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North American Network Operators Group




The Future of Internet Exchange Points

Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications; Avi Freedman, Server Central
Presentation Date: October 20, 2009, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Room: Grand

Abstract:
An exploration of historical and modern designs for Internet exchange points, their scalability and other technical limitations of the current architectures, and some proposals for future architectures based on MPLS and other technologies

Richard Steenbergen Biography:
Richard Steenbergen is the co-founder of nLayer Communications, a respectably sized and profitable North American based IP backbone, where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer. Richard brings years of experience in practical techniques for network operators, and is a frequent contributor in many community forums. Previously, Richard served as a Senior Network Engineer at several large NSPs, and was the Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing optimized routing technologies at netVmg, Inc.

Richard is also an active developer for tools and software used by the network operator community. Some notable projects include PeeringDB, a portal used by many networks to help coordinate their peering activities, and IRRPT, a software package used by ISPs to maintain IRR-based prefix filters.

Avi Freedman Biography:
Avi Freedman is Chief Network Scientist with Akamai, where he works on architecture, research, product development, Internet visualization, and vulnerability analysis. Prior to joining Akamai, Avi founded Philadelphia's original ISP, netaxs (4969), and then was VP of Engineering at AboveNet. He was a founding member of the ARIN advisory council and is actively involved in the network community.

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