Programmable networking silicon has long forced engineers to compromise between protocol flexibility and the power-efficiency of fixed-function ASICs, but that trade-off is officially disappearing. Presenting at Networking Field Day #NFD41, Xsight Labs’ Eric Vallone and Yoav Galon showcase how their software-defined silicon architecture—already proven in orbit on Starlink satellites—eliminates the traditional "programmability tax." 👉 Watch presentations from XsightLabs and more on our website or YouTube channel! @XsightLabs @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd #NFD41 #XsightLabs #DPU #ProgrammableSilicon #DataCenterNetworking

As AI workloads transition from batch training to continuous inference, the network—specifically the low-latency transfer of massive KV caches between disaggregated prefill and decode accelerators—has become the critical decider of end-user token speed. 🦔 ▶️ Presenting at Networking Field Day #NFD41, Hedgehog’s Marc Austin, Manish Vachharajani, and Sergei Lukianov demonstrate how open Ethernet and RoCE fabrics must evolve to support 24/7 online inference clusters and heterogeneous compute environments. 👉 Watch presentations from Hedgehog and more on our website or YouTube channel! @TechFieldDay @GitHedgehog @NetworkingNerd #NFD41 #Hedgehog #AIInference #RoCE #AINetworking

Restricting an AI agent’s permissions to a subset of user access sounds solid on paper—until you remember that almost every human user in your directory is already wildly overprovisioned. On the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down why "reductive" agent security models fall short: when years of lazy IT blanket-approvals and Active Directory privilege creep go unaddressed, even a scoped-down agent still inherits an unacceptably large blast radius. @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd @DemitasseNZ #TFDRundown #AIAgents #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurity #IdentitySecurity

Security Field Day #XFD16 📅 October 28 - 30, 2026 🔐 Tune in 🔴 LIVE on Friday, October 30 at 8:00 AM US/Pacific Time to see our friends from @AWS_Cloud present. ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@techfieldday 🔹 Linkedin: LinkedIn.com/company/tech-fi… @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd #XFD16 #Cybersecurity #AISecurity #AWS

Modernizing data center networks for the AI era shouldn't require ripping out existing fiber plants or abandoning proven architectures. 🛜 ▶️ Presenting at Networking Field Day #NFD41, Cisco Data Center’s Sai Natarajan and Takuya Kishida demonstrate how the Nexus One architecture bridges high-performance AI demands with everyday enterprise operations, enabling seamless coexistence across ACI, NX-OS, HyperFabric, and SONiC. 👉 Watch presentations from Cisco Data Center and more on our website or YouTube channel! @Cisco @CiscoDC @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd #NFD41 #Cisco #NexusOne #DataCenter #EVPN

If your daily IT routine feels like an endless loop of putting out network fires, it is time to rethink how your infrastructure operates. In this clip from the Tech Field Day Podcast, Yash Nagaraju of HPE Networking shares how platforms like Mist and Central turn the self-driving vision into reality across Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations. From automated micro-segmentation to built-in business continuity across campus, branch, and data center environments, Yash points engineers toward the hands-on deep dives featured at Network Field Day 41 to see how real automation cuts out the firefighting for good. @NetworkingNerd @TechFieldDay @TechFieldDayPod @HPE @HPE_Networking #TFDPodcast #TFDSpotlight #NFD41 #NetworkAutomation #AIOps

AI agents are the enterprise’s newest insider threat, and locking them down is now a real-time challenge. On the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke and Tom Hollingsworth unpack Microsoft Entra’s dynamic permissions, dynamic agent risk scoring, and discovery capabilities for 60 local agent types to enforce Zero Trust without stripping user access. @TechFieldDay @DemitasseNZ @NetworkingNerd @Microsoft @MsftSecure #TFDRundown #AIAgents #ZeroTrust #CyberSecurity #MicrosoftEntra

As distributed inference and agentic workloads rapidly accelerate, the network, not just compute, now dictates AI performance, power limits, and uptime. ⏱️ ▶️ Presenting at Networking Field Day 41, HPE Networking Data Center’s Praful Lalchandani, Mike Wong, Yogesh Kumar, Pradeep Chalicheemala, Sridhar Narahari, and Praphul Menon demonstrate an open, full-stack Ethernet architecture across scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across domains. 👉 Watch presentations from HPE Networking Data Center and more on our website or YouTube channel! @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd @HPE @HPE_Networking #NFD41 #HPENetworking #AIDataCenter #AIFabrics #NetworkArchitecture

Network automation often hits a wall because critical operational context remains locked in tribal knowledge while business intent, IPAM, and device configurations live in disconnected silos. Presenting at Networking Field Day 41, OpsMill leaders Damien Garros, Alex Gittings, and Xavier Martins-Rivas demonstrate how Infrahub solves this divide by delivering an extensible, branch-based infrastructure intent platform with native version control. 👉 Watch presentations from OpsMill and more on our website or YouTube channel! @OpsMill_com @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd #NFD41 #OpsMill #Infrahub #NetworkAutomation #NetDevOps

Security Field Day #XFD16 📅 October 28 - 30, 2026 🔐 Tune in 🔴 LIVE on Thursday, October 29 at 10:30 AM US/Pacific Time to see our friends from @HPE_Networking present. ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@techfieldday 🔹 Linkedin: LinkedIn.com/company/tech-fi… @TechFieldDay @NetworkingNerd #XFD16 #Cybersecurity #AISecurity