NANOG 70 Agenda

L Sean Kennedy, NANOG Program Committee Chair

L Sean Kennedy is an active member of the Internet Engineering community and works for Verizon. He has been a member of the NANOG Program Committee since 2013.
• TJ Trask, Facebook.

• Facebook

Sunday Evening Social Event

• NANOG

• NOKIA, Volta Networks

L Sean Kennedy, NANOG Program Committee Chair

L Sean Kennedy is an active member of the Internet Engineering community and works for Verizon. He has been a member of the NANOG Program Committee since 2013.

David Temkin, Netflix

Dave Temkin is the Director of Global 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 fo 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 NANOG, where he is vice chair, Open-IX, where he is the chairman and co-founder and FL-IX, where he is also chairman and cofounder, as well as on the board of Children of Bellevue.

Michael Wheeler, NTT Communications

Executive Vice President NTT Communications Global IP Network Michael Wheeler is the executive vice president of the NTT Communications Global IP Network at NTT America, a subsidiary of NTT Communications. Mr. Wheeler is responsible for all financial, engineering, operational and customer relationship activities for the Global IP Network business unit, known as GIN. Prior to his current role, Mr. Wheeler led the Global IP Network sales and business development organization, including direct sales, account management, indirect channel sales, sales engineering, marketing, product management and business development activities. Mr. Wheeler was part of the original start up team with Verio in 1997, where he led several different sales organizations. He transitioned to a leadership role at NTT America following the acquisition of Verio by NTT America’s parent company, NTT Communications, in August of 2000.

Keynote: Revisiting Statistical Multiplexing in Your Network

Len Bosack, XKL

From pioneering the commercialization of router technology as the co-founder of Cisco Systems in the 80s to creating forward-thinking optical networking innovations today, Len has been a key contributor to the networking industry for decades.

• Opengear, Expereo, GTT, Opengear

DDoS Trends in Last 20 Years

Merike Kaeo, Farsight Security

Ms. Kaeo has over 25 years experience leading strategic technology direction for startups, corporate security initiatives and evolving technologies. Ms. Kaeo is the founder and CEO of Double Shot Security and has in the past had positions as the Chief Information Security Officer at IID, the CTO of Guardtime, and has served on numerous technical advisory boards. She led the first security initiative for Cisco Systems in the mid 1990s and authored the first Cisco book on security - translated into more than 8 languages and leveraged for prominent security accredidation programs such as CISSP. She has contributed to numerous IETF standards, is a member of the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Council (SSAC) and the FCC's Communictaions Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC). She earned a MSEE from George Washington University and a BSEE from Rutgers University.

• Sai Divya.
• Vadim Petrov.

Bootstrapping IX-Denver: A Cooperative IX Case Study

Chris Grundemann, Myriad Supply

Chris Grundemann is a passionate Internet Technologist and a strong believer in the Internet's power to aid in the betterment of humankind. In his current role as Principal Architect at Myriad Supply he is expressing that passion by helping clients build bigger, faster, more efficient networks that are easier to operate and scale. Chris has well over a decade of experience as both a network engineer and architect designing, building, and operating large IP, Ethernet, and Wireless Ethernet networks. Chris holds 8 patents in network technology and is the author of two books, as well as several blogs, and various other industry papers. As a volunteer he is currently serving as President of IX-Denver, Program Committee (PC) member for AfPIF, ISOC-NY liaison to NYNOG, and Chair of the Open-IX standards development committee. Chris has held previous positions with Markley Group, Internet Society, CableLabs, tw telecom, CO ISOC, ARIN, NANOG, CEA, UPnP, DLNA, RMv6TF, and several others.

Interconnection Track: Automated Peering Operations

Job Snijders, NTT

Job Snijders is IP Development Engineer at NTT Communications, where he analyzes and architects NTT's global IP network for future growth. He has been actively involved in the Internet community in an operational capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, RIPE & APRICOT, and in a number of community projects for over 10 years. Job volunteers as network architect for Coloclue, founder & chairman of the NLNOG Foundation, and vice president of PeeringDB. Job's special interests are routing policy, routing security and large scale BGP deployments. He maintains several tools such as irrtree and irrexplorer, and is active in the IETF where he has coauthored or contributed to RFCs and Internet-Drafts. Before joining NTT Communications, Job held network engineering positions at Hibernia Networks, eBay Classifieds

Interconnection Track: Creating a Centralized Database for Peering and Colocation Services

• Eric Silverman, Inflect Inc. .

Monday Evening Social Event

• NTT Communications, Packet Fabric

• Kentik, Salesforce, Telstra

The State of Open Source Routers

Russ White, Ericsson

Russ White has more than twenty years' experience in designing, deploying, breaking, and troubleshooting large scale networks. Across that time, he has co-authored more than forty software patents, spoken at venues throughout the world, participated in the development of several internet standards, helped develop the CCDE and the CCAr, and worked in Internet governance with the Internet Society. Russ is currently a member of the Architecture Team at LinkedIn, where he works on next generation data center designs, complexity, security, and privacy. He is also currently on the Routing Area Directorate at the IETF, and co-chairs the IETF I2RS and BABEL working groups. His most recent works are The Art of Network Architecture, Navigating Network Complexity, Unintended Features, and the Intermediate System to Intermediate System LiveLesson. MSIT Capella University, MACM Shepherds Theological Seminary, PhD in progress from Southeastern Theological Seminary

• China Unicom, Kentik, ThousandEyes

NANOG 70 Hackathon runner up presentations

• Mike Korshunov.
• Nick Pappin.

Akshat Sharma, Cisco Systems Inc.

Akshat Sharma is a Technical Marketing Engineer in the Web Solutions space at Cisco .His day job includes a core focus on Network operating system architecture and Devops tooling in the Web and Service Provider domain. With 7 years of experience across a variety of sectors including DevOps, Automation, SDN, data center deployments, and even Multicast deployments across Service providers, he now spends his time tinkering with open source tools to make networking a lot more fun!

Building a nationwide carrier for <$1M - war stories & lessons learned

Tim Hoffman, Twitter

Following a decade of building telecommunications networks in New Zealand, Tim is lead engineer for Twitter's global backbone.
• Jonny Martin, Limelight Networks.

Lightning Talks

• Punky Duero, ICANN.
• Ian Flint, Yahoo.
• Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo.
• Chris Grundemann, Myriad Supply.

Hashing on broken assumptions

Lorenzo Saino, Fastly

Lorenzo Saino is a software engineer at Fastly, where he works on network systems and load balancing problems. Prior to that, he was a PhD student at University College London. His thesis investigated design issues in networked caching systems and he was awarded the Fabrizio Lombardi prize in 2016 for his research.

Lost in Fat Tree forest and route out

Rafal Szarecki, Juniper Networks

Rafal Szarecki (JNCIE 136) has 20 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.

Tuesday Social Event

• Facebook

• Pilot Fiber

The Networking Grand Challenge

Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Networks

Dr. Kireeti Kompella is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Juniper's engineering team. Before taking on his current role, he served as CTO, SDN at Juniper Networks. Previously, Kompella was CTO at Contrail Systems, which was acquired by Juniper in December 2012. Prior to joining Contrail, he was CTO and Chief Architect, Junos at Juniper Networks.

Network Telemetry at Yahoo!

Matt Hudgins, Yahoo!

Matt Hudgins is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo! building scalable network analysis and optimization applications using open source software. He was previously a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems where he developed network operating systems for service provider networks. His open source contributions range from frontend tutorials to network monitoring tools.

Varun Varma, Yahoo

Varun Varma is a Principal Engineer currently leading the design and development of a global Network Telemetry Platform @ Yahoo. Over the course of his 19 year career, Varun has worked in a variety of management and technical roles in startups to web scale companies, helping build and operate everything from embedded network devices to ad technology at Internet scale.

Network Automation And Programmability: Reality Versus The Vendor Hype When Considering Legacy And NFV Networks

Patrick Moore, Itential, LLC

Patrick has been in the Telecommunications and Information Technology fields for 20+ years. Beginning in 2000 he took on a leadership role in the implementation of networks for voice and data for a CLEC in the Southeast. Prior to that he held various technician roles for both wireless and wireline carriers maintaining networks in the field and at switch sites. Patrick transitioned to a vendor role with Alcatel-Lucent as his career progressed, managing teams of analysts, architects, and developers responsible for OSS solutions across the Americas Region. In the last few years at Itential he has been involved in the emergence of SDN and NFV by assisting clients with the evolution of their networks to the new paradigm of a programmable network, leveraging both vendor and open source solutions.

Open Undersea Cable Systems

Jamie Gaudette, Microsoft

Jamie Gaudette is the Manager of Optical Networking at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, USA, where he designs and builds open data center networks, and develops SDN software. Before Microsoft, Jamie designed industry leading networking hardware and software with Ciena and Nortel in Ottawa, Canada. He has 4 US patents in optical networking, is an author of the current ITU G.977 specification for undersea cables, and has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada.

• Equinix, Inflect, Verisign

Designing Multi-tenant Data Centers using EVPN Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB)

• Ahmed Abeer.

Neeraj Malhotra, Cisco

Principal Engineer Cisco San Jose, CA 95134

Minesweeper and Propane: Two Tools for Improving Network Reliability

Ryan Beckett, Princeton University

I am a 4th year PhD student at Princeton studying programming language theory, design and implementation with my advisor David Walker. I received Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Virginia. Recently, I have been working on applications of synthesis, verification, and domain-specific languages to network configuration.