Re: [nznog] Best local presentation at NZNOG2013 at APRICOT

Awesome Donald. I was proud of all the Kiwi representation at the conference. Jon's paper was great as well and I'm sure garnered some interest. The Aussies were essentially absent. What's happening? jamie On 4 March 2013 11:22, Donald Love wrote:

Many thanks to NZNOG and all those who supported my attendance. It was an amazing experience with a very wide range of delegates, a number who had travelled further than us from NZ. Many presentations and tutorials available at http://www.apricot2013.net/program . Videos are available for the conference presentations with an index at http://www.apricot2013.net/remote#schedule .

The good IPv6 tutorials from Philip Smith such as http://www.apricot2013.net/program/ipv6-deployment-planning have been around for a while and he clarified that support in home routers was now better (i.e. some slide updates given verbally but slides not yet updated). I found IETF TRILL (http://www.apricot2013.net/program/the-ietf-trill-protocol) interesting but despite plug-fests now three years old there was doubt raised by an attendee about vendor interop - still had some good warnings about STP (and TRILL was compared to SPB 802.1AQ) and highlighted the need for Ethernet multicast transparency in networks (allocated destination MAC just outside IEEE reserved bridge range).

My UFB topic was appropriate for a Singapore based conference with their OpenNet initiative nearly complete. The "NetCo" does passive infrastructure and the "OpCo" manages active with the RSPs buying from the OpCo. OpenNet contacts home owners when first going into an area and at that time the first 15 metres is free. Beyond 15 metres, or if you decline the initial offer, there are costs. Speeds are higher than in NZ with 150 Mbps and 300 Mbps plans being promoted and up to 1 Gbps offered. Prices seem low (e.g. cheap Singtel 300 Mbps S$80 per month or $0.27 per Mbps) - see http://www.ida.gov.sg/applications/rbs/chart.html

I understand there are no data caps with an ad in the Saturday paper stating "average peak" download speeds from the US (ping times probably higher than from NZ) of 40-45 Mbps (depending on RSP) with "an assured speed of 15 Mbps during peak hours". The IDA separates out the throughput stats from US at the URL above by clicking on the download tab and drilling into monthly report to get hourly stats (e.g. 100M plan, peak hour 50 Mbps to US West, 15 Mbps to US East).

The IDA has an "iExperience" shop in Esplanade Xchange (found by chance on Saturday)

http://www.ida.gov.sg/Infocomm%20Landscape/Infrastructure/Wired/Infocomm%20E xperience%20Centre which showcases the equipment used and applications. It seems useful to explain the different boxes and where different cables go (e.g. includes cable TV and POTS sockets with cables people can try - certainly helps explain where a RJ45 can and can't go!). High definition video, both IPTV and interactive, shown. I was the only one in this large shop for an extended period.

I really appreciate the friendly open nature of this community. Keep it up.

Regards, Donald

-----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Dean Pemberton Sent: 6 February 2013 11:36 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Best local presentation at NZNOG2013 at APRICOT

Congrats Donald!!!!!

We'll make sure that you have a great time in Singapore and meet lots of interesting people from the wider AsiaPac networking community.

The trustees would like to be able to do something like this every year. We're paying for Donald's flights and accommodation to the APRICOT conference, but the one thing we couldn't do was guarantee that he would be on the program. The strength of his presentation impressed the APRICOT program committee so WELL DONE.

The APRICOT conference next year is in Bangkok. If you've ever wanted to go, then there will probably be another free trip up for grabs. All you have to do is something interesting between now and the next NZNOG conference, present on it, and impress a panel of secret judges =)

Once again congrats Donald.

Regards, Dean

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Gerard Creamer wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I'm really pleased to be able to announce that Donald Love's presentation on UFB Realities, which was selected as the best local presentation at NZNOG 2013, has been accepted by the programme committee for the upcoming APRICOT conference in Singapore. This means that Donald will be presenting his paper in front of our regional

peers, which is really cool.

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You can see his paper listed here: http://www.apricot2013.net/program/internet-technologies-2

This is a real testament to the high quality of the local material we saw at NZNOG this year and that's all thanks to all of you for continuing to explore interesting things and being prepared to pull together your findings and present them to the rest of us. So thanks.

If you have something technically interesting worth sharing start planning your submission for NZNOG 2014 now :^) NZNOG 2014 will be held January 27-31 2014 in Nelson, New Zealand, and a Call for Papers will be issued to this list later in the year.

Speaker slides from this year are still to be posted, sorry for the delay with this. And thanks for all the feedback on and off list about the website - we're on it and hope to get it all sorted soon.

Cheers, Gerard

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