The Pioneer Lecture Series: Network Performance Management is coming to Portland on Wednesday, March 9th.  Gain insight from the creators of TCPDUMP, WinPCap and Wireshark.  You'll find out how Dr. Steve McCanne, Loris Degioanni and Gerald Combs came together as the pioneers of packet capture and analysis.   You'll also find out what they see as the next generation of application aware network performance management and what it means for you.

Their Story: Riverbed co-founder and CTO, Dr. Steve McCanne, worked with TCP/IP pioneer Van Jacobson in 1988 during the days of Arpanet. Mr. Jacobson was working on the TCP/IP stack and needed a reliable way to capture and efficiently analyze enormous amounts of network traffic. Dr. McCanne came up with an innovative solution that took an elegant, filter approach to capturing only the traffic you need. Dr. McCanne’s packet capture invention was released into open source as the Libpcap library and ultimately as the application TCPDUMP.

Several years later in the late 90's, Loris Degioanni was a student at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Mr. Degioanni was tasked to come up with a way to capture network traffic from student's windows machines. Mr. Degioanni came across a paper co-authored by Dr. McCanne and he leveraged Mr. McCanne’s work, taking Libpcap and building a windows capture library, which he released into open source under the name WinPCap.

Around the same time, a networking engineer by the name of Gerald Combs was working for an ISP and needed a more robust way of analyzing packet captures. Mr. Combs started a weekend project that exploded to much more and Ethereal/Wireshark was born. Now, as a united force together at Riverbed Technology these three pioneers will continue to bring innovative solutions for network performance management needs.

Agenda:
10:30  Registration
11:00  Lecture Series Begins:  The Past, Present and Future
12:00  Q&A
12:30  Lunch and Networking
1:30  Adjourn

Register now for this exclusive event.   Lunch will be served.  Complimentary parking provided.

Each attendee will leave with a free trial version of Riverbed Cascade Pilot, formerly the CACE Pilot Console.