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Monday Registration
Date/Time 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Location Lone Star Foyer, Level 3
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Monday Extended Breakfast
Date/Time 7:30 AM to 9:45 AM
Location Griffin Hall, Level 2
Sponsors
NYIIX
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Monday Espresso Bar
Date/Time 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Location Lone Star East Foyer, Level 3
Sponsors
QTS Richmond NAP
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Conference Opening
Date/Time 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Speaker
L Sean Kennedy
L Sean Kennedy is an active member of the Internet Engineering community and Chairperson of the NANOG Board of Directors.
Benson Schliesser, Volta Networks
Rajiv Goel, Extreme Networks
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Keynote: DNS Wars: Episode IV - A New Bypass
Date/Time 10:30 AM to 11:15 AM recorded
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Speaker
Paul Vixie, Farsight Security
Abstract Since commercialization and privatization of the Internet first began in the 1990's, there has been a steady push to move access side DNS (called "recursive") away from customer networks and towards first ISP's and later Cisco, Google, IBM, and Cloudflare. What are the real motives for this trend? What are the risks and costs, and who pays them? Dr. Vixie has worked in the DNS field since 1989 and has invented many of the monitoring and filtering capabilities now used by nearly all DNS services, and he will try to explain what's happening. Special attention will be paid to the new web-based "DNS over HTTP" or "DoH" protocol now being strongly pushed by Mozilla and others.
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Board of Directors Candidate Session
Date/Time 11:15 AM to 12:00 PM recorded
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Moderator
Michael Voity
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Monday Lunch
Date/Time 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Location Griffin Hall, Level 2
Sponsors
Fastly
Netflix
QTS Richmond NAP
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Newcomers Lunch (Invite Only)
Date/Time 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
Location JW Grand Salon 1-4, Level 4
Sponsors
Amazon Web Services
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The Next Network Professional
Date/Time 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM recorded
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Moderator
David Temkin, Netflix
Dave Temkin is the Vice President of Networks for Netflix. Having been hired to build the Open Connect CDN, he is responsible for all network architecture and strategy as well as the operations of the Netflix network (AS2906). Before Netflix, he was at Yahoo!, where he focused on Layer 4-7 network architecture, having been brought in through the successful acquisition of Right Media where he was the Global Head of Networks. In his spare time he enjoys travel and philanthropy - both through volunteering at technical organizations such as the Board of NANOG, the Founder of Open-IX, and FL-IX, where he is currently the chairman and cofounder. He as well participates on the board of Children of Bellevue.
Panelist
Najam Ahmad, Facebook
Anna Claiborne, PacketFabric
LEVI PERIGO, University of Colorado
Jack Waters, Zayo
Jack Waters is chief technology officer (CTO) and president of Fiber Solutions at Zayo. In this role, he oversees global technology and network strategy and execution. He is also involved in all aspects of the business and is directly engaged with Zayo’s strategic customers, technology vendors and alliance partners.
Abstract This will be a panel of diverse executives at NANOG-relevant companies (content, network, hardware) and education professionals convened to discuss two main themes: 1. How and where we see the pipeline of the next generation of network professionals being cultivated 2. The skills we seek as leaders in our teams. Not only will we talk about tech skills, but we’ll also talk about the importance of developing soft skills such as empathy, inclusion, and allyship. We will touch on themes such as early STEM education, continuing education, mentor ship, and diversity and inclusion. We’ll discuss how and why those are important to building world class network organizations In short, we will discuss how we will cultivate, hire, and grow new network professionals.
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Some boring network engineering interview questions and how to replace them with smarter ones
Date/Time 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM recorded
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Speaker
Kam Agahian
Abstract ABSTRACT In this 30-minute session we will be reviewing the top 5 banal network engineering interview questions that are most commonly asked but yield little results. Have you as an interviewer ever attended a job interview or a phone screen and wondered how to get more value out of the typical “Tell me about differences between TCP and UDP” question? How many times have you heard the world reliable in response while deep down you knew quite well that the candidate probably had no idea what it meant in real world? How to turn this and similar clichéd questions into more meaningful but still short scenarios that could give you better insights into the candidates’ potentials, beyond their interview day memory? In this presentation we will take on such well-known questions and turn them into what can be used to draw definite conclusions on the candidates’ critical abilities such as thinking big and outside the box or being creative and inventive. We will also demonstrate how to add a follow up question to each case depending on what level or position we are hiring for. Going back to our earlier example, If you share the feelings with us and despise the “Tell me about differences between TCP and UDP” thing, in this session we will display the benefits of a better alternative: “Let’s design an end to end seismic alarm system for a mission critical building and have it talk to remote servers in a data center using TCP or UDP”. While any answer cannot escape of having both pros and cons yet we believe in cases like this, in addition to simply gauging their memory you can measure their ability to think outside the box. You will also enable them to choose what they believe is the most efficient and then walk you through the drawbacks of their own design. Hold on, did you like their soft skills and thought process? Yes it was there too.
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Your AS is Mine: BGP/IP Hijacking, the ICBM of the Cyber World
Date/Time 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Speaker
Chris Elverson, FBI
Chris Elverson is a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cyber Division. Chris joined the FBI in 2010 and has been working cyber since 2015. He works alongside private industry and other law enforcement partners at the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a non-profit fusion center located in Pittsburgh, PA. Chris leads international collaboration between government, private industry, and academia to combat cyber crime.
Tim Fowler
Abstract An interactive discussion on BGP/IP hijacking and AS spoofing. The presentation will cover misnomers related to "Industry Standard Squat Space" and how BGP/IP hijacking and AS spoofing is not a victimless crime. An overview and case study of the various methods as to how the hijacked IP space is being utilized will be covered as well as why the US federal government is now taking a more proactive approach to this problem. Additionally, a request/call for support from the Tier I/Tier II/BGP/Nanog communities to help us identify and investigate these incidents will be made.
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Monday Break
Date/Time 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Location Lone Star Foyer, Level 3
Sponsors
Japan Internet Exchange
Myriad360
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A short history of the spine and leaf
Date/Time 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM recorded
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Speaker
Russ White, Juniper Networks
Russ White has scribbled a basket of books, penned a plethora of patents, written a raft of RFCs, taught a trencher of classes, nibbled and noodled at a lot of networks, and done a lot of other stuff you either already know about or don't really care about. You can find Russ at 'net Work, the Internet Protocol Journal, PAcket Pushers, LinkedIn, and his author page on Amazon.
Abstract A short history of the spine and leaf
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SONiC: Open Source NOS in Data Center
Date/Time 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM recorded
Location Lone Star Salon D-H, Level 3
Presenters
Speaker
Vincent Celindro, Dell Technologies
Vincent has nearly twenty years of experience architecting, deploying, operating networks and challenging the norm. He started his career at Northwestern University, where he was one of the pioneers running an MPLS/VPN network in a university environment. Vince currently is an Architect at Juniper Networks, where he travels around the country helping well-known organizations ranging from Mega/Hyperscale datacenters, tier2/3 service providers, the largest Colo-facilities globally, Higher Ed, retailers and online gaming companies – architect, maintain and advance their networks to support their respective services today and for the future. He is a mentor, and always willing to share his knowledge/experiences to help improve and progress the craft of Network Engineering. Network \R\evolutionist (JNCIE #69/CCIE #8630)
Alankar Sharma, Comcast
As a Sr. Principal Architect with Comcast, Alankar focuses on Datacenter network architecture and strategy with keen attention to scalability, manageability, and automation. He also partners with the research and education communities on projects and participates in industry standard conferences. He has Masters in Computer Engineering from Drexel University, over 13 years of experience in data networks and filed several patents. In the past Alankar held various network engineering positions at AT&T, ADP and Intelligent Currency Validation Network.
Abstract SONiC as open source NOS empowers us to use uniform Operating System, Network Monitoring & Management tools and Life-cycle Management tools, across heterogeneous hardware platforms from multiple vendors, as opposed to proprietary NOS and customized tools per hardware vendor. There has been significant ongoing contribution towards the code and feature development in the open source community. Adoption is increasing as well and expanding beyond the cloud providers. While it is progressing to get more matured, it comes with its own challenges in order to operationalize it and to get the most out of it. High-level Agenda -------------------------------- - What is SONiC - Reasons / Drivers - Timing & What Aligned to make it possible - Maturity: Increasing User Base - Broader vendor community participation - Monitoring - Goals of minimizing the features needed for the fabric - Testing Experiences / User Experiences / Based on our Use Case - Features / Configurations - Supported Workload - Operationalizing - Management - Automation - Summary & Next Steps
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Peering Coordination Forum
Date/Time 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Location JW Grand Salon 3-4, Level 4
Sponsors
Epsilon
LightEdge
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