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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - NOVEMBER 2017 ANNOUNCEMENTS =====================================================================

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1. UNIGROUP'S NOVEMBER 2017 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: OpenConfig:
Vendor-Neutral Open Network API Programmability
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Speaker: Daniel Hertzberg, Systems Engineer,
Arista Networks <http://www.aristanetworks.com>

When: Thursday, November 16th, 2017 (** 3rd Thursday **)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 504 (** New Building: 5th Floor **)

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.


INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup is pleased to announce our November 2017 meeting on
OpenConfig, which provides a Vendor-Neutral Model-Driven Network
Management API for configuring network devices.

Our speaker is Daniel Hertzberg from Arista Networks. Arista
has implemented OpenConfig into their Network Switch product line.
Arista last presented to Unigroup back in October 2013.

Unigroup's scheduled meeting topics are:
16-NOV-2017: OpenConfig / Vendor-Neutral Open Network API
Programmability (Arista Networks)
11-JAN-2018: To-be-announced. (Tentative: Special 2nd Thursday
Meeting Date).

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: OpenConfig / Vendor-Neutral Open Network API Programmability

Related Topics/Keywords
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Networking, Network Switching, Network Configuration, Network
Automation, Network Management, Networking Standards, Open Standards,
SDN - Software Defined Networking, Yang Data Models, SNMP, Python.

Introduction & Description of Talk:
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OpenConfig is an open standard for cross vendor network
programmability which makes network programmability possible
through open Yang modeling.

OpenConfig is a vendor neutral working group created for operators
from service providers, cloud providers and large scale enterprises.

During this talk we will discuss managing configuration, streaming
data and programming multi-vendor networks with OpenConfig.

Presentation Outline
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- Introduction to Arista Networks.
- What has changed since Arista last presented to Unigroup in 2013.
- Introduction to Network Automation:
- Multiple APIs
- Multiple CLIs
- Introduction to Yang Models:
- Yang modeling
- Pyang
- PyangBind
- Introduction to OpenConfig:
- Configuration
- OpenConfig state streaming
- GNMI and GRPC OpenConfig transports and removal of SNMP
- Demos:
- Streaming OpenConfig modeling
- Programming the network with Python and Arista EOS using
OpenConfig
- Applying Yang models to Arista EOS switches and GoBGP

References & Web Resources:
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OpenConfig
http://openconfig.net

OpenConfig on GitHub
http://github.com/openconfig

YANG (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YANG

NETCONF (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETCONF

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol

Arista EOS Central / OpenConfig: The Emerging Industry Standard API
for Network Elements
http://eos.arista.com/openconfig-the-emerging-industry-standard-api-for-network-elements/

Arista Networks Web Page:
http://www.arista.com

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Speakers Biography
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Daniel Hertzberg - Senior Systems Engineer - Arista Networks

Daniel Hertzberg is a Senior Systems Engineer working out of the
Arista NYC team. Daniel has been with Arista since 2016 but has
been automating networks since he discovered Arista as a previous
customer.

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Company Biography
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Arista Networks was founded to deliver software defined cloud
networking solutions for large data center and high-performance
computing environments. With more than five million cloud
networking ports being deployed worldwide, Arista delivers a
portfolio of 1/10/25/40/50 and 100GbE products that redefine
network architectures, bring extensibility to networking, and
dramatically change the price/performance of data center networks.

At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System
(EOS), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image
consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture
enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.aristanetworks.com

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to
restock.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).

! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
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If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,

NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef,
chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads
(potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water
and assorted SOFT beverages.

However, due to a continuing situation at our caterer, we are
planning to have: pizza (cheese+veggy), soda, water, cookies,
and brownies at this meeting.

Arista _may_ be sponsoring the food service for this meeting, Stay
tuned.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!

Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) HPC for Wall Street/Cloud/Data Center Show
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Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2018

Where: Roosevelt Hotel
Midtown, NYC

For information and complimentary registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux

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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2018????: Programming for Performance with GPUs.
- 2018????: New x86 and ARM Architectures.
- 2018????: The Latest C++ Standards, Part 2.
- 2018????: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
(aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?)
- Planning: Building a Data Server with ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on Solaris
- Planning: The latest on AIX
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks

** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to the
Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers.

Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
11/16/2017, 01/11??/2018, 03/15/2018, 05/17/2018, 06/21/2017, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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