Name: UKNOF34 (Manchester)
Start: 2016-04-21T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2016-04-21T20:05:00+01:00
Location: Manchester Central Convention Complex

UKNOF34 (Manchester)

Thursday, 21 April 2016 - 09:00

Monday, 18 April 2016
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Thursday, 21 April 2016

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:55
09:55 Welcome and Information - Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)
Welcome and Information
- Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)
09:55 - 10:00
10:00 IPv6 Only Hosting - Peter Stevens (Mythic Beasts)
IPv6 Only Hosting (Main Session)
- Peter Stevens (Mythic Beasts)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Charter 1, 2 & 3 Mythic Beasts launched IPv6 only hosting services in 2014 and now around 5% of all servers on their network are IPv6 only, no IPv4, no RFC1918 and no NAT44. This talk details the journey to commercially offering and successfully selling IPv6 single stack.
10:30 IP Networks in the TV Studio: Recent work by BBC R&D - Stuart Grace (BBC R&D)
IP Networks in the TV Studio: Recent work by BBC R&D (Main Session)
- Stuart Grace (BBC R&D)
10:30 - 11:00
The IP Studio project at BBC R&D is investigating how we can produce live TV content using COTS servers and IP networks instead of specialised audio and video hardware. This could give us a flexible, cost-effective platform for creating both conventional TV programmes and new forms of immersive and interactive content for delivery over IP. This presentation will start with an overview of IP Studio and its architecture.
11:00 PeeringDB 2.0 - Greg Hankins (Nokia)
PeeringDB 2.0 (Lightning Talks)
- Greg Hankins (Nokia)
11:00 - 11:15
Room: Charter 1, 2 & 3 PeeringDB is an indispensable resource for peering information, and is now required by many networks in order to peer. In this presentation we'll talk about the organizational changes behind PeeringDB, and look at some of the new user and automation features in PeeringDB 2.0.
11:15 Morning Coffee Break
Morning Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45
Room: The Gallery
11:45 dnsdist: DNS, latency and DoS-aware load balancing - bert hubert (PowerDNS)
dnsdist: DNS, latency and DoS-aware load balancing (Main Session)
- bert hubert (PowerDNS)
11:45 - 12:15
Room: Charter 1, 2 & 3 "dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top performance to legitimate users while shunting or blocking abusive traffic." This recently released open source product has proven to be widely useful in protecting DNS infrastructure & providing optimal service in the face of malicious traffic. It has also turned out to be surprisingly useful in 'fixing up what is wrong', on one occasion saving a 100k home gateway rollout from replacement. In this presentation, we'll outline the why and wherefore of dnsdist, including several common usecases.
12:15 An overview of the PGP Key Signing Process - Matthew Walster (Fastly)
An overview of the PGP Key Signing Process (Lightning Talks)
- Matthew Walster (Fastly)
12:15 - 12:30
Room: Charter 1, 2 & 3 This lightning talk will discuss PGP signing, its importance and how to participate at a UKNOF event.
12:30 ADVA Sponsor Presentation: NFV is real! Come and see it here. - Anthony Magee (ADVA Optical)
ADVA Sponsor Presentation: NFV is real! Come and see it here.
- Anthony Magee (ADVA Optical)
12:30 - 12:45
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:00
Room: The Gallery
13:00 PGP Signing Session - Matthew Walster (Fastly)
PGP Signing Session
- Matthew Walster (Fastly)
13:00 - 13:45
14:00 None of us knew what we were doing, we made it up as we went along - Paul Thornton (PRT Systems Ltd)
None of us knew what we were doing, we made it up as we went along (Main Session)
- Paul Thornton (PRT Systems Ltd)
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Charter 1, 2 & 3 Some amusing anecdotes, historical artifacts, and possibly interesting technical tales of woe from the UK Internet of the late 1990s.
14:30 The evolution of an educational WAN - Robin Williams (TNP Ltd)
The evolution of an educational WAN (Main Session)
- Robin Williams (TNP Ltd)
14:30 - 15:00
- Background of Lancaster Uni networks (CANLMAN/CLEO/Commercial) CLEO network – the model - Design phases - Growth - Challenges - Anecdotes - Taken in house in 2011 under a strategic partnership with BT
15:00 The evolution of the B4RN network - Tom Rigg (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd)
The evolution of the B4RN network (Main Session)
- Tom Rigg (Broadband for the Rural North Ltd)
15:00 - 15:30
* Summary of B4RN model/project (for those that don’t know) * Rollout update (progress since Barry’s presentation) * Storyboard process for connecting a parish (how it works – the community aspect) * Design/network layer * Customer usage patterns * Growth challenges * Questions
15:30 A brief walk through some history and findings of NASA's telecommunication network during Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes - Neil McRae (BT)
A brief walk through some history and findings of NASA's telecommunication network during Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes (Lightning Talks)
- Neil McRae (BT)
15:30 - 15:45
"They can land man on the moon but vendor X can't still write bug free code!". Since Sputnik started the space race, it infact actually became a relay race across many different things, from integrated circuits to welding torches no period has surpassed this time for the pace of innovation. Communications was clearly a key requirement of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safety to the Earth". I'll explore my own personal research of this and some other facets of early networking and in effect the birth of our industry.
15:45 Afternoon Coffee Break
Afternoon Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: The Gallery
16:15 Implementing "safe browsing" cost effectively using open source DNS - bert hubert (PowerDNS)
Implementing "safe browsing" cost effectively using open source DNS (Lightning Talks)
- bert hubert (PowerDNS)
16:15 - 16:30
Room: Charter 1, 2 & 3 Some governments have pressured service providers into providing 'safe browsing'. In other countries, this is being explored as well. DNS has been chosen by a number of subscribers as a cost effective way of supplying such 'safe' browsing. In this presentation, we'll outline how PowerDNS Recursor (open source) hooks can be utilized to implement selective access to DNS either on a per-user or even on a per-device basis.
16:30 Starting a wireless ISP by accident! - Tim Robinson (TxRx Communications Ltd)
Starting a wireless ISP by accident! (Lightning Talks)
- Tim Robinson (TxRx Communications Ltd)
16:30 - 16:45
I had not set out to intentionally become an ISP. I will describe in this presentation the background of how the seed of an idea was planted, how it evolved, and what it has now become.
16:45 Balquhidder Community Broadband Community Interest Company - Richard Harris (Balquhidder Community Broadband CIC) David Johnston (Balquhidder Community Broadband CIC)
Balquhidder Community Broadband Community Interest Company (Main Session)
- Richard Harris (Balquhidder Community Broadband CIC)
- David Johnston (Balquhidder Community Broadband CIC)
16:45 - 17:15
Balquhidder Community Broadband is developing a FTTP-based service to its local community. After campaigning for more than eight years, exclusion from DSSB meant that the community was then able to raise public grant finance to progress its goals of delivering 1 Gbit broadband to each property.
17:15 Delivering Wireless to an Urban environment - How we networked the Tour de France - Jon Holgate (University of Cambridge)
Delivering Wireless to an Urban environment - How we networked the Tour de France (Main Session)
- Jon Holgate (University of Cambridge)
17:15 - 17:45
The University of Cambridge is currently rolling out wireless provision across its many departments and buildings but the estate of the University in Cambridge also extends to the City centre. In partnership with the City Council, and in time for the visit of The Tour de France, the University's Network Division worked against the clock to provide free public wireless in the streets and parks of Cambridge. With the clock counting down to Le Grand Depart from Parkers Piece, it was a race against time to deliver wireless provision to places it's never been before. This presentation is an insight into how working with multiple partners within an urban environment can provide unique challenges and fulfilling rewards.
18:00 Pints n' Packets Networking Event
Pints n' Packets Networking Event
18:00 - 20:00
Room: The Gallery