Meeting Minutes from 2012 Joint Techs in Stanford

July 16, 2012

Welcome  from Ken Miller, Co-Chair of Performance Working Group

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Wireless Broadband Measurement in California
YoungJoon Byun, Cal State, Monterey Bay

See Slides

Overview of the Wireless Broadband Measurement Project

Comments / Questions

Q: Are there any issues with server placement?

A:  We used EC2, with placement in east and west coast

Q: Are you doing anything to control who can access testers?
A: No protection today

Q:  Are you looking at any server data?
A:  No, just client data

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ESnet - Simple Lookup Service (for perfSONAR and beyond)

Sowmya Balasubramanian, ESnet

see slides

 Simple Lookup Service Goals:

Design:

Q: Assume one query?
A: No, but want to make sure simple query < 1sec

http://odev-vm-7.es.net/lookup-service-examples

Q: What is needed to do to move current installation?

A: Stores the same data, different format

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SFLOW Data Network Visibility and Control

Neil McKee, InMon Corporation

See Slides

http://www.sflow.org/

http://blog.sflow.com/

sFlow now monitors more than just packets; there is also server instrumentation and it can be extended to applications

Why monitor everything with sFlow?
1. troubleshooting - always have context
2. putting network and server teams on same page
   (cloud services)
3. full observability required for automated control
     control theory 101.
     to automate closed loop, have to report all

Q: Is there any danger using OpenFlow features for accounting and control?
A: Better to use wildcards when possible instead of OpenFlow controls.

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 The Challenge  

Ken reminded the group of the challenge regarding needs for next-generation tools:

https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/PerformanceWG/Challenge+of+January+2012+re+Needs+for+Next+Gen+NOC+and+End+User+tools

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Pennsylvania State University WAN Metrics Project

see slides

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Next meeting of Performance Working Group

Internet2 Fall Member Meeting

Thursday, Oct 4, 7:30am - 8:30am

http://events.internet2.edu/2012/fall-mm/agenda.cfm?go=session&id=10002569&event=1149