kentik netflow SaaS

www.kentik.com

kentik is a netflow saas that has some serious clue on board

one founder was a founder of Akamai. CTO built netflix CDN. Staff person I talked to used to work at Arbor, etc.

They built their own dbase modeled on Google dremel. 

They are working closely with Luca Deri and ntop. There is flag to export ntop direct to kentik cloud as part of their demo

They integrate with ddos tools including A10. Their netflow system can automatically detect and alert on ddos and then mitigate via your ddos system

They can provide an on-site server for sites with issues about  moving netflow data offsite. They have https access to their cloud servers

Contacts:
Michael Jacobs, Strategic Accounts,  San Francisco, 408.515.9408
Larry Austin, Strategic Account ext, SF, 408.796.1292

Experiences with network automation at Dyn

At NANOG 63 I talked about Kipper, our network automation project at Dyn, and how it aims to align our network configuration lifecycle with the existing continuous integration model used for servers. Since then we have significantly expanded its coverage, added new features and incorporated other teams in our workflow. In this presentation I will describe the current setup and then talk about our challenges, successes and some of the lessons we have learned along the way.

Post IPv4 Depletion Trends

Hijackers are focusing on networks without an ARIN POC - affects legacy/academic networks according to the presenter:
https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Nobile_Post_Ipv4_Depletion.pdf

Automating Maintenance Notifications

Very interesting system for standardizing and parsing maintenance events and getting the information out to the right people, on the right calendars, etc.

Despite all the recent progress around network automation, there's one aspect of our operations that for many remains stuck in a manual past. Most of us deal with maintenance notifications - both those we get and those we send - by throwing people at the problem.

Thousand Eyes

Was told that Thousand Eyes is opening an Austin office with marketing and possibly some training support.

Need to investigate as a possibility for local training and education on TE, especially for other ITS/IT groups who need to understand how to monitor cloud services.

Contact:
Steve Brown, Senior Solutions Engineer, San Francisco, sbrown@thousandeyes.com, 770.335.0354

Utilizing Kea hook points for modern IP addressing (DHCP)

Kea is a new high performance, open source project for DHCP IPv4 and IPv6 addressing.

"No restart required unless physical interfaces change"

Facebook Kea DHCP servers all answer on one IP address
Facebook proposed using Ke dbase to also store Kea config to provide hitless config with no restart

Measurement based inter-domain traffic engineering

This presentation concentrates on an inter-domain traffic engineering scenario for multi-homed stub ASes.