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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">SIM-Portland May Meeting: "What is so smart about SD-WAN?"</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2018-05-09T17:30:00" datetime="2018-05-09T17:30:00">Wednesday, May 9, 2018 from 5:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2018-05-09T20:15:00" datetime="2018-05-09T20:15:00">8:15pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391854'><span class='fn org p-name'>University Club of Portland</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1225 SW 6th Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1225%20SW%206th%20Avenue,%20Portland%20OR%2097204%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Over the past 20 years, advances in Information technologies have continuously remade the business world. Think– the Internet, virtualization, cloud, the smartphone to name a few. That has however been one exception – the wide area network (WAN), that is … until now. One of the hottest topics in IT Infrastructure is Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN or SDWAN). It is a specific application of software-defined networking (SDN) technology applied to WAN connections. WAN links are used to connect enterprise networks – including branch offices and data centers – over large geographic distances. SDWAN technologies promise the moon; lower costs, faster performance, business agility to name a few. So, what is real and what is pure marketing?</p> <p>Come hear from someone who has been an Oregon pioneer in SD-WAN. John Spiegel from Columbia Sportswear will provide an overview of SD-WAN, relate his first-hand experiences implementing this new technology, the results he has seen and how it has changed John’s approach to the ever-evolving landscape of IT infrastructure (both good and bad).</p> <p>John Spiegel is the Sr Manager of Infrastructure at Columbia Sportswear Company. He is a leader with 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Networking. Forward-leading, big thinker with a passion for transformative and cutting-edge technologies such as SD-WAN and Cloud. Believer in the power of sharing and collaborating with other like-minded individuals to evolve the industry. Outside of work, focus and energy is on family, brewing beer, Duck and Packer football and currently planning a trip to Africa with his family.</p> <p>Agenda<br> 5:30 PM Social<br> 6:30 PM Dinner<br> 6:50 PM Meeting Start<br> 7:00 PM Keynote and Q&A<br> 8:15 PM Close</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://www.simnet.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1099777&group=63203">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>