NANOG 65 Agenda

• Arbor Networks, EdgeConneX, Kentik

Conference Opening

Philippe Couture, Videotron

Philippe Couture, Eng., M.Sc., MBA Director, IP/MPLS Backbone, Research & Development, Engineering, Vidéotron G.P. Philippe has been involved in data network engineering for the past 20 years with various service providers and network equipment vendors. He joined VidÈotron, the 3rd largest Canadian MSO, in 2004 and has overall development responsibility for backbone architecture and services that support Internet, mobile, telephony, video and business services.
• Christian S. Tacit, TorIX.

Tony Tauber, Comcast

In his role as Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, Tony focuses on Backbone and Core network architecture and engineering with particular attention to measurement, manageability, and automation. He also partners with the research and education communities on projects and currently chairs the NANOG Program Committee. In the past Tony held senior network engineering positions at BBN, GTE Internetworking, Genuity, Level3, and MIT Lincoln Lab as well as served as co-chair of the Routing Protocol Security working group in the IETF.

Clinton Work, TELUS

Sr Design Specialist with TELUS since 2001 and based out of Calgary, AB. My focus at TELUS is on MPLS/IP core network support and engineering. I was involved in building the TELUS MPLS core back in 2003 and all the services that we have layered on top since. I have extensive experience with Internet peering, MPLS, ISIS/BGP, L3VPNs, VOIP, and LTE/HSPA+. More recently I have focused on CDN cache server deployments and the TELUS IPV6 program for consumer services (DSL/GPON).

Your Bitcoins or Your Site: An Analysis of the DDoS for Bitcoins (DD4BC) DDoS Extortion Campaign.

Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks

Roland Dobbins has 30 years of operational experience in the service provider (SP) and large enterprise arenas, designing, deploying, operating, securing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and defending many of the highest-visibility networks in the world. He is a recognized industry leader in the fields of operational security (opsec) and network telemetry, and has an extensive background in security product/feature innovation, devising operational security requirements for network infrastructure devices, and protocol design. His focus is on extending the availability, scalability, and security of the network infrastructure and the applications/services it enables, with an emphasis on flexible and resilient global service delivery capabilities.

• Compass Networks, Microsoft, Netflix

NANOG Board Candidates

• William Charnock, PacketFabric.

Data Center Track

Gabe Cole, RTE Group, Inc.

Gabe Cole Chair, Data Center Standards Open-IX Gabe Cole, founder of RTE Group, is an accomplished technology executive with over 20 years’ experience across data center, network, and cloud. Gabe assists service providers and enterprises with converged network and data center design, procurement, and migration including colocation and the XaaS stack of services. He has personally worked on over 150 engagements in North America and EMEA. He is an expert at balancing reliability and performance requirements against technology and business limitations to consistently increase performance at progressively lower price points. In addition, he is frequently called on by investors for assistance with data centers, telco hotels, data center technologies, and services companies.

• Equinix, Netflix

Demystifying Pros & Cons of large Scale BGP RR deployments

rohit bothra, Brocade Communications

Rohit Bothra is a Staff Engineer at Vyatta - a Brocade company, specializing in virtual network appliances, system & solution testing, performance & scale measurement of virtual systems. He has over nine years of rich experience in Networking industry.He has worked with many major service providers in the Asia Pacific region in the area of IP, IPv6, MPLS. His area of expertise includes NFV, VNFs, Routing Protocols, MPLS, IPv6, HA Systems, Routing Platforms, Network Security, Network Operations, providing Network deployment solutions to different service provider customers. In the past, he has represented Cisco at APNIC conferences. He is passionate about learning new technologies.

• A10 Networks, Deepfield, NTT Communications

Wi-Fi: Fundamentals, Design and Troubleshooting

Troy Martin, Aerohive Networks

Troy Martin is a Systems Engineer at Aerohive Networks, specializing in mobile and cloud technology.  In addition to teaching others how Wi-Fi works, his work includes designing, provisioning, and troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks .  Prior to Aerohive, Troy provided Wi-Fi consulting in multiple verticals including service provider, pharmaceutical, education  and industrial environments such as mines, refineries and chemical plants.  He is passionate about connecting things without wires.  Troy is a P.Eng. who holds Bachelor degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Saskatchewan.

10 Weird (and Possibly Useful) Things You Didn't Know about International Networks

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 John Hopkins University and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary.

• Aqua Comms, Precision Optical Transceivers, TELX

Running MPLS efficiently in ring networks

Ravi Singh, Juniper Networks

Ravi Singh is a principal software engineer in the routing/MPLS team at Juniper Networks. He has implemented various unicast/multicast and MPLS-signaling-protocols functionality. He helped ship the PTX series of Juniper platforms that are getting deployed in the super-core of various tier-1 networks.

• Addrex, ADVA Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, BTI Systems, Cisco Systems, Cologix, Corero, Hilco Global, Infinera, IntegraOptics, Juniper Networks, OSI Hardware, PCCW Global, Resolve Systems, TeliaSonera, Transmode, XKL

• Approved Optics, Ciena, Nominum

Whack-a-Mole Routing: The effects of ISP Traffic Engineering on Non-ISP Networks

Rick Casarez, Salesforce

Rick Casarez is a Principal Network Engineer in the Applied Research team at Salesforce. Prior to Salesforce he has previously worked at ISPs like UUNet (701) and AboveNet (6461).

Cloudy with a chance of Breach: Forecasting Cyber Security Incidents

Manish Karir, QuadMetrics

Manish Karir has been an active participant in the NANOG community since 2005. He is a frequent presenter at NANOG and over the past 10 years has had the opportunity to present over 11 times on a wide variety of topics including, BGP analysis tools, traffic analysis and visualization tools, darknet traffic research, IRR enhancements, network reputation and RBL analysis, IPv4 address sharing techniques, and cybersecurity posture metrics. His research interests include Internet measurement studies, and large scale network data collection and analysis. Manish is currently the Chief Technology Officer at QuadMetrics.

Optimal routing vs. Route Reflector VNF - reconcile the fire with water

Rafal Szarecki, Juniper Networks

Rafal Szarecki (JNCIE 136) has 19 years of experience in networking industry. He has started his career working for ISP in Poland as Network Operation Centre stuff member in 1996. Later in his career he work in Customer Support consultant and then as Network Architect in Ericsson. In 2006 Rafal joined Juniper Networks Professional Services Team and later become Principal Consultant. He has worked on over 50 different projects, with more then 20 Telecoms and ISP including some of global reach such British Telecom, Telefonica, Telenor. He designed and/or helped in deployment over 20 networks in multiple countries in Europe and Middle East. During this time he was also active member of PLNOG. Currently Rafal held position of Solution Architect in Routing Product Team in Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale, CA.

Lightning Talks

• NANOG Lightning Talks, NANOG Community.

Peering Track

Patrick Gilmore, Markley Group

Patrick Gilmore is Markley Group’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), responsible for Markley’s Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as a Service offerings. Markley Group runs New England’s largest and longest operating multi-tenant, mission-critical telecommunications and data center. Prior to Markley, Patrick was Chief Network Architect of Akamai Technologies, where he worked for over 13 years. At Akamai, Patrick’s group was responsible for managing peering and capacity for the world’s largest CDN, one that served approximately 25% of all traffic on the internet. Patrick has a degree in mathematics from UCLA. Patrick is past member of the NANOG board of directors, and helped move NANOG to an independent organization. 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.

Sylvie LaPerriere, Google Inc.

Sylvie LaPerrière is a builder of the Global Internet. An expert in peering and international network interconnection agreements, she is a strategic negotiator for Google’s Content Distribution and Network team. Before joining Google, she created and then expanded Tata Communications’ Internet backbone in more than 25 global markets, had it circle the globe and achieved settlement-free status. Operating in the international telecommunications arena for two decades, Sylvie has a solid experience developing and managing Internet, data and mobile services. As negotiator of business agreements, she has an extensive experience dealing with global, regional and national telecom and Internet operators.

Joseph Cavender, Level 3 Communications

Joe Cavender is vice president and assistant general counsel for Federal Affairs at Level 3 Communications, LLC, where he leads the U.S. federal public policy team. Before joining Level 3 in March 2013, he worked at the FCC, primarily in the Wireline Competition Bureau’s Telecommunications Access Policy Division. Prior to his government service, Cavender was an associate at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP in Washington, D.C. Cavender earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. Following law school, he clerked for the Hon. James B. Loken on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Hank Hultquist, AT&T

Hank joined AT&T (then SBC) in 2004. He represents AT&T at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a number of issues including broadband and Internet policy, video and media policy, intercarrier compensation, and universal service. He is a member of the Board of Directors and of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) and serves on the North American Numbering Council (NANC). Prior to joining AT&T, he was with MCI for eight years. Hank is a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

David E. Young, Verizon

David E. Young, Vice President, Verizon Public Policy, is responsible for identifying and assessing emerging issues, developing corporate positions on Internet and Technology industry policy matters, and assessing key technology and communications industry trends. He is also responsible for developing relationships with high technology industry members, technology associations, research institutes, and think tanks. Previously, he was responsible for items before the FCC dealing with broadband and emerging issues. Prior to 2000, he spent six years working in Verizon’s Research and Development (R&D) group on many advanced technologies including VoIP, data network architectures, and audio, video and image compression. He has been awarded ten U.S. government patents for his R&D work. David is a member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. David holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Jon Nistor, TorIX

For the past 14 years, Mr. Nistor has been involved in numerous aspects of TorIX, such as day to day operations, design and automation, and serving on the board. He has been involved with TorIX since its ages of sub 1Gbps to over 180Gbps now. Mr. Nistor is also Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems during the day.

Deploying IPv6 at Scale as an ISP

Clinton Work, TELUS

Sr Design Specialist with TELUS since 2001 and based out of Calgary, AB. My focus at TELUS is on MPLS/IP core network support and engineering. I was involved in building the TELUS MPLS core back in 2003 and all the services that we have layered on top since. I have extensive experience with Internet peering, MPLS, ISIS/BGP, L3VPNs, VOIP, and LTE/HSPA+. More recently I have focused on CDN cache server deployments and the TELUS IPV6 program for consumer services (DSL/GPON).