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A look at the different storage protocols available today for network based storage access: what are they, where are they used and what is their future. Includes a detailed walk through of some FC and FCoE procedures as well as some of the challenges with both. At the end of this tutorial a students should be able to successfully understand why one protocol might be chosen over another and be better equipped to talk to their Storage Brethren.

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Jon Hudson, Brocade
18yrs in multiple roles such as Network Engineer, Unix Sysadmin, SAN Engineer, Production Ops Architect & Dir of Systems Engineering. Positions within financial, online gaming & manufacturing industries. In 2009 joined Brocade from Juniper Networks. At Brocade responsible for Fabric, SDN, Virtualization & Cloud Technology as well as TRILL Standards development in the IETF. Co-Author of four IETF Drafts and Co-Inventor of Patent GB2441278.

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MPLS networks started off to support protocol technologies like ATM, FrameRelay, etc., to be transported over IP core networks in a seamless fashion. This also facilitated in providing various services like VPN, PWE3 etc. In the recent past MPLS protocol evolved as a replacement for traditional TDM transport networks by the way of MPLS-TP. Though the technology is mature at data plane and control plane, the OAM within the protocol could not keep the pace with the rapid developments. This presentation provides detailed OAM techniques to be used within each area of MPLS networks and what tools to be used and some of the benefits which could be realized in managing the service provider networks.

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Sam Aldrin, Huawei Technologies
Sam K. Aldrin works as Principal Engineer in Network product line division at Huawei Technologies based at Santa Clara, CA. Has more than 18+ years of experience in the area of Networking technologies like IP, MPLS and Datacenter. Oversees new technologies in the IP packet networks, transport networks and scalable datacenter protocol design. Architected MPLS TP within various network products based on IETF standards and instrumental in the definition of Shared Mesh Protection (SMP) standard for MPLS TP. Designed and implemented MPLS OAM technologies for both MPLS/IP and MPLS-TP. An active participant at standard body groups and authored several drafts. Prior to Huawei Technologies, worked at Cisco Systems for more than a decade. Author of IPSLA, an in band performance measurement and diagnostic tool, within the networks. Hold multiple patents in network management and data network protocols.

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This session will cover: Why Fabrics? What are the common features of an Ethernet Fabric? Who is producing Fabrics today? What part to Standards play? How are customers benefitting from Fabrics today? An update on TRILL from IETF83

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Jon Hudson, Brocade
18yrs in multiple roles such as Network Engineer, Unix Sysadmin, SAN Engineer, Production Ops Architect & Dir of Systems Engineering. Positions within financial, online gaming & manufacturing industries. In 2009 joined Brocade from Juniper Networks. At Brocade responsible for Fabric, SDN, Virtualization & Cloud Technology as well as TRILL Standards development in the IETF. Co-Author of four IETF Drafts and Co-Inventor of Patent GB2441278.

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Most folks discussing IPv6 and how it is different than IPv4 tend to take a very network and router-centric view. This is OK for your backbone but ignores many of the complexities as you move up the stack or further away from your core routers and switches. I'll talk about some of the protocol differencs you'll need to consider when designing your network so that you can design a network that will work for the apps and users you need to support.

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Paul Ebersman, Infoblox
Paul Ebersman works in the Infoblox IPv6 Center of Excellence 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 10 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 Infoblox.

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With the dramatic growth of packet traffic and the drive to reduce cost, transport providers are in a transition period moving from the traditional TDM based network into a packet based network. Combining the benefits of IP/MPLS and TDM, MPLS Transport Profile (TP) becomes the technology of choice as the next generation transport network. However, moving from a TDM based network to a packet transport poses significant challenges to providers. This presentation will outline the transport network transformation and how MPLS-TP fits into the new architecture. Deployment scenarios and lifecycle deployment steps are discussed.

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Randy Zhang, Cisco
Randy Zhang, PhD and CCIE 5659, is a network consulting engineer at Cisco Systems. He is the author of Optical Networking Systems IP Management Solutions and a co-author of BGP Design and Implementation. Both are published by Cisco Press.

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Sylvie LaPerriere, NANOG Board Chair
Sylvie LaPerrière has been an active builder of the global Internet Infrastructure, developing peering relationships with Internet players around the world and expanding the network in underserved markets via new undersea cables or satellite connectivity. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG). At Google Inc., Sylvie is on the program management team building out the Internet connectivity and content distribution reach required to deliver Google services worldwide. While at Tata Communications Ltd, she pushed the expansion of its Internet backbone network into more than 25 new markets, had it circle the globe and achieved Tier1 status. Sylvie has 17 years of international business development experience for Internet, data and mobile telecommunications services. A frequent speaker on international panels, she received her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.

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Moderator - Paul Stewart, Nexicom
Paul Stewart is the Global Peering Co-Ordinator and a Senior Network Architect for Nexicom, a service provider based in Ontario, Canada. Paul is part of the Operations Group within Nexicom that manages over 1000 BGP peering sessions in Canada, the USA, and the UK. He also has the privilege of belonging to the Board of Directors at the Toronto Internet Exchange. Paul brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Service Provider industry.

Panelist - Patrick Gilmore, Akamai Technologies
Patrick W. Gilmore is principal architect at Akamai Technologies, where he has worked for over eight years. He currently oversees the Network Architecture department. Prior to Akamai, he worked at Onyx Network, Concentric Networks, and Priori Networks. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the London Internet Exchange, a member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Internet Exchange, and an Administrator of the PeeringDB.

Panelist - Victor Kuarsingh, Rogers Communications
Victor Kuarsingh is the Network Architect for Rogers Communications leading the introduction of new technologies along with steering the wireline, wireless and business networks. In his role, he also contributes to the IETF and Cablelabs helping bring operator focus to those bodies. Some of his most recent accomplishments include the architecture and deployment of DOCSIS 3.0, leading the architecture for Rogers' recent LTE deployment and the IPv6 strategy and deployment.

Panelist - Sylvie LaPerriere, Google
Sylvie LaPerrière has been an active builder of the global Internet Infrastructure, developing peering relationships with Internet players around the world and expanding the network in underserved markets via new undersea cables or satellite connectivity. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG). At Google Inc., Sylvie is on the program management team building out the Internet connectivity and content distribution reach required to deliver Google services worldwide. While at Tata Communications Ltd, she pushed the expansion of its Internet backbone network into more than 25 new markets, had it circle the globe and achieved Tier1 status. Sylvie has 17 years of international business development experience for Internet, data and mobile telecommunications services. A frequent speaker on international panels, she received her Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Information Systems from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal.

Jon Nistor, Toronto Internet Exchange
Jon Nistor has been the President of the Toronto Internet Exchange (TORIX) for the last two years and has been assisting TorIX in various capacities for the over the last 10 years. TorIX is the largest Internet Exchange point in Canada reaching levels of nearly 80Gbps.

Panelist - Bill Reid, Manitoba Internet Exchange
Bill Reid is the CEO of the Manitoba Internet Exchange. The organization of MBIX started in the fall of 2011 and the plan is to be up and running this summer. MBIX will be the first IX that will receive support as part of CIRA's project to increase the number of IX's in Canada. When Bill retired from the University of Manitoba after 30 years of service he was the Director of Academic Computing and Networking. One of his projects at the U of M was running the first public ISP in Manitoba. Bill has also served as a Director on the CIRA Board. CIRA - Canadian Internet Registration Authority

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This talk will cover technical, economics and politics of deploying the Community Broadband Network for the City of San Francisco.

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Tim Pozar, Independent
Mr. Pozar is Director of Operations/IT of Fandor, a subscription independent film delivery service. He has also been a telecommunications consultant specializing in network, VoIP, and microwave design and deployment for government and commercial applications. From 2004 through 2008 Pozar was the first investor in and VP of Operations for a west coast ISP. He has also been an entrepreneur and developer, co-founding a number of companies including The Little Garden/TLGnet (AS2914) (San Francisco's first ISP), Brightmail (the first commercial anti-spam company) and Omniva (an electronic document retention company). Previous to this, for 25 years, Pozar was a broadcast engineer for numerous commercial and non-commercial radio stations.

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Governance of the Internet has proceeded largely unregulated, in part due to the special status of Internet communications in the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs). In particular, recent proposals, to be decided December 2012, include making ITU communications standards binding, regulation of critical resources (names and numbers), and the regulation of peering and interconnection agreements and rates. This presentation provides a view into the structure and motivations of proposals for top-down Internet governance. Starting with high-level issues from the UN, the processes that led to the creation of the Internet Governance Forum will be briefly traced. Given this background, the current renegotiation of the ITRs will be discussed, highlighting how arguments "legitimized" in state-based, top-down forums like the IGF are being used to legitimize proposed changes. The conclusion of the talk intends to (1) facilitate discussion of implications, (2) explore how the network operator community can engage with top-down processes (this does not mean become subordinate to them), and (3) identify which community efforts already satisfy original motivations such as stability and economic development.

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Jesse Sowell, MIT
Jesse Sowell is a doctoral candidate in the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) at MIT. Jesse sits in the Advanced Network Architecture (ANA) group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and is a member of the Explorations in Cyber-International Relations (ECIR) project, a collaborative effort between MIT and Harvard. In ESD, Jesse is largely a policy wonk that draws on comparative political economy, regulatory theory, operations strategy, and private authority to reason about bottom-up, non-state, community- drive governance patterns in the Internet. Jesse draws on his background in software engineering and networks (MS in Computer Science) and policy (SM in Technology and Policy) to understand the sociotechnical interplay between the requirements imposed by Internet architecture and protocols and the organizational modes that help keep the Internet running. In his spare time Jesse enjoys running, playing darts, and craft beer brewing, not necessarily always in that order.

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LISP, which has been presented to NANOG in the past, is an IP protocol that changes the way that IP addresses are used, separating them into topology-independent "Endpoint IDs", intended for use as "PI" space that is not carried in the routing system and topology-dependent "Routing Locators", which are aggregated and routed in much the same was a "PA" space is today. This presentation introduces the LISP Delegated Database Tree (LISP-DDT), used to define and distribute information that LISP routers need to map between EIDs and RLOCs when encapsulating user data for transport across the Internet. LISP-DDT is currently being implemented and tested on a pilot network; the presentation will cover current work as well as future plans for full operational deployment.

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Vince Fuller, Cisco
Vince Fuller has been involved with computer networking since shortly before the January 1st, 1983 transition of the ARPANET from NCP to TCP/IP, the event which effectively created the early Internet. He held positions in network operations, engineering, design, and architecture for a number of campus, regional, national, and international ISPs from 1988 through 2001. He began participating in NANOG and the IETF in 1989 and is the co-author of several standards-track RCS, including RFC 4632 (CIDR), which defined the global Internet address assignment strategy. Most recently, he has been employed at Cisco Systems, working on the Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP), a new technology for improving Internet scalability that also enables a number of new services.

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These days, netflow enables lightweight monitoring of traffic flowing across networks. Carving the interesting data from packet headers, and discarding the "heavy" payload just makes sense. Why not take the easy way out? When you have almost as much insight into what is going on without the rest of the payload, and scaling payload inspection for many protocols is "hard" and resource intensive, why would you not discard the data you aren't interested in? As DNS information has become much more closely tied to network interactions, even a crucial part of them, it is now much more important to have visibility into the DNS activity in your network. This presentation discusses a lightweight (think netflow) method of gaining insight into DNS activity in a network, several interesting uses of such "DNSFlow" data, as well as several plausible uses of DNSFlow data, and a method of sharing DNSFlow data with other operators. The target audience is anyone with DNS traffic traversing their network; both network-monitoring and security-related applications will be discussed.

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Kyle Creyts, Merit Network, Inc.
Kyle Creyts is a Research Engineer for Merit Network, designing and developing analysis software and measurement frameworks for DNS, Netflow, BGP, and packet capture. In his time at Merit, his projects have been focused on network/information security, Internet measurement, and network activity analysis. He is pursuing a BSE in Information Assurance at Eastern Michigan University, and is actively involved in organizing a number of local and nationwide professional information security communities.

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DNS Track is an on going effort. The idea is to bring people who care about DNS in to one room and have them discuss certain on going issues in a trusted environment. It's a 90minute event. Includes updates/announcements from DNS Software vendors regarding their product line up, security, etc. Program & Panelists 5 Mins Introductions - Mehmet 15 Mins Steve Crocker - Chair, FCC CSRIC Working Group 5, DNSSEC Implementation Practices for ISPs 10 Mins PCH Update - Robert Martin-Legène 10 Mins Verisign Update - Duane Wessels 10 Mins ICANN Update - Dave Knight 10 Mins Comcast Update - Chris Ganster 10 Mins ISC Update - Peter Losher 10 Mins Nominium - Craig Sprosts 10 Mins Q&A -

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Mehmet Akcin, ICANN
Mehmet Akcin has been working at ICANN since 2006. He's been involved various DNS Projects in the company such as Root DNSSEC Signing , L-Root Management, other critical authoritative DNS related services. Mehmet regularly travels to several network operator meetings and hosts DNS or Peering BoFs. He has found TRNOG, Turkish Network operators group and served as Chairman for one term. He has also served in MENOG Program Committee. Prior to ICANN , Mehmet had been involved with ccTLD .PR and both technical and not technical operations. Mehmet is very involved with sports and enjoys officiating soccer games. Mehmet speaks Turkish , English and Spanish

Duane Wessels, Verisign
Following his college education in Physics and Telecommunications, Duane worked on the Squid/IRCache project at UCSD. For many years his company, The Measurement Factory, developed open source testing and measurement tools for HTTP and DNS. Recently he was the Director of the Domain Name System Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC). Currently Duane researches DNSSEC deployment for VeriSign.

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Start your day with a vast selection of hot/cold food for all tastes!MRV

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David Temkin, NANOG Program Committee Chair.

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We discuss a the implementation of a practical automated configuration and validation system used to control the Microsoft core backbone globally. This system was built and implemented incrementally on the live production network and performs over 4000 changes to the network a quarter over a network configuration that exceeds 30 million lines of configuration.

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Vijay Gill, Microsoft
Senior Director of Engineering, Global Foundation Services, Vijay Gill leads the Internet backbone and edge teams for Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS). GFS supports the foundation infrastructure for Microsoft online services for consumers and businesses worldwide.

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The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is renegotiating its treaty with the 193 countries of the world, and it hopes to move from the telecommunications arena into the Internet. However, there’s one major problem with this shift in mandate: The ITU is a closed organization and has been for nearly 150 years. The ITU’s rules and processes may have worked for the old state-run telecom monopolies, but they cannot work in regulating the Internet, where standards have been developed in an open manner since its inception. Thus, in order to gain legitimacy with the Internet community, the ITU will need to (1) open its processes up for review and comment by civil society, academics, the private sector, and the public; (2) make their TIES database freely and publicly accessible for review and comment; and (3) refrain from developing competing standards and protocols in cases where other open groups are already actively developing standards.

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Jacob Glick

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While our principal service remains Enterprise Network Consulting, our practice has expanded to provide service provider support for the LISP needs of our clients. Service providers need to understand why organizations are deploying LISP, how organizations are deploying LISP, and how those deployments impact the service provider's networks. We will discuss real world deployment of LISP, the customer benefits, the impact on service providers and the issues we ran into along the way.

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Paul Vinciguerra, Vinci Consulting Corp
Paul Vinciguerra, CCIE R&S #10291, is an experienced network architect and consultant. With nearly twenty years consulting experience, Paul has implemented a wide range of technology and security solutions. His past experience includes work at Citicorp, Mercedes Benz USA, Boston Medical Center as well as the infrastructure used for in-taxi credit card acceptance in NYC and many other merto areas. Vinci Consulting was founded in 2004 to implement innovative highly-resilient solutions grounded by years of practical experience across a broad range of industries whose businesses rely on high availability -- Financial, Banking, Investment, Manufacturing, Transportation and Healthcare. After years of delivering highly available campus LAN and Datacenter centric services, Paul is currently focused on VXNet, their cloud based routing platform. VXNet addresses some of the more difficult challenges that are not easily solved solely by organization’s internal resources. VXNet allows organizations a simple means to protect themselves from geographic or carrier based failures and opens up location independent options for disaster recovery, cloudbursting and other innovative cloud based services.

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Tom Daly, DYN.
Patrick Gilmore, Akamai Technologies.
Jim Martin, Internet Systems Consortium
Andree Toonk, BCNET

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Netflix

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Mark Kosters will provide an update of ARIN activities ranging from v4 and v6 allocations to technical improvements made to the infrastructure that ARIN helps manage.

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Mark Kosters, ARIN
Mark Kosters is the Chief Technology Officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for all engineering initiatives within the organization, leading both development and operations. Mark has over twenty-three years of experience as an applications developer, networking engineer, technical manager and executive. For eighteen years previous to his employment at ARIN, he has been a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC (InterNIC), and Vice President of Research at VeriSign. Over his career, Mark has been involved in application design and implementation of core internet client/server tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database administration, and network security. He has represented both network information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE, APNIC, CaribNOG and NANOG. Additionally, he has co-authored many IETF RFCs running from directory services to IP Address Practices to improvements to DNSSEC.

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John Curran will provide a brief update of the status of IPv4 address transfers in the ARIN region.

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John Curran, ARIN
John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications. Prior to this, he was CTO for XO Communications and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network. Mr. Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.

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Betty Burke, NANOG Executive Director