Date: Nov 11/01/09 7:15 PM Subject: [BNUG News] ** November Meeting Reminder ** From: "Dale Heron" Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - November 3 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: Ipanema Networking WAN Optimization ----------------------------------- Please join BNUG for a presentation on Ipanema Technologies’ unique autonomic network system presented by Peter Schmidt. This system uses a novel architecture to enable it to be self-governing, reacting dynamically and globally to variations in both user demand and network capacity to deliver a constantly evolving, optimal matching of resources to demand. The system is currently deployed at over 10,000 sites worldwide, has been in deployment since 2003, and is on version 6.0. It is a different - and better - way to operate enterprise WANs." Here is a brief outline for the presentation: * Making a 1000 site network feel like one Control, guarantee, accelerate, simplify, reduce costs. * Control the network with Application Service Levels * Guarantee application performance with high level objectives * Manage the network cost / application performance tradeoff * Understand the application delivery chain * Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System * Carrier class central management software and cooperative devices * Global Application Performance Objectives * Manage the traffic dynamically across the entire network * Global drill down views of the whole network in real-time * Visibility into application behavior and performance * Automatically discover applications using Layer 3 to 7 classification * High level application quality scores based on accurate flow metrics * Report on usage and performance throughout the organization * Performance bird’s eye views (Maps), alarming and drill down * Optimization to guarantee user experience and Acceleration to minimize response times BIO: ----- Peter H. Schmidt, CTO North America for Ipanema Technologies, is an experienced product architect, executive and entrepreneur in the networking space, having founded and led two networking startups and played significant roles with eight others as an advisor, director or angel investor. He has brought seven networking products to market successfully in the past fifteen years. During the past eight years with Ipanema, he has worked extensively with prospective customers and partners in North America. Previously, Mr. Schmidt led Teradyne NorthStar Internetworking as its co-founder and General Manager. Mr. Schmidt is co-inventor on four patents issued to NorthStar for its unique, network-located active fault isolation system for automating consumer Internet support. In 1998, NorthStar was spun out of Midnight Networks, a company he co-founded in 1992 and which was acquired by Teradyne in 1996 for $20 million. Midnight Networks established its ANVL and Avalanche/RA network testing products as de facto industry standards, selling them to every major network equipment vendor and computer manufacturer, and to over half of all venture-funded startups in datacom/telecom. In 1996, Midnight Networks became the subject of a Harvard Business School case developed by Prof. H. Kent Bowen that profiles the founders' success in creating a new and innovative approach to building a startup company. An analysis of this case was presented in a special section of the Wall Street Journal in June, 1999. Mr. Schmidt has been a speaker, panelist and panel chair at Internet World, Interop, FutureNet and the Mass Telecom Council. In addition, he is frequently invited to speak to classes at MIT, Harvard and the Olin College of Engineering. Prior to the founding of Midnight Networks, Mr. Schmidt was employed as an internal consultant to the CEO of Analog Devices. His early experience was gained at BBN and Cayman Systems, Inc. Mr. Schmidt earned a BS in Computer Science and Engineering and MS in Management, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Please join us on Tuesday, November 3rd at 6:30PM where we will be Meeting at Microsoft's Waltham Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, Mass. Please see our web site for directions to the meeting location. http://www.bnug.org/ * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. * BNUG monthly meetings, membership and refreshments are always FREE and you are not required to be a member to attend. 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