The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 33rd
meeting January 30 - February 1, 2005, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting
will be hosted by UltraDNS. NANOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. Meetings are held three times each year, and include two days of short presentations, plus afternoon/evening tutorial sessions and BoFs. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current backbone engineering practices. NANOG conferences draw over 500 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from national service providers, and members of the research and education community.
NANOG invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and
research topics. Presentations should highlight issues relating to
technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet
backbones and exchange points. Abstracts should include a concise summary
of findings to be presented in the talk.
Network operators are invited to present case studies detailing their experiences with network planning and design, protocol implementation, provisioning, useful tools, traffic engineering, problems solved, DoS scenarios and mitigation techniques, and troubleshooting, including automation, approaches, and techniques, Vendors are encouraged to work with operators to present deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperabilty.
Research Forum
Researchers are invited to present short (10-minute) summaries of
their work for operator feedback. Topics include routing, network
performance, statistical measurement and analysis, and protocol
development and implementation. Studies presented may be works in
progress. Researchers from academia, government, and industry are
encouraged to present.
General Session/Tutorials
Presentation topics of special interest at NANOG 33 include:
- Implementation experience with Ethernet, e.g., Transparent LAN service (TLS), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), Ethernet private line, and Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS).
- Large-scale wireless deployment
- Last-mile technologies, including Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL)/Power Line Distribution (PLD)
- Security attacks/mitigation, tools, and analysis
- Enterprise network security, management, and route control
- Operator case studies on:
- Integration with optical control planes, voice, and video
- VOIP architectures and deployment
- Building packet-switched networks (e.g., IP or MPLS) that can carry TDM, Layer 2 IP services, as well as emerging services, such as VPLS.
- Implementation experience with 10/100Gig E
- Experience with active DoS retaliation methods, e.g., reverse port scanning
- OSS architectures and implementations
- SSM deployment experience
- Circuit2Packet (C2P) experience with legacy services
- State of Ops/Admin/Maintenance tools for IP and MPLS networks
- Troubleshooting BGP
- Configuring IPsec
- Options for Blackhole and Discard Routing
- BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
How to Present
Submit an abstract and draft slides for the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. See http://www.nanog.org/presentations.html for submission guidelines. The deadline for abstracts and slides is December 15, 2004. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by December 15, a limited number of slots may be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely, important, or critical to the operations of the Internet. Submissions will be reviewed by the NANOG Program Committee, and presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 23. Final drafts of presentation slides are due by January 19, and final versions January 26.