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Jumping truck for NFD

Last week, Pica8 participated in Networking Field Day #28 (#NFD28) in Santa Clara. Networking Field Day is a series of technical seminars hosted by tech consultancy Gestalt IT, and is part of the Technology Field Day seminar series. Designed to provide select technology analysts and personalities with product demos and information from some of the leading technology companies in the industry, Networking Field Day has quickly become one of the more important technology conferences today, drawing delegates both nationally and internationally, and live broadcast around the world.

While the in-person demos were limited in space to the invited delegates and vendors, the sessions were recorded for on-demand playback by the Gestalt IT media team. In addition, remote participants were encouraged to interact with vendors and delegates in real time by submitting questions and discussions via social media, providing another layer of interactivity.

Pica8-Group-sm-500x500This was Pica8's second appearance at NFD, following a January session that marked a return to the first in-person events since the beginning of the pandemic. Senior Sales Engineers Neal Trieber and Lance Gallardo, with Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Mani Subramanian, demonstrated the Pica8 Enterprise Software Suite to great reception amongst the delegates. Pica8 had the distinction of being included as a "Bestie Of #NFD28" by one of the panel members.

Some overheard comments from delegates and participants:

  • "The stuff they had in there was genuinely cool."
  • On perpetual single product licensing: "It's like the old Microsoft days. It's really refreshing to see this is not dead. It's still alive."
  • On documentation: "docs.pica8.com is cool. It isn't behind a login like Cisco."
  • On AmpCon Network Controller:
    • "It's drag and drop friendly."
    • "I'm pleasantly surprised about how feature packed their orchestration platform is and the automation piece caught my eye."
  • "Pica8's CLI is 'Juniper Junos like' with a complete transactional commit-confirmed-compare model. This is so important."
  • "It's a Cisco DNA Center and Arista CloudVision counterpart."
  • "I'd recommend it for a branch office, or even a larger office."

Reference Links

Try PicOS-V: Free Download

Try PicOS-V: Free PicOS Virtual Software Download: https://www.pica8.com/picos-v/

For complete video broadcasts of Networking Field Day 28:

Summary of Pica8 by delegate Jordan Villareal: https://youtu.be/RYjcpKMqNSg

Summary of Networking Field Day by delegate Jeremy Schulman: My Besties Awards – Network Field Day 28 – Network Automaniac (nwkautomaniac.info)

Summary of Networking Field Day by Dan Kelcher: https://mytechgnome.blogspot.com/2022/05/network-field-day-28-recap-and-review.html

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