network engineer

Some boring network engineering interview questions and how to replace them with smarter ones

Some boring network engineering interview questions and how to replace them with smarter ones

March 4, 2020

ABSTRACT In this 30-minute session we will be reviewing the top 5 banal network engineering interview questions that are most commonly asked but yield little resul …
Automating "Network Ready for Use" Testing

Automating "Network Ready for Use" Testing

March 3, 2020

Automating Network Ready for Use Testing This tutorial will showcase an approach using the pytest open-source tool to validate operational states of the networ …
Getting Started with Modern Time Series Database and Grafana

Getting Started with Modern Time Series Database and Grafana

March 3, 2020

== Intro == Telemetry / Monitoring, also known as Observability, as been a hot topic in the software industry for few years. With so many moving pieces, the mindse …
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical

March 2, 2020

This popular tutorial tailored for Network Engineers has been updated to cover the latest technologies. …
NetDevOps or CI/CD for Networks: Myth or reality

NetDevOps or CI/CD for Networks: Myth or reality

February 29, 2020

As network engineers, its almost impossible to avoid the CI/CD/NetDevOps hype-cycle. In this talk we explore how much of this is a myth, versus the ground reality …
Building an ISP in a box

Building an ISP in a box

February 28, 2020

Althea (althea.org) which is an open source 'distributed isp' or 'isp in a box', as such we perform traffic shaping, routing, encryption, and billing entirely on h …
Demystifying IPv6 over MPLS: Tackling the challenge of connecting IPv6 islands

Demystifying IPv6 over MPLS: Tackling the challenge of connecting IPv6 islands

February 27, 2020

In this 90-minute session we will be tackling a major issue and it is NOT yet-another IPv6 exhaustion case. We understand making every single router dual stack is …
Re-Defining Core and Access: A New, Two-Tier Network Model

Re-Defining Core and Access: A New, Two-Tier Network Model

February 23, 2020

In the past, when we designed, built, and operated networks as a collection of devices (routers, switches, and firewalls) we defined our network architecture in te …
DevOps for Network Engineering: Be the Cool NetDevOps Kid

DevOps for Network Engineering: Be the Cool NetDevOps Kid

January 15, 2020

DevOps principles are not exclusive to software development. We can apply many of its concepts to other environments, like network configuration management. Based on the idea of treating configuration …