Here's a few final pieces of information for those attending UKNOF25:
We have a packed agenda for tomorrow, and I'm excited about the large
number of high quality talks we have lined up. In the morning our major
theme is about new wireless technology, with our Platinum sponsor
talking about LTE deployment in practice, followed by updates on UK
wireless spectrum and whitespace networks.
Following recent events in the "SpamHaus vs StopHaus" DDoS wars, there's
a highly topical talk on the importance of BCP38 IP filtering deployment.
In the afternoon, we're looking at new developments in fibre, including
urban and rural local loops, and an update from Greg Hankins of Brocade
on 100Gb/s Ethernet.
I'm pleased to welcome Mike Kelly, the founder of TeleCity, for our
first UK Internet History presentation in a while. He'll be talking
about the history of early Internet Exchange activities in Manchester
and his co-location startup experiences. Looking forwards, we have an
update on recent IXP developments in Scotland.
We also have an "problem solved" update follow-up talk from his UKNOF21
presentation on BufferBloam from Dave Taht, and talks on video codecs
and BGP.
You can find the agenda for the meeting at:
http://indico.uknof.org.uk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=27
and the slide decks will be available linked from this page.
We are not aware of any specific restrictions on access to our social or
meeting venues due to the Thatcher funeral, however given this and other
recent developments and upcoming events, it seems reasonable to assume
there will be some degree of travel disruption and heightened security
in central London, so please build a little extra time and patience into
your schedule.
UKNOF25 kicks off this evening at 7:30 for 8pm with the traditional
pre-meeting Curry Social, sponsored by IXReach. If you indicated
interest in this, you should have heard from, and additionally RSVPed
to, <[email protected]>, from whom you should now have received
venue details.
Although all our free sponsored places are filled, we still have room
for more attendees on a paying basis - you can still register for the
meeting or at the door via:
http://uknof25.eventbrite.co.uk
As usual, and for those of you who are not able to attend, we will be
webcasting the event, at:
http://uknof.bogons.net/uknof25.html
with thanks to Bogons and Portfast.
Remote participation is supported by the IRC channel:
#[email protected]
At the end of the day's proceedings (6pm) there will be social drinks,
sponsored by hardware.com, you can find out _where_ by attending during
the day :-) We have another 25th meeting surprise lined up too !
Finally, a big thank you to Ericsson for being our first Platinum
sponsor and enabling us to use the excellent 15Hatfields venue, and to
our Bronze sponsors Ciena, DataCentred and RedSpam.
Look forward to seeing you all tonight and tomorrow !
Keith
