NANOG 62 Agenda

• Greg Dendy, NANOG Program Committee Chair.
• Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director.

Randall Brouckman, EdgeConneX

Mr. Brouckman has over 25 years experience in telecommunications and software. Prior to working at EdgeConneX, Randy served as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF) as well as CEO of Wade Capital Group, a company sponsored by a large private equity firm focused on consolidation and growth in the telecommunications marketplace. Randy has served as CTO, COO and CEO at several successful public and private enterprises, including BSG Clearing Solutions, Telispark, Wireless World Solutions and Iridium, where he led a successful reorganization of the company. Randy also worked with Nextel to start its Nextel Ventures division. Randy started his career with Bellcore, progressing through a number of management roles culminating in his position as Executive Director of Network Operations Systems. Randy has an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 Award Winner.
• Mike Vogel , Comcast Wholesale.

Understanding User Experience on Mobile Devices with the ICSI Netalyzr

Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, ICSI

I received my BA+MsC in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Oviedo in 2007. My M.S. Thesis was completed at the University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory as a visitor student working on Haggle Project. In 2008, I joined Vodafone R&D, returning to Cambridge to complete my Ph.D. program under the supervision of Jon Crowcroft. During my PhD I completed three fruitful internships at Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU-Berlin, with Pan Hui and at Telefonica Research with Dina Papagiannaki and Yan Grunenberger. My PhD research was awarded with a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2012. In July 2013, I joined ICSI as a Post-Doc to work with Prof. Vern Paxson, Nick Weaver and Christian Kreibich on Netalyzr project. My research interests are on networks performance, measurements, mobile systems and applications, distributed systems and privacy.

• Verisign

Detecting and Quantifying IPv6-based SMTP Abuse

Casey Deccio, Verisign Labs

Casey Deccio is a Senior Research Scientist at Verisign Labs. His interests include protocol analysis and improvement and tool development, with the objective of increasing stability, security, and safety of the Internet. Among his research and development focuses are DNSSEC deployment enhancements, DNS ecosystem tools/monitoring, and the measurement, modeling, and analysis of deployed Internet protocols, including DNS/DNSSEC and IPv6. Previously, Casey was a Principal Research and Development Cyber Security Staff member at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was responsible for network-related research and development, including DNSSEC and IPv6 deployment efforts. At Sandia he developed DNSViz, the widely used Web-based tool for DNS analysis and visualization. Casey earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and received a Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2010, also in Computer Science.

Case Study: Creating a true carrier-grade Wi-Fi experience

Darrell DeRosia, Comcast

Darrell DeRosia is a Senior Wi-Fi Engineer at NextGen in Philadelphia. Darrell has extensive experience deploying Wi-Fi in large venues, hotel and other multi dwelling units for the past 10 years. Over that time, Darrell has developed a profound understanding of client behavior that enables prevention of bottlenecks and accommodation of non-standard devices through inclusion, testing and validation as part of design process. His research interest relies heavily on creating a seamless user experience no matter what the obstacles are in the path.

Colleen Szymanik, Comcast

Colleen Szymanik is a Senior Wi-Fi Engineer at Comcast in Philadelphia. She received her MSE in Telecommunications and Network Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. She designed and implemented the first WLAN for the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and grew it into a large scale enterprise deployment. Her research interest is broadly in networking and Wi-Fi systems, focusing on the mobility aspects of wireless systems.

Single Pass Load Balancing with Session Persistence in IPv6 Network

Charlie Liu, Charter Communications

Dr. C.J. (Charlie) Liu has been working as Director, Eng.-IP Management, at Charter Communications since July, 2013. Charlie built an IP management team from the ground up, and established IPControl system as the IP ‘source of truth’ for Charter residential high speed internet data (with 4.5M+ customers) and voice (with 2.3M+ customers) services. Charlie is leading and managing the IP team to establish IP source of truth for additional lines of business (enterprise, commercial, and etc.), and streamline/centralize IP address management in Charter. Charlie earned his Ph.D. (1988) in Physics from Yale University, and B.S. (1979) in Physics from National Taiwan University. Charlie published 16 papers in internationally recognized journals, such as Physical Reviews, Physical Review Letters, Modern Physics Letters, J. Opt. Soc. Am., and etc.. Charlie joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1991, and began his Internet career in AT&T IP backbone network architecture team in 1999. Charlie and his colleague developed architecture and routing design for AT&T MPLS Layer 3 VPN service offerings. Charlie also worked on QoS/CoS architecture to differentiate different type of services (voice, video, data, and routing) and MPLS TE feasibility in AT&T IP backbone network. Charlie joined Comcast network design and traffic analysis group in 2005. While at Comcast, Charlie developed IP-SLA implementation to actively measure end-to-end latency/jitter and packet loss in Comcast IP networks. Charlie also developed and successfully executed IPv6/IPv4 dual stacks implementation for 23+ Comcast CRANs. Charlie led and completed MPLS based MetroE/Cell Backhaul and Layer 2 VPN service engineering certification in Comcast CRANs. Charlie also worked on data denter architecture & technology evolution, including ethernet fabric, virtualization, cloud computing, and burgeoning SDN, in 2012.

• NANOG 2014 Board Candidates.
• NANOG Board of Directors.

Security Track

John Kristoff, Team Cymru

John is currently a researcher with the Internet security research think tank Team Cymru. He is also the managing director of the Dragon Research Group, a volunteer research organization as well as a part-time instructor at DePaul University in Chicago. Previously he was a network architect at UltraDNS/Neustar and held network engineering related positions at both DePaul University and Northwestern University. John participates in a number of networking and security communities such as FIRST, NANOG and the IETF and has held various oversight or leadership roles in others including DNS-OARC, ops-trust, nsp-security and REN-ISAC.

Krassimir Tzvetanov, A10 Networks

Krassimir leads the SERT team at A10 Networks. His primary focus is DDoS mitigation and threat intelligence, as well as product development focusing on DoS mitigation techniques.

Tutorial: Tutorial - Troubleshooting with Traceroute

• Richard Steenbergen, GTT.

• A10 Networks, Approved Optics, Salesforce

DNS Track

Paul Ebersman, Comcast

Paul Ebersman works for Comcast as a DNS architect and as a technical resource, both internally and to the internet community. He first worked on the internet for the Air Force in 1984. He was employee number ten at UUNET and helped build AlterNET and the modem network used by MSN, AOL and Earthlink. He has maintained his roots in the internet and the open source community, working for various internet infrastructure companies including ISC and Nominum before coming to Comcast.

• Dave Levin, University of Maryland.
• Tim Wicinski, Salesforce.
• Glen Wiley, Verisign.

High Capacity Transport – 100G and Beyond

Kim Roberts, Ciena

Kim Roberts, Sr. Director, Optical Signal Processing at Ciena, will discuss how the physical barriers such as noise, dispersion, and non-linearity are challenges to achieving commercially useful optical fiber systems transporting rates of 100 GB/s and beyond. Digital coherent methods have been used to mitigate or eliminate these barriers. Metro/regional, long haul, and undersea reaches can be achieved with margin for reliable operation.

Open Internet Debate: Section 706 vs. Type II

Patrick W. Gilmore, Markley Cloud Services / Markley Group

As Markley Group’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Patrick is responsible for Markley's Infrastructure as a Service division. Prior to Markley, Patrick spent over thirteen years as Chief Network Architect at Akamai Technologies. At Akamai, Patrick’s group was responsible for managing peering and capacity for the world’s largest CDN – one that served approximately 30% of all traffic on the internet. Patrick is currently on the Board of Directors for the Seattle Internet Exchange and the London Internet Exchange, two of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, as well as the PeeringDB, where he is Chairman.

Lightning Talks

• Jim Cowie.
• John Curran.
• John Kristoff.

Social

• DE-CIX New York, Coresite

• GDT, Limelight Networks

Matthew DelNero, FCC

Matthew S. DelNero was appointed Deputy Chief of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau in February 2014. Among other matters, he plays a leading role in the Bureau’s efforts regarding the nation’s transition to all-IP networks and the development of rules to protect and promote the open Internet. Matt joined the FCC from Covington & Burling LLP, where was a partner in the firm’s Communications & Media and Privacy & Data Security practice groups. Chambers USA, Legal 500 USA, and other publications have recognized him as a leading telecommunications lawyer. He also is an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches a course on telecommunications and media law.

Stephanie Weiner, FCC

Stephanie Weiner serves as Associate General Counsel. Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel in 2013, Ms. Weiner was the Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Contracts at Neustar, Inc. Before that, Ms. Weiner served for two years as the Senior Legal Advisor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy. Ms. Weiner previously worked as an Attorney-Advisor in the Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau and as an associate at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis, LLP. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit and Judge Milton Shadur of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Ms. Weiner graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law, where she received the John Paul Stevens Prize for Academic Excellence. She has a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.

Why Smart People Do Stupid Things: Submarine Cables, Network Oversupply, and the Inexorable Decline of IP Transit Prices

Tim Stronge, TeleGeography

Tim Stronge is Vice President of Research at TeleGeography. His areas of expertise include international voice traffic, terrestrial and submarine cable systems, and international bandwidth markets. Since joining TeleGeography in 1996, Tim has served as a principal analyst in most areas of research, including network infrastructure, bandwidth demand modeling, cross-border traffic flows, and telecom services pricing. He holds a Master´s degree in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary.

Internet Multicast: It's Still a Thing

Lenny Giuliano, Juniper Networks

Lenny Giuliano is the MBONED Working Group Co-chair and a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He has written articles for Forbes and Network World and coauthored Interdomain Multicast Routing: Practical Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems Solutions (Addison-Wesley 2002). He has coauthored or contributed to more than a dozen RFCs and Internet Drafts. Prior to joining Juniper, Lenny worked in Sprint's Internet Operations.

• Allied Fiber, Inerail

Research Track

• Manish Karir, Merit Network.

• Sean Donovan, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Hyojoon Kim, Georgia Tech.
• Maria Konte, Georgia Tech.
• Robert Lychev, Georgia Tech.
• Nithin Michael, Cornell University.