Conveners
Modern Software for Modern Networks: 4B
- Emma Apted (GÉANT)
Description
Networking technologies have evolved significantly over time and those who manage them are needing to use increasingly more advanced software to do so, requiring a blend of network and software skills. This session will showcase several software options that will be of interest to network operators. Erik will explain how GÉANT has improved its own architecture used to gather various network metrics to help manage their backbone. Yannick will then discuss six open-source network flow collectors which he and his team evaluated. Finally, Scott's talk will show how use of network management plane software has changed recently and how security approaches have had to adapt to keep pace with such change.
GÉANT’s network monitoring software stack has recently undergone a significant redesign to address scaling and operational needs. This presentation introduces the journey toward new data-processing approaches tailored to GÉANT’s environment, the benefits these changes have delivered, choices and compromises involved, and lessons learned along the way. The experience and outcomes shared are...
Network observability is a crucial aspect of operations that is often supported by flow-based traffic monitoring. This presentation provides an evaluation of six actively maintained open-source flow collectors for sFlow and IPFIX data: Akvorado, GoFlow2, IPFIXcol2, nfdump, pmacct, and SiLK. These collectors enable self-sovereign flow collection, as they can be deployed on-premises on modern...
In the past decade, there have been significant changes in how the network management plane is used, with many of these changes challenging long held assumptions around network isolation. There are several reasons for this including configuration automation, instrumentation/telemetry, and more dynamic traffic engineering - all of which are necessary for running a modern network. This talk...
