Tuesday Meeting Registration
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7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
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Regency Foyer |
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Tuesday Breakfast
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7:30 AM to 9:45 AM
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Regency A-B |
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Tuesday Espresso Bar
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8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
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Regency Foyer |
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Members Breakfast (Invite Only)
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9:00 AM to 9:45 AM
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Georgia B |
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Security Track: BGP Route Security
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10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Krassimir Tzvetanov, Fastly, Inc.
- Krassimir Tzvetanov is a security engineer at Fastly, a high performance CDN designed to accelerate content delivery as well as serve as a shield against DDoS attacks.
In the past he worked for hardware vendors like Cisco and A10 focusing on threat research, DDoS mitigation features, product security and best security software development practices. Before joining Cisco, Krassimir was Dedicated Paranoid (security) at Yahoo!, Inc. where he focused on designing and securing the edge infrastructure of the production network. Part of his duties included dealing with DDoS and abuse. Before Yahoo! Krassimir worked at Google, Inc. as an SRE for two missing critical systems, the ads database supporting all incoming revenue from ads and the global authentication system which served all of the company applications.
Krassimir holds Bachelors in Electrical Engineering (Communications) and Masters in Digital Forensics and Investigations.
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* Andre Toonk - examples of hijacks, other ideas
* Alexander Azimov - State of BGP Security
* David Wishnick - ARIN TAL
* Job Snijders - Routing security roadmap
* Chris Morrow - So I need to start filtering routes from peers...' and 'hey guess who needs to update their IRR data?
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Journey to a pure IPv6 Campus
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10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
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Regency C-F |
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- Loghs Srinivasan
- Loghs Srinivasan is an Engineering Director at Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Group, responsible for delivering outcome based Solutions for Enterprise Customers. Some of the key solutions delivered by Loghs’ team are Network as a Sensor, Network as an Enforcer, Easy QoS, IPV6-only Solution for Enterprise, Software Defined Access and DNAC Automation/Assurance solutions. Further to delivering the solutions to customers his team is also responsible for deploying enterprise platforms and solutions in internal Customer zero buildings to enhance customer experience.
Loghs has 20+ years of extensive experience in networking (Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, and Tellabs) in multiple facets of product development: Development, Release Engineering/Operations, Release Management, Feature/System Test, Solutions Design/Test, Automation Tools and product maintenance. Recently Loghs’ team pioneered transition of an entire building’s IT network (Routing, Switching, Wireless) to a Single stack IPV6 only deployment.
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Cisco’s Enterprise engineering team, in collaboration with the Cisco IT team (Known within Cisco as the IPV6 transformers), took the lead in converting one of Cisco’s buildings, building 23 (known internally as “The v6 Island”) in San Jose to an IPv6-only network. Building 23 houses more than 500 employees with at least two devices per person. This translates into more than 120 access points and 20 network devices (Wireless/Switching/Routing).
The Cisco IPV6 transformers are here to share this exhilarating journey to roll out the first IPv6-only building in the industry servicing the typical daily business traffic of a large enterprise. Beyond the excitement, how the team handled the initial user anxiety to move to an IPv6 only campus and what it took to operationalize this. It had been a Herculean effort to make sure that critical services were migrated with minimal disruption. |
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Automating Device Certifications with Robot Framework
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10:30 AM to 11:15 AM
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Regency C-F |
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- Pratik Lotia, Charter Communications
- Pratik Lotia works as a Security Engineer in the Advanced Engineering Security Architecture group at Charter Communications where he focuses on Automation, IPS/IDS, Botnets, network consolidation and designing new security solutions for very large networks. He has been working in automation technologies since 2013 while running a startup and is also working on developing various in-house DDoS mitigation tools. He has received recognition for his work from Lockheed Martin, Tata Group and Government of India.
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With constant new code revisions for Networking devices combined with new bugs in the various versions, production devices need to be routinely upgraded to the newest version for using new features, getting bug fixes and being security compliant. New versions need to undergo several feature certification tests before being deployed in production. Robot Framework allows to automate configuration, audits, verification and all test cases using keyword driven approach with Python as the underlying platform. |
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Tuesday Lunch
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12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
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Regency A-B |
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Women In Technology Lunch
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12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
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Georgia B |
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Comparing the Performance of Public DNS Resolvers
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1:30 PM to 2:00 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Angelique Medina
- Angelique has worked in technical marketing roles related to network infrastructure and network visibility for the past ten years, most recently at ThousandEyes, where she works on multi-layer visibility spanning application, DNS, L3, and BGP. Prior to joining ThousandEyes, she spent time working on data center networking at Big Switch Networks and visibility switching at VSS Monitoring. She holds a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley. You can follow her on Twitter @bitprints.
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Will present performance comparisons between public DNS resolvers, both for IPv4 and IPv6 service. Performance comparisons are based on measurements taken from global locations over the course of 30 days. Trends and performance anomalies will also be covered, including China and other locations. Reasons for variation in performance will also be explored. |
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Grep for Evil
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2:00 PM to 2:30 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Leigh Metcalf, CERT
- Leigh Metcalf holds a PhD in Mathematics from Auburn University at Auburn, Alabama. She also has over 10 years of industry experience as a systems engineer, network engineer, and software developer and is the primary author of CyberSecurity and Applied Mathematics. She is currently a senior member of the technical staff at CERT and co-EiC of the new journal ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice
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Evil has been lurking in the Internet since its inception. The IETF recognized
this, releasing RFC 3514 on the evil bit. Unfortunately it isn't widely adopted
, so we have to find our evil in other ways. Grepping is a time honored way of
finding needles in haystacks, so let's see how much evil we can find in the DNS
haystack…. And can we answer the question of “Why is it so easy?” |
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Lightning Talk: Global Traceroute
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2:30 PM to 2:40 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Steve Gibbard, Link Level Consulting, LLC
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Global Traceroute (https://www.globaltraceroute.com) is a front-end to do traceroutes from RIPE Atlas probes, which means you can now do quick and easy traceroutes from most of the world's major end user ISPs.
Information about inbound paths is very important for troubleshooting routing problems, but it hasn't been readily available. Various measurement systems provided information about performance issues, outbound paths, and what interface inbound traffic was coming in on. But determining the full path inbound traffic was taking — why users of some ISPs in Asia had their traffic show up in Europe, for instance, was much more difficult.
Several looking glasses and commercial performance monitoring systems allowed traceroutes from their probes, but those often aren't where end users were. RIPE Atlas had probes where a lot of end users were, but being designed as a research system, the user interface was cumbersome for every day troubleshooting. Global Traceroute uses the Atlas API, but is a more operator-friendly troubleshooting tool.
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Lightning Talk: Adventures in SDWAN Customer Prem Deployments
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2:40 PM to 2:50 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Brian Knight
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Overview of SDWAN deployment experiences at customer premises. I will talk about what we wanted out of SDWAN at the beginning of our project, a quick run-through of the key features of the vendors we use, followed by a discussion of the challenges we've seen. |
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Lightning Talk: Lean Disaggregated Regional Optical Transport
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2:50 PM to 3:00 PM
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- Nick Plunkett
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Through technology cycles, many networks face constraints around servicing their capacity needs between short haul metro locations in a lean and efficient manner. In this presentation, we will discuss how we leveraged a more "crafty" optical solution than might be typically considered to better serve our immediate needs. Specifically, we will focus on 100 Gigabit DWDM pluggables - how they are readily available and have become a decent option for this niche in recent months, as well as how they worked for our needs and how we utilized these techniques in our network. |
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Hackathon Recap
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3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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A summary of the Hackathon, participating teams, and results. |
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Tuesday PM Break
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3:30 PM to 4:00 PM
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Regency Foyer |
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Extending Reach of Open Source Through Standards
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4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Charles Eckel, Cisco Systems
- Charles is a developer evangelist in the Cisco DevNet team with a passion for open source software and open standards. He started with open source in 1999 as a founding member of Vovida Networks, developing some of the industry’s first open source VoIP protocol stacks and applications. Now at Cisco, he is a recognized champion of open standards, open source, and interoperability. He runs DevNet’s Open Source Dev Center, which focuses on Cisco’s major open source contributions, use, and community engagements; most notably, introducing open source hackathons into IETF and MEF, revolutionizing the way these SDOs operate and uniting open source software with open standards to maximize the pace and relevance of both.
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ABSTRACT:
Open source communities move quickly, value running code, and docs are best effort at best. Standards move slowly, value precise specs, and compromise for broad alignment. Given these differences, why would open source communities fraternize with standards orgs? Standards orgs such as IETF and MEF realize they need to change remain relevant. By embracing open source, standards orgs benefit from the speed and collaborative spirit of open source and get timely feedback on the clarity and correctness of standards as they evolve in parallel with running code. Open source communities gain users, address additional use cases, and gain stability of standards to ease integration efforts and avoid forks. This session explores this evolution in standards orgs, highlights areas of mutual interest, and shares ideas on the benefit of closer collaboration.
AUDIENCE:
The audience is anyone actively involved in open source communities or standards organizations, as well as developers, architects, system integrators who are struggling with the relative value of traditional standards based approaches in light of the recent wave of open source solutions.
BENEFITS TO THE ECOSYSTEM:
By collaborating with standards organizations and supporting existing and evolving standards, the open source community gains users, address a larger set of use cases, and gain stability of standards that can helps avoid harmful forking and ease integration efforts. Standards orgs benefit from the speed and collaborative spirit characteristics of open source, and they gain timely and critical feedback on the clarity and correctness of their standards as they evolve iteratively and in parallel with the open source code. The end result is open source code that is more consumable by industry, and standards that are more consumable by the open source community. |
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SDN-based Automated Peering Optimization, Challenges and Solutions
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4:30 PM to 5:00 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Reda Laichi
- key member of the NOKIA IP Routing and Transport Consulting Engineering team focusing on WAN SDN and Network Management solutions.
I also have a role as a regional Product Line Manager responsible for incorporating NOKIA customer requirements into feature development of the SDN and Network Management product portfolio.
Over 19 years experience in NOKIA (formerly Alcatel-Lucent, newbridge) and has contributed to development of SDN and Network Management products as well as numerous IP/MPLS network deployments and integrations for service providers and large enterprises customers worldwide.
- Hamid Ould-Brahim, Nokia
- Hamid is a renowned industry expert in IP networking with over 25 years of industry experience. Hamid architected a number of Internet related technologies in the area of VPNs and BGP and edited/co-authored a number of IETF RFC standards and led and co-chaired for years IETF routing area l1vpn WG. Hamid was dubbed by Nokia in 2017 Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) and by Nortel in 2008 for outstanding achievements. Hamid holds several patents that cover a wide spectrum of technologies related to IP, BGP, Ethernet, SDN Software, MPLS and recently segment routing. Hamid is currently director product manager in the Nokia IP and Optical division, interested in bringing big data analytics technologies and SDN into webscale space and IP networking. In his previous roles, Hamid was also a key technical advisor for the unprecedented sale of Nortel patents to Apple-led consortium of top industry companies such as Microsoft, Ericsson and Blackberry.
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With rapid increase in internet traffic, uptake in demand for strict per application latency and jitter SLA, network operators are more and more challenged to meet these demands. Automated Peering Optimization introduces a level of insight and control that can benefit both service providers and webscale operators to better address the challenges in managing and optimizing their BGP peering edge.
This talk will cover Peering Automation and Optimization uses cases from a technology perspective; starting with a clear definition of the problem space and will then discuss the SDN and automation capabilities that address the peering edge challenges. Real world examples and use cases will be covered.
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Deploying a Disaggregated Model for LINX’s LON2 Network
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5:00 PM to 5:30 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Flemming Heino
- Flemming Heino has been working as an IP networking designer since be beginning of the commercial Internet. Starting his career at BT Labs working of the design and commissioning of BT’s initial business and retail Internet offerings. Worked for Level3 as it was expanding into Europe, then at Packet Exchange as Network Architect. Now at LINX, as the Senior Network Architect, transformed the primary exchange LAN to allow it to scale at a much lower cost base, and introducing a totally new technology for the secondary exchange LAN, integrating off the shelf white-box hardware, Carrier focussed NetworkOperatingSystem software, and working to add on Internet Exchange specific features, all while migrating to EVPN as a next generation control plane for layer2 networks.
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LINX has recently updated the one of its London Exchanges, moving to a disaggregated (white-box) network using EVPN over VXLAN network. We believe we are the first IXP to deploy the combination of technologies at scale.
The project involved taking the concepts, and the technologies as pioneered by the large scale data-centers, and adapting it to a service provider environment, and adding IXP specific features. The focus of the presentations is what challenges we faced, which technologies and compromises we chose, and why.
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Routing in Dense Topologies – What's All the Fuss?
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5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Plaza Ballroom |
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- Christian Martin, Arista Networks
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A recent surge in interest in datacenter routing has instigated a flurry of activity in the IETF and other standards bodies and in the community at large. Datacenters have of late been leveraging BGP for underlay routing, largely due to Link State IGP flooding and scaling concerns, and in order to better control policy. This talk aims to outline the various approaches and their individual aims, potential benefits, and possible drawbacks. The goal is to inform the community of the state of play in this exciting area. |
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Beer 'n' Gear
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6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
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Regency Ballroom (A-F) |
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Tuesday Evening Social Event
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8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
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Harbour Convention Centre (offsite) |
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Join us this evening for a Casino-themed social, held at the Harbour Convention Centre (750 Pacific Blvd). Shuttle service will be provided from/to the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Exit towards Melville Street when in the Lobby of the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Shuttles begin at 8:00pm and will run on a loop. |
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