NetLdn #12 (Retry) – 08/10/20

Location:

The meeting will be held online using Zoom. The meeting room ID and password will be sent out on the day of the event.

Please join from 1845hrs onwards. 
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs.

Talk 1: I wanted fast Internet, so I started an ISP

Tim runs a small g-fast ISP for himself and 11 of his neighbours. He’s going to tell the story of how he got there!

Presenter: Tim Cox

NetLdn #12 – 12/03/20

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19!

Location:

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

Arrival from 1830hrs. 
Quiz begins promptly at 1900hrs.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/d/united-kingdom–london/netldn/

NetLdn 1st Birthday Pub Quiz

For this special event we’ve got something different lined up. We’re going to have no presentations this time and instead we’re going to have a birthday pub quiz with a bit of extra time for celebration afterwards.

We really appreciate everyone’s participation, and we only reached this fantastic milestone thanks to all of you, so we hope this will be something different and an entertaining evening to show our appreciation.

So, brush up on your networking knowledge of all varieties (wireless, service provider, mobile, security, etc.), your knowledge of NetLdn, and Monty Python if you want to pick up some bonus points!

Presenter: The Quiz Master (@netldn)

NetLdn #11 – 13/02/20

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/d/united-kingdom–london/netldn/

Talk 1: Automating your DC with Intent Based Networking (IBN)

This talks covers building your DC with IBN, augmenting IBN with Ansible, complex analytics, managing the hypervisor / ToR plumbing for NSX-T and Flow, extending micro segmentation policy to encompass bare metal machines and more!

Presenter: Andy Ford (Apstra)

Talk 2: Open Networking – What is it and should I care?

This talk covers tech details on what it can and can’t help with for network engineers from Pete Crocker who has 20 years in networking. A former SP backbone engineer, currently shilling for Cumulus Networks, and happily spending his days automating ALL THE THINGS!

Presenter: Pete Crocker (Cumulus)

NetLdn #10 – 09/01/20

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/265838961

Talk 1: On-premise vs Cloud Networking

Ndaba will discuss the direction of networking from on-premise vendors like Cisco, Juniper to Cloud vendors such as Meraki, AWS and Azure

Presenter: Ndaba Ndlovu

Talk 2: IPv6 in the Aviation Industry

Presenter: Andy Gatward (SITA)

NetLdn #9 – 12/12/19

Location:

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

Arrival from 1830hrs 1800hrs
Talks begin promptly at 1900hrs 1830hrs. (December only)

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/266775490/

1st Half of The Evening

Talk: Electromagnetic Field – Internet to a Hackercamp

David will talk about how the Electromagnetic Field network team brings the internet to and around remote fields for their biennial hackercamp/technology festival, a little bit about what you can expect at EMF 2020, and how to get involved.

Presenter: David Croft (@EMFNOC)

2nd Half of The Evening

Festive Merriment:

We’re leaving room for attendees to have extended festive socialising time at The Wheatsheaf before moving on to Trefbash, or staying at The Wheatsheaf if you prefer.

NetLdn #8 – 14/11/19

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/265838961/

Talk 1: Introducing RPKI in to a Tier 1 Transit Network

Jorg will explain how Telia Carrier approached improving routing security, alongside MANRs actions, by deploying RPKI validation and the roll out of the rejecting Invalids.

Presenter: Jorg Dekker (Telia Carrier)

Talk 1: net44 – An under-utilised resource or potential fun? (Postponed)

44.0.0.0/8 was allocated in 1992 for amateur radio. Before the rise of the internet hamradio enthusiasts used low 1200bps and 9600bps unlicensed link to form mesh networks. In recent years this has dwindled away, now those left using the resource have IPIP tunnels normally back to California.

In 2015 the net44 rules were relaxed, allowing participants to announce their own subnets with BGP.

I’ll discuss how easy it is to obtain a UK ham radio license and the simple AMPRnet application process to get your own free /24, which could be announced by an ISP or hosting provider such as Vultr/Mythic Beasts etc.

PRESENTER: Nat Morris (@natmorris)

Talk 2: FastNetMon – An Open-source DDoS Detection Engine

In this introduction talk we will cover all key features available in our vendor neutral threshold based DDoS detection solution

Presenter: Pavel Odintsov (@odintsov_pavel)

SLIDES: fastnetmon_project_presentation-netldn-8.pdf

NetLdn #7 – 10/10/19

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/265089848/

Talk 1: The Friend of My Friend is My Enemy

A case study of peering violations between providers.

PRESENTER: Steve CrutchlEY (@netquirks)

Talk 2: 6PE woes, SR arose, and other short stories

See how Claranet have battled with vendor limitations in 6PE, our decisions behind moving away from it, and what our motivating factors for SR MPLS are.

Presenter: SANDY BREEZE (@sanjmonkey)

NetLdn #6 – 12/09/19

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/263577675/

Talk 1: Closed-Loop Automation for Networks

A general introduction of the closed-loop automation with the focus on the network operations. This is followed by a live demo of full device provisioning using closed-loop automation as an extension to ZTP.

PRESENTER: ANTON KARNELIUK (@ANTONKARNELIUK)

Talk 2: Project GOLF – Three years of EVPN in the datacenter

This talk charts the past three years of operating datacenters with EVPN/VxLAN with our own approach and software stack. We take you through the highlights and lowlights of our deployment and talk about the future. All in thirty minutes.

Presenter: David Freedman (@lochiI)

NetLdn #5 – 08/08/19

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/263577675/

Talk 1: The Year of RPKI on the Control-Plane

Ben is a systems engineer in the day, and bad-ideas-blogger on the side. Previously built up the Cloudflare WAF over the last few years (sorry), and wrote some incredibly silly blog posts after he took a break from full time employment.

Presenter: Ben Cartwright-Cox (@benjojo12)

Talk 2: DirectFlow in a Low Latency Exchange

Building a cheap, high throughput, scalable, low-latency load-balancer using Arista’s DirectFlow.

Presenter: Tomas Morales Mendoza (lmax.com)

NetLdn #4 – 11/07/19

Location:

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

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

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/NetLdn/events/262757078/

Talk 1: EVPN 101

One VPN to rule them all, one protocol to signal them and in the forwarding plane bind them..

Presenter: Mufaddal Presswala (Sky)

Talk 2: Building a Greenfield Fixed-Line Broadband Network in 2019

Building a greenfield broadband network with the latest technologies and architectural decisions based on past learnings.

Presenter: Richard Patterson (Sky)