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Saturday, February 20, 2010
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Everything you ever wanted to know about optical networking but were afraid to ask. Example topics include:

* How fiber works (the basics, fiber types and limitations, etc)
* Working with optics (choosing the right type, designing optical networks, etc)
* Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using light meters, etc)
* DWDM (how it works, muxes, oadms, amps, etc)
* Dispersion (what is it, why do we care, how do we fix it)
* Optical Myths (can I hurt myself looking into fiber, can I overload my optic)

Speakers
Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications
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.
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The BGP 101 tutorial is a detailed introduction to BGP, focusing on the basics (routes, peers, peering sessions, protocol overview) and ending with theory and examples showing how networks are seen by the Internet when they run without BGP; how to multi-home; and how to do basic inbound and outbound traffic preferences.

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Avi Freedman, ServerCentral
Avi Freedman is CTO with ServerCentral, where he focuses on private and public cloud technologies to bring infrastructure abstraction to the masses. Prior to joining ServerCentral, Avi was with Akamai for 9.9 years where he led the network group and then focused on architecture, research, product development, Internet visualization, and vulnerability analysis. Avi also founded Philadelphia's original ISP, netaxs (4969, now reallocated), and was then VP of Engineering at AboveNet. He was a founding member of the ARIN advisory council and is actively involved in the network community.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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Tutorial on emerging video based service offerings over an IP based infrastructure (specifically a DOCSIS based HFC network used by cable operators). Covering video on demand, broadcast video, and teleprence services and the underlying technolgies used.

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Byju Pularikkal, Cisco Systems Inc.
Jeffrey Riddel, Cisco Systems Inc.
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This tutorial will provide an overview of IPv6 routing concepts and provide examples of IPv6 configurations for routers using Cisco and Juniper CLI. There will be a question and answer period at the end of the tutorial for specific technical questions related to deploying IPv6 on existing networks.

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Ron Bonica, Juniper Networks
Mr. Ron Bonica, is Juniper's technical lead on IPv6 and is a member of Juniper Networks' routing protocol software development team. He also contributes to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), currently serving as co-director of the Operations and Management (O&M) Area. Ron also has authored several standard documents, including RFCs on MPLS. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Ron served as senior manager of engineering for MCI's vBNS+ network.

Merike Kaeo, Double Shot Security
Merike Kaeo is Chief Network Security Architect at Double Shot Security. She is the author of Designing Network Security, published by Cisco Press, which has been published in eight languages and is being used as a curriculum textbook in a variety of network security courses. The second edition was published in November 2003. Merike has acted as a technical advisor for numerous security start-up companies and has been an instructor and speaker at a variety of global security-related conferences. She is also a frequent presenter at global ISP conferences including NANOG, RIPE, APRICOT and SANOG.
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BGP 102 build on the basics presented in BGP 101 and focuses on scaling and traffic preffing.
We cover BGP Route Reflectors, local prefs and other knobs, peer groups, and basic BGP
hygiene and then show how to configure more fine-grained outbound and inbound traffic
load balancing.

Speakers
Avi Freedman, ServerCentral
Avi Freedman is CTO with ServerCentral, where he focuses on private and public cloud technologies to bring infrastructure abstraction to the masses. Prior to joining ServerCentral, Avi was with Akamai for 9.9 years where he led the network group and then focused on architecture, research, product development, Internet visualization, and vulnerability analysis. Avi also founded Philadelphia's original
ISP, netaxs (4969, now reallocated), and was then 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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Steering Committee Report - Steve Feldman

Program Committee Report - Dave Meyer

Mailing List Committee Report - Kris Foster

Marketing Working Group Report - Christopher Quesada

Merit Report - Betty Burke

Open Discussion
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SixXS (http://www.sixxs.net) is a project run by two enterprising Dutchman providing IPv6 connectivity through various ISP-provided PoPs to users around the world. The project came up with a couple of unique methods of getting people to get connected to IPv6 (AICCU which provides heartbeat and AYIYA tunnels) and also to make sure that the connectivity actually works (GRH, Ghost Router Hunter). This will be an overview of what we accomplished the last 8 years and what is yet to come.

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Jeroen Massar, SixXS
Jeroen is working at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory on the AURORA project, a tool which allows a view into very large networks, various IPv6 deployment and consulting subjects and other networking related problem sets. Networking and high scalability are the main topics of his research.

He is one partner of the duo operating the widely used SixXS project, a sparetime project that provides free IPv6 connectivity to thousands of users globally. In this project he developed and deployed the heartbeat, TIC and AYIYA protocols which are supported by the worldwide SixXS PoPs and the AICCU tool. AICCU enables IPv6 connectivity to users without hassle, it being in most important Open Source Operating System distributions and available for a myriad of platforms. To ensure that SixXS users can actually properly use IPv6 he also created the Ghost Route Hunter (GRH) project that monitors IPv6 BGP and over the years helped in debugging IPv6 routing issues.
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The long ago announced change from circuits to packet based transport of voice, TV and leased lines has happened which means that many IP backbones are now also transport networks for these services.

Which impact does that have on:
the day-to-day operation of the network
demands to convergence
demands to monitoring
demands to resilience

The panel participants will be reprensenting different types of operators that all share the challenges of being "multiservice" - transit, cdn, content and coorporate.

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Moderator - Nina Bargisen, TDC A/S
Nina has worked at TDC, AS3292, the incumbent in Denmark and one of the leading ISPs in Scandinavia, since 1999, and currently works in the capacity planning group. She is responsible for all for all international interconnects for TDC and runs the IP registry and is part of the technical peering team at TDC. Other responsibilities include network planning, Traffic Engineering, budgeting, network modeling and network design.

Panelist - Chris Luke, Easynet
Chris Luke is currently the Chief Technologist at Easynet Global Services and has been there since 1995 in various senior technical roles. Chris has led Easynet from a collection of analog modems in a closet of a West London Cyber café to its current multinational multiservice-focussed network (carrying everything from live broadcast television to life-line services
alongside traditional MPLS VPN and Internet traffic) and these days provides technical strategy and analysis to the Engineering organization.

Panelist - Walt Magnussen, Texas A&M
Walt Magnussen, Ph.D. has his Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the University of Minnesota and his Doctorate from Texas A&M University. He is the Director for Telecommunications at Texas A&M, Associate Director of the Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technology, an Adjunct Faculty Member at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas, as well as Co-Director for the Texas A&M VoIP Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC). Walt is the Co-Chair of Internet2’s VoIP Special Interest Group (SIG) and IPTV SIG, the Past President of the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), a member of the State of Texas Telecommunications Planning Oversight Council (TPOC), an Advisory Board member for the Center for Distance Learning Research at Texas A&M University, and a Board member for the SIP Foundry, an Open Source SIP Organization.

Walt has assisted with engineering the Trans Texas Video Network, one of the largest Distance Education Networks in the World, the Lone Star Education and Research Network (LEARN) a Texas regional optical network, and served as a consultant to distance education projects in over 30 countries. Most recently he assumed a partnership role on the United States Department of Transportation grant to demonstrate a Next Generation 911 VoIP based Emergency Call Center.

Panelist - Joe Provo, ITA Software
Joe Provo is Network Architect at ITA Software, an airline IT and services provider at the forefront of a new generation of technology that is changing the way the travel industry works. Before joining ITA, he was in charge of Internet Engineering at RCN. He has been a systems and IP network consultant for over 15 years, and was the founding engineer at a New England ISP in the early wave of 1994 leading all aspects: building and managing servers, networks from the access to the border, NOC and support infrastructure, developing products and the platforms to support them. Since then he has been on both sides of M&A table, integrated and divested networks, designed and managed national infrastructure, and handled network policies including peering. He has managed portions of the MA.US tree since 1994.

Ted Seely, Sprint
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Evolution of Layer 3 built over subsea systems for efficient use of infrastructure and disaster prevention.
Concept of REGIONAL IX for Asia-Pacific to deal with complexities of managing traffic that's largely subsea, cross-border between city-states.

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Jeffrey Kleynen, Pacnet
Jeffrey Kleynen is a senior manager in the Service Engineering Team at Pacnet where his main roles are backbone design, implementation, and capacity management. In his 10 years at Pacnet he has had various positions from regional operations work when the network was part of Global Crossing's AS, to subsequent lead roles in network migration to new AS, and more recently network integration work with Pacnet's recent acquisition of Pacific Internet.
Monday, February 22, 2010
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SP Security Track with sessions which are focused specifically on the security-resiliency of the infrastructure.

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Moderator - Barry Greene, Juniper Networks
Mr. Barry Raveendran Greene is currently the Director of Juniper's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). With 30 years in the industry, Barry brings a wide range of experiences and skills to the just of fulfilling Juniper's mission to deliver products that are Fast, Reliable, and Secure.

More details about Barry's work history can be found here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/barryrgreene

Merike Kaeo, Double Shot Security
Merike Kaeo is Chief Network Security Architect at Double Shot Security. She is the author of Designing Network Security, published by Cisco Press, which has been published in eight languages and is being used as a curriculum textbook in a variety of network security courses. The second edition was published in November 2003. Merike has acted as a technical advisor for numerous security start-up companies and has been an instructor and speaker at a variety of global security-related conferences. She is also a frequent presenter at global ISP conferences including NANOG, RIPE, APRICOT and SANOG.

John Kristoff, Team Cymru
John Kristoff is a researcher with Team Cymru, an Internet security research firm. John has worked at UltraDNS/Neustar as a network architect and held network engineering positions at both Northwestern University and DePaul University. John remains affiliated with Northwestern and DePaul as a collaborator, student and instructor. John has been an active participant in a number of related trusted security communities including nsp-security, YASML, ops-trust, FIRST, REN-ISAC and DNS-OARC.
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Moderator - Nina Bargisen, TDC
Nina has worked at TDC, AS3292, the incumbent in Denmark and one of the leading ISPs in Scandinavia, since 1999, and currently works in the capacity planning group. She is responsible for all for all international interconnects for TDC and runs the IP registry and is part of the technical peering team at TDC. Other responsibilities include network planning, Traffic Engineering, budgeting, network modeling and network design.

Nina has an M.Sc in Mathematics with minor in Computer Science from Århus University Denmark.

Moderator - Mike Hughes, LINX
Mike Hughes is Chief Technical Officer for London Internet Exchange (LINX), where he is responsible for the organisation's overall technical strategy, core peering infrastructure, and operational performance, specialising in high-speed metro ethernet platforms. With over 10 years of industry experience, Mike has become involved in activities within the community as a regular participant at industry for a (such as NANOG and RIPE meetings), and is a co-chair of the RIPE European Internet Exchange Working Group, as well as being a member of the UKNOF programme committee. He also sits on the Customer Technical Advisory Council of Extreme Networks.

Ondrej Filip, CZ.NIC
Ondrej studied Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, Prague and University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. During his studies at Charles University he started to work in nationwide ISP IPEX a.s. Later he became Technical director and member of board there. Ondrej has been CEO of the CZ.NIC (administrator of TLD .cz) association since December 2004. Herewith his duties in CZ.NIC Ondrej acts in the board of the IXP NIX.CZ, in the board of the association Euro-IX , is a member of Multistakeholder Advisory Group convening the Internet Governance Forum, and same he is a member of ccNSO council at ICANN.
Ondrej is one of the authors of open-source routing daemon BIRD which is used as a route server by some IXPs.

Elisa Jasinska, AMS-IX
Elisa has been a Network Engineer at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange since 2007. Before that she worked for a year on developing sFlow software, which AMS-IX uses as a service for its members. Elisa has been involved with Internet technology since 2005, when she voluntarily started to build up conference networks for > 3500 attendees. Next to that she is a student at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is working on her Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Chris Malayter, Switch & Data.
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Todd Braning, BandCon
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Alcatel-Lucent
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Edward Henigin, Giganews
David Meyer, Program Committee Chair, Cisco/UO
Bob Stovall, Merit Network
Ron Yokubaitis, Data Foundry
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The network neutrality policy debate has largely ended. Now, its time for the implementation discussion to begin. Join FCC staff and top network architects as they move the discussion past policy into design, implementation, and ongoing operation. Want to be part of the discussion?

Please make sure you've read pages 41 to 51 of the FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-93A1.pdf">http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-93A1.pdf

We'll be asking tough questions of both sides and demanding great answer. The FCC is listening - now is our chance to make our voices heard on a national regulatory level.

Some areas of discussion:

  • Control Traffic
  • Prioritization
  • BGP Local Preference
  • Peer to Peer Traffic
  • Mandatory Disclosure of network management policies
  • Backbone vs Edge networks
  • Issues with Customer Premises Equipment

Speakers
Moderator - Dan Golding, DH Capital
Daniel Golding is currently Managing Director and Head of Research at DH Capital, a boutique investment bank specializing in the Internet infrastructure sector, from hosting to datacenters to network services providers. Mr. Golding was previously Vice President at Tier 1 Research, where he led coverage in the areas of hosting, CDNs, co-location, and data centers. Previously, Mr. Golding was a Senior Analyst at Burton Group, where he provided network architecture advisory services to 400 major enterprise customers drawn from the Fortune 500 and Global 2000. Before becoming an analyst, he was Global Peering Manager for America Online, leading AOL's peering and interconnection efforts. He has also held a variety of other engineering and architecture management positions at major Internet Service Providers and has served as a nuclear engineer in the US Navy.

Panelist - Fred Baker, Cisco Systems
Fred Baker, who is a Fellow at Cisco Systems, has worked in data communications since 1978, and in Internet technologies since 1986. He chaired the IETF 1996-2001, and has chaired a number of working groups in that forum and other industry boards. He has published 43 RFCs on topics including network management, PPP, IPv4/IPv6 Quality of Service, IPv6 operations, forensic access, and others. He was also a member of the FCC Technical Advisory Board in 2004. He is the IETF delegate to the Smart Grid Interoperability Group, working on the PAP regarding the role of the Internet Architecture in the Smart Grid.

Panelist - Patrick Gilmore, Akamai Technologies
Patrick Gilmore has worked at Akamai Technologies for 10 years, where as Principal Architect he runs the Network Architecture department. Patrick's group is responsible for peering and capacity for the world's largest CDN, which regularly serves nearly 20% of all web traffic on the Internet. Prior to Akamai, Patrick worked at Onyx Networks, Concentric Networks, and Priori Networks. Patrick is a member of the Board of Directors of the London Internet Exchange, which is the largest IXP in the world by member count. He is also on the Board of the Seattle Internet Exchange, an Administrator of the PeeringDB, and on the NANOG Steering Committee.

Panelist - Zachary Katz, FCC
Mr. Katz is Deputy Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis at the FCC. He came to the FCC in July 2009 from the White House Counsel's Office, where he was Deputy Special Counsel to the President. He previously practiced intellectual property law at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Kim M. Wardlaw of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Katz received his law degree from Yale, where he was Editor in Chief of The Yale Law Journal. He began his career working with technology companies in Silicon Valley.

Panelist - Jon Peha, FCC
Dr. Peha is the FCC's Chief Technologist. He is also a Full Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Dr. Peha was Chief Technical Officer of three high-tech start-ups and a member of technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft. He also addressed telecom and e-commerce issues while on legislative staff for the House Energy & Commerce Committee and in the Office of Senator Ron Wyden. His research spans technical and policy issues of communications networks, including spectrum management, broadband Internet, wireless networks, video and voice over IP, communications for emergency responders, universal service, secure Internet payment systems, dissemination of copyrighted material, e-commerce, network modeling and simulation, and network security. Dr. Peha is a Congressional Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Diplomacy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a member in the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford, and a B.Sc. from Brown.

Panelist - Dave Temkin, Netflix
Dave Temkin is the Network Engineering Manager at Netflix, responsible for the team that supports the Netflix website and streaming offerings. Prior to joining Netflix, he was the Layer 4-7 Architect at Yahoo!. Previous to that, he was the Network Engineering Manager at Right Media, which was acquired by Yahoo. He has also worked for financial companies such as Citigroup and SIG as a Network Architect to design and implement highly resilient, low latency electronic trading networks. Dave holds a CCIE certification and is a member of the NANOG Marketing Working Group.
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RBridges are devices that implement the IETF TRILL protocol. They provide optimal pair-wise forwarding without configuration, safe forwarding even during periods of temporary loops, and support for multipathing of both unicast and multicast traffic. They achieve these goals using IS-IS routing and encapsulation of traffic with a header that includes a hop count. RBridges are compatible with previous IEEE 802.1 customer bridges as well as IPv4 and IPv6 routers and end nodes. They support VLANs and optimization of the distribution of multi-destination frames based on VLAN and IP derived multicast groups. They are as invisible to current IP routers as bridges are and, like routers, they terminate the bridge spanning tree.

Speakers
Donald Eastlake, Stellar Switches
Donald Eastlake is Chief Technology Officer for Stellar Switches, Inc., and before that was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Motorola. He is co-chair of the IETF TRILL Working Group. Donald is an author of about 50 IETF RFCs, including the only RFC with "sex" in its title, editor of the TRILL base protocol specification, and an author of a number of other TRILL related Internet Drafts..
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This talk covers the current state of network devices known as Data Access Network switches, and architectural applications of those devices. These devices are used to aggregate, filter, and intelligently distribute in-flight network traffic from in-band sources to traffic analysis and logging tools.

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Kevin Nassery, Consciere LLC
Kevin A. Nassery is a hands-on technical architect, who has been an active Unix systems, network, and security engineer and consultant for more than a decade. After serving for more than four years as principal infrastructure architect for a major online presence, he recently returned to his passion of security consulting. At present, he is a RHCE, CISSP, and holds an MS from Depaul University in
Computer, Information, and Network security. He is currently a senior security consultant with Consciere LLC.
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Moderator - Ron Bonica, Juniper Networks
Mr. Ron Bonica, is Juniper's technical lead on IPv6 and is a member of Juniper Networks' routing protocol software development team. He also contributes to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), currently serving as co-director of the Operations and Management (O&M) Area. Ron also has authored several standard documents, including RFCs on MPLS. Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Ron served as senior manager of engineering for MCI's vBNS+ network.

Panelist - Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!
Igor Gashinsky is a principal architect at Yahoo!, a global content provider, where he is involved in projects ranging from overall network design (including highly resilient switching and routing architecture, peering, MPLS, L4-7 loadbalancing), as well as scalable content delivery methodologies and DNS architecture.

Panelist - Kevin Loch, Carpathia Hosting
Rob Seastrom, Afilias
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The goal of the talk is to discuss applicability of add-paths scheme. It brings the original ISP design and demonstrates how with the current set of available BGP tools achieve the same level of fast connectivity restoration or load balancing as one may claim to be possible only with add-paths.

An alternative to add-paths - diverse BGP paths distribution is presented. The analogy to MPLS networks is made with demonstration of it's original flat design scalability challenges and proposed industry solution.

Conclusion shows possible network design with main goals of simplicity, ease of deployment, ability to meet fast connectivity restoration goals and true multi service nature to carry any kind of application over IP.

Speakers
Robert Raszuk, Cisco Systems
Robert Raszuk graduated with Master’s degree from Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics in 1995. During last years of his university he established “Internet Access” company which focused on providing services of interconnecting enterprises to Internet via local ISPs in Poland.

Shortly after graduation he started to work for Network Engineering at Nations Bank where his duties and responsibilities included running national routing backbone as well as designing migration of most campuses to ethernet catalyst switches from token ring and FDDI technologies.

Since 1997 he has been working for routing equipment vendors initially in Customer Support team then from 1999 in the Routing Protocol Development Engineering teams.

He is author & co-author of over 40 patents, number of IETF drafts and RFCs. His focus has been during last years concentrated on large scale routing (mainly BGP), mpls and it’s applications. He has over 16 years of practical experience in the computer networking industry. His priority has always been to help internet service providers to build and effectively operate IP networks.

Currently he is Principal Engineer in IOS Routing Protocols Development group in Cisco Systems Engineering.
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Dave Ward, Juniper Networks
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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Network Tools Track
Moderator: Mohit Lad, ThousandEyes

This track focuses on introducing non-commercial tools of value to the NANOG community with a focus on hands on presentations. The focus of this NANOG's tools track will be on Routing Tools. Each presenter will present the features and capabilities of the tool using case studies, which will be followed by a brief QA session. This will be the perfect opportunity for the audience to make a case for new features and enhancements.

1. REX: Resource Explainer
Rene Wilhelm, RIPE

REX, our Resource EXplainer, is a prototype tool developed at RIPE NCC to provide one-stop-shopping for almost all the information you ever wanted to know about Internet number resources. Using the long term view from data sets like RIS (10 years of BGP table dumps), RIPE database, Maxmind's geolocation information, various SMTP blacklists and others, REX provides an all-inclusive, detailed report about the resources you're interested in; both current and historic states. After introducing the concepts of REX, the presentation will illustrate the power of REX with a demo of example case studies.

2. BGPBotz Manish Karir, Merit Network Inc, BGPBotz is a BGP looking-glass interface over Instant Messaging. BGPBotz is similar to route-servers that run on telnet, but has been adapted for the AIM and Jabber IM protocols. In this presentation we would like to both describe its capabilities as well as provide a summary of what popular uses of this tool have been over the past 6 months of operation. We would also like to renew our plea to the overall community for BGP peering session that can be added to this service.
3. Cheap Alternatives for Market Intelligence
Mohit Lad, ThousandEyes Inc.

Without the budget for a commercial tool for market intelligence, one has to look for alternatives. This talk will show how one can make use of existing tools such as Cyclops along with some basic analysis using public data to carry out peering and connectivity analysis. Using specific case studies, the talk will focus on identifying what can be done and point out where the gaps are in the process.

Speakers
Moderator - Mohit Lad, ThousandEyes
Mohit Lad is the co-founder of ThousandEyes, a network monitoring and security company. Prior to this, he was responsible for designing and implementing an internal monitoring system for Nokia's global network. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2007 and has been actively involved in NANOG throughout his graduate study at UCLA. During his Ph.D. he designed and implemented the Link-Rank visualization for BGP routing diagnosis. He was also the primary designer of PHAS: Prefix hijack alert system (implemented and maintained by Colorado State University).

Speaker - Manish Karir, Merit Network
Manish Karir as the Research Program Manager leads the Networking Research and Development group at Merit Network Inc. He is responsible for setting the overall research agenda for the group as well as program management for various projects. At Merit he has led the research activities of Merit in the direction of Internet data analysis and tool development. Based on his research activities, Manish has published technical papers in various refereed conferences or as Merit technical reports, and has often presented his work at these venues. In the past, Manish has developed tools such as BGPInspect and Flamingo and is currently involved DHS sponsored PREDICT project.

Speaker - Rene Wilhelm, RIPE
Rene Wilhelm is a system architect in RIPE NCC's Science Group, the company's R&D team, where his activies focus on data analysis and research. Rene has been with the RIPE NCC for 12 years. He was involved in design and roll out of the TTM service and contributed to the RIS project. He also contributes to the RIPE policy development process' impact analyses. Rene holds a Ph.D in physics.
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IX Updates:
Job Witteman - AMS-IX
Frank Orlowski - DE-CIX
Eric Bell - Equinix
Katsuyasu Toyama - JPNAP
Mike Hughes - LINX
Matt Peterson - SFMIX
Patrick Gilmore - SIX
Peter Cohen - Switch & Data
Michael Lucking - TelX
Josh Snowhorn – Terremark
Kris Foster – TorIX

IPv6 Peering Growth:
Martin Levy – Hurricane Electric

Prepared peering personals:
John Kristoff - Cymru
Aaron Hughes – Exponential & 6connect
Dave McGaugh – Amazon
Callahan Warlick – Facebook
Christian Koch - Meebo

Speakers
Dave Temkin, Netflix
Dave Temkin is the Network Engineering Manager at Netflix, responsible for the team that supports the Netflix website and streaming offerings. Prior to joining Netflix, he was the Layer 4-7 Architect at Yahoo!. Previous to that, he was the Network Engineering Manager at Right Media, which was acquired by Yahoo. He has also worked for financial companies such as Citigroup and SIG as a Network Architect to design and implement highly resilient, low latency electronic trading networks. Dave holds a CCIE certification and is a member of the NANOG Marketing Working Group.
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In this talk, we present results from the 2009 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Survey. The report includes responses from 132 self-classified Tier 1, Tier 2 and other IP network operators from North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Survey topics include network security technology mechanisms around core Internet and other IP-based infrastructures.

The major findings include a shift to service level attacks, a possible leveling off in the growth of volumetric DDoS and security concerns over IPv6 and DNSSec deployment.

Speakers
Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks
Roland Dobbins has more than two decades of operational experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, securing, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting large-scale networks. His focus is on the availability, scalability, and security of network infrastructure and the applications/ services it enables.

Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks
Craig Labovitz is Chief Architect of Arbor Networks' service provider security and backbone engineering solutions. Before joining Arbor, Craig served as a research scientist at Microsoft Research and Merit Network, Inc. His research interests include the security and fault-tolerance of large-scale distributed systems. He is well-known for several important early papers on Internet routing dynamics and reliability. Craig received his PhD. and MSE from the University of Michigan.

Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks
Danny McPherson is Chief Research Officer at Arbor Networks. He has over 14 years in the Internet network operations, security and tlecommunications industry. Prior to joining Arbor, Danny was Director of Emerging Technology at Amber Networks. He has served as network architect for global Internet Service Providers such as Qwest, MCI and Genuity. Danny currently chairs the IETF PWE3 Working Group and is a member of several IETF Area directorates and Internet research groups.
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The panel will discuss Operational Experiences with SIP Peering. They will appear in this order with a Q&A following:

Josh Sahala, Intelepeer - Tales from the Dark Side - SIP Operational Experiences

Tim Cody, Neustar - Using ENUM to solve SIP Routing Problems

Matt Christopher, Comcast - Good Bedfellows - SIP and BGP

Yi Chu, Sprint - Voice Meets Data

Speakers
Moderator - Sonia Sakovich, Sprint
Sonia Sakovich has been working for Sprint since 1997. She has been the Peering Coordinator for Sprint since November of 2008. She is responsible for capacity planning, and is involved in all peering negotiations for Sprint. Prior roles included Senior Network Design Engineer, Principal Program Manager and NOC Engineer. Prior to Sprint she worked for GTE in supporting Federal Engineering Programs. Sonia has a Masters Degree in Information Systems Engineering, along with a Juris Masters Degree in Law and Economics. Her Undergraduate Degree is in Business Administration.

Panelist - Matt Christopher, Comcast
Mr. Christopher is primarily responsible for integrating new voice architectures in to the Comcast converged network. For the past three years within Comcast’s National Engineering & Technical Operations (NE&TO) organization, he has supported the integration and evolution of an intelligent voice routing solution using SIP and ENUM for peering and least cost routing of voice traffic. He previously held engineering and senior management positions supporting AT&T Broadband/Comcast’s launch of voice services. Mr. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science degree in general engineering with an electrical specialty from the Colorado School of Mines.

Panelist - Yi Chu, Sprint
Yi Chu is an IP Network Engineer at Sprint, responsible for Sprint’s deployment of Next Gen VoIP infrastructure. Yi has been with Sprint for more than 13 years, involved in various platforms, including traffic management, network forecasting, SprintLink network deployment and Next Gen VoIP. Yi Chu holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from University of Kansas.

Panelist - Tim Cody, Neustar
Tim Cody is NeuStar’s Senior Director of Product Architecture. Prior to joining NeuStar, he led R&D and Product Management teams at Nortel, Jetstream Communications and Paradyne Networks. Mr. Cody led teams in the development and architecture of SIP-based real-time applications. Tim, started his career at NASA developing avionics and guidance software for the Space Shuttle fleet.

Panelist - Josh Sahala, Intelepeer
Joshua Sahala is an IP Engineer at IntelePeer, a next-generation voice carrier and application provider, where he is involved in network planning, design, and operation. His current projects include backbone performance and scaling, security, automation, and increasing peering.
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John Kristoff, Team Cymru
John Kristoff is a researcher with Team Cymru, an Internet security research firm. John has worked at UltraDNS/Neustar as a network architect and held network engineering positions at both Northwestern University and DePaul University. John remains affiliated with Northwestern and DePaul as a collaborator, student and instructor. John has been an active participant in a number of related trusted security communities including nsp-security, YASML, ops-trust, FIRST, REN-ISAC and DNS-OARC.
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It was 10 years ago that Nasser El-Aawar, and I started the pseudowire design, in a coffee shop in Colorado. Today, Pseudowires based on the original draft-martini are one of the prevalent clients of MPLS networks to offer a wide variety of services. Recently there has been a new trend toward Pseudowires without a control plane. Everything static! This trend is fueled by an emerging transport technology with looks very promising to replace the old SONET infrastructure. It is MPLS Transport Profile, or MPLS-TP. I will give an introduction, and overview of MPLS-TP as well as an update on the most recent developments.

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Luca Martini, Cisco
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This presentation covers proposed method to combine BGP and MPLS-TE to avoid congesting peering or transit links. The idea is to include MPLS-TE bandwidth reservation in the BGP best-path decision process in order to select alternate paths which have sufficient capacity. This behavior is currently executed today by manual policy modification by an operator. An operator typically has to move traffic around carefully while waiting further capacity upgrades. This ideally could work in two different scenarios. One example would be where you have multiple links to a peer and you wish to move traffic to another peering location with that particular peer. Another scenario allows you to avoid routing to a particular peer and route to them via a separate peer/AS-Path. This would be useful when you wish to keep traffic "local" (not have to haul it) and are willing to send it to another peer/transit provider.

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Tom Scholl, AT&T Labs
Within the Global IP/MPLS backbone design & development team, his role is to design routing architectures for the core network and work on 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 both operations and network engineering roles. He has presented several times at NANOG and always makes time available to help peers and distribute clue where needed.

Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications
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.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Mirjam Kuehne, RIPE NCC
John Quarterman, Quarterman Creations.
Suzanne Woolf, Internet Systems Consortium
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In 2009 ICANN, VeriSign and the US Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (US DoC NTIA) began work on a collaborative project to deploy DNSSEC in the root zone of the DNS.

An overview of the project was presented as a lightning talk at NANOG 47, and details of the planned deployment approach were also discussed at the ISP Security BOF at that meeting.

Signing of the root zone started in December 2009, and the operational key management procedures continue to be exercised.

The deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone will trigger large responses from root servers, and it is not understood precisely what impact that will have on operators. Much effort has been put into instrumentation of the root servers to allow analysis of the reaction of the system as a whole to the staged deployment of DNSSEC, but given the widely-dispersed nature of the DNS another critical aspect of this deployment is to engage operators both so that they are aware of the work that is going on, and so that the deployment team can hear from operators how the changes are affecting them.

In January 2009 DNSSEC resource records will appear in the root zone as served by just the L root server. Data from root servers will be collected around the transition point and analysis will begin. NANOG 48 will be the first venue where the impact of the changes can be discussed.

This panel will provide a brief overview of the project and the deployment strategy, and will outline operational details of progress to date.

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Moderator - Duane Wessels, VeriSign
Following my college education in Physics and Telecommunications, I worked for many years on the Squid/IRCache project at UCSD. My, company The Measurement Factory, develops open source testing and measurement tools for HTTP and DNS. Currently I am the Director of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC).

Panelist - Dave Knight, ICANN
Dave Knight is a DNS Engineer at ICANN, where he is part of the team operating the L-root nameserver and contributing to DNSSEC for the root zone and for ICANN's own infrastructure. Before joining ICANN Dave served as Director of the Resolution Services group at Afilias, responsible for the anycast, TLD authority server platform and the deployment of DNSSEC in the .org zone. Dave has also been involved in DNSSEC projects at Internet Systems Consortium and RIPE NCC.

Panelist - Keith Mitchell, DNS-OARC
Keith Mitchell has recently been appointed Director of Engineering at the Internet Systems Consortium, where he has responsibility for ISC's open-source software and network development. This includes operation of ISC's F-root, DNS and public benefit hosting network infrastructure. Prior to this at ISC he managed the OARC programme for DNS operators, and remains President of the newly autonomous nonprofit OARC Inc.

Before moving to the US, Keith conceived the UK Network Operators' Forum UKNOF in 2005, and has been chairing this for its past dozen successful meetings. He has previously been involved in Internet engineering and governance for some 20 years, founding the London Internet Exchange (LINX) in 1994 where he was Executive Chairman until starting up XchangePoint in 2000. He has served as a non-executive Director of Nominet UK, Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board and founded the UK's first commercial Internet provider, PIPEX in 1992.

Suzanne Woolf, ISC.
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This talk will provide a brief update on ARIN's services and provide a demonstration a whois directory service replacement using a RESTful Web service.

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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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David Meyer, Program Committee Chair, Cisco/UO.
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