aspects of designing, building, deploying, and operating their networks. This automation and validation enable quick and reliable changes to the network while efficiently using available resources and ridding themselves of hardware vendor lock-in. With Apstra, operations start at Day 0 and continue through day 2 with closed-loop validation. Presented by: Zack Zilakakis
How Apstra Eliminates EVPN Complexity with Reliable Automation
Apstra simplifies the deployment and operation of EVPN. Apstra’s single source of truth enables faster mean-time-to-resolution to identify, resolve quickly, and eventually prevent data center network issues. We discuss and demonstrate how Apstra uses Intent-Based Analytics to understand the config, state, and expectations and uses context to provide closed-loop validation to companies using EVPN at scale. Presented by: DJ Spry
How to Perform Fast and Reliable Rollbacks with Apstra’s Intent Time Voyager
Apstra uses a graph model coupled with a single truth source to manage and automate some of the world’s most extensive and most complicated networks. We’ll show you how Apstra inherently creates snapshot versions of the network configuration so operations teams can reliably perform network rollbacks with an ease unparalleled in the industry. Our customers’ operational teams find this to be a game-changing feature. Presented by: Josh Saul
Visualize Traffic Trends For Optimal Network Performance with Heatmap and Headroom Views
Apstra contextualizes and correlates data center traffic flows to provide a comprehensive view for network operators. The operational telemetry views are automatically generated from our analytics. Apstra has the unique ability to collect relevant traffic statistics from overlaying historical continuously, and real-time traffic flows for various network views. The result is fabric heatmaps of network traffic and load so that operations teams can tune the network for optimal performance. Presented by: Josh Saul
How Apstra Manages and Automates Enterprise SONiC
The session demonstrates Apstra’s ability to simplify the deployment and operations of Enterprise SONiC, with speed and reliability. The demonstration shows how Apstra interfaces with SONiC to configure and automate for fast and easy deployment, and operation in your data center network. This session demonstrates the simplicity of making changes reliably. Presented by: DJ Spry
Previous Apstra Appearances At Network Field Day
Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US - Aug 2019
VMworldUS19: Apstra NSX-T Security Enforcement
VMworldUS19: Apstra AOS and NSX-T Fabric Deployment
VMworldUS19: Apstra AOS and NSX-T Integration
VMworldUS19: Apstra Company Update
Network Field Day 13 - Nov 2016
NFD13: Apstra Network Deployment
NFD13: Apstra Network Blueprints
NFD13: Apstra Logical Devices
NFD13: Apstra Describing the Network
NFD13: Apstra AOS Demo
NFD13: Apstra Situational Awareness
NFD13: Apstra Who We Are
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