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Program Highlights: Business and Technical Drivers for Voice Peering; Voice Peering Architectures, Designs and Implementation Models; Bi-Lateral and Multi-Lateral Voice Peering; Technologies: Least Cost Routing (LCR), ENUM, SRV, Session Controllers; A look into the Voice Peering Fabric, its users and other statistics; Analysis of Voice Peering Operators, their Business Models & Strategies

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Shrihari Pandit, Stealth Communications.

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"Knowledge of the amount of traffic between source and destination pairs of a network is crucial to fundamental operational tasks such as capacity planning, traffic engineering, and peering management. Router vendors, third parties, academic researchers, and ingenious network engineers have devised multiple ways of collecting and estimating traffic matrices. This session presents an overview of applications of traffic matrices and operational experiences with the various approaches, including Netflow-based methods, mathematical estimation models, and MPLS (both RSVP and LDP) methods. Emphasis will be on practical experiences with each method."

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Rached Blili, Cariden Technologies
Arman Maghbouleh, Cariden Technologies
Arman Maghbouleh serves as the President of Cariden Technologies where he works with network operators to develop traffic management solutions. Arman has extensive experience in network design consulting and tools development, including stints at Apple Computer, Fidelity Investments and Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories.

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BGP Prefixes leaking today potentially have a much largers business impact than it did 10 years ago. While groups look at long term fixes, this tutorial will focus on what ISPs should be doing now. This will be a compilation of best practices for all modes of BGP prefix filtering - between the ISP and their customers, the ISP and their peers, and the ISP and their upstream. It will also review reaction tools - like Remote Trigger Black Hole (RTBH) - to demonstrate how layers of filtering is used to protect the interest of business and the Internet. Scaling and operational maintenance of the prefix filters will also be covered.

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David Barak, Callisma/AT&T
Barry Raveendran Greene
Heather Schiller, Mark Prior

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Security incidents are a daily event for Internet Service Providers. Attacks on an ISP's customers, attacks from an ISP's customer, worms, BOTNETs, and attacks on the ISP's infrastructure are now one of many "security" NOC tickets throughout the day. This increase in the volume and intensity of attacks has forced ISP's to spend constrained resources to mitigate the effects of these attacks on their operations and services. This investment has helped minimize the effects of the attacks, but it has not helped stop them at the source. Stopping attacks at their source requires rapid and effective inter-ISP cooperation. Hence, these ISP Security BOFs are also used as a face-to- face sync up meeting for the NSP-SEC forum. Agenda: ISC SIE Update Paul Vixie/ISC ICANN SSAC Update Paul Vixie & Danny McPherson/SSAC DNS OARC Update/Meeting Pointers Keith Mitchell & Paul Vixie/OARC ISP Security POC Intros & Open Microphone

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Stefan Fouant, Neustar
Stefan Fouant is a Principal Network Engineer with NeuStar, a company which provides essential clearinghouse and directory services for the telecommunications industry. He has over a decade of experience working in the telecom and related industries, with primary focus on network architecture and information security. Prior to working with NeuStar, he worked for UUNet/MCI/Verizon Business where he performed the role of lead architect responsible for Verizon Business' DoS Defense(tm) Distributed Denial of Service Mitigation and Detection product offerings, as well as a number of other Network Based security offerings.

Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks

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An introduction to the many freely available network measurement tools. This tutorial will give the attendees a good introduction to several tools as well as an idea of what resources are available. The tutorial will begin with a broad survey of available tools and then go in a bit more detail about four particular tools:


Iperf
BWCTL
OWAMP
NDT

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Jeff Boote, Internet2
Jeff Boote is a Senior Network Software Engineer for R&D at Internet2. In this capacity, Jeff implemented OWAMP, a tool for one-way latency measurement that is a sample implementation of IETF RFC 4656, which he co-authored. Jeff also created BWCTL, a tool for scheduling throughput tests that allows multiple users to schedule throughput tests with hosts in the middle of the network in cooperation with regularly scheduled tests. Jeff is heavily involved in the development of the U.S. implementation of the perfSONAR architecture. He is a contributing member to the Open Grid Forum's Network Measurement Working Group and Internet2's Performance Working Group. Before coming to Internet2 in March of 2002, Jeff worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the Visualization Lab, writing visualization software to translate NCAR research into high- resolution, multi-dimensional animations and also managed NCAR's web engineering group.

Jon Dugan, ESnet
Jon Dugan has a broad background in IP networking and UNIX administration and programming. His experience is primarily in the Research and Education sector and has been an active member of the R&E community. For many years he worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and has served on the SCinet committee for the Supercomputing tradeshow for many years. Recently Jon joined the Network Engineering team at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network). He is the maintainer of the Iperf network throughput measurement tool.

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We welcome all NANOG attendees to be part of the NANOG Community Meeting .

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Steering Committee and Merit

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The next generation of cable internet access technology, DOCSIS 3.0, is being readied for deployment by cable operators and vendors around the world. What does this technology look like? When will it start being deployed? What data rates will cable operators likely offer to customers? How will this affect the landscape of residential broadband? This talk will provide some insights on these questions.

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Greg White, CableLabs

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Martin A. Brown, Renesys Corp
Todd Underwood, Renesys Corp.
Earl Zmijewski, Renesys Corp.

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Martin A. Brown, Renesys Corp.
Alin Popescu, Renesys Corp.
Earl Zmijewski, Renesys Corp.

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Ron Bonica

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Rcat is an eBGP root cause analysis tool developed by Anthony Lambert, PhD student at Orange Labs. It is publicly available at: http://rcat.rd.francetelecom.com/" TARGET="_blank">http://rcat.rd.francetelecom.com/

Rcat analyzes BGP announcements sent by route-views eBGP peers, so as to determine which ASs are the more likely to have originating the inter domain structure changes which have lead to the emission and spread of the BGP announcements collected. Rcat aims at helping NOCs providing them with an increased reactivity during outages and an increased proactivity, detecting small recurrent events for instance.

In this presentation we focus on two case study: The impact of the January Mediterranean Cable Break in Egypt. We compare the events Rcat points out with results presented by Renesys on their blog.

We show that using Rcat results we succeed in rebuilding Renesys' unreachability curve and that we are able using Rcat to explain what the different peaks in this curve correspond to.

The second case study is an event which has occurred 10757 times in February 2008, pointing out the ability of Rcat to detect recurrent events and the importance of fixing them as they put a constant, heavy and useless stress on routers.

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Anthony Lambert, France Telecom R&D
Anthony Lambert is a network engineer from the University of Technology of Compiégne (UTC) since 2006. He has been working until now as a Ph.D. student at Orange Labs (France Telecom R&D) and at the CNRS Heudiasyc Laboratory of the UTC. His Ph.D. thesis aims at developing mechanisms to improve quality of the inter domain routing.

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BGPlay is a successful web based service which gives information about traffic directed to a certain Internet destination form public BGP collectors operated by RIPE NCC (RIS project) and Oregon University (RouteViews project). iBGPlay is a new BGP routing visualization tool, derived form BGPlay (http://www.ibgplay.org/), that enables Internet Service Providers to graphically analyze the behavior over time of BGP paths collected from their own routers. It graphically provides information to relevant destinations selected by the users and chosen among the whole prefix set of the Internet. Among the other features, iBGPlay provide visualization highlighting of next-hops and internet exchange points, flexible prefix search, a aggregation of prefixes with the same behavior, dashboard with real time BGP event visualization, IPv6 support. ISPs can choose to adopt iBGPlay either as a service or as a software to be installed in the ISP's data center. The two options are functionally equivalent and are both free of charge. More than 12 ISPs (and ISP-like organizations) are currently using it.

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Maurizio Pizzonia, Roma Tre University

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1) Cyclops: a detailed demonstration and discussion (continued) from the general session on Monday 2) Oregon Routeviews Project: discussion on the issues faced by the existing collectors and future plans

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Moderator - Joel Jaeggli, Nokia
Joel Jaeggli works in the Security and Mobile connectivity group within Nokia. His time is divided between the operation of the nokia.net (AS 14277) research network and supporting the strategic planning needed of Nokia's security business. Projects with former employer the University of Oregon included the Network Startup Resource Center, Oregon Routeviews project (still an active participant), the Beyond BGP Project, and the Oregon Videolab. He an active participant in several industry-related groups Including the IETF and NANOG. Joel frequently participates as an instructor or presenter and at regional and international network meetings, on services and security related topics.

Panelist - Ricardo Oliveira, UCLA

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A look into NYC Focused peering and the exchange fabrics' reach into buildings and participants across New York. During the presentation, each exchange operator will be asked to give an overall update as to membership, port speed counts and other technical information related to the exchange operation.

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Moderator - Charlie Gucker, One Step
Panelist - Shrihari Pandit, Big Ape
Panelist - Lane Patterson, Equinix
Panelist - Christopher Quesada, Switch and Data.
Panelist - Alex Reppen, NYCNAP
Panelist - John Savageau, Any2
Panelist - Akio Sugeno, NYIIX

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This presentation serves to guide current and new network operators through some of the technical challenges of peering. Various topics are covered such as routing policy, security, growth and other aspects of router configuration. The work covered here is based upon an upcoming IETF BCP draft on the same subject.

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Peter Cohen, Switch & Data
Avi Freedman, Akamai
Tom Scholl, AT&T
Tom Scholl is a Lead New Technology Product Development Engineer at AT&T Labs. In the Global IP/MPLS backbone design & development team, he works on the design of routing architectures for the core network. Additional tasks include network integration of the legacy SBC Internet Services network to the AT&T common backbone. Tom has spent his last several years at SBC and Ameritech working in network engineering roles.

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We present performance comparisons of existing and proposed new algorithms for BGP anomaly detection and robustness. A variety of algorithms and alert tools have been proposed and/or prototyped recently. They differ in the anomaly situations which they attempt to alert or mitigate, and also in the type(s) of data they use. Some are based on registry data from RIRs/IRRS (e.g. Nemecis) and others (PHAS, PGBGP) are driven by BGP trace data. The trace data is obtained from RIPE-RIS, Route-views, or a BGP speaker where the algorithm operates. We propose a new algorithm that combines the use of both registry and trace data, and also makes some key improvements over existing algorithms. We have built an evaluation platform called TERRAIN (Testing and Evaluation of Routing Robustness in Assurable Inter-domain Networking) on which these algorithms can be tested and empirically compared based on real and/or synthetically incorporated anomalies in BGP updates. We will present a variety of preliminary results providing interesting insights into quality metrics of registry data and the comparative performance of the various BGP robustness algorithms. Our objective is to share these early insights and invite feedback from the community to refine the TERRAIN evaluation tool to generate further useful results in the future.

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Oliver Borchert, NIST
Patrick Gleichmann, NIST
Okhee Kim, NIST
Doug Montgomery, NIST
Kotikapaludi Sriram, NIST
Kotikalapudi Sriram received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and a Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University in New York, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a Senior Researcher in the Advanced Networking Technologies Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. Previously, he held various positions at Bell Laboratories - the innovations arm of Alcatel-Lucent and formerly that of AT&T. His titles at Bell Laboratories included Consulting Member of Technical Staff (approximately top 1% of engineers in 2001) and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. His current research interests include Inter-domain Routing architecture and security, and seamless mobility in wireless access networks. He is a contributing author and a coeditor of Cable Modems: Current Technologies and Applications (IEEE Press, 1999). He holds 17 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Tuesday Evening Party

Brought to you by Equinix

Please join us for cocktails and appetizers after NANOG's Tuesday sessions conclude.Equinix

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Part 1. How are submarine cables funded. Participants: a consortium member and a private owner

Part 2. The commercial aspects of the submarine cable. Participants: cable operators

Part 3. How do submarine cables work (to satify the inner geek). Participant: cable builder

Part 4: What connectivity services can you buy from a submarine cable? Participants: product management for various services, SLAs for each product - IRU (who can buy, who cannot)

Part 5: Looking ahead - Current and Future cable builds

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Moderator - Sylvie LaPerriére, VSNL International
Sylvie LaPerriére, Director of Peering and Commercial Operations at VSNL International, leads the expansion of its Internet backbone network into new markets. Sylvie has 15 years of product management experience for data and mobile telecommunications services. She joined the company in 1993 and launched Teleglobe's first Internet service in 1995.

Panelist - Samia Bashoun, David Ross Group
Samia Bahsoun has over 23 years of telecommunications experience, with role & responsibilities ranging from Research & Development as a Bell Laboratories engineer to Executive Functions with P&L accountability, spanning all telecommunications business, wire-line and wireless, terrestrial, subsea, and microwave, long haul, metro and access.

Prior to joining the David Ross Group, a global telecommunications consulting firm, Samia worked with and consulted for Fortune 500 corporations as well as small and medium size enterprises, such as Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel, AT&T, IDT, Lucent, Tyco, IDT, TerraWorx, and AVC Global Services. As a private entrepreneur, she founded and managed a global telecommunication consulting firm, SetWave Communications, and the first privately owned fiber optics characterization services firm, FiberWorx, working in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Samia's global business experience is complemented by a multicultural and multilingual background; she is fluent to moderate in Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Spanish, and Wolof.

Panelist - Pau Kirwan, Tata Communications
Paul is Vice President-Customer Operations in the Customer Service & Operations group at Tata Communications. Reporting to the Chief Network Officer, he is responsible for all front-end customer-facing activities worldwide.

Prior to Tata Communications, Paul spent 26 years at Cable & Wireless in a wide range of roles in Customer Service, Global Account Management, Service Management and more recently in Commercial & Operational Management of C&W's US Network & Suppliers.

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Joel Jaeggli, Nokia

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Exchange points are so important infrastructure for the internet that providers always require higher availabilities to exchange point providers. This presentation proposes an availability model of exchange point, and describes the methods to increase availability adopted by JPNAP. Also it examines the real availability data of JPNAP and discusses the effect of the method.

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Katsuyasu Toyama, JPNAP
Katsuyasu Toyama is general manager of technology department of JPNAP, the exchange point service in Japan, by INTERNET MULTIFEED CO. He was involved with the establishment of the company, in 1997, and there he designed JPNAP's network and services in 2000. After six years' research activities in NTT Laboratories, he returned to JPNAP again in 2007. His current interests focus on bridging network operations and network research.

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Michael Patton, MAP Network Engineering
Heidi Picher Dempsey, BBN
The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) is a US national-scale facility for conducting network science and engineering research, now in its design and planning phase. This talk will introduce the concepts behind GENI, explain the current development plan, and suggest ways that the Network Operations community (i.e. NANOGers) can participate. GENI will include infrastructure with a national footprint, that researchers can utilize to build networking experiments without being tied to the technologies or protocols of today's Internet. GENI will allow organizations with varied resources to federate with other organizations in a global networked environment that includes academia and industry. The facility will be interconnected with the Internet at several places, both to allow researchers to access their experiments and to allow general Internet users to participate in experiments.

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Alcatel-Lucent

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This presentation will report on three areas on IANA's recent work. First, we will provide an update on the progress ICANN has made in its ongoing work to quantify the scale and distribution of the used but unallocated IPv4 address space. Secondly, we will also describe recent changes to the IPv4 Address Space Registry, particularly the updates to whois information and the 'various registries' designations. Finally, we will provide an update on registry options for DNSSEC information, both via DNS and stored in GPG signed XML formats.

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Barbara Roseman, IANA/ICANN
Barbara has participated in ICANN since 1999. She has worked at ICANN in full and part time consultancy roles since January 2003. She joined the IANA staff in 2005, and was appointed to the IANA General Manager role in September 2007.

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Mark Kosters, ARIN
Mark Kosters has over twenty one years of experience as an applications developer, networking engineer, technical manager and executive. Over the last sixteen years, he was a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC (InterNIC), and Vice President of Research at VeriSign. Recently, Mark has taken a job as the CTO of ARIN. Over his career, he has been involved in application design and implementation of client/server tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database administration, and network security. He has represented both network information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE, APNIC, and NANOG.

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Marla Azinger, Frontier Communications and ARIN Advisor
Marla Azinger graduated from the university of Washington and began her technical career in the US Army as a Signal Intelligence Officer in 1995. After leaving the Army in 2001, Marla joined Electric Lightwave, supervising transport circuit design. In 2002, she became their dedicated IP Address Engineer. In addition to fully managing ELI's IP addressing, Marla took on the added responsibility for all of Frontier Communications and Citizens IP Addressing needs in 2003. Since 2006 Frontier Communications has been busy with acquisitions and Marla has been busy with the necessary audits and renumbering projects due to these acquisitions. Marla's responsibilities encompass management of both IPv4 and IPv6 IP addressing needs and the engineering for Peering at Frontier Communications for AS5650. Marla currently serves on the ARIN Advisory Council and is also on the Routing and Addressing Directorate of IETF.

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Lindsey Poole Vivek Pai, Princeton University
Ming Zhang Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research

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Tom Daly, CTO

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This panel will focus on the methods for and deployment of inter-domain route filtering. We'll discuss the technical barriers to more ubiquitous deployment, what, where and why route filtering is applied today, and potential incremental deployment models that aim to improve coverage. Discussions will include why folks don't filter, policies to mitigate route leakage, RIR allocation authentication, IRR routing policy specification, object update and security considerations, and routing infrastructure challenges. The goal of this panel isn't just to revisit why route filtering can't be done today, but to assess viability of bi-lateral or other incremental models that further enable wider deployment.

Speakers
Moderator - Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks
Panelist - Larry Blunk, Merit Network
Panelist - Warren Kumari, Google, Inc.
Panelist - Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications
Panelist - Ruediger Volk, Deutsche Telekom

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Todd Underwood, Renesys Corporation