Theme
"Smarter tools in a complex network landscape".: Preserving network integrity
Venue/Location
Homerton College, University of Cambridge
"Drawing room", G
How to get there
:The venue is 10 minute walk from Cambridge train station, reachable by train directly from Stansted Airport. Trains run every ~30 minutes.
To enter the UK:
You need to ensure your identity documents are valid for the whole of your stay. For more information refer to gov.uk - > https://www.gov.uk/uk-border-control/before-you-leave-for-the-uk
There are no COVID tests or restrictions in place in the UK. but please check rules on re-entering your own country.
Masks are not generally required unless the operator has their own rules so worth carrying one.
Further details from gov.uk here - > https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-to-england-from-another-country-during-coronavirus-covid-19
Where to stay
- Travelodge Cambridge Central is closest and best value . (5 mins minutes walk).
- Centennial Hotel (10 minutes walk)
- Ibis Cambridge Central Station (10 mins minutes walk)
- Any Hotel around Cambridge Central Train Station is a short walk from the venue
Remote Participation
Details will follow closer to the date
https://geant.zoom.us/j/68836189197?pwd=TllxWDZvNVZVcGlBWm1wODlXc1o3dz09
Meeting ID: 688 3618 9197
Passcode: 30463
Evening Activities
Following the afternoon meeting there will a social event starting at 6:00pm. This is an opportunity to punt on the River Cam following a route along the backs of the famous Cambridge Colleges. There will be a small cost in the region of £8/€8 to £10/€10 per person (CASH ONLY) depending on the final number. More details will be provided at the meeting.
The evening dinner is scheduled for 8:15pm (UK local) Tuesday 10th and will be held at the following location. The cost of the dinner event is covered by the host GÉANT:
Restaurant: Millworks, The Watermill, Newnham Road, Cambridge, CB3 9EY.
Find in Google Maps - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/MillWorks/@52.199116,0.1119033,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d870a47e24310f:0xe149c98ab98d52c3!8m2!3d52.199116!4d0.114092?shorturl=1
10&11 May 2022 - lunch to lunch
*Recording available on request. Contact magda.haver@geant.org
Registrations
Tuesday, 10th of May
Register here
Below is the draft agenda of the meeting we have originally planned for May 2020. Future dates: TBC
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| Tuesday morning | You are welcome to visit GÈANT NOC - get in touch with Tony Barber |
12:00-13:00 ALL TIMES ARE UK LOCAL | Arrival - Lunch |
| 13:00-13: |
The growth in the services and the changes in the architecture are some of the reasons that have made Géant develop a new SNMP monitoring tool. This joint presentation between network and software engineers will give details about the challenges, the problems faced and the solutions found.
This presentation will give an overview of the benefits of applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to network operations.
WifiMon: Monitoring Eduroam - Kostas Stamos & Nikos Kostopoulos, GRNET
The WiFiMon system is extended with low-cost hardware probes. WiFiMon hybrid approach enriched with the correlation of measurements results with the eduroam logs is capable to provide insights into the operation of WiFi network and eduroam infrastructure. The presentation will provide details of the WiFimon operation and show the results and experience from some demos.
Visiting GÉANT NOC
| 20 (1400-1420 CEST) | Welcome and introductions - Bram Peeters - GEANT Chief Network Operations Officer/Tony Barber, GÉANT |
| 13:20-13:50 | Orchestration at SURF - Max Mudde Presentation about the SURF orchestrator, with use cases of how you use it, where to get it, and how to install it and integrate it in existing systems. |
| 13:50-14:20 | BGPlay and RIPEstat - Christian Teuschel, RIPE NCC RIPEstat is a large-scale information service and the open data platform of the RIPE NCC. This will be an introduction to RIPEstat with a focus on BGPlay, one of its most popular visualisation tools for BGP data. |
| 14:20-14:50 | NetYce - "How to drive standardization and compliance with network automation"- Wim Gerrits |
| 14:50-15:20 | Coffee and Tea Break |
| 15:20-15:50 | Streaming telemetry - Raul Lopes, David Richardson, Jisc Lesson learnt from deploying streaming telemetry, including its usage on RARE (Router for Academia, Research & Education), followed by a discussion on how others are using it. |
| 15:50-16:20 | Expansion/Overrun |
| 16:20-17:00 | Discussion |
| 18:00-19:00 | Social activity - punting |
| 20:00-22:00 | Dinner at the restaurant "Millworks", hosted by GÉANT The Watermill, Newnham Road, Cambridge, CB3 9EY. |
Wednesday, 11th of May
| Time | Session | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome | |||
| 9: | 30Green datacentres - Nicky Thomson Climate change should lead us to build datacentres thinking on energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. This presentation will explain some possible solutions. | |||
| 9:30-10:00 | GÉANT's new Inventory Management System - Emma Apted, GÉANT This is a commercial software product purchased from VC4, already used by SURFnet and RedIRIS. An overview of this software, called IMS, and the implementation approach in GÉANT. | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Jisc's SOC - Lee Harrigan-Green, Jisc | |||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | Ethernet OAM/CFM and the problems of managing LANPHY Ethernet - GÉANT's Network Engineering Team Presentation about the experiences and challenges both from the engineering and management points of view to manage LANPHY ethernet. What happens when new equipment does not support it? What workarounds can you apply? | |||
| 15-9:45 | GÉANT Network Refresh Update - Paul Shelswell, GÉANT An update on the progress made to date in the GN4-3N refresh project. Updates will include deployment status, migration status and decommissioning status along with a look at the top risks, financial status and what is planned for the next 3 months. | |||
| 9:45-10:15 | MicroDep Microdep - End-to-end monitoring improves the quality of inter-domain Microdep is Sikt's/Uninett's end-to-end monitoring system which both measure and analyse network behaviour on a millisecond time scale. The system has proven to reveal and pinpoint several suboptimal routing | |||
| 10:15-10:45 | RPKI - Christian Teuschel, RIPE NCC This presentation is an introductory overview to RPKI, how it works and some statistics on its current deployment. | |||
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee and Tea Break | |||
| 11:15-11:45 | Network Automation eAcademy - Maria Isabel Gandia, CSUC The Network Automation e-Academy team has completed the Introductory material and is now releasing more technical units. In this presentation, we will see an update of the new units and examples of labs for Ansible, NETCONF, NSO, etc ( See more here: OAV Training Portal). | |||
| 11:4511:30-12:15 | Flash talks | |||
| SUNET NOC flash talk - Jonny Lundin, SUNET | ||||
| DFN NOC update - Thomas Schmidt, DFN | ||||
| 12:15- 12:30 | Wrap-up | 12:30 | 13:00 | Evaluation and future topics |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |||
| After the meeting, you are welcome to visit GÈANT NOC - get in touch with Tony BarberGoodbye and Lunch |