UKNOF39 (London)

Wednesday 17 Jan 2018, 09:00 → 20:00 Europe/London

Broadgate 1 & 2 (etc Venues Bishopsgate)

Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

The UK Network Operators' Forum is returning to London for UKNOF39 on Wednesday 17th January!

UKNOF events offer an OPEN environment for anyone within or interested in the Internet Industry. Network with industry colleagues, participate in knowledge sharing and freshen up on best practice around network operations and security.

For more information about UKNOF itself, please visit our primary site.

Social Media hashtag: #UKNOF39

We are thankful to sponsors for supporting UKNOF, enabling us to keep attendance at UKNOF meetings mainly free.

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Registration: Now closed

Call for Presentations: Now closed

Webcast: http://uknof.bogons.net/uknof39.html (live on 17 January)

IRC Chatroom: #uknof@irc.terahertz.net

Twitter hashtag: #UKNOF39

Volunteers: We always appreciate volunteer help in setting up and running UKNOF events. If you're interested in helping at UKNOF39, please indicate this on the registration form. Our helpers always make a big difference.

Sponsors: We have the following sponsor opportunities for UKNOF39 and 2018:

• Meeting Sponsorships
• UKNOF Social / Pints n' Promos Sponsorships
• Individual and Organisation Patron Sponsorships for 2018

Further details in our Call for Sponsors page. We are grateful to our sponsors, enabling us to keep attendance at the meeting mainly free.

If you are interested in supporting UKNOF, please contact us on admin@uknof.org.uk

Timetable Timetable.xlsx

09:00 Registration

1 Introduction and Welcome

Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

Slides Information.odp Information.pdf

2 Positioning Sky Core network for massive VOD growth

Sky Broadband is at the leading edge in deploying new network implementations and router products to handle huge growth in broadband traffic and subscriber numbers. This presentation describes network growth and evolution through four generations of router technology as subscriber numbers have grown to 6 million and total traffic from 40 Gbit/s to 8000 Gbit/s. It describes the multiple hardware and architectural solutions used, transition process and experience gained. Topics include: • Early deployment of Cisco NCS5516 routers to provide an order of magnitude increase in routing capacity. • Extensive programme to bring CDN on-net and to localise where possible in order to minimise peering and transmission costs. • Adoption of latest 100G optical transmission and interface standards to maximise fibre efficiency and reduce cost. • Planning and Forecasting Process • Rollout of Ipv6 to all subscribers to position Sky network for future growth

Speaker: Mr Tim Rossiter (Sky Networks)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/RZo1RxtpD5s

Slides 17_004_uknof_sky_core_network_final_180116.pdf 17_004_uknof_sky_core_network_final_180116.pptx

3 Commodity Networks

The high capacity, reliable and redundant Facebook datacenter networks are built using a CLOS topology. We often talk about how these topologies scale up to build massive server networks. This talk describes how these same topologies can be scaled down to meet the needs of a small to medium sized network using industry standard vendor provided switches.

Speaker: Louis Plissonneau (Facebook)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/dbwdeusZG1M

Slides CommodityNetworks_louisp.pdf

4 Defending IoT Pulse Wave DDoS Attacks

The sophistication with which cybercriminals are creating IoT botnets continues to increase, as does the type of attacks they are launching with them – the latest innovation sees destination modulation being used to deliver attacks which are effective at doing harm even when conventional DDoS protection is in place. Understand why this new vector requires an always-on approach to DDoS mitigation.

Speaker: Mr Sean Newman (Sponsor)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/8--Qqi6MvL8

Slides 04_Corero_UKNOF39_-_Pulsed_DDoS_Attacks_4x3_final.pptx

11:15 Morning Coffee Break

5 Engineered Chaos: Breaking Prod and Getting Away With It

A talk around chaos engineering and how we do this at SBG

Speaker: Mr Oliver Leaver-Smith (None)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/pew9LTfxMaw

Slides Engineered_Chaos_OLS.pdf

6 Open Source Network Performance and Validation Testing

Most networks are built from closed source proprietary solutions and tested with black box testers. Many of operators suffer from limitations regarding feature requests/security fixes/bug fixes/interop issues/undocumented behaviour or troubleshooting methods. Various open source software solutions exist for Linux, which provide the facilities to test a range of generic network devices. Descriptions, comparisons, use cases and real world results are provided for some of the different software tools available; to show how they can be used to profile and verify network devices and functions at layers 2/2.5 (Ethernet/MPLS) in detail. These can help operators better test vendor claims, validate RFPs and catch issues before the equipment is deployed into the live network.

Speaker: Mr James Bensley (None)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/W21CsNkR0YA

Slides

• UKNOF39_-_James_Bensley_4-3.pdf
• UKNOF39_-_James_Bensley_4-3.pptx
• UKNOF39_-_James_Bensley.pdf
• UKNOF39_-_James_Bensley.pptx

7 The Challenges of DNS Resolution in China

Speaker: Tim Hale (ThousandEyes)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/eF3hNcndBRo

Slides ThousandEyes-DNS_Resolution_in_China_4x3v1.pdf ThousandEyes-DNS_Resolution_in_China_4x3v1.ppt

12:40 Lunch Break

8 PGP Signing Session

notes

• PGP Keyring
• PGP Keyring v2
• PGP Signing Sheet

Slides PGP Signing Sheet v2

9 The UK’s Active Cyber Defence agenda: One year on

At UKNOF 35, the National Cyber Security Centre shared its plans to address systemic cyber security issues at scale through its Active Cyber Defence programme. Just over a year on, we’ve learned and achieved a lot. This talk will provide an update on our progress so far.

Speaker: Mr Richard Crowther (NCSC)

10 Using a DNS Response Policy Zone to protect against malware

A Response Policy Zone (RPZ) allows operators of recursive DNS systems to apply conditional policies on incoming queries. This talk will discuss the use of the RPZ technology, some implementation details, and how the RPZ may affect the profile/monitoring of DNS traffic across a system.

Speaker: Mr James Richards (Nominet)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/2FKZf40CH_U

Slides UKNoF39_James_Richards.pdf

11 The Investigatory Powers Act 2016

The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 is the biggest change to the UK's surveillance law framework in 15 years. Neil will explain the changes, and set out the current position in terms of obligations which can be imposed on telecommunications operators.

Speaker: Neil Brown (decoded:Legal)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/e_sQciCh_0U

Slides 20180110_UKNOF_IP_Act_Neil_Brown.key 20180110_UKNOF_IP_Act_Neil_Brown.pdf

15:30 Afternoon Coffee Break

12 Microsoft IT Journey to IPv6

This presentation will cover the journey that Networking team in Microsoft IT took from IPv4-only to Dual-Stack network. However, the team is not stopping there as Dual-Stack is IPv6 half-done. The team aims to go IPv6-Only and I will share some details of our experience so far and what future may hold for any user of Microsoft products.

Speaker: Mrs Veronika McKillop (Microsoft)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/iFvaqpW4vLA

Slides MicrosoftIT_IPv6_UKNOF39_Jan2018_VMcKillop.pdf MicrosoftIT_IPv6_UKNOF39_Jan2018_VMcKillop.pptx

13 IPv6 Deployment Survey and BCOP

This presentation will introduce the results of the Global IPv6 Deployment Survey started about 2 years before the event is taking place.

Speaker: Mr Jordi Palet Martinez (The IPv6 Company)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/I3m8-6EnUOg

Slides bcop-ipv6-prefix-v9.pdf

14 UKWISPA Intro Talk

An Introduction to UKWISPA from the Chair of the Group. Showing what the group is doing and what the goals are.

Speaker: Mr David Burns (UKWISPA)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/3Y_HnrEeY6k

Slides

• UK-WISPA-4_3.pptx
• UK-WISPA_Lightning_Presentation_for_UKNOF_January_2018.pdf
• UK-WISPA_Lightning_Presentation_for_UKNOF_January_2018.pptx

15 What’s five nines anyway? - Building Temporary Networks

An insight into building and running a 5000+ port, 5Gb/s+ network in 1.5 days, then tearing it down again 4 days later. The talk will cover the challenges in running a show of this size and some funny learnings, moments and problems along the way!

Speaker: Mr Thomas Penrose (Attendee)

Presentation Video https://youtu.be/cQKp-kCtsK4

Slides Whats-Five-Nines-Anyway-UKNOF.pdf Whats-Five-Nines-Anyway-UKNOF.pptx

16 Wrap-up

Please complete your surveys ! http://uknof.uk/survey39

Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

Slides Wrap-up

18:00 Pints n' Packets