May 4th, 2006 |
It is with the normal bittersweet sense of another show behind us that the InteropLabs teams wrapped up the day today. Since I am flying to another seminar this weekend, I’m sitting at McCarron airport typing this to you after the final day of the show and teardown. We had great response from the folks who dropped by the InteropLabs area on the show floor (although none of you admitted to reading the blog!), and the interest in NAC is very strong and growing.
I am deeply appreciative to the NAC team for allowing me to take on the leadership role this year, and they’ve been incredible: Karen O’Donoghue (our Educator, whose name I managed to misspell on the signs, even though I’ve known her for about 10 years, and who has led the previous incarnations of this lab), Joel Snyder (Network World writer, consultant, and a stickler for details), Jan Trumbo (consultant and the person responsible for the great graphics we had), Craig Watkins (long-time NOC Team member, consultant, and a guy willing to take on whatever we needed), Kevin Koster (NAC developer and the guy who took on the creation of the great Flash presentation in the area as well as diving into NAP), Brett “Thor” Thorson (IPv6 jock and the guy who took on the Cisco NAC work), Chris Hessing and Mike McCauley (open/full source authors who took on creating a TNC-compliant open source project for the NAC area of the InteropLabs), and the great engineers from the various contributing companies who joined us and took on all of the weird requests that we made of them.
Thank you all…
At this point, we have torn down all of the gear, boxed it up, placed it into the custom-designed “D-crates”, and left them to be shipped back to the Interop warehouse in California. At this point, our plan is to set the NAC Lab up again sometime in late July or early August in hot staging for Interop New York in September.
Will you be there? If you didn’t make it to Las Vegas, you really should plan to join us in NY.
Who do you let onto your network? How do you know that they are acceptable? How do you know you’re keeping the “bad guys” off your network? All of these questions and more will be the focus of the NAC education that you’ll see at Interop New York.
Until then… Cheers!
