NOC Team

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Though all infrastructure-related stuff has (or will be) outsourced, the Network Operation Centre of the event will be manned and run by the community.

There are a number of reasons for this (one of them being that most ISPs and LAN infrastructure guys are not very imaginative).

The Event LAN will be almost entirely wireless, so the NOC members have to be proficient with WLAN technologies.

The NOC Team will be responsible for the following:

  • Network Security
  • Network Architecture
  • Internet Connectivity and Bandwidth Estimates
    • The Internet connectivity to the event venue will be from a single or multiple service providers. The Internet bandwidth may or may not be symmetric. However, initial estimates show that we would require about 8 Mbps of incoming (from the Internet to the event) bandwidth and atleast 2 Mbps of outgoing bandwidth.
  • Connectivity between locations at the venue
    • There are three major areas that need interconnectivity at the venue. For now, we concentrate on the area where the halls and expo will be located.
    • The overall connectivity will consist of an appropriate topology of Ethernet switches interconnected with fibre on GigE interfaces. Each of these switches will be located in the larger halls and will serve to interconnect an appropriate number of WLAN APs (not routers) to cover the respective areas in and around the switch location.
    • All these switches will in turn uplink to a central switch at the NOC, to which the servers running various services will be connected. This switch will in turn be connected to a router via a BW management device, an IDS device as well as a firewall device.
  • Questions for consideration
    • Do we have an L3 central switch or an L2 switch ?
      • BW management, IDS and firewall devices should be boxes running open source stuff or closed source products ?
      • Should we support IPv6 as well ?
  • Is there a need for public addresses for all hosts on the network at the venue ? IMO, no, other than for the DMZ.

More details on the network at the venue, perhaps on a different page with a link here, when the venue map is available

  • Network Management
    • Bandwidth Management
    • Abuse Detection
    • Load Balancing
    • Caching
  • Network Features
    • Wireless Login (NoCatSplash?)
    • Event Webserver
    • Audio Streams (to the LAN and the Internet)
  • Network Services
    • Event IM Services (Jabber ?)
    • SIP server with PSTN connectivity
      • Invite non-local gurus to participate in BOF sessions via SIP clients over the internet link?
      • Gateway to voip networks such as IAXTel and FWD for cheap international connectivity?
    • Event sessions multicast (?)


This is a partial list.

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