NetLdn #40 – 09/03/2023

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.


Talk 1: IXP Route Collection on a dime

bgp.tools is expanding to IXPs and because I’m cheap, I want to do it as cheap as people will let me! This talk will show some of the ways I am doing that, ranging from “Oh that’s almost reasonable” to “There is no way you are sticking that in my switch”

Presenter: Ben Cartwright-Cox (bgp.tools)


Talk 2: TBD

tbd

Presenter: You?


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NetLdn #39 – 09/02/2023

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.


Talk 1: The Label Switched Path Not Taken

Comparing Segment Routing (SR) MPLS forwarding behaviour for IPv6 addresses between Cisco and Arista – when non-SR capable devices are in the path

Presenter: Steven Crutchley (Claranet)

Slides: https://netquirks.co.uk/netldn/


Talk 2: Routed Optical Networks (RON)

How Service Providers use converged SDN transport architectures to deliver improved operational efficiencies and simplicity with increased savings.

Presenter: Cassie Bezuidenhout (Enable Network Services)


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NetLdn #38 – 12/01/2023

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.


Talk 1: CDN Steering in a Dual-stack, CGN World

A lightning talk giving the background and overview of a current design challenge we’re facing, followed by some potential solutions to hopefully stimulate discussion amongst the audience.

Presenter: Richard Patterson (@RichPatz)


Talk 2: The ISP Network – Days of Yore

A look back at ISP Networking 24 years ago. How things worked back then.

Presenter: David Freedman (Claranet)


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NetLdn #37 – 10/11/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.


Talk 1: IPv6-only: An Unexpected Jorney

Some war stories from my journey to IPv6-only network

Presenter: Jen Linkova


Talk 2: What Was Project Loon?

The Loon Library.pdf

Presenter: Erik Kline


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NetLdn #35 – 08/09/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

RSVP (Free): Eventbrite


Talk 1: Help I broke the Internet: Incident Management at Scale

Cloudflare runs a global network, and occasionally, we break that network. In this presentation, I’ll talk about how Cloudflare handles incidents, how we get to resolution ASAP, and, most importantly, how we get the blog out so quickly.

Presenter: Tom Strickx (Cloudflare)


Talk 2: Introduction to EVPN for Service Providers

From MAC bridging to MAC routing and Unified Data Plane.

Presenter: Terry Pattinson (ENABLE)


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NetLdn #34 – 11/08/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

RSVP (Free): Eventbrite


Talk 1: Building Hybrid Networking on AWS

Hybrid connectivity enables organizations to run workloads that span AWS and on-premises environments without compromising performance.

The AWS approach to hybrid connectivity provides customers with the services needed to connect their networks to AWS resources, run AWS services wherever they need them, and add the capabilities of AWS global infrastructure to their networks.

In this session, you will learn how to use AWS services such as Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect, and Client VPN, plus the new DX SiteLink and Cloud WAN services, to architect hybrid networks that will improve the connectivity of your services – whether they running in the cloud or on-premises.

Presenter: Nicola Arnoldi (AWS)


Talk 2: Layer 2 Services and MEF

Challenges and benefits of going through MEF Certification for a wholesale ISP, testing platforms and vendors

Presenter: Tristan Bendall (Virtual1)


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NetLdn #33 – 14/07/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

RSVP (Free): Eventbrite


Talk 1: DWDM for Optical Noobs

A entry level guide through what DWDM is, why it’s necessary, and how and where it is applied in networks

Presenter: Mario Nunes (City Fibre)


Talk 2: BGP Flow Spec for DDoS mitigation

Tricks and technical details about using BGP Flow Spec for DDoS mitigation

Presenter: Pavel Odintsov (@odintsov_pavel)


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NetLdn #32 – 09/06/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

RSVP (Free): Eventbrite


Talk 1: Reducing The Impact of IPv6 Flash Renumbering Events

Providing fixed, static IPv6 prefixes is not always a viable option for ISPs, but dynamic prefixes can also introduce problems. The IETF has recently published, and is still working on, several documents to help mitigate the impact of what’s referred to as an IPv6 “Flash renumbering event”.

Presenter: Richard Patterson (@RichPatz)


Talk 2: TBD

TBD

Presenter: TBD


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NetLdn #31 – 12/05/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

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Talk 1: Prometheus for network user experience (and not only) monitoring

Quite a few times I’ve had to deal with requests stating that there is a network problem in a remote branch location, preventing office employees from doing their job, whereas monitoring systems were showing literally nothing unusual. In order to solve the problem I have built a monitoring system leveraging Prometheus to show user experience, which started my journey to start building my own exporters. I would like to share my experience to show network engineers where Prometheus could be helpful, what the challenges are, and how to overcome them.

Presenter: Anton Karneliuk (@AntonKarneliuk)


Talk 2: BGPsec in the context of routing system security

BGPsec enjoys global world domination. Or does it? No, it does not. At least not yet. Therefore this needs to be addressed.

BGPsec has been around in theory and on paper for a while. Not in practice and deployments, though. Some production scale and quality experimentation with BGPsec has revealed quite a number of incorrect design time assumptions, outright wrong decisions made, lack of community understanding of how it could and should be used, and how can it fit into the overall routing security framework. One of the open gaps is the unawareness of the community, primarily operations community, of how BGPsec functions and how it should be deployed.

This talk covers three main areas:

– BGPsec the protocol, covering the protocol mechanics itself and how it operates on the BGP signaling level;
– Infrastructure required for BGPsec operation, covering aspects of providing and distributing supporting informational elements into BGPsec system – integration with RPKI machinery, what is required from the perspective of registries and certificate authorities, what are the scalability properties expected from the RPKI side, and practical aspects of how existing origin and path validation tooling would need to be extended to cover BGPsec too;
– BGPsec in the context of the overall routing security, and how it would match or interwork with the current understanding of routing security as realized by origin and path validation, with specific scenarios of what it would take to deploy BGPsec from the perspective of edge node, transit operator, an IX, and a CSP.

Presenter: Ignas Bagdonas


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NetLdn #30 – 14/04/2022

Upstairs @ The Wheatsheaf
25 Rathbone Place
Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

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Talk 1: Lnetd-NM Open-source Network Model

Lnetd-NM is an open-source software design to simulate traffic behaviour, link and node failure in an MPLS network. It enables analysing single points of failure and provide the tools needed to better design around failures or capacity constraints.

Presenter: Catalin Petrescu (@CPETRESCU)


Talk 2: 3 Years of NetLdn

On NetLdn’s 3rd birthday, Bill and Ian present a quick look back on 3 years of talks from the very first event in Netflix’s London HQ, to the dark Zoom-based pandemic months, and back to in person events again.

Presenter: Bill Hulley and Ian Dickinson


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