Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Parlor A - A. Ray Olpin University Union
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Inter-institutional guest authentication (InCommon v. Eduroam)

  • Solved guest access - faculty/staff can sponsor an account
  • Yet another SSID to advertise
  • 802.1X supplicant issues

Outsourcing guest wireless

  • PSU/IU: AT&T using university infrastructure
  • U of South Carolina: AT&T did everything
  • also outsource dorm network?

Wifi architectures: local traffic local

  • Trapeze can do it today
  • Architecture that allows flexibility
  • Too many enterprise players: consolidation soon?

Wireless IPv6

  • prioritize RA to prevent rouge RAs
  • Outdoor coverage varies
  • Tuning APs for large classrooms

GENI/OpenFlow

  • IU/GT/Stanford: testbed
  • OpenFlow VLAN for opt in users

Residence Hall Wireless

  • Mount AP in room or hallway
  • No LED blink feature for in room installes
  • Reduction in wired traffic

Expreience with Internet bandwidth management

  • Packeteer Dynamic subpartions
  • Network quota system
  • Cisco microflow policing
  • Rate limiting
  • Ellacoya bought by Arbor Networks
  • Some not shaping/limiting/policing

IPS/IDS

  • Monitor only
  • Distributed model with Sourcefire
  • Port mirroring
  • Gigamon boxes to aggregate into Sourcefire boxes
  • Tap on outbound connections
  • FireEye
  • VLAN SPANs

Protect infrastructure

  • Private IP space
  • Token / Second factor
  • ACL on the device
  • MGMT VLAN with bastion host and firewall
  • Control Plane policing
  • NetFlow
  • HoneyD
  • ISS boxes

MPLS

  • UMN: Yes
  • VRF lite
  • Wireless VRF

Data Center Network Architecture

Low end switch

  • Extreme
  • Juniper
  • HP

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Thoughts on deploying managed in-wall/desktop switches

  • Issues with managing that many switches
  • Use in special situations
  • Autoconfig issues

Edge switch management tools with delegated control for department/college administrators

  • UMN: Custom portal: user can change port settings and allowed VLAN assignment
  • VT: View only
  • InterOP: Using an opensource solution

Switch extraction

  • When upgrade switches, consolidate
  • Chassis vs. Stack

Experience with management tools for monitoring end-to-end VoIP Quality

  • Integrate into campus monitoring tools
  • Tie edge to PerfSONAR
  • Veritas - SIP Blackberry
  • Vocera Badges: SIP and WiFi

Data-intensive campus network architecture

  • Large flows avoid firewall

IPTV

  • UMich: Zattoo
  • IU/UMN: Move Networks

Cable Plant

  • Cat6A vs. Cat5e
  • Cat6A: alien cross talk

Experience with Cisco Nexus

  • GT: has early Nexus
  • Using Finisar rather than Cisco SFPs
  • Not doing FCoE
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