5 & 6 May 2020, Cambridge, UK

Venue/Location

Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 8PH, United Kingdom

The venue is 10 minute walk from Cambridge train station, reachable by train directly from Stansted Airport. Trains runs every ~30 minutes.

Details will follow closer to the date

Time	Session
12:00-13:00	Arrival - Lunch
13:00-13:15	Welcome by GÉANT
13:15-14:15	Trials and tribulations of DIY development: the Story of developing an in-house SNMP management tool at GÉANT - Tony Barber, Temoor Khan and Erik Reid, GÉANT The growth in the services and the changes in the architecture are some of the reasons that have made Géant develop a new SNMP monitoring tool. This joint presentation between network and software engineers will give details about the challenges, the problems faced and the solutions found.
14:15-15:00	TBC
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-16:30	AI Augmented Network Operations - Jean-Marc Uzé, Augtera Networks This presentation will give an overview of the benefits of applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to network operations.
16:30-17:00	TBC
17:00-17:30	TBC
19:30	Dinner

Time	Session
9:00-9:30	Green datacentres - Nicky Thomson Climate change should lead us to build datacentres thinking on energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. This presentation will explain some possible solutions.
9:30-10:00	GÉANT's new Inventory Management System - Emma Apted, GÉANT This is a commercial software product purchased from VC4, already used by SURFnet and RedIRIS. An overview of this software, called IMS, and the implementation approach in GÉANT.
10:00-10:30	TBC
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Ethernet OAM/CFM and the problems of managing LANPHY Ethernet - Tony Barber, GÉANT Presentation about the experiences and challenges both from the engineering and management points of view to manage LANPHY ethernet. What happens when new equipment does not support it? What workarounds can you apply?
11:30-12:15	Flash talks
12:15-12:30	Wrap-up
12:30	Goodbye and Lunch