NANOG 48 Agenda

Tutorial: Optical Networking 101 & 201

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.<BR> <BR> 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.

Tutorial: BGP 102

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 <BR> 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.

Tutorial: Video Over DOCSIS (VDOC)

• Byju Pularikkal, Cisco Systems Inc.
• Jeffrey Riddel, Cisco Systems Inc.

Community Meeting

• Todd Braning, BandCon.

Network Neutrality: The Regulators Meet the Operators

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RBridges and the IETF TRILL Protocol

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..

SixXS - Trying to Get IPv6 to the User

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.<BR> <BR> 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.

Multiservice Networks Panel

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.

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<BR> alongside traditional MPLS VPN and Internet traffic) and these days provides technical strategy and analysis to the Engineering organization.

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. <BR> <BR> 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.

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.

• Aaron Hughes, 6Connect.
• John Kristoff, Team Cymru.
• Edward Lewis, Neustar.

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.

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

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.<BR> 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.

Fifth Annual Infrastructure Security Survey

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.

MPTLS-TP: The New Generation of Transport Networks

• Luca Martini, Cisco.

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.

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.
• Kevin Loch, Carpathia Hosting.
• Rob Seastrom, Afilias.

To Add-Paths or Not Add-Paths

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.<BR> <BR> 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.<BR> <BR> 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.<BR> <BR> 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.<BR> <BR> Currently he is Principal Engineer in IOS Routing Protocols Development group in Cisco Systems Engineering.

• Martin Hannigan, Akamai Technologies, Inc..
• Jeroen Massar, SixXS.

Network Tools Track

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).

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.

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.

• Mirjam Kuehne, RIPE NCC.
• John Quarterman, Quarterman Creations.
• Suzanne Woolf, Internet Systems Consortium.

ARIN UPdate and Whois-RWS: Whois RESTful Web Service

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.