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NANOG49 Survey Results - Post-Meeting Survey

  NANOG49 Post-Meeting Survey Results San Francisco, CA (June 13-16, 2010)  
B1. How did you attend NANOG? Response Percent (Response Total)
In person in San Francisco 85.7% (12)
Via webcast 14.3% (2)
(answered question) 14
(skipped this question) 0


B2. How many NANOG meetings have you attended?
This is my first meeting 42.9% (6)
Less than 5 21.4% (3)
More than 5 7.1% (1)
More than 10 21.4% (3)
More than 15 7.1% (1)
More than 20 0.0% (0)

(answered question) 14
(skipped this question) 0


B3. Overall, has this NANOG meeting been useful to you up to this point?
Very Useful 28.6% (4)
Useful 71.4% (10)
No Opinion 0.0% (0)
Not Very Useful 0.0% (0)
Useless 0.0% (0)
(answered question) 158
(skipped this question) 1


  QUESTIONS ABOUT SUNDAY AND EARLY MONDAY EVENTS
S1. Introduction to Label switched Multicast: P2MP-TE & mLDP
with Rajendra Chayapathi and Utpal Mukhopadhyaya, Cisco Systems
1. N/a
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


S2. MPLS for Dummies
with Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications
This presentation was very useful to me as a "dumb" user of provided MPLS services who is currently wondering if he should consider implementing MPLS in his environment.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


S3. Which Routing Protocol?
with Faraz Shamim and Khalid Raza, Cisco Systems
1. N/a.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


S4. Automating Network Configuration
with Brent Chapman, Netomata, Inc.
1. Very useful in discussing challenges, steps towards achieving overall automation, names of tools to consider.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


S5. LSM Technology: Overview, Drivers & Applications
with Shankar Vemulapalli and Harmen Van Der Linde, Cisco Systems
1. N/a
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


S6. Understanding OTN and the Path to the Future
with Michael Jamgochian, Alcatel-Lucent
1. N/a
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


S7. The Sunday evening Community Meeting
1. N/a
2. Entertaining.
(answered question) 2
(skipped this question) 12


S8. The Monday morning Newcomers' Breakfast
1. Excellent! Loved the ASIC talk and the Large Leak Detection, and also Shortest Path Bridging.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


  QUESTIONS ABOUT MONDAY EVENTS
M3. Monday's General Session presentations
1. N/a
2. Good stuff
3. Keynote was good, 1/8 was good, IPv6@google was good, Building Traffic Matrices to Support Peering Decisions was good.
(answered question) 3
(skipped this question) 11


M4. Monday Track Session: NANOG Transition Plan
1. N/a
2. Awkward
(answered question) 2
(skipped this question) 12


M5. Monday Track Session: Best Current Practices
1. Was more of a BoF/discussion on next steps to make a site happen than I was expecting (anticipated more discussion around what actual BCPs were). Found it very informative, joined a new group in hopes of helping. Felt that I could contribute.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


M6. Monday Track Session: ISP Security
1. N/a.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


M7. Beer 'n Gear!
1. Great network opportunity for me to meet vendors and peers. Wonderful food, good beer. Surprised at the amount of people there and the shwag from the vendors. Wish I could have stayed longer.
2. Room was a bit small
3. Great!
4. Good snacks!
5. great networking event
(answered question) 5
(skipped this question) 9


  QUESTIONS ABOUT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENTS
T1. Tuesday's General Session presentations
1. The ASIC presentation from Chang-Hong Wu and the Lightning Talks were great.
2. Mostly good
3. ASICs - The Heart of Modern Routers was a good start, need more of these.How Secure are Secure BGP Protocols was good.
(answered question) 3
(skipped this question) 11


T2. Tuesday Peering Track
(answered question) 0
(skipped this question) 14


T3. Tuesday Research Forum
1. Presos were generally OK. If you're going to change the order it would be nice to track in realtime either in the room (an ordered list of upcoming with times) or on the webpage.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


T4. Wednesday's General Session presentations
(answered question) 0
(skipped this question) 14


T5. Did you visit the Vendor Collaboration Room on any day?
Yes 28.6% (2)
No 71.4% (5)
What are your comments about the Vendor Collaboration Room?
1. Very informal and unstructured, I wasn't entirely sure of it's purpose.
(answered question) 7
(skipped this question) 7


  GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MEETING
G1. A few questions about social media: Yes No Response Count
Have you tweeted about this NANOG meeting at Twitter.com? 0.0% (0) 100.0% (7) 7
Have you commented about this NANOG meeting at any other social media site? 28.6% (2) 71.4% (5) 7
Have you searched for comments about this NANOG meeting at Twitter.com? 14.3% (1) 85.7% (6) 7
Are you a member of the NANOG Facebook group? 42.9% (3) 57.1% (4) 7

(answered question) 7
(skipped this question) 7


G2. Do you subscribe to the mailing list nanog@nanog.org?
Yes 71.4% (5)
No 28.6% (2)
If you answered No, why not?
(answered question) 7
(skipped this question) 7


G3. Please provide your feedback about the NANOG wireless network. If you had problems, please be specific about what they were and how you resolved them, or about suggestions for future improvements.
1. The NANOG network was great, loved the A/B/G/N options and the secured WPA-2 network.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


G4. What did you like/dislike about the meeting venue?
1. Very spacious meeting rooms, the water being provided was nice, wireless everywhere from NANOG was great, fairly easy to get about the hotel. Very nice hotel.
2. The elevators were slow.
(answered question) 2
(skipped this question) 12


G5. What worked well at this meeting?
1. The continental breakfast in front of the Grand meeting room, where many of the most popular panels were held. One stop and you were good to go. it was easy to get from meeting room to meeting room. Things were well-signed when you were coming from different areas. The elevators in the hotel worked well.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


G6. What should be improved for the next meeting?
1. Agenda being locked down a
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


G7. Do you have suggestions for topics and/or speakers for future NANOG presentations?
1. Continued focus on IPv6, a call for educational institutions to discuss more their challenges and solutions.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


G8. Suggestions and volunteers for future NANOG Hosts, who work to locate the venue, provide connectivity and staff the meeting.
(answered question) 0
(skipped this question) 14


G9. Suggestions and volunteers for the NANOG Marketing Working Group and future NANOG sponsors: (Whom should we recruit for monetary support in exchange for exhibit area, corporate visibility, and community recognition?)
1. Continue to recruit the big names (Juniper, Cisco), you may also want to look at Palo Alto networks since Huwai had a bit of time in the spotlight.
(answered question) 1
(skipped this question) 13


G10. Why do you attend NANOG?
1. 1) To learn from experts in the fields I am interested in (especially IPv6, BGP, etc)
2) To learn more /provide input into processes and discussions (BoF)
3) To network with peers
4) To network with vendors

2. Networking..
3. The presentations are always helpful/thought provoking.
(answered question) 3
(skipped this question) 11


G11. Is there something you would like to comment on which does not fit into a question above? Please leave your comments here.
(answered question) 0
(skipped this question) 14









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