Speakers

Anup Changaroth,
Senior Director,
CTO Office and Business Development & Solutions

Ciena

Anup Changaroth is Senior Director, CTO Office and Business Development & Solutions for Ciena in Asia/Pacific. He is responsible for building new business across Asia Pacific, as well as leading the regional Product Line Management teams for both hardware and software solutions, and Engineering Operations. Prior to the current role, Anup was Ciena’s Asia Pacific Marketing prime responsible for both product portfolio marketing, as well analyst & media engagements. He has been involved in the communications field for over 25 years, since designing and building his own V.23 modem in the late ‘80s as a student. Changaroth holds an Honours Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the City University, London; Marketing Management Diploma from Columbia University, USA; as well as a Diploma in Electronics Engineering from the Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He is an active industry participant, holding voting membership positions at the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Audio Engineering Society.

The submarine network game and the implications of Shannon’s limit

Contrary to popular belief, satellites account for a miniscule part of keeping the world connected. Submarine networks do the heavy lifting – all from the depths of the ocean floors and carry over 95% of the world’s intercontinental communications traffic. In this session, we give an overview of how subsea cables work and the current state of the global submarine network. We will also discuss the implications of Shannon’s Limit, which gives the theoretical channel capacity for a communications link on our subsea networks.

Mark Lee,
Senior Systems Engineer

Arista Networks

Mark is Senior Systems Engineer, South East Asia, at Arista. He champions the technologies and solutions of Arista’s products and EOS software across the region. Prior to joining Arista, Mark was Senior Product Manager, Asia Pacific, at Brocade where he focused on evangelising Brocade’s vision and architectures for Campus and Data Centre products. Before this he was Technical Consultant, South East Asia, for Brocade’s Service Provider business. Mark has also worked for Juniper Networks, Avaya and 3Com in various technical roles, providing enterprise and service provider customers his pre-sales technical expertise in networking, security, unified communications, and application delivery.

Service Provider routing innovation with Segment Routing, VXLAN and EVPN

This presentation will detail some examples of how service providers are applying cloud networking principles to transform their edge, core and data centre domains, with a particular focus on MPLS Segment Routing and VXLAN as the transport architecture. These transports, combined with BGP communities and multi-protocol address family extensions, allow providers to realise a highly scalable, resilient and extensible network architecture.

Ma Shaowen
Product Director
APAC Product and Solution

Juniper Networks

Shaowen Ma is a Product Director at Juniper Networks where he leads the APAC Products & Solutions team for all major APAC customers–service providers, OTTs and enterprise customers. His recent focus is on SPDC, MSDC, OTT network architecture, and also technologies such as BGP/segment routing/EVPN/VXLAN/SDN/NFV.

Routing to SDN era

Shaowen will discuss the evolution of network routing from traditional IGP to the current software-defined networks (SDN).

The presentation begins with the evolution of routing protocols from traditional IGP to Google Firepath. He will then introduce two modern open-source routing protocols–Facebook’s Open/R and RIFT (Routing in Fat Trees)–describing the protocols’ architecture, key components and technologies.

The presentation ends with an introduction to the modern SDN controller.

Eric Leung,
Senior Network Architect

Akamai Technologies

Eric is a Senior Network Architect at Akamai Technologies where he is responsible for the network design and planning of Akamai’s CDN nodes in Asia. Prior to Akamai, Eric has worked for 10 years as a Solutions Consultant in a number of global carriers.

The OTT Challenge

Over the Top (OTT) video continues to be the primary driver of growth in Internet traffic volume. As delivery of video through OTTs become ubiquitous, end user, content owner and broadcaster expectations of service delivery grow as traffic increase. We will discuss these growing expectations, the traffic trends of OTTs and how they impact ISP traffic profiles, the challenges Akamai face and some of the approaches being taken to address them.

Tom Paseka,
Network Engineer

CloudFlare

Tom is a Network Engineer at CloudFlare, based in San Francisco, California. Tom’s role is looking after CloudFlare’s global Anycast network as well as expanding it, ensuring best performance globally. The role also extends to making the Internet better, by giving hundreds of thousands of websites performance equivalent to the Internet Giants. Starting work in Australia, Tom has been involved in Asia Pacific Internet over the past 8 years working for a number of ISPs and Carriers throughout the region–in Hong Kong and Australia.

Internet noise (a story about two little subnets)

Cloudflare recently launched a public DNS resolver service on 1.1.1.1 and using two subnets, 1.0.0.1/24 and 1.1.1.1/24.

These IP addresses are common place for abuse and unwanted traffic. This talk will go into some of the details about the traffic and what we have seen since launching.

CF Chui,
Solutions Architect

Arbor Networks

With more than 20 years of experience in the networking industry, CF is a veteran in designing, implementing, and supporting highly available network systems and solutions. In his current role with Arbor Networks–apart from being actively involved in the global research projects–CF works closely with customers in the Asia Pacific region to develop and optimise approaches for their network security solution to ensure optimal deployment and customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Arbor Networks, CF held different regional positions in pre- and post-sales roles for various large core routing and switching vendors. His expertise lies mainly in the areas of Internet routing technology, network threat detection and network visibility solutions.

Surviving the inside DDoS attack

IoT botnet has generated a lot of attention in 2017 because of the high volume DDoS attacks originated from these IoT bots. In late 2017, researchers have also seen a variant of Mirai IoT bot which could possibly impact Windows devices.

In this presentation, we will examine this ‘evolution’ of the Mirai IoT malware, and the possible consequences it could bring to the DDoS threat.

Eugene Teo,
Director, Security

Ultimate Software

Eugene Teo is a director of security at Ultimate Software where he established their first Asia Pacific office from the ground up. He is heading the global SOC and a Singapore-based security data science team. Before joining this company, Eugene led the launch of Symantec’s Security Response Center in Singapore in which, he created a regional multi-functional security team, focusing on attack investigations. Eugene is best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel. He was with Red Hat’s product security team. He was also a security officer of the upstream Linux kernel security team. Eugene has a keen interest in applying visualisation and machine learning techniques to address computer security problems.

Catching bad guys with machine learning

Organisations today are starting to explore using machine learning to discover patterns and anomalies. By doing so, they may derive security insights that may help them uncover malicious activities in their environment. In this talk, Eugene will discuss how we can apply machine learning to catch bad guys, and what we should take note of when building models.

Cheng Che-Hoo, Infrastructure & Development Director

APNIC

Che-Hoo joined APNIC in April 2017. His current responsibilities at APNIC include training, technical assistance, security outreach, infrastructure services and technical community support. Before APNIC, Che-Hoo was in charge of the Hong Kong Internet eXchange (HKIX) and the university IT infrastructure at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Che-Hoo has accumulated over 30 years of experience and knowledge of Internet and IT infrastructure and human connections through services for APNIC Executive Council, .ASIA TLD (Top Level Domain) application and .ASIA Board, Level 3 Asia, FLAG Telecom Asia, APIX, .HK, Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNET), HKISPA, ISOC-HK, HKNOG, APRICOT-APAN 2011 in Hong Kong and APAN 42 in Hong Kong.

Stories of IXP Development and the way forward

IXP (Internet eXchange Point) is always a hot topic in the Internet community and in a lot of cases, it is political too, especially during the early stages of development of a new one. In this talk, the speaker will share his knowledge, experience and observations from setting up and operating an IXP and also from helping others set up theirs. IXPs continue to face a lot of challenges and difficulties even after a critical mass is seemingly reached. He will also share his views about the way forward for IXPs.

Walt Wollny,
Director, Interconnection Strategy

Hurricane Electric

Walt Wollny is the Director of Interconnection Strategy, supporting Hurricane Electric’s global network reach to over 45 countries and over 180 Internet Exchanges. Focus on global connectivity and new markets, Walt has been working in the in the Internet industry for over 20 years. Before Hurricane Electric, Walt was an IP Business Development Manager at Amazon supporting over 64 new CDN builds including new markets including Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Philippines and Australia.

The Hurricane Electric Toolkit, BGP.HE.NET

Walt will present the Hurricane Electric toolkit, BGP.HE.NET.

http://BGP.HE.NET allows you to see network relationships with transit providers, peers and the routes networks take to reach the world. This will be a comprehensive overview of the features available within the toolkit as well a live demonstration. Hurricane Electric has released many new components in the past year that will also be reviewed.

Robin Kong, (left)
Edge Strategy Manager

Willy Sutrisno (right)
Network Delivery Manager

Facebook

Robin and Willy work in the Facebook’s Hong Kong office. Their primary role is to expand Facebook’s edge network footprint in the Asia Pacific. Both Robin and Willy have been working in the internet industry for more than 10 years. Robin currently serves as the board member of Peering Asia and HKNOG while Willy is the founder of IDNOG and remains as a committee member.

Hong Kong peering scene and network infrastructure

Mark Chen
Network Planning Manager

MyRepublic

Mark is the Network Planning Manager of MyRepublic Ltd. He is responsible for network operations, deployment and expansion for MyRepublic Ltd in Singapore and the interconnection strategy and procurement for the MyRepublic Group.

BGP – RFCs and quality of network improvements

BGP is one of the most basic and widely used protocols today to send traffic around the world. Operators have found ways to use to reduce subscriber impacts during DDoS and maintenance. We will take a look at the recent RFC and BCPs established.

Vincent Boon
Sales Engineer

Opengear

Vincent Boon has over 25 years of experience in the IT and networking industry, working with enterprise and data center customers within APJC. For the past 15 years, his focus has been in DCIM, Access and Power Solutions working with clients such as OCBC, Smart Nation and AXA Technology Services. Technology has always been a keen interest of Vincent’s and his previous roles within technology companies have involved him working closely with engineering teams in providing productive solutions to customers. He joined Opengear at the beginning of 2018 and brings his expertise to assist customers on next generation intelligent solutions for managing critical IT and communications infrastructure.

Choosing an orchestration tool: Ansible and Salt

As organisations move toward standardising the tools used in network orchestration, two names stand out: Ansible and Salt.

Both projects started out as remote execution engines written in Python and have evolved into fully featured automation and orchestration systems. Through their use of the NAPALM library, both have strong support for configuration management and monitoring of network devices.

This talk focuses on configuration management and monitoring of network devices. The author will discuss the design and concepts of Ansible and Salt—what you get for free v what you pay for—and step through some common day-to-day provisioning and maintenance use-cases using each of these tools.

Network administrators will find this talk useful in deciding which tool is more appropriate for use in their network.

Nguyen Huu Bach
Senior IP Engineer

NTT Communications

Nguyen Huu Bach joined NTT Communications in 2005 after graduating from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He serves as an Senior IP Engineer in the Network Service Department at NTT Communications. His experience include operating and designing the backbone network of AS2914’s Asian POPs, and developing network operating systems and other network services such as traffic monitoring, DPI and DDoS protection for both AS2914 and AS4713.

RENAT, A network testing automation framework

Network Automation is difficult for us for long time.
Our service has lots of equipments, lots of kinds and varieties.
We will talk about our network and our problems which should be solved.
I picked up one sample for “Network Automation”.
I will talk about what changed when we used this Automation.

Ong Beng Hui
OTT Architect

Mediacorp

Beng Hui is the Lead for OTT Architecture in Mediacorp. Prior to Mediacorp, he was the solutions engineer for Comcast Technology Solutions and was responsible for OTT solution and deployment for media companies such as Astro and Fox. His experience include IPTV/OTT solution and deployment, Cable Technology & ISP/IXP network design.

Experience over Football streaming

The general outline is
1) General streaming architecture
2) Concern and raise awareness over Singapore internet infrastructure.
3) Increase in bandwidth for HD/UHD over time
4) Education of end user problem

Jose Leitao
Network Engineer

Facebook

Jose Leitao is a production neteng in the Network Infrastructure Engineering team at Facebook. His team responsibilities include maintaining, monitoring, and improving the global production network infrastructure.

Daniel Rodriguez
Network Engineer

Facebook

Daniel is a Network Engineer at Facebook and works in the Network Infrastructure team that takes care of building services and automation that keeps the network running and healthy.

Daniel serves previously as CEO of a startup that provides training in various networking certifications, automation and systems administration.

Building your own version of NetNorad using open source tools

NetNorad is Facebook’s system for automation end to end fault detection using active probing [1]. It follows a simple principle of having pingers on the network with responders on hosts, storing the response, analyzing the data and then providing a source for alarms to operations.

Using OpenSource tools, including UdpPinger (a high performance UDP packet generation, reflection and collection library [2]), we will show how almost anyone can build a solution similar to Facebook’s NetNorad using Docker / InfluxDB and a few Python Scripts.

We will show during the presentation how to build this system on a mock network from start to finish, introducing packet loss and showing how the probe information can be sliced / visualised using Chronograf.

[1] RIPE 75 OpenNetNorad presentation: https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/99/

[2] https://github.com/facebook/UdpPinger