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Thursday 15 Apr 2021, 10:45 → 17:05 Europe/London

Cathy Almond (Internet Systems Consortium), Chris Russell (UKNOF), Fearghas McKay (Flexoptix // UKNOF), Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

The UK Network Operators' Forum is currently only running online meetings.

UKNOF47 will take place on on 15 April followed by a BYO Pints n' Packets social event.

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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.

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10:45 Webinar room opens - while waiting, grab a drink and mingle with your peers in the ~UKNOF channel at https://chat.uknof.org.uk

UKNOF47: Session 1

1 Welcome

Speaker: Mr Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

Information.odp

UKNOF47 Information and Welcome

2 Building the UK's 5th MNO and trying to fix rural mobile coverage

Telet is the UK's fifth GMSA Full Operator Member.

Frustrated with poor mobile coverage in the Chalke Valley, nr Sailsbury (in an area of outstanding natural beauty), James Body decided to build his own mobile network using small cells mounted on thatched roofs and the village hall.

Last year we were succesful in winnning a DCMS Rural Connected Communities grant, and we're also now running 5G core networks for 3 other DCMS 5G Create Projects.

We will look at the different challenges in building your own mobile network and how the Multi Operator Neutral Host solution can help others in rural locations.

Speakers: Peter Gradwell (Telet Research (N.I) Limited), Mr James Body (Telet Research (NI) Limited)

Telet UKNOF April 2021.pdf

Telet UKNOF April 2021.pptx

11:40 20 minutes break

UKNOF47: Session 2

3 RARE Router for Academia Research & Education

RARE (Router for Academia, Research, and Education) is an effort under the GEANT 3rd program where is focused on determining if a routing software platform solution can fit research and education use-case purposes. The project integrates different pieces of software separated into the following building blocks:
(i) control plane: it uses FreeRouter under the hood;
(ii) data plane: P4 is used to describe the behavioural model; and
(iii) communication interface between control and data planes: an interface compliant to P4Runtime specification.
The project deployed a P4 Lab distributed among various European countries. The testbed comprises Intel/Barefoot Tofino WEDGE100BF32X and APS2556X-1T switches powered by the TOFINO Network Processor Unit (NPU). They are geographically currently spread through the following locations: Amsterdam (AMS), Frankfurt (FRA), Poznan (POZ), Budapest (BUD), Paris (PAR), Geneva (GVA), Murcia (UMU), Bilbao (UPV/EHU) . Additional expansion location are planned in the US, Latin America.
The session presents an overall description of the project, the key technology opportunity for organisation powered by a DYI DNA and the major milestones achieved since the beginning of the project in January 2019.

Speaker: Frederic LOUI (RENATER)

GN4-3-WP6-T1-UKNOF-20210417.pdf

4 Seamless Segment Routing

In order to operate networks with large numbers of devices, network
operators organize networks into multiple smaller network domains.
Each network domain typically runs an IGP which has complete
visibility within its own domain, but limited visibility outside of
its domain. Seamless Segment Routing (Seamless SR) provides
flexible, scalable and reliable end-to-end connectivity for services
across independent network domains. Seamless SR accommodates domains
using SR, LDP, and RSVP for MPLS label distribution as well as
domains running IP without MPLS (IP-Fabric).

Speaker: Shraddha Hegde (Juniper Networks)

Seamless SR Architecture-Shraddha-uknof47.pdf

Seamless SR Architecture-Shraddha-uknof47.pptx

Seamless SR Architecture-Shraddha-uknof47.pptx

13:00 1 hour break - Have a natter in our social room!

Have a natter in our social room!

UKNOF47: Session 3

5 An overview of NimbusTM: Team Cymru’s no-cost community-focus threat detection platform

An overview of Nimbus Threat Monitor - Team Cymru’s community-sourced threat detection solution - how it works and how the UKNOF community can participate at no-cost.

Speaker: Brian Davenport

NimbusTM Presentation.pdf

NimbusTM Presentation.pptx

6 Observing your MANRS for a more secure Internet

The global routing system of the Internet – based on BGP - is inherently insecure and is increasingly under attack from activists and criminals who see the opportunity to steal data and cause disruption. State-level actors are also manipulating the routing system to impose censorship, undertake espionage and/or conduct cyber warfare.

The Mutually Assured Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) is an industry-supported initiative that builds on well-established best practices by bringing together actions that can address most common threats in the global routing system. In conjunction with this, the MANRS Observatory is a tool that has been developed to track and analyse routing incidents, to measure how conformant networks are with these actions, and to provide an overview of the state of global routing security over time. This data can be displayed by individual network, region, country/economy, and by user-defined group such as customer cone or CSIRT constituency etc..

Speaker: Mr Kevin Meynell (Internet Society)

MANRS (UKNOF 47).pdf

MANRS (UKNOG 47).pptx

14:45 15 minutes break

UKNOF47: Session 4

7 Are You XDPerienced?: More tinkering with DNS and XDP

The eXpress Data Path (XDP) is a "hook" in the Linux kernel providing programmability at the lowest layer of the Network Stack (at the device driver layer) and can even be hardware offloaded to programmable devices (e.g. SmartNICs). XDP provides an easy way to perform some parts of DNS handling in the kernel but still have traditional userspace software 'after' that. XDP does not have to replace DNS software in userspace, it can augment it.

With this presentation you will experience how DNS can benefit from XDP with hands-on examples of directly usable running code. We will show how operators can use XDP programs to deal with Denial of Service attacks and otherwise tweak their DNS service behaviour.

Speakers: Willem Toorop (NLnet Labs), Tom Carpay (NLnet Labs)

Are You XDPerienced?: More tinkering with DNS and XDP

Are You XDPerienced__ More tinkering with DNS and XDP.pdf

8 DARK HALO – How a new class of cloud cyber-attacks are reshaping security

Aaron Turner – CEO and Founder of Siriux will talk about the new range of cloud cyber attacks.

Speakers: Aaron Turner (Siriux), Aaron Turner

turner.dark_halo.secrutiny_march_2021.pdf

turner.dark_halo.uknof_april_2021.final_pub.pptx

9 Wrap Up

Speaker: Keith Mitchell (UKNOF)

Wrap-up Information

16:05 BYO Pints n' Packets - Stay for a natter after the great talks!