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Monday Extended Breakfast
Date/Time 7:30 AM to 9:45 AM
Location Overlook Ballroom
Sponsors
BICS
Imperva
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Monday Meeting Registration
Date/Time 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Location Ellington Pre Function
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Monday Espresso Bar
Date/Time 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Location Ellington Pre Function
Sponsors
Mid-Atlantic NAP of Virginia
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Conference Opening
Date/Time 10:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Ryan Donnelly, NANOG Board Chair
Ryan Donnelly serves as the Senior Director of Network Engineering at salesforce.com. Previously, Ryan served in several leadership roles at Verisign, and has held engineering roles at both UUNET and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ryan's principal interests include interconnection, network automation and DNS, among many others. Ryan holds a B.B.A in Information Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Josh Snowhorn, CyrusOne
Ryan Woolley, Netflix
Ryan Woolley is Director of Global Network Architecture at Netflix, where he is responsible for the network architecture and engineering of the Open Connect CDN. He is also a member of the technical committee of Community IX, the operator of FL-IX in south Florida and CIX-ATL in Atlanta. Over the last 20 years, Ryan has been continuously involved in networking, with experience in enterprise, access, content delivery and Internet exchanges. He joined the Program Committee in 2014.
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Keynote: A history of the Internet: Hint, it was not the Bomb
Date/Time 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Scott Bradner, Harvard University, retired
Scott Bradner retired in late 2016 after more than 50 years in Harvard University IT. Along the way he worked in the IETF for 25 years - 10 on the IESG - and served on the ISOC & ARIN boards.
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Project Loon: LTE and Mesh Networks in the Stratosphere
Date/Time 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Brian Barritt
Abstract Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide. High speed internet is transmitted up to the nearest balloon from our ground stations, relayed across the balloon network, and then back down to users on the ground. Recently, we announced that we partnered with the Government of Puerto Rico, the FCC, the FAA, FEMA, spectrum partners, and international aviation authorities to bring balloon powered internet to the island of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria made landfall as a category 4 hurricane and caused significant damage to the island’s connectivity infrastructure. We collaborated with AT&T and T-Mobile to support basic communication and internet activities in Puerto Rico like text messaging and accessing information online. This is the first time we have used our new machine learning powered algorithms to keep balloons clustered over Puerto Rico. To operate this network, X, the Moonshot Factory, developed a Temporospatial Software Defined Network (TS-SDN) for aerospace communication. Over the last several years, the team responsible for the TS-SDN in Project Loon has been involved with the application of aircraft and spacecraft as platforms for providing abundant Internet access to the world. We’ve explored the TS-SDN application in large scale Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite constellations, and we’ve developed, deployed, and operated Internet access from unmanned aerial vehicles and stratospheric balloons. Along the way, we solved key challenges in the operation of non-geostationary, multi-hop aerospace networks and have developed highly-scalable, unified network infrastructure that we’ve leveraged across all of these projects. This presentation provides an overview of Project Loon, the Loon Network, our Temporospatial SDN solution, and complementary Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure.
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Hackathon Wrap-up and Winner
Date/Time 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Location Ellington Ballroom
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Monday Lunch
Date/Time 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM
Location Overlook Ballroom
Sponsors
Charter Communications
LightRiver Technologies
Oath
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Newcomers Lunch (Invite Only)
Date/Time 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM
Location Mercer Ballroom
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Virtualizing the Network for Fun and Profit
Date/Time 1:45 PM to 2:30 PM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Richard A Steenbergen, WYLTK
Richard is the founder and CEO of Petabit Scale, an organization devoted to helping companies with unique large-scale networking challenges. A well-known innovator and serial entrepreneur, Richard has helped build some of the largest and most disruptive networks in the world for over two decades, and is a frequent contributor at NANOG as well as a variety of technical conferences. Prior to founding Petabit Scale, Richard was a founder and served as the CTO of PacketFabric, a highly disruptive "Network as a Service" platform which helped interconnect users across hundreds of major datacenters with a fully automated SDN-based platform. Before PacketFabric, Richard served as the CTO of GTT Communications, where he helped build the company into one of the largest and most competitive global Tier 1 networks in the world. Richard was also the founder and CTO of nLayer Communications, served as Chief Scientist for ServerCentral, and worked at AboveNet and NetVMG in senior network architecture roles.
Abstract An exploration of next-generation network architectures and design techniques, built on technologies like EVPN/VXLAN.
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Optical Transceivers in Open Networks
Date/Time 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Christian Urricariet, Finisar
Christian Urricariet is Senior Director of Global Marketing at Finisar. He has spent over 20 years introducing optical interconnect solutions for data centers, enterprises and telecom service providers worldwide. Since joining the company in 1999, he has held a variety of Product Management and Marketing roles encompassing the company’s 400G, 100G, 40G, 10G, 2G and 1G optical product lines. Prior to joining Finisar, he held several telecom product marketing and business development positions at Raychem Corporation. He holds an Electronics Engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA).
Abstract Open Networking switches and software stacks are disrupting the industry and leading to a rapid increase in innovation, choice and flexibility in network deployments. However there are still feature and functionality gaps in open networking hardware and software stacks that need to be addressed before they can become a mainstream choice for network operators. This talk will address the topic of optical transceiver deployments and readiness in open network infrastructure. It will provide an overview of optics standards and interface types and will comment on ongoing efforts in the industry to ensure interoperability in open networking switches. The talk will then focus on the development of an open, industry standard interface to monitor and control Optical Transceivers in active use in network switches. The interface has been implemented in an open source software package which is freely available, vendor neutral, and can support any switch or NOS that provides read and write access to the EEPROM data in the transceivers.
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Docker LibNetwork Drivers: Explorer's Tale
Date/Time 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Paul Greenberg
Paul Greenberg is a creative technologist with passion towards innovating in the area of Linux Internals, SDN, DevOps, and Automation. Paul uses his unique experience in and knowledge of technology hacking, programming languages, infrastructure services, and advanced data analysis tools to solve business challenges. During his career, Paul has analyzed and tuned dozens of networks, shared his knowledge with hundreds of people, and written countless lines of code. Currently, Paul manages a team of engineers and developers working on SDN solutions at BNY Mellon.
Abstract When dealing with microservices, such as Docker containers, inevitably, there comes a time when you will troubleshoot issues in a software-defined networking (SDN) universe. The SDN troubleshooting requires knowledge of programming and fundamental concepts of container networking implementation frameworks, i.e. the container network model (CNM) and the container network interface (CNI). This talk provides you with the fundamentals about the frameworks, the interplay between Docker ecosystem and the frameworks, and the how to develop your own network drivers for microservices, whether for network connectivity or IP address management (IPAM). Importantly, during the talk, we will dive into a specific implementation of the drivers and discuss the challenges awaiting us on our road to SDN-transported microservices!
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Monday Break
Date/Time 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Location Ellington Pre Function
Sponsors
Digital Realty
GTT
Myriad Supply
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Data Modeling Driven Management: Latest Industry and Tool Developments
Date/Time 4:00 PM to 4:50 PM
Location Ellington Ballroom
Presenters
Speaker
Benoit Claise, Cisco Systems
Benoit Claise is a Cisco Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, working as an architect for embedded management and device instrumentation. Area of passion & expertise includes Internet traffic monitoring, accounting, performance, fault, configuration, and energy management. For almost 6 years now, Claise was selected as a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) at the IETF, as IETF Operations and Management area director. Claise's area of focus these days, both at the IETF and at Cisco, is YANG as THE data modeling language and NETCONF. As a contributor to the IETF, with more than 35 RFCs and drafts in the area of traffic monitoring and performance: NetFlow Version 9, IPFIX (IP Flow Information eXport), PSAMP (Packet Sampling), IPPM (IP Performance Metrics), and Energy Management (EMAN) and data modeling-driven management (YANG). Claise is the author of the ciscopress book "Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies".
Abstract This session will cover the industry landscape and latest developments in terms of data YANG modeling-driven management in the first part. And the second part will demonstrate a tool chain for operators, for both YANG module users and YANG module designers, centered around the YANG catalog (www.yangcatalog.org) set of tools.
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Peering Coordination Forum
Date/Time 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Location Overlook Ballroom
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