starting from tomorrow, we’re launching another edition of PLNOG conference. as usually, I’d like to invite you to join us. I’ll be delivering session about Segment Routing with Piotr Jabłoński during second day of the conference, at 4:15pm. as Segment Routing was already covered couple of times, we’ll focus on practical deployment guide in existing networks. I’ll be also demoing some of the aspects we’ll cover live during the session. see you virtually there! ...
for the first time in a few years I took three weeks of vacation. …and this is starting to catch up with me :) i took few books with myself, but only some of them are worth mentioning - like ‘Hit refresh’ by Satya Nadella (though I have not read it yet) and ‘Now. The physics of time’ - I am in the process and it is fascinating to read. the remaining two positions will remain in the shadow of oblivion. ...
plnog, plnog and… it’s gone. twentieth edition - how the time flies… from the beginning we knew it may be hard, but we can make it. ’let’s target 60 people!’ was the second decision after we agreed to ‘do this’ and create PLNOG. 124 of you showed up. i don’t really remember all of the things that happened that day. and that was only 10 years ago! i remember only the fact, that we couldn’t fit you in one of the Cracows Wawel room that Andrzejs team was able to secure for this experiment. i remember i was worried that ‘people won’t come back’ after this, and Andrew was calming me down - as he usually does. ...
after being absent on three PLNOG editions, i finally made it to the conference and to agenda. my presentation slides are here. i tried to cover everything important from networking perspective starting from IMP and ending on NPU, reprogrammable ASICs and what’s lurking in the future. of course if you’ll vote by your surveys, i hope to get back to delivering presentations. what’s interesting is that Krzysztof Kania also picked up architectural topics in his article about first routers - go read! ...
…and that’s good thing. with only two weeks to seventeed edition of PLNOGa we have bunch of interesting news. conference, that we started by discussing BGP, MPLS-TE and RSVP and role of 10GE interfaces (we’re in Europe and that was 2009!), today focuses on deploying SDN, and influence of IoT to service provider networks. we’re also discussing public cloud, hybrid cloud, software defined data centers (SDDC) and consequences of proliferation of overlay networks. our beloved MPLS OAM discussions slowly drop from spotlight in agenda - because again, world is changing. ...
I was taking part of PLNOG for the last two days. i didn’t have opportunity to take part of the last edition and it’s a shame - we created this conference with Andrzej Targosz. a lot changed during last couple of years. but what was always key of the whole PLNOG - community - is only developing. i’m not about the direction, but the sole fact we have a lot of discussions about direction gives hope. ...
as you probably know already, next, jubilee edition of PLNOG is just around the corner. apart from stand and presentations, we’re be there with extended team to discuss our new products and solutions. and traditionally, we’ll also conduct couple of workshops for people interested in Cisco solutions: Advanced BGP workshops Deploying IPv6 MPLS basics one novelty we’ll offer is first of a kind offering in Poland - service provider design workshop. we’ll deliver it together with Piotr Jabłoński, experienced Cisco Advanced Services consultant. given you’ll be there for PLNOG - it’s good opportunity to get some additional perspective on technologies and discuss your experiences as well. we’ll go way above just delivering slides or implementing configurations - sharing with you real-life experiences from projects in Poland and abroad. ...
seventh edition of PLNOG just finished, but what’s more - we just did deliver also first edition of new project - EURONOG. during last three days we’ve had a lot of presentations, discussions, Q&A sessions and discussion panels. see you during next conferences!
“Cisco eats in own dog food” or as you may elite-write-it: c15c0 d06 f00d. we announced participation in ISOC IPv6 day as a first vendor. some parts of our infrastructure serve IPv6 natively, but that’s a great opportunity to test it at scale - including hardware and software for systems that’s used for our internal and Customer services. among other things we’re testing AnyConnect 3.0 with native IPv6 support (public version is going to be available in couple of months), ACE 3.0 service cards for load-balancing, and firewall systems (ASA-SM service cards and ASA 5585-X). ...
i’d like to thank everyone that was part of last PLNOG edition. we introduced education track - that was your idea, voiced in chats and in surveys. it seems that the idea was right, so on september PLNOG edition we’ll continue with MPLS and QoS. also according to announcements, we did joint session with Rafał about architecture of ethernet switches and IP routers. i hope you liked it. we still miss real life use case sessions provided by you - service providers. we’ll gladly make room for both success stories as well as failure talks - everything that can be useful for others. ...