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APRICOT 2006
Conference Secretariat
Congress West, PO Box 1248
West Perth WA 6872 Australia
Ph: +61 8 9322 6906
Fax: +61 8 9322 1734
apricot@congresswest.com.au |
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APRICOT 2006 Program
> Conference
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 9:00 - 10:30
Where: [Auditorium]
APRICOT Plenary Keynote Address: A PKI to Support Improved Internet
Routing Security
Steve Kent (BBN)
Slides: download 15MB pdf |
| Several proposals
have but put forth for improving the security of routing in the public
Internet, e.g., S-BGP, soBGP, and SPV. The ultimate goal of these proposals
is to enable ISPs to verify the legitimacy of route advertisements received
via BGP UPDATEs. A first step toward this goal is enabling an ISP to
verify that an Autonomous System (AS) is authorized to originate routes
to specified blocks of IP addresses.
This presentation describes a PKI designed to support these goals,
through the issuance of X.509 digital certificates to resource holders.
It makes use of the certificate extension defined in RFC 3779, to represent
address space and AS number allocations. The PKI parallels the existing
organizational structure by which these resources are managed (RIRs,
LIRs/NIRs, and ISPs), hence no new "trusted" entities are
introduced. Unlike a conventional PKI, this one does not issue certificates
to identify resource holders, but rather enables Route Origination Authorizations
(ROAs) to be verified as having been digitally signed by the resource
holder, whoever that may be. A repository system for distribution of
the PKI data, and ROAs is also described.
About the Speaker
- Dr. Stephen T. Kent
Vice President & Chief Scientist - Information Security BBN Technologies
In his role as Chief Scientist, Dr. Kent oversees information security
activities within BBN Technologies, and works with government and
commercial clients, consulting on system security architecture issues.
In this capacity he has acted as system architect in the design and
development of network security systems and served as principal investigator
on a number of network security R&D projects for over 25 years.
Over the last two decades, Dr. Kent's R&D activities have included
the design and development of user authentication and access control
systems, network layer encryption and access control systems, secure
transport layer protocols secure e-mail technology, public-key certification
authority systems, PKI models, and key recovery (key escrow) systems.
His most recent work focuses on security for Internet routing, voice
over IP, and high assurance cryptographic modules.
The author of two book chapters and numerous technical papers on network
security, Dr. Kent has served as a referee, panelist, session chair
and keynote speaker for security conferences around the world. Since
1977 he has lectured on the topic of network security on behalf of
government agencies, universities, and private companies throughout
the United States, Europe, Australia, Africa and the Far East. Dr.
Kent received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Loyola University
of New Orleans, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in computer
science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow
of the ACM and a member of the Internet Society and Sigma Xi.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 9:00 - 10:30
Where: [Auditorium]
APRICOT Plenary Keynote Address: Convergence?
Geoff Huston (APNIC)
Slides: download |
| One of the more
persistent themes of the communications industry is that of "convergence".
The term has had a long and rich history, and in its most
recent incarnation convergence is being associated with the delivery
of voice, video and data services. IP is, of course, heavily implicated
here as the foundation technology of a new generation of converged service providers.
Is convergence truly a major force in today's industry, and what other
pressures are shaping the future structure of our industry? It appears
that convergence is not delivering on its promises, and while the industry
is undergoing yet another transformation, this has less to do with convergence
and much more to do with deregulation, fragmentation and associated
pressures for role specialization within the industry. What is the future
of the traditional monolithic carrier in tomorrow's unconverged world?
About the Speaker
- Geoff Huston
Senior Research Scientist at APNIC.
He was largely responsible for Australia's first Internet service,
the Australian Academic and Research Network. He then served a 10
year term in Telstra, in various technical roles, finishing as the
Chief Internet Scientist for the company. He has been a member of
the Internet Architecture Board, and currently chairs a couple of
working groups in the IETF.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [L2 / Room 4]
Session: Peering Track
Speakers: Barry Greene (Cisco), Stephen Baxter (PIPE
Networks), Mike Hughes (LINX)
Slides: download, download2, download3 |
| At
APRICOT2004 and APRICOT 2006 we highlighted the operations and peering
challenges facing ISPs building into and within Asia, sharing the collective
experiences of the Peering Coordinators in the room. In this session
we will focus on evolution - in order to continue forward it is sometime
useful to reflect on the past.
A Historical perspective
As one of the early Internet architects intimately involved with peering
in Asia, Mr Greene will share a historical perspective on some of the
first peering sessions in Asia. He will share his view on questions
such as: What was the Asia Internet like before regional peering? What
was the motivation for dedicating expensive (oceanic) transport for
the first peering sessions between parts of Asia? Who were the players
involved in setting up peering? (telcos with ISP subsidiaries? ISPs
purchasing transport on the open market? Engineers or Business Development
staff?) What was the nature of the cooperation required?
An Australian Historical Perspective
Peering issues have often been heated when focused on recently privatised
incumbents and the peering inclinations of Tier 1 ISPs (those who have
access to the entire country routing table solely through peering relationships).
Australia is no different and has taken broad strides towards the privatization
of the incumbent (Telstra). Mr. Baxter, as an early participant in the
Australian peering ecosystem, will share with us the evolution of peering
in Australia, focusing on the rise of the so-called "Gang of Four"
Tier 1 ISPs, the regulatory initiatives from the ACCC to deal with grievances,
and the current peering ecosystem in Australia.
Best Current Practices in Peer NOC-to-NOC Communications
Over the years we have seen a wide variety of operations support and
escalation communications issues that can and should quickly be repaired.
The speaker has spent the last few years working with the Peering
Community to document and share the best practices in Network Operations
Center communications. This is particularly important when NOCs are spread
across cultural and language boundaries.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [L2 / Room 4]
Session: Peering Track
Speakers: Brokaw Price (Yahoo!), William B. Norton
(Equinix), Sylvie LaPerriere (TeleGlobe)
Slides: download |
| This
talk is based on recent research with the peering coordinator community
and highlights the strongest arguments for and against using peering
ratios to discriminate peering candidates. The audience will decide
which side of the argument is stronger by a show of hands at the end
of the talk.
Peering from a Content Provider perspective
Yahoo! is one of the world's most popular destinations in part because
of its intense focus on end-user experience. To that end Yahoo! has
built its own peering infrastructure and expanded into parts of Asia.
Mr. Price has established hundreds of peering sessions to date and will
share his experiences building into and throughout Asia from a Content
Provider perspective.
The Folly of Peering Ratios?
Peering is often established with mindset that the two parties are "peers";
that theis networks are of similar reach and scale. Peering "Ratios"
are among the potentially many peering metrics for selecting peering
candidates. For example, one ISP might stipulate that peering is acceptable
if your ratio does not exceed 2:1 outbound to inbound. Since content
providers send large volumes of content in response to a relatively
small request packet, this metric makes it very difficult for content
providers to qualify. This issue becomes more critical as content providers
expand into more high bandwidth applications like high definition video
streaming and emerging time-delayed large scale content distribution.
International Peering Dynamics
One of the most important challenges a Peering Coordinator faces is
determining the locations where peering strategically makes sense
across and within Asia. How does one assemble the business case and
business plan for peering regionally and then within particular
countries? What are the gotchas, hidden underlying assumptions, and
challenges to overcome? What should we as a Peering Community do to
foster more interconnections? Ms. LaPerriere will share her tenure of
International Peering experiences with the group, helping to lay the
groundwork for the group to build more peering in Asia.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [L2 / Room 4]
Session: Peering Reception - The New Peering Simulation Game v4
Facilitator: William B. Norton (Equinix) |
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Bring your wireless-enabled laptop computers to interact
with this new Interactive Peering Simulation!
The Peering Simulation Game has been re-engineered so the players and
the audience members fire up their java-enabled browsers and
participate interactively with the newest incarnation of the Peering
Simulation Game.
Four players from the audience will bring up their laptops and play
the role of Peering Coordinator, building out their networks, managing
their transit commits, building into Internet Exchanges (if it makes
financial sense) and neogitating *paid* peering. As the ISPs build
out, and the peerings are established, all laptops are updated in real
time.
The audience plays the role of The Market, helping decide which
players get bonus customers and traffic, which ones suffer equipment
failures, etc.
There is of course a twist or two in the game. First, the players now
make their moves at the same tme, and all player and audience screens
are updated in real time. Second, the audience has complete
information - they can see the relative strengths of the players, as
well as the players future rolls, but the players have only a limited
view into the other players negotiating position. Third, the ISPs can
steal each others customers! They can offer a lower price to sway the
customers. ISPs can apply "Customer Care" to protect their
customers
from being stolen, which can be countered by applying "Taint"
to help
encourage a customer to leave a "bad" ISP. These peering and
competitve dynamics mimic the real world coopetition that ISPs face
every day. In the five years of evolution of this game, we have seen
that the negotiations carried out in the game are strikingly similar
to peering negotations in the real world.
This is a not a presentation ! Aside from the 5-10 minute
introduction to "What is Peering? and How do we play the Peering
Simulation Game?", the players and audience members (along with
the
faciliator) will provide the content and discussion. This is a highly
interactive and audience involved participation game that helps teach
how peering really works.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: SPAM
Speakers: Dave Crocker (Brandenburg Internetworking), Kwan Hee (Kevin) Hong (KISA/KRCERT-CC)
Slides: download |
| BOTNET
Activity & Mitigation
The main topic will be how BOTNET works, purpose of BOTNET,
dangerous of BOTNET, how to mitigate BOTNET, how we should cooperate
it. Too many Asian Region system has been compromised then function
as Zombie PC and being abused to several ways.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: SPAM
Speakers: Suresh Ramasubramanian (Outblaze Limited), Richard
Cox (Spamhaus.org), Matthew Sullivan (SORBS), Mark Reynolds (Reynolds.Net.Au) |
| An open
discussion on antispam blocklists, from an operator perspective.
An open discussion on antispam blocklists, from an operator
perspective. The topics covered deal with blocklist listing policies,
cooperation and notification strategies between ISPs and blocklists,
and how ISPs can deal with listings of their IP space in various blocklists.
Each presenter will be allowed 20 minutes of speaking time, with a 30
minute open mike session on blocklists to follow.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: SPAM
Speakers: Ray Hunt (University of Canterbury), John Haydon
(Australian Communications and Media Authority)
Slides: download |
| Tightening
the Net: A Review of Current and Next Generation Spam Filtering Tools
This paper provides an overview of current and future spam filtering
approaches. It then examines the problems spam introduces, including
discussing what constitutes spam and how it can be measured. The paper
then focuses on discussing automated, non-interactive filters, which
cover a broad range from open source to commercial implementations leading
on to new ideas proposed by research papers in this area.
These filtering techniques can be based upon non-machine learning (heuristics,
signatures, blacklisting, hash-based, traffic analysis, etc) or upon
machine learning techniques (Bayesian, spare binary polynomial hashing,
support vector machine, Markov models, pattern discovery etc).
The paper thus aims to review existing techniques and discuss the new
research ideas being published which are likely to lead to solutions
in the future.
Finally a case study involving the PreciseMail Anti-Spam System is evaluated
to investigate the effectiveness of implementing modern machine learning
techniques such as Bayesian filtering.
Technical initatives to combat spam
ACMA is involved in a number of technical initatives aimed at reducing
spam within Australia.
The benefits of these initiatives is that the information gained from
them can be used to address the spam problem within Australia but can
also be used by other jurisdictions to combat spam." |
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [L2 / Room 6]
Session: Addressing & Renumbering
Speakers: Geoff Huston, Akinori MAEMURA, Masataka MAWATARI,
Kiyoteru ISHIHARA, Champika Wijayatunga
Slides: download |
| IPv4
Address Exhaustion
The exhaustion of the IPv4 address space has been a long-anticipated
event, with initial predictions being made in 1990 that predicted exhaustion
by 1995. Obviously IPv4 has managed to not only survive but thrive well
beyond that date, and more than one quarter of the entire IPv4 address
space remains in the as-yet-unallocated free address pool. This presentation
will report on a statistical analysis of the recent trends in IPv4 address
consumption, and report on the trend analysis in terms of address exhaustion.
The presentation will also look at some of the implications of address
exhaustion in terms of likely industry response to this situation.
IP Addressing design
IP Addressing design is one of the most basic one among variety of component
of design, however it is not easy at all in practice.
This presentation will discuss about various practical cases of IP addressing
which requires various consideration in day-to-day operations like following:
- IPv4 addressing
- Key points for very efficient use of IP address block
- IPv6 addressing:
- Initial design and operational consideration
- Diffrence between IPv4 and IPv6
This will include the latest discussion in JANOG17 conference on January
19 & 20.
Internet Resource Management - Past lessons and current policies in the Asia Pacific
This presentation will take a look at history to give
us an understanding of the importance of Internet resource
management and the role of industry in self-regulation. It will
explain key terminology when talking about the RIRs and will
examine important aspects of the IPv4 and IPv6 policy framework.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [L2 / Room 6]
Session: Access
Speakers: Truman Boyes (Juniper), Greg Bader (iiNet), S Khandekar
(Alcatel), Yogesh Jiandani (Cisco)
Slides: download, download2, download3 |
| Broadband
Access Networks and Triple Play
This presentation will cover current Triple Play delivery techniques
(DHCP/PPPoE/multiple VC), Broadband and Ethernet Architecture, and Broadband
service resiliency (HA elements, MPLS-TE, QoS).
DSL deployment lessons learnt
A look at the business case, deployment methodology, and lessons learnt
by iiNET during it's ADSL2 rollout in Australia's unbundled local loop
environment.
Design considerations for delivery of Triple Play Services
over Access Networks
Mr. Khandekar is the co-author of the DSLForum technical contribution
(DSL2006.269.00) that describes an MPLS enabled Ethernet aggregation
network for delivery of triple play services. In his talk, he will discuss
design considerations and operational challenges for delivery of Triple
Play Services over Ethernet based access networks that are increasingly
Ethernet based.
Mr. Khandekar will also discuss the role of technologies such as VPLS,
MPLS, DHCP and IP multicast as presented in the DSLForum contribution
and how these technologies can be leveraged to improve the scalability,
OAM, resiliency and restoration of large scale triple play networks.
Metro Ethernet
Service Providers are also looking to capitalize on the ""broadband""
opportunity, providing high-speed services to apartment blocks, multi-tenanted
business centers and hotels. This is also revolutionising the Enterprise
and SMB market where the access mechanism is a commonly understood technology
- Ethernet.
This technology is easy to deploy, own and upgrade and will help in
deployment of newer and faster services.
The UNI and NNI are both the same media Ethernet which makes this technology
cost effective and simple to deploy. It can also be deployed over existing
telephone cables (EtherDSL).
Ethernet economics, speed and the cost-effectiveness, simplicity, ease
of use and familiarity are seen as a big plus and a new approach to
metropolitan networking. Metropolitan Area Networks enabling broadband
access are becoming more viable to deliver services that offer more
bandwidth.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [L2 / Room 6]
Session: Wireless Networks
Speakers: Dhruba Raj Bhandar (Final Quadrant Solutions), Matt
Kolon (Juniper), Richard St Clair (Internet Users Society of Niue)
Slides: download |
| Large
hotel wireless network deployment
This presentation gives a look at the how a large wireless network was
deployed in the Soaltee Crowne Plaza Kathmandu. Architecture, tools,
authentication, and limitations and lessons learnt will be covered.
Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Service Providers
As mobility becomes the 4th leg in many providers ""voice,
data, and video"" strategies, many IP network engineers and
architects are struggling to understand the relationship between mobility/wireless
networks and IP-based infrastructure. This conference session will introduce
participants to IP- and MPLS-based solutions to the data needs of mobile
networks, from basic 2G GPRS networks to faster 3G networks and beyond.
The role of IP access networks for WiFi and WiMax deployments will also
be explored. By the conclusion, participants will understand the place
and importance of IP and MPLS to the modern converged mobile network
operator, and the potential for outsourcing and co-operation between
mobile and wireline operators that this relationship exposes.
Internet and Wifi Development on a Remote Island
An overview of developing a wifi nation on a South Pacific Island Nation,
this presentations takes you through various aspects of what can run
simply and effectively in hostile tropical environments. After some
years of trial and error, the video presentation is the product of being
able to find that happy combination of hardware, software, location,
colocation and some luck to top it all off. Question and discussion
session at the conclusion.
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| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 18:00-19:00
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: NSP-SEC BoF
Speakers:
NSP-SEC Overview - Danny McPherson (Arbor)
NSP-SEC-JP: Peers Working Together to Battle Attacks to the Internet - Taka Mizuguci (NTT)
Internet Motion Sensor Update - Danny McPherson (Arbor)
Slides: download |
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Security incidents are a daily event for Internet Service Providers. Attacks
on an ISP's customers, attacks from an ISP's customer, worms, BOTNETs,
and attacks on the ISP's infrastructure are now one of many "security" NOC
tickets through out the day. This increase in the volume and intensity of
attacks has forced ISP's to spend constrained resources to mitigate the
effects of these attacks on their operations and services. This investment
has helped minimize the effects of the attacks, but it has not helped stop
them at the source. Stopping attacks at their source requires rapid and
effective inter-ISP cooperation. Hence, these ISP Security BOFs are also
used as a face-to-face syncup meeting for the NSP-SEC forum.
Additional information can be found here: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/nsp-security
If you would like to contribute to the BOF, please send email to danny [at] arbor.net
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 9:00-10:30
Where: [L2 / Room 3]
Session: DNS
Speakers: Edmon Chung (Afilias), Bill Woodcock
(PCH), Stephane Bortzmeyer
Slides: download, download2, download3, download4 |
| DNSSEC
Implementation and Issues
In the fall of 2006, Afilias provided the technical services to PIR
(Public Interest Registry) for a DNSSEC testbed for .org. Afilias implemented
then-current RFCs in the testbed in order to gain experience with the
technology and observe operational issues for Top Level Domain (TLD)
Registries. Afilias discovered that technical issues were not serious
impediments to deployment. The more serious barriers were social ones.
The lack of a protocol for trust anchor key management meant intractable
problems for publication. Furthermore, promoting interest in the technology
turned out to be even more difficult than anticipated.
DNS Anycast Service Provision Best Practices
Anycast is now the de-facto standard for carrier-grade DNS service provision.
Although anycast provides great benefits in stability and performance,
there are also potential pitfalls in its implementation. In this talk,
Bill Woodcock, who has built three of the largest DNS service provision
networks in the world, will discuss best practices for anycast network
design and implementation.
The CODEV-NIC DNS registry software
Every DNS registry must manage a database of names currently registered
and produce a DNS zone file (as well as whois output) from it. To do
so, most registries use a custom, locally written program.
For the smallest and poorest registries, like it is common in the South,
this can be too difficult: that is why many TLDs do not have a real
information system, and, for instance, cannot host a whois server.
CODEV-NIC attempts to be a solution for these TLD. Not only it is free
software, but it is also multi-policy (every TLD has different registration
rules).
CODEV-NIC has been developed by three registries acting in common, "".ci""
(Ivory Coast), "".mg"" (Madagascar) and "".fr""
(France).
The talk will present CODEV-NIC, the requirments it had (specially the
need to be multi-policy), the technical choices and the way it was developed
by three teams working in three different countries.
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [L2 / Room 3]
Session: VoIP
Speakers: Gene Lew, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, Jonny Martin
Slides: download, download2, download3 |
| A technical
and functional description of the SIP-IX framework that NeuStar is deploying.
INOC-DBA (Inter-NOC Dial-by-ASN )
INOC-DBA (Inter-NOC Dial-by-ASN ) hotline phone system connects the
network operations centers of network operators around the world in
a closed VOIP system. The INOC-DBA hotline system has been in production
use since October, 2002, and undergoes continuous development and refinement.
Recent developments have included cryptographic authentication, a self-provisioning
web interface for participant organizations, as well as inter-operability
tests SIP devices and software PBXes.
This presentation will also present statistics as well as data on quality
of calls.
Current VoIP activities in NZ
This presentation will cover current VoIP activities in NZ - both constructive
and destructive. Telecommunications and VoIP regulation, current operators
and experience, legal aspects and technical details will be investigated.
A status report of the InternetNZ run ENUM trial will also be provided.
Lastly and perhaps most importantly, the impact open source VoIP solutions
are having on the voice landscape will be analysed." |
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: SoftbankBB's Broadband Contents
Speakers: Masaru Akai (SoftbankBB)
Slides: download |
| Softbank BB
is a successful venture ADSL carrier who holds the most number of ADSL
users in Japan with their brand-new full IP network. They have been
really active in providing contents over their network.
In this session their contents services are introduced.
+ BBTV Broadband Service
+ BBTV VoD Service
+ Broadcasting of the games of Softbank Hawks Pro baseball Team:
About the Speaker
- Masaru AKAI
Softbank BB Corp. Japan
After having gained experience as a domestic integrator, Masaru
has been involved with domestic/ global IT industry since joining
PSINet Japan in 2004. Learned server facility & surroundings,
IPv6, and BGP operating. Joined Softbank BB Corp. in 2004 as a server
engineer and have focused on broadband content.
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: Myths and Realities: How the government regulates what Australians
see on the internet
Speakers: Peter Coroneos (Internet Industry Association
of Australia)
Slides: download |
| Myths
and Realities: How the government regulates what Australians see on
the internet
(A legal analysis for non lawyers of Australia's online content regulatory
regime)
In 1999, the internet industry in Australia, when first presented with
the prospect of mandatory filtering of internet content to protect children,
responded by develop three industry codes of practice. These were registered
by the national regulator, the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA),
and only after passing a strict adequacy test in relation to community
safeguards.
Co-regulatory legislation makes the Codes legally enforceable by the
ABA and large penalties exist for non compliance. Under the Codes, ISPs
must provide for use tools and information to enable customers to better
control of content accessible in the homes.
To further promote the empowerment solution, the IIA introduced the
Family Friendly ISP scheme in 2003. This scheme has bipartisan political
support. It entitles Code-compliant ISPs to display a ‘ladybird’
seal on their sites, signifying to families their entitlement to the
kind of protection and assistance that the Codes mandate.
Importantly, further revisions to the Codes currently in progress extend
the basic model to cover content accessible through convergent mobile
devices which are now coming into use.
This paper considers the challenges to internet regulation based on
the Australian experience and expounds co-regulation framework as an
appropriate
policy response.
About the Speaker
- Peter Coroneos
Internet Industry Association of Australia
Peter Coroneos is Chief Executive of the Internet Industry Association,
the national industry body for the Internet in Australia. In addition
to his role as primary industry advocate, political strategist and
spokesperson for the IIA, Peter drives the IIA's policy development
work and has instigated the formation of specialist taskforces to
leverage member expertise in diverse legal, economic and technical
areas.
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: Art and Science of Building NUS Data Centres
Speakers: Name Kelvin TEOH, HO Hock Jim (National University
of Singapore)
Co-Author: David Liau Tai Wai (National University
of Singapore)
Slides: download
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| The National
University of Singapore Data Centre is a 24-hours non-stop high-availability
nerve centre for the IT operation and communication backbone for the
National University of Singapore. It is purpose-built with advanced
temperature and humidity control, fire detection and suppression systems,
UPS and standby power generators, access control security system, as
well as a diverse routing of communications.
With a nett floor area of 720m2 and a floor loading of 7.5kN/m2, NUS
Data Centre hosts a total of more than 200 servers with 61 Terabytes
of raw data storage as well as a core communication backbone with 24
Gigabits of aggregated bandwidth. The centre supports a myriad of IT
services and applications like Internet, Email, e-Learning, wireless
connectivity, video conferencing, student admission, course registration,
student feedback, class timetabling, digital library, alumni portal,
and many other human resource and financial related applications. Combined
with an access controlled media library that is equipped with an independent
temperature and humidity control, NUS Data Centre ensures that critical
backups are safely secured and retrieved when needed.
NUS Data Centre also provides the University with a globally connected
campus via highspeed network connections to the Singapore Government
Network (SGNet) and Internet-II networks in Australia, China, Japan
and the United Kingdom. Each day, it serves hundreds of thousands of
requests and transactions from students, staff and visitors from all
over the world.
NUS Data Centre…Connecting the Future…
About the Speakers
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Kelvin TEOH
National University of Singapore
Kelvin Teoh is a Data Centre Specialist and Hock-Jim Ho a Network
Engineer, at the Computer Center, National University of Singapore
(NUS). As a member of the Data Centre Team, Kelvin is currently
managing Data Centre operations. Major projects undertaken includes
a full renovation of the NUS Primary Data Centre with minimal downtime,
the construction of a new Off-Campus Data Centre, and the design,
deployment and operation of a state-of-the-art campus-wide distributed
UPS infrastructure (inclusive of remote management and monitoring).
- HO Hock Jim
National University of Singapore
Hock Jim's role as a member of the Network Infrastructure Team has
led to his participation in various engineering and community projects.
These includes Inter-School Wireless Roaming, BGP Blackholing, DNS-based
Botnet Migitation and Internet Bandwidth Bulk Tender for Schools.
He currently oversees the NUS WAN infrastructure, and is a member
of NUS Singapore Open Exchange (NUS-SOX) NOC.
- David Liau Tai Wai
National University of Singapore
IT Professional with more than 10 years of multi-displinary experience
in the IT industry.
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [L2 / Room 5]
Session: Content Switching and Application Optimization - Technologies
and Design Approaches within Data Centers
Speakers: Zeeshan Naseh (Cisco)
Slides: download |
| Application
optimization, high availability, scalability and security are the key
requirements for today's Data Center network designs. This session presents
several design options when deploying network based application optimization
and security services.
The session focuses on the integration of Content Switching (SLB),
SSL off load and Firewall technologies within a Data Centers. Deployment
examples will be based on the Content Switching Module, SSL Service
Module, Firewall Service Modules on the Cisco Catalyst 6500.
The advantages and disadvantages of each design approach and technology
will be covered in detail together with some configuration example.
The ideas of secure internal segments and significance application flow
will be covered to understand the requirements of the enterprise.
About the Speaker
- Zeeshan Naseh
Cisco Systems
Zeeshan Naseh, CCIE (#6838), is a Technical Leader in Cisco's World
Wide Data Center Networking Practice within Advanced Services. His
primary responsibility have been supporting Cisco's major customers,
including service providers, wireless service providers, large enterprises,
and financial institution. As a design consultant, Zeeshan has focused
on Content Switching and Data Center designs. Zeeshan has authored
several white papers and design documents that have been published
internally within Cisco and on CCO. He is also the author of the upcoming
book - "Designing
Content Switching Solutions". Prior to joining the Cisco Advanced
Services team, Zeeshan has worked at US WEST, FORE Systems and Cisco's
Cat6500 development team.
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[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: IPv6 Deployment in Comcast
Speakers: Alain Duran (Comcast)
Slides: download |
| How to manage
a network with 100+ million IP addresses in the next few years? When
Net10 does not cut it anymore, the sensible answer for Comcast is IPv6.
Comcast is one of the first operators to adopt IPv6 as a strategic activity
with an aggressive roll-out plan. In its initial phase, this plan focus
on the management and operation of Comcast operated devices, like cable
modems and set-top boxes. Key architectural choices are made to reduce
the complexity of the overall deployment.
About the Speaker
- Alain Durand
Director and IPv6 Architect in Advanced Engineering at Comcast
Alain has been working on IPv6 since 1994, participated in the INRIA
BSD IPv6 implementation in 1995 and was a pioneer on the 6bone in
1996. Alain has authored numerous RFC and Internet Drafts at IETF
and co-chaired the NGtrans working group from 1999 to 2002. He now
servers as the co-chair of the Softwires working group. Prior to Comcast,
Alain was at Sun as the IPv6 architect during the development of Solaris
10.
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[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: IPv6 IGP/BGP Routing
Speakers: Khalid Raza (Cisco)
Slides: download |
| V6 routing will
cover OSPFv3, ISIS enhancements to carry v6 routes and BGP changes.
Protocol that is gone through a major rewrite is OSPF, we will look
into OSPF how the changes affect the protocol and address the limitation
of OSPFv2. We will also look at all the link states and how they are
different then v2 plus new LSA types that are specific to V3 only. Presentation
will cover ISIS new TLV's added to the protocol for v6. We will also
look at MPBGP and how AF v6 works on top of MPBGP.
About the Speaker
|
[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Transitioning to IPv6:
Issues & Mechanisms
Speakers: Jeff Doyle (Juniper)
Slides: download |
| In the past
ten years a multitude of IPv6 transition terchnologies have been proposed.
This presentation examines what technologiesd are gaining acceptance
in the industry and which ones are being abandoned. The application
of these technologies and the approaches to transition are also examined.
About the Speaker
- Jeff Doyle
Juniper
Specializing in IP routing protocols, MPLS, and IPv6, Jeff Doyle has
designed or assisted in the design of large-scale IP service provider
networks throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore,
and the People’s Republic of China. Jeff is the author of CCIE
Professional Development: Routing TCP/IP, Volumes I and II; OSPF and
IS-IS: Choosing an IGP for Large-Scale Networks; and is an editor
and contributing author of Juniper Networks Routers: The Complete
Reference. Jeff has presented numerous corporate seminars for Juniper
Networks, and has also spoken at NANOG, JANOG, APRICOT, and at IPv6
Forum conferences worldwide.
|
[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Multicast v6
Speakers: Toerless Eckert (Cisco)
Slides: download |
| "The most
important stuff people should know about multicast today (but will have
a hard time to figure out just from IETF specs), and some cool new stuff
too that's also interesting for IPTV ... bot not everything ;-("
About the Speaker
|
[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Advanced BGP Convergence
Technics
Speakers: Pradosh Mohapatra (Cisco)
Slides: download |
| A presentation
indicating recent advances in BGP protocol. Description of new BGP address
families along with the functionality provided by them. New dynamic
embedded tools for efficient and very flexible multihoming technics.
Tools and recommendations to optimise network end to end convergence
for both IPv4/v6 as well as vpnv4/v6 applications.
About the Speaker
|
[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: IPv4/IPv6 Network implementation
and operations
Speakers: Ariga Seiji (NTT Communications)
Slides: download
|
| This presentation
will introduce what we've done to implement and operate IPv4/IPv6 network
in large scale network, for the people who has some experience on designing/operating
medium to large scale IPv4 network. This covers, IPv6 characteristics
you have to think of when you design large scale IPv6 network, difference
between IPv4 and IPv6 which appears when deploying IPv6 into existing
IPv4 network with no service interruption, and practical issues on operating
IPv6 network.
About the Speaker
- Seiji Ariga
IP Engineer, NTT Communications
He has been working for NTT Communcations since 2002. He is an IP
Engineer operating NTT Communications' Global IP Network (aka 'ntt.net').
NTT Communications has been running IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network globally
for more than 4 years. He played a main role in design, implemention
and operation of this dual stack network. He started to work on IPv6
since 1997 while he was a student at Keio University as a member of
WIDE Project.
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[Top]
| When: Wednesday
1 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Fast Reroute for Triple
Play
Speakers: Sachin Natu (Redback)
Slides: download |
| For service
providers, applications such as IPTV and VOIP are becoming increasingly
important in Next Generation Converged Networks. For successful deployment
of such applications, fast repair in case of network or link element
failure is becoming a critical piece.
This presentation will focus on different methods and design solutions,
which will help in network fast repair. In more details we will look
at:
* Use existing routing protocol optimization to perform fast convergence.
* Nexthop Fast Reroute which makes it possible to use MPLS to protect
IPTV and VOIP traffic. In this part we will also discuss some new mechanisms
which can prevent microloops during subsequent routing convergence.
About the Speaker
- Sachin Natu
Redback
Sr Product Manager responsible for delivering IPTV and Voice services
related product features.
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 9:00-10:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Pros and Cons of going
unnumbered
Speakers: Kireeti Kompella (Juniper)
Slides: download |
| Network administrators
typically number (i.e., configure IP addresses on) all directly connected
interfaces of an IPv4 router. This talk examines this practice, and
assesses its pros and cons, and suggests some alternatives. As this
practice is fairly deeply rooted, this talk challenges some of the assumptions
and deliberately attempts to stir up thinking on this front. Open discussion
is invited.
Topics include: why number? why go unnumbered? when can one go unnumbered?
what are some restrictions of going unnumbered? is there a middle ground?
what other alternatives exist? what lies beyond going unnumbered?
About the Speaker
|
[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 9:00-10:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Service Control Technologies
for peer-to-peer traffic in next generation networks
Speakers: Teruyuki Hasegawa (KDDI R&D Labs) & Lior Gendel (Cisco)
Slides: download, download2 |
| "Service
Control Technologies Peer-to-peer traffic in next generation networks",
Lior Gendel, Oren Raboy, Mallik Tatipamula, Cisco systems; Atsushi Tagami,
Teruyuki Hasegawa, Shigehiro Ano, Toru Hasegawa, KDDI labs.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic consumes network resources without creating
additional revenue. It is allegedly estimated that 70 percent or more
of broadband bandwidth is consumed by downloads of music, games, video,
and other content. Consumption will increase as P2P downloads multiply
because of increases in subscriber adoption and file sizes.
Identifying P2P applications is complex. Sophisticated P2P protocols
can dynamically hop to different ports, making them difficult to detect,
monitor, and control. Many existing devices and unsophisticated service
control technologies lack the ability to detect changing P2P protocols,
hampering a service provider's ability to cope with P2P application
traffic.
This paper discusses the problems associated with the growing popularity
of P2P applications and presents two kinds of service control technologies.
First one is deep packet inspection, which enables accounting and controlling
traffic with application awareness to attain the bandwidth fairness
among subscribers. This approach is effective but needs some consideration
about the deepness of inspection not to infringe the privacy of communications.
Second one is P2P cache inducing P2P traffic to local destinations,
which can mitigate inter-domain traffic. This caching architecture is
P2P protocol independent but provides only rough traffic control. We
also address the possibility of harmonized service control architecture
for next generation network infrastructure.
About the Speakers
- Teruyuki Hasegawa
KDDI R&D Labs
Teruyuki Hasegawa received the B.E. and M.E. Degrees of electrical
engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively.
Since joining KDD (now KDDI) in 1993, he has been working in the field
of high speed communication protocol and multicast system.
He is currently a senior research engineer of IP Communication
Quality Lab. in KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. He received The Meritorious
Award on Radio of ARIB in 2003.
- Lior Gendel
Cisco
LIOR GENDEL is Managing Technical Marketing team in Cisco Systems.
Prior to joining Cisco he designed and implemented public IP networks.
After joining Cisco in 1996 he participated in the design of many
private and public IP networks, in particular in Europe. His latest
activity in Cisco includes a study of
applications response over large IP networks and architecture of
Cisco NG products. He holds a B.Sc. in computer engineering, B.A.
computer science and an M.Sc. in computer science from Ben-Gurion
University, Israel.
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[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Peering Planning Cooperation
without Revealing Confidential Information
Speakers: Arman Maghbouleh (Carident)
Slides: download |
| For most Internet
Service Providers the majority of their traffic enters or leaves the
network via BGP enabled peerings or upstream provider(s). Not only do
these links need to have enough capacity during normal operation, they
also need to provide redundant capacity during link failures. For the
egress traffic (service provider to remote peer) this can be easily
verified by simulating the rerouting under failure, as the topology
of the network is completely known. The return traffic (remote peer
to service provider) however can not be simulated, as the behavior of
the remote network is not known. This creates a gap in the planning
process for external peering links.
In this talk we present a simple methodology for creating 'Failover
Matrices' that describe the traffic redistribution under peering link
failure conditions. the matrices provide a useful mechanism for sharing
information and improving the mutual planning process without disclosing
any proprietary information. We will describe the principles behind
the process as well as walk through a real scenario.
About the Speaker
- Arman Maghbouleh
Carident
Arman Maghbouleh serves as the President of Cariden Technologies where
he works with network operators to develop routing and traffic management
solutions. Arman has extensive experience in network design consulting
and tools development, including stints at Apple Computer, Fidelity
Investments and Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories.
|
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: IPFRR
Speakers: Stefano Previdi (Cisco)
Slides: download |
| IP Fast Reroute
technologies aim to provide traffic restoration within a few tens of
milliseconds. Similar technology has been already developed and deployed
using MPLS and now IPFRR delivers the same capability to IP networks
or IP+MPLS networks but where RSVP is not deployed. IPFRR also provides
protection for multicast traffic. This presentation gives an overview
on the current IETF proposals in terms of architecture as well as the
Cisco view on these technologies. The presentation covers multiple aspects
including:
- IP Fast Reroute Downstream Routes
- IP Fast Reroute Not-Via Addresses
- Micro-loop Avoidance Algorithms (for Fast convergence and FRR technologies)
This session is ideal for anyone who wants to understand the latest
developments and techniques in IP routing.
About the Speaker
- Stefano Previdi
Cisco
Stefano Previdi joined Cisco Systems in March 1996 as Escalation engineer
in the Technical Assistance Center for Routing Protocols Technologies.
He then moved to a Senior Consutling Engineer position and participated
to the architecture definition of MPLS-VPN. He also closely followed
the first Cisco implementation of MPLS-VPN as well as the early field
deployments.
In 2001, he moved to engineering as Technical Leader for IS-IS
development and implemented a set of Fast convergence features in
IOS IS-IS implementation.
Since 2002, Stefano joined IOS-XR Architecture team and focused
on Routing Protocol performance and scalability.
In parallel with his engineering activity, Stefano is an active
member of IETF especially in the IS-IS and Routing Area working
groups. He submitted several drafts among which some have been moved
to RFC status.
|
[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Modelling Inter-Domain
Routing
Speakers: Olaf Maennel (University of Adelaide)
Slides: download |
| In this talk
we discuss a methodology and tool to construct an AS-level model of
the Internet topology. The aim of this work is to be able to simulate
the inter-domain routing system in such a way that we can predict the
results of topology and/or policy changes. With such a tool operators
could ask "what-if"-questions, for example: "What impact
does a new (or cancelled peering) have on inter-domain traffic flows"?
"To which peer/upstream should I connect, given a certain traffic
profile"? "What impact has a change in the connectivity of
transit networks on my AS"?
To answer such questions we use large-scale simulations. Recent advances
in simulation techniques allow us to compute Internet-wide routing models
in reasonable time. As input to our simulation, we use BGP routing tables
gathered at different vantage points. We start off with a simplified
model that matches all observed paths without having to handle the coarser
policies applied in the Internet that lead to the observed paths. From
there we go on and use heuristics to correlate the information that
is available using many observation points and many different prefixes.
This gives us insights about how policies might affect routing in the
Internet in general and at which granularity policies are actually applied
at the AS-level.
While our methodology is still work-in-progress, preliminary results
show that we can expect to predict AS paths between two ASs with accuracy
above 87%. To improve our methodology we seek feedback from the network
community to understand what particular questions our tool should be
able to answer.
For more information about how we construct the inter-domain model,
please see: http://home.in.tum.de/~muehlbaw/thesis.pdf
About the Speaker
- Olaf Maennel
University of Adelaide
Olaf Maennel obtained his Ms degree in computer science from the Saarland
University in Germany in May 2002 and? his PhD from the Technical
University of Munich in October 2006. He is currently ?a postdoctoral
fellow with the University of Adelaide in Australia. His current research
?interest is networking, with a focus on routing, including router
testing, understanding convergence issues and topology characteristics.
|
[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Multi-Segment PWs: “A
small step for PWs, a giant step for Metro Convergence?”
Speakers: Jeffrey Sugimoto (Nortel)
Slides: download |
| Pseudowire End
to End Emulation (PWE3/PW) is gaining momentum. WAN deployments of PWE3
are currently enabling new Ethernet services and the opportunity to
converge ATM, Frame Relay and other legacy services over a common MPLS
core. The multi-service attributes of PWs and adaptability to different
types of PSN tunnels are giving the technology strong consideration
as a candidate to deliver convergence in metro access networks, either
as an end to end service or as an aggregation for “new age”
solutions: e.g. next generation optical transport, triple play, wireless
backhaul.
As PW technology moves from leading edge to mainstream and into the
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) a number of considerations are coming
to the forefront:
How can I keep my access network simple while deploying PWs?
How can I segregate my access and core networks?
How can I scale a PW deployment in general?
How can I offer PW between administrative domains, including Inter-provider
scenarios?
These requirements drive a need for a new breed of PWs that concatenates
several PW segments together to form a Multi-Segment PW (MS-PW). This
presentation starts by discussing the new requirements and motivations
behind them with a particular focus on the need to provision and connect
segments of a MS-PW in an operationally efficient manner. The presentation
then discusses the mechanisms that provide solutions to the problem
considering the latest IETF work and it concludes with an analysis of
possible applications for these building blocks.
About the Speaker
- Jeffrey Sugimoto
Nortel
Jeff Sugimoto is a senior engineer that manages the L2 VPN services
team reporting to the office of the CTO in Nortel's service provider
data networks organization. His 12 years at Nortel have included a
variety of experiences including several years of engineering, design
and architecture, focusing on L2 VPNs over MPLS. Jeff has co-authored
several drafts in the IETF and contributions to the MFA related to
L2 VPNSs over MPLS, most recently focusing on multi-segment pseudowires.
His experience and expertise has enabled Jeff to speak at several
large technical conferences, including most recently Carriers World
Asia 2006.
|
[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Opportunities for SPs
with Enterprise MPLS
Speakers: Matt Kolon (Juniper)
Slides: download |
| MPLS is no longer
a technology just for Service Providers, and enterprise IT managers
are beginning to be quite sophisticated consumers of it. Far from being
a threat to Providers, this situation opens up a variety of possibilities
for interesting hybrid service definitions, using MPLS capabilities
in new and technically challenging ways. From enabling a customer's
private network, to using inter-AS operations to peer with them at the
MPLS NNI, to using carrier's carrier models to transport the MPLS backbone
of a geographically disparate organization - there are many chances
to offer customers excellent service helping them build a hybrid MPLS
network. This presentation discusses the standards and practices you
can use to build these networks, and offers practical advice and case
studies from providers who have done it.
About the Speaker
- Matt Kolon
Juniper
Matt Kolon has worked for Juniper Networks since 1999, and is currently
Juniper's Mobility Architect in the APAC region. He helps design mobile
networks and writes, presents, and teaches about mobility, security,
telephony, and the future of IP technologies. Prior to Juniper he
was a Senior Member of Technical Staff for Hill Associates, where
he trained and consulted for telecommunications providers; prior to
that he was an IT consultant in private practice in New York City.
Matt has presented papers and seminars at networking conferences
and trade shows including MPLScon, APRICOT, NANOG, The China VPN
Conference, MPLS Forum Japan, and SuperComm. He is a co-author of
two books, "IP Telephony" (McGraw-Hill, 1999) and "Juniper
Networks Routers: The Complete Reference" (McGraw-Hill, 2002),
and since 1994 has published many technical and non-technical articles
in industry journals and elsewhere.
|
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Using Multi-Layer Routing
to Provision Services across the MPLS/GMPLS Domain Boundaries
Speakers: Andrew G. Malis (Tellabs)
Slides: download |
| Network convergence
naturally occurs to avoid the need for service specific infrastructures.
However, as convergence occurs, the technology selected for the convergence
layer (i.e. MPLS, IP, WDM, SDH, ATM) is influenced by the service mix
that a carrier expects to carry in that particular portion of the network.
This leads to different convergence technologies being chosen in different
parts of the network.
The selection of different convergence technologies doesn't change
the fact that customers are still going to request services that traverse
the entire network. Consequently, control plane mechanisms must support
the routing of service requests through a series of regions using dissimilar
convergence layers. To facilitate this, the control plane needs to understand
the multi-layer structure of the network, and how services requests
are routed.
This talk will show how multi-layer routing methods can meet this requirement,
and will include a discussion of the information necessary to represent
the relationship between the resources in different layer networks.
About the Speaker
- Andrew G. Malis
Tellabs
Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Chief Technologist at Tellabs,
which provides end-to-end service delivery and transport solutions
for carriers. He has been active in wide-area data networking and
telecommunications for over 30 years, beginning with the ARPANET,
the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering
positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications;
Ascend Communications; Lucent Technologies; and Vivace Networks, which
was purchased by Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Tellabs’
product architecture, future product planning, standards participation
coordination, and customer consultation.
He is also President and Chairman of the Board of the MFA (MPLS,
Frame Relay and ATM) Forum, served as the MPLS Forum’s founding
Technical Committee Chair, has chaired a number of working groups
in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the ATM Forum,
and is a veteran participant and award recipient in other standards
bodies and industry consortia. He has written, edited, and otherwise
contributed to many standards documents in these organizations,
including 21 IETF RFCs. He also serves on the technical advisory
boards of several privately held high-tech companies, and has chaired
and spoken at numerous industry conferences. He received his Bachelor
of Science degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at
Brown University, and his Master of Science degree, also in Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University.
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Internet routing table analysis
Speakers: Stephan Millet (Telstra)
Slides: download |
| Research into
18 months worth of BGP activity on an Australian ISP Backbone. This
research shows a corrolation between the size of the routing table and
the BGP updates created as the BGP table size increases. The reseach
also investigates ways to minimise the effect of BGP updates on a core
network, and attempts to determine what may happen if the BGP table
continues to grow at it's current rate.
About the Speaker
- Stephan Millet
Telstra
Network Engineer for Telstra Internet Direct, with 5 years ISP industry
experience in network engineering and routing.
|
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| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 16:00-17:30
Where: [Ballroom 1]
Session: Routing/Operations: Metro scalability and Availibility
Speakers: Jian Feng Xu (China Telecom)
Slides: download |
| Today scaling
layer 2 metro network is a challenge. Spanning Tree Protocol is not
the most suitable means of deploying MAN. The speaker would discuss
the problem he face while building MAN. He would also alternative using
IP (layer 3) to address some of the issue. He would also share his experiences
he encounter. He would quote case study and the direction his organization
is moving ahead to achieve their goal of scaling MAN network.
About the Speaker
- Jian Feng Xu
China Telecom
The speaker has been involved in Internet in China since 1995. He
started as a System Intergator supporting China Telecom before moving
into the Research Department in China Telecom. The speaker is responsible
for the design and building of the ChinaTelecom Next Carrier Network
(CN2) backbone which incidentally is the larget IP network in China
today. Today, Xu heads the CT research team comprizing of a group
of research engineers. He also holds the concurrent role of Chinanet
Chief Operation Manager over seeing the smooth running of Chinanet
IP network. Xu travel within mainland China to give talks and share
his experience of building large scale service provider IP network.
He holds a master degree in Communication from Southern China University
of Technology.
|
[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 11:00-12:30
Where: [Ballroom 2]
Session: Security: Security Operations Centers (SOCs).
Speakers: Barry Raveendran Greene
Guest: PCH - iNOC Phone Demonstration
Slides: download |
| SPs need tools,
procedures, processes and training to survive today world of DOS, WORMs,
VIRUSES, PHISHING, and BOTNETS. The presenter will review a SOC Starter
Kit using freely available tools and techniques which would help an
SP NOC, SOC, or Abuse Desk get an upper hands on today's threats.
|
[Top]
| When: Thursday
2 March 2006 14:00-15:30
Where: [Ballroom 2]
Session: Security: A Day in the Security Life of a SP - NTT USA (Verio).
Speakers: Peter Schoenmaker (NTT America)
Slides: download |
| ISP Security
professionals encounter unique security incidents. Miscreants, extortion,
attacks on their infrastructure, law enforcement knocking on their doors,
rampant worms, botnets gone wild, and collateral damage that knocks
out multiple gig links are all types of incidents that an enterprise
security professional will never experience. "A Day in the Security
Life of an SP" is a new regular session given by service provider
security professionals to help the broader APRICOT operations community
learn about their colleagues' work, point out worries and concern in
the industry, and recommend actions that the community can take that
would make life easer.
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