This two-day workshop on Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) is part of a CENIC-initiated pilot to facilitate MANRS adoption and implement an RPKI deployment on a regional scale among CENIC and Pacific Wave research universities. The MANRS RPKI pilot is a collaborative effort involving contributors from CENIC, NSRC, ESnet, and ARIN, as well as from the research university community. MANRS is an initiative, supported by the Internet Society, focused on reducing the most common threats to the global routing ecosystem through a variety of localized implementation methods. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a technology that enables network operators to verify the integrity of routing information.
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ID: 17699
This workshop is full, and registration is closed. In this workshop participants will learn about the global MANRS effort, how RPKI fits within the MANRS framework, the CENIC MANRS RPKI pilot, and the roles and services offered by ARIN as to support RPKI deployments. The workshop will offer hands-on lab exercises to model routing best practices, as well as creating Route Origin Authorization objects (ROAs) within ARIN’s Operational Test & Evaluation Environment (OT&E).
Basic network engineering, BGP policy design and implementation, and UNIX/Linux command line (shell) skills are assumed of all participants.
This two-day workshop on Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) is part of a CENIC-initiated pilot to facilitate MANRS adoption and implement an RPKI deployment on a regional scale among CENIC and Pacific Wave research universities. The MANRS RPKI pilot is a collaborative effort involving contributors from CENIC, NSRC, ESnet, and ARIN, as well as from the research university community. MANRS is an initiative, supported by the Internet Society, focused on reducing the most common threats to the global routing ecosystem through a variety of localized implementation methods. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a technology that enables network operators to verify the integrity of routing information.
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ID: 17703
This workshop is full, and registration is closed. In this workshop participants will learn about the global MANRS effort, how RPKI fits within the MANRS framework, the CENIC MANRS RPKI pilot, and the roles and services offered by ARIN as to support RPKI deployments. The workshop will offer hands-on lab exercises to model routing best practices, as well as creating Route Origin Authorization objects (ROAs) within ARIN’s Operational Test & Evaluation Environment (OT&E).
Basic network engineering, BGP policy design and implementation, and UNIX/Linux command line (shell) skills are assumed of all participants.
Check-in for the conference and pick up your badge. If you have not registered you can do so at this time. Light refreshments will be served.
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Join us for opening remarks, not-to-be-missed conference highlights, and housekeeping logistics.
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Whether by accident or on purpose, when entities wrongly announce routes for IP address blocks that aren’t assigned to them, they can take an entire network offline. What can you do to make sure that doesn’t happen to your organization? John Curran of ARIN will discuss Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and how it can protect your network from hijacking and improve your connectivity to others. John will also provide a short technical overview of RPKI technology and talk about the difference between route origin authorization publication and route origin validation, and their related costs and benefits for your organization.
ID: 19418
California Public Utility Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves will share the CPUC’s vision and initiatives for 2020 and beyond. She will focus on the issue of digital equity, and provide an update on the governor's “Broadband for All” state plan. The session will then transition to a panel discussion on the importance of digital equity and strategies for bridging the digital divide moderated by CENIC’s President and CEO, Louis Fox.
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ID: 15146
In November, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he will convene stakeholders, the private sector, education institutions, and government agencies with a goal of developing an inclusive “Broadband for All” plan for the state. Communities across California would benefit from closing the digital divide as many areas of the state remain unserved or underserved.
At the forefront of policy and regulatory efforts is the CPUC, and Commissioner Guzman Aceves is a driver of the commission’s broadband policy work. According to the Commissioner, “hundreds of thousands of our residents have no high-speed broadband access, and — some 4.2 million households — do not benefit from any competition at all.”
ID: 19344
Robotic drones collaborate with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, City of Alameda, Alameda County Office of Education to send data over the CENIC network to educate students and expand the science curriculum. Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), manufactured by startup Saildrone at Alameda Point, are equipped with onboard cameras and oceanographic and atmospheric sensors that are deployed across the globe to collect a trove of in-situ ocean data.
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ID: 19508
Saildrone collects an astonishing amount of real-time data and is in the process of developing partnerships with scientists at the nearby US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for access to next-generation supercomputers. CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN) provides Saildrone the high-bandwidth connectivity it needs to upload data to cloud storage and other governmental partners such as NOAA and the Berkeley Lab the ability to efficiently access that data remotely. Peering with the City of Alameda will enable sharing of Saildrone’s data not only with Berkeley Lab, but also with students at K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities on CENIC’s network. The partnership between CENIC and Alameda is a model for other local governments that may wish to connect technology and research and development companies in their region with a state’s research and education institutions.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole looks for subatomic particles called neutrinos. Known as messenger signals, these nearly massless neutrinos travel billions of light years to Earth from some of the most extreme environments in the universe — exploding stars, gamma-ray bursts, and black holes. To observe these ghostly particles, the IceCube detector uses 5,000 optical sensors buried in a cubic kilometer of prehistoric Antarctic ice.
In order to better understand data collected by IceCube, researchers pooled all globally available graphics processing units (GPUs) from three cloud providers — covering the US, Europe, and the Asian-Pacific — during a National Science Foundation-funded demonstration. At its peak, the cloudburst provided about 90% of the performance of the world's fastest supercomputer.
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ID: 15168
The demonstration reached an astonishing peak performance of 51,500 GPUs and 380 petaflops. One petaflop is the ability for a computer to do a quadrillion floating point operations per second.
IceCube is in constant need of additional compute resources to simulate the properties of its detector media, and it is one of the major users of the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) Nautilus cluster, among other resources available through the Open Science Grid (OSG). The central manager for the demonstration was hosted at the University of California, San Diego and thus relied on the CENIC network.
This session will discuss the scientific importance of IceCube as well as the demonstration's cyberinfrastructure and results.
As technology rapidly evolves, community leaders are asking: How can we utilize our infrastructure to expand broadband service in our community and deliver smart city goals? How will 5G impact us and how can we prepare for 5G deployments? How can we develop strategies to address the digital divide? Broadband infrastructure and public-private partnerships are central to these challenges. Two cities, San Jose and San Leandro, have grappled with these issues in similar, yet differing ways. Representatives will discuss and share key findings, best practices, and lessons learned.
ID: 16349
Funding agencies are taking an increasingly positive stance toward public clouds. National Science Foundation alone has funded several cloud-focused proposals, including CloudBank, E-CAS, and the record-setting multi-cloud IceCube simulation pilot run. There is increased awareness and recognition that public cloud providers do provide capabilities not found elsewhere, with elasticity being a major driver.
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ID: 15171
The value of elastic scaling is, however, tightly coupled to the capabilities of the networks that connect all involved resources, both in the public clouds and at the various research institutions. We have thus set in place a benchmarking testbed that has been collecting data about network performance between both nodes inside the major public clouds, and between nodes participating in the Pacific Research Platform (PRP) Nautilus cluster and cloud nodes. With most of the PRP nodes residing on the CENIC network, the performance on CENIC-served links was of particular interest.
In this presentation, we provide both the observed peak performance on the various links, as well as a summary of how network performance changes over time. We also provide an overview of the costs associated with utilizing networking in the public clouds.
5G networks hold vast potential to power new technologies that connect infrastructure, cars, and people in ways that will revolutionize our cities. By increasing capacity for the simultaneous operation of connected devices in one location at unprecedented speeds, 5G networks can lead to significant gains in sustainability, mobility, and economic opportunity.
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ID: 15324
While 5G networks may bring significant benefits, ensuring these are felt by all community members remains a significant challenge. The deployment of 5G depends heavily on the availability of broadband backhaul. We often think of the broadband divide as an urban-rural divide, yet a broadband chasm also exists between wealthy and poor neighborhoods in cities. While the raw number of broadband subscribers in the US continues to grow, the number of broadband deployments and adoption in high-income communities is significantly outpacing those in low-income communities.
This session will outline the challenges to equitable and effective deployment of 5G in urban areas, including the availability of high-speed backhaul networks that are a prerequisite to 5G rollouts; FCC-imposed caps on licensing fees cities can charge 5G network providers for using their infrastructure, which affects revenue models cities can employ to recoup costs and develop 5G investment strategies for less lucrative neighborhoods; and federal restrictions on the adoption of 5G network equipment from adversarial countries. The session will conclude with recommendations for models and policy strategies that should be implemented at the federal, state, and city levels to better ensure equitable and effective deployment of 5G networks in urban areas.
Ryan Adams, President and Chief Operations Officer for GeoLinks, will provide an overview of the Company’s award-winning network operations, an overview of GeoLinks’ work with CENIC, case studies regarding how GeoLinks’ proprietary technology is helping to bridge the digital divide, and exciting projects on the horizon aimed at helping improve life for California residents in both rural and urban areas.
ID: 19524
The emerging technologies of 5G and edge computing promise an unprecedented opportunity to augment and elevate the human experience. Education will take place in continuous and context-aware mobile learning channels blending digital and physical experiences. Learn how these technologies are being used in schools and universities today and their potential impact on learning flows.
ID: 19456
The TACs provide technical review and recommendations on infrastructure issues relating to the California Research & Education Network (CalREN) as requested by the CENIC board of directors. TACs are made up of interested members of the CalREN community who work closely on network design, hardware, interoperability issues, performance management, and network research priorities.
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There are three TACs who are meeting jointly at CENIC 2020.
CalREN-HPR TAC: Advises on the development of CENIC's network focusing on high performance/research, which provides leading-edge services for large-application users at CENIC Associate sites through national and international research and educational networks such as Internet2, ESNet, and AARnet.
CalREN-DC TAC: Advises on CENIC's network focusing on connectivity for all members, reaching new members, and providing high-quality network services for faculty, staff, students, researchers, patrons, and patients in member institutions.
CalREN-SEC TAC: Advises on network security systems, tools, and techniques as part of CalREN network and related infrastructure, as well as data privacy issues related to CalREN and common to CENIC Associates.
If you are a member of one of these TACs or would like to join, please grab some lunch at the buffet and join us.
ID: 19347
How do you talk to the public about the value of your Internet connection? Compared to the academic space, public libraries have a different set of users and a different set of use cases for the CENIC network. In this session, the Sacramento Public Library team will discuss why their Internet speeds are important, surprising hurdles they encounter, and how they make the case to the anyperson on the street that universally accessible, high-speed connectivity is valuable to them. This session will transition to a larger group discussion about how the public has seen Internet connectivity at the public library and how to understand and adapt your connection to fit the needs of your community.
ID: 15025
Even though 2020 is an election year, the Federal Government is considering a wide array of changes to broadband policies and funding programs. The Federal Communications Commission recently made changes to the E-rate and Rural Health Care funding programs, the US Dept of Agriculture is rolling out a new version of its Re-Connect funding program, and Congress is considering significant infrastructure legislation that proposes over $86 billion in new broadband funding. WiFi on school buses, hot spot lending programs, "rip and replace" for small telecommunications companies, and the C-band auctions are also in the works. This session will examine all of these developments and provide insight into how they could impact the presidential election in November.
ID: 19591
Mobile platforms have enabled third-party app ecosystems that provide users of all ages with an endless supply of rich content. At the same time, mobile devices present very serious privacy risks: their ability to capture real-time data about our behaviors and preferences has created a marketplace for user data that most consumers are simply unaware of. This is especially concerning when it involves data collected from children, which is used to profile them so that their interests can be inferred and then ads can be tailored to target them.
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ID: 15080
Fortunately, many developed nations have outlawed these practices. Nonetheless, they are rampant largely due to information asymmetries: consumers simply do not have the tools necessary to make informed decisions about what apps may do with their children’s data, regulators lack the resources to pursue most of the offenders, and platforms have turned a blind eye to abuses of their policies.
In this talk, I will present research that my group has conducted to automatically examine the privacy behaviors of mobile apps. Using analysis tools that we developed, we have tested over 300,000 of the most popular Android apps to examine what data they access and with whom they share it. I will present data on how mobile apps are tracking and profiling users, including within apps specifically targeted at children, how these practices are often against users' expectations and the apps’ public disclosures, and how app developers may be violating various privacy regulations. This research led to regulatory enforcement actions and changes to platform policies for app developers.
This session will present an overview of the process and status of the next generation of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). The session will discuss aspects of the design of the optical and network layers, equipment choice and testing, and advanced services that are being planned for deployment.
ID: 14815
Networks are an essential element of infrastructure — so are humans. What if we treated packet loss, dropped connections, and weak connectivity in our human IT network with the same passion and curiosity as we do for our infrastructure? Join us as we take a look at some enigmatic concepts such as community, diversity, and inclusion, and find our evolving roles as we all work in our organizations to retain, empower, and enrich talent.
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ID: 15622
This talk covers the topic of community building, supporting underrepresented people, and practical steps in diversity and inclusion. The audience will walk away from the session with specific steps to help build or fortify their own technology community and inclusion efforts. Presenters will break the topic down into five short components:
We will end the session putting together what building women in technology communities means to the CENIC attendees, including broadening horizons and adding more voices to the table.
ID: 19350
The Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC) is a production platform for operations, applied training, monitoring, and research and education support. EPOC is jointly led by Indiana University (IU) and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and provides researchers and network engineers with a holistic set of tools and services needed to debug performance issues and enable reliable and robust data transfers.
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ID: 15331
A key aspect of the EPOC project is the operations center and process pipeline for immediate help, referred to as Roadside Assistance and Consulting. The Roadside Assistance and Consulting approach helps collaborators when data sharing failures occur, since these almost always involve multiple domains and organizations. We have defined a process that allows coordination between local and regional contacts along the end-to-end path, and offers a way that the researcher can always know the status of their question in a non-expert readable way. The goal of this work is to enable the maximum amount of performance with a minimal amount of adaptation to the end user’s environment.
This talk will walk through the in-depth Roadside Assistance and Consulting process, using real examples that we have resolved over the last twelve months, and how we have adapted the process in response. We will also highlight several cases with the University of California Merced and two different engagements at Caltech, showing directly how even though CENIC is not a formal partner with EPOC, we work with any researcher or educator encountering challenges when moving data.
More information about the Roadside Assistance and Consulting process is available at: https://epoc.global/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Roadside-Assistance-Description.pdf.
Open Educational Resources (OER) can transform learning experiences for students. Most K-20 educational institutions have Internet connectivity, and many students have home or dorm access, as well. How do we ensure that learning facilitators (teachers, professors, administrators, and librarians) have access to and awareness of the most relevant and high-quality learning resources available? This session will provide a background of OER from a national and state level and will provide resources for immediate use.
ID: 14774
As part of a long-term effort to provide digital access to its collection, Getty has partnered with the leading international research institution in applied visual computing, Fraunhofer IGD in Germany, to test an autonomous photogrammetry-based 3D scanning machine. The fully automatic CultArm3D-P makes use of a glass turntable and can capture color-calibrated data on artifacts’ geometric shape and texture from above and below. To enable processing of the CultArm3D-P's massive photogrammetry datasets, Getty worked with Indiana University to access high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
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ID: 15839
Indiana University has pioneered the use of HPC to enable parallel processing of photogrammetry datasets. Getty and IU processed the CultArm3D-P images on Indiana’s HPC systems to create benchmarks against the high-powered VFX workstations the Getty had rented for in-house processing. The team also used Google Cloud credits to build virtual machines and do benchmarking there, creating a matrix of runtimes with different machine configurations.
Because the datasets were so large, both teams used Globus to transfer files between the Getty and Indiana University. Without Globus and the CENIC and Internet2 networks, transfer of image sets and final 3D models would have been much less reliable and much slower. However, because IU is a data endpoint, files were easily shareable by both teams, and the collaboration was successful despite the distance between the institutions.
Securing research data, especially meeting new, stricter regulatory and other cybersecurity requirements, is becoming a significant burden for both researchers and campuses. Indiana University faced the challenge over a decade ago when the demand for scale in clinical research data processing forced the university to align its central research computing infrastructure with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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ID: 16093
IU began with a compliance-centric approach, which it soon found to be problematic as new compliance regimes began appearing. This talk will relate the story of how IU overcame this obstacle by refocusing its attention from compliance to security, and how this required it to diagnose and treat its OCD (Obsession with Controls Disorder).
Innovative uses of CENIC’s California Research and Education Network (CalREN), and breakthrough designs such as the Pacific Research Platform and the National Research Platform, result from collaborative partnerships. Ensuring those partnerships can be sustained and scaled so that advanced networking is democratized requires institutions and organizations to respond to complexity in ways not typically recognized as relevant to innovation — as a set of management practices.
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ID: 15482
The density of the technology, the cost of building and maintaining advanced networking capacity, and the specialized nature of many applications can hinder this work. For example, highly technical language used to describe network capacity and functionality, along with esoterica that delineates science drivers and the aesthetics of creative experimentation frame shared understandings of the value of advanced networking and often form the initial alliances that secure funding and sponsorship.
Yet the execution of advanced networking in practice requires a more operational understanding of the ‘ground truth’ that characterizes any technology implementation. Ensuring that such advanced networking can transition into a service outcome requires members of several different communities to coordinate and operationalize a given innovation’s availability as an on-demand service. Once an innovative application is proven by break-through thinking, it is too frequently hoisted on the enterprise as a fait accompli. Founding innovators bored with the tedium of management move on while operational staff is insufficiently equipped to account for the significant and often unintended consequences of change.
In this panel, five individuals, each representing different stakeholder perspectives, will discuss their convergent as well as divergent perspectives as they reflect on the process of moving from innovation to transformational impact. A framework for managing concerns from innovation to operation will provide audience members with actionable language and concepts for building, strengthening, and scaling projects and services that build upon advanced network applications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), or the ability for intelligent machines to work and react like humans, is rapidly transforming the world and the way we live. What will the future of education look like? Come participate in this panel discussion with leaders in K-20 education and libraries, and learn about the instructional, cultural, and networking implications of AI.
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Palo Alto City Library held a Virtual Reality Hackfest where participants created VR scenes and published them on the Internet for the world to see. The library used InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a distributed web technology that allows anyone to publish to the Internet without a server, through a peer-to-peer network that works seamlessly with the regular Internet. Come to this workshop to learn the basics of IPFS and walk away with skills to harness this new publishing platform and open the doors for collaboration. Participants should bring their own computer and have basic HTML skills. Participation is limited to 30 people.
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ID: 15032
Presenters from Palo Alto City Library believe IPFS is perfectly suited for the CalREN community, not only because it embodies many library values like freedom of speech and censorship resistance, but also because it is capable of leveraging idle bandwidth within the network to provide a robust, decentralized, data-sharing platform across the globe.
In this session, CENIC network engineers will present technology developments to the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), including CENIC’s Next Generation Optical Line System and the automation of incidents and operations.
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ID: 17725
Next Generation developments include:
Automation developments include:
Machine learning algorithms are now being used to build solutions that can answer questions on par with network domain experts. This represents a critical milestone in the journey to a self-driving network. In this presentation, we will look at how data engineering leverages a modern cloud stack to build a real-time AI solution and how data science and customer support are working together to fundamentally change network operations and support. At the same time, BLE Location Services are enabling applications that are transforming the student experience on campus. The use of Location Services in applications to provide new student and visitor wayfinding, enhance campus safety and security and enable data-driven predictive analysis will also be discussed.
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ID: 19798
Proponents of distributed ledger technology tout its potential application across sectors from finance to healthcare to logistics and beyond. How might this emerging technology be applied for research, education and the public sector? Academic researchers and practitioners in California have been at the forefront of developing blockchain applications. With implications for security, digital identity, and distributed participation, blockchain architecture may also place increased demands on network bandwidth and storage.
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ID: 16115
This talk will highlight pilot projects from biomedical and environmental sciences, academic credentialing, and natural resource management. It will also assess the costs and benefits for resource-constrained contexts and the policy frameworks needed to guide the development and implementation of the technology.
The CENIC Innovations in Networking Awards are presented each year to highlight the exemplary innovations that leverage ultra-high bandwidth networking, particularly where those innovations have the potential to transform the ways in which instruction and research are conducted or where they further the deployment of broadband in underserved areas. https://cenic.org/NetworkingAwards
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ID: 19368
Organizations today face an unpredictable and rapidly evolving threat landscape. While most security tools were designed to protect against known attacks, some of today’s most advanced cyber threats have evolved to evade perimeter controls and rule-based approaches. New artificial intelligence and machine learning methods can vastly improve the accuracy of threat detection and enhance network visibility thanks to the great amount of computation analysis they can handle.
ID: 15308
According to Gartner, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud – an increase from the less than 10% generated today. The foundation of data-intensive computing is a network that enables the exploration of experimental and theoretical research and taps into leading-edge thinking and technology. Leading research organizations are using technology to spur innovation. This session will look at Louisiana Tech’s Research and Innovation Enterprise, which is the epicenter of creative exploration, discovery, entrepreneurship, and collaboration on campus. We’ll also explore CenturyLink’s work with the University of Southern California on the Searchlight internet-scale quality of service management program funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In this session, we will give voice to the network-based technology trends that are shaping the next decade and beyond. Such trends include Web3.0/DApp, 5G networks, quantum key distribution, and dynamic connections, and delve into the impact of edge computing within the context of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
ID: 19452
In response to evolving community requirements in research and cloud services, Internet2 is actively engaged in designing and implementing its Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). After a two-year engagement process, the US research and education community identified a number of use cases to guide services development: Support for Data-Centric Researchers, Software-Driven Infrastructure, Support for Campus/Regional Network Ecosystems, Enhanced Cloud Access, and Sustainable Economics.
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ID: 15523
Key to our approach is evolving the services and connectivity provided by Internet2 and transcending a simple hardware refresh. NGI strives to fundamentally change the way the entire community can interact with the entire Internet2 platform - namely providing extensible access to the full stack of services; by combining these services in new and innovative ways the community can collaboratively work to meet the emerging demands.
This presentation will focus on progress in key NGI areas, including new service scenarios, the definition of a new 400G-centric, cost-sharing model, the deployment of a new flex-grid line system with alien wave support, development of enhanced cloud interconnect, and our packet testbed and RFP.
The Educational Services department, responsible for providing support services to ensure that all students have access to appropriate instruction, and the Information Technology department, responsible for managing computer network systems, have traditionally been isolated in schools. This panel will discuss how bridging the gap between the two departments can improve learning environments and learning outcomes.
ID: 15697
Understanding application performance and network measurement are two sides to a single coin - one doesn’t make sense without the other. The Engagement and Performance Operations Center, EPOC, uses the NetSage tool to collect and evaluate common network measurement data. The initial NetSage software was developed and deployed on the NSF-funded international networks, of which Pacific Wave is a partner. It was meant to work with sparse, international circuits, with circuit owners and operators as the end-user. EPOC has expanded the use of this software to more densely defined networks and supports additional analysis and visualization aspects.
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ID: 15333
This talk will walk through several NetSage dashboards, highlighting use cases centered on CENIC members and their use of both domestic and international networks. We will show how to drill down to understand data transfers between two institutions, and where you can find additional information about performance. We will also highlight the NetSage Science Registry, which maps scientific data flows to research domains.
Additional information on NetSage is available at http://netsage.global.
Come experience the inner sarcophagus of Psamtek, “chief physician” and “overseer of the Temehu,” in virtual reality. The sarcophagus, dating back to as early as the 5th century BC and found in 1900 in Psamtek’s tomb south of the Unas pyramid at Saqqara, is now on public display in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California. Like many museum objects, modern display of the sarcophagus cannot adequately replicate aspects of its original archaeological context in a deep rock-cut shaft, nestled among hundreds of impressive elite tombs at the necropolis. Thus, museum visitors have little opportunity to understand the meaning and original placement of the object, either within the tomb or in the larger cemetery. In order to virtually replace the sarcophagus in its original context, a dynamic VR-headset experience is being developed that combines a 3D reconstruction model of Saqqara with a photogrammetric model of the sarcophagus.
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ID: 14970
The application allows the user to jump between multiple levels of scale: experiencing a visualization of the Saqqara cemetery in the Late Period, entering a model of the tomb’s burial chamber, interacting with the text of the sarcophagus, and reading translations of the object’s text. The goal of the project is to experiment with how new immersive virtual reality headset technologies can be used by Egyptologists to better express to the public the complex histories and layered meanings of archaeological objects, especially those removed from their original sites of deposit. This work was carried out with Elaine A. Sullivan, Dept. of History, University of California, Santa Cruz; and Chris Hoffman, Research IT, University of California, Berkeley.
This session will feature a live demonstration of the VR experience, discuss the base data on which the 3D models were constructed, and describe the technological and intellectual challenges of combining multiple types of data in the application. UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Egyptology Rita Lucarelli will describe their learning goals for museum visitors and undergraduate students, and solicit feedback for improving both the educational content and the navigational experience of the project.
Ever wonder how the CENIC Network Operations team supports CENIC’s vast ever-growing network?
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ID: 15089
When a CalREN connection goes down, network engineers in CENIC’s Network Operations Center receive an alarm and immediately start troubleshooting. The NOC employs just 21 network engineers, answering calls and emails 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Over three months in the fall of 2019, NOC engineers triaged about 24,000 alarms. They also handled more than 3,600 service requests, including 136 tickets for new circuit deployments and 289 maintenance tickets. Less than 1% of the requests NOC receives are escalated to CENIC’s Core Engineering department.
In this session, you will hear from members of this team and learn about some of the tools they use to help monitor the network. Attendees will be taken through typical outage scenarios and learn about the process the NOC follows to triage, troubleshoot, and resolve issues. There will also be some time at the end of the session for Q&A.
ID: 19371
Experts in virtual reality presenting at CENIC 2020 will be available to demonstrate and discuss the power of virtual reality in a wide variety of educational and community settings. Rita Lucarelli will and her students will use VR to help participants experience stepping inside an ancient Egyptian tomb. John MacLeod, who has installed over 200 VR systems in underserved libraries in California and Nevada, will demonstrate a system designed to help users experience the impacts of climate change. Conference Chair Jeff Weekley will lead all participants in a discussion of the potential uses and benefits of virtual reality.
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After a brief presentation on past collaborations between K-20 educational organizations, libraries, and cultural institutions, attendees will brainstorm potential future collaborations and followup actions. A notetaker will record ideas and share them with the group.
ID: 16338
Esports is a burgeoning entertainment industry with audiences that rival those of traditional professional sports. Still, many educational institutions are reluctant to embrace esports as a productive educational pursuit often due to fears of toxicity, promoting violence, and excessive screen time. Scholastic esports, however, provides a way to counteract these issues by providing a positive, controlled environment in which students can build positive relationships, learn the business, technical, and production aspects of esports, and explore the multitude of curricular connections that esports can provide. Esports meets today's learners where they are and connects them to myriad learning and job opportunities. This session will inform participants about the work the Riverside County Office of Education and California State University San Bernardino are doing to promote equitable access to scholastic esports and to fully exploit the learning potential of this popular and exciting activity at the university and in Riverside County, California.
ID: 15822
My library has a gigabit connection. Now what? Going Gig can be a challenge for California public libraries. Everything from limited technical staff to insufficient budgets presents challenges. Join an interactive discussion with the Sacramento Public Library to learn how they upgraded their legacy network infrastructure to support one- to 10-gigabit connectivity, and how they are planning for adding higher capacity in the future.
ID: 16409
Security is only possible when everyone in an organization follows the procedures put in place to protect data. How can technology leaders in research and education organizations work with members of their organizations to motivate them to adopt security procedures and comply with those that are mandated? In this interactive session, technology leaders will pose this problem, gather the best ideas, and describe some strategies to motivate everyone in their organization to adopt security procedures.
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The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society released its report Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s on October 30, 2019. The purpose was simple – to demonstrate that robust, competitive broadband is hugely important in the next decade — and to outline solutions to the very real challenges that exist. Because community anchor institutions are the glue that helps keep communities thriving together, they are at the center of the strategy. They can drive deployment, stimulate competition, offer affordable alternatives, and provide digital-skills training.
This panel, moderated by Executive Director of the Benton Institute Adrianne Furniss, addresses the importance of Research & Education Networks to serve as launching pads for community-wide broadband access and, in places where broadband has already been deployed, more broadband competition.
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ID: 15801
Research & Education Networks should be considered an innovative contributor to the ecosystem of organizations, partnerships, and approaches needed to alleviate broadband issues. R&E networks play a critical role, especially given the incredibly robust middle-mile backbone networks they run, their peering infrastructures, and their ability to run multiple networks and network layers.
And R&E Networks, which connect hundreds of public-private partners, including non-profits, educational institutions, and government agencies, are also ideal catalyst organizations to provide access to information and to convene partners invested in statewide broadband accessibility. Leaders from the CENIC and MERIT Networks, which have recently launched community broadband campaigns, along with exemplary community partners, will discuss the important role they play in the “to and through anchors’ strategy,” which the Benton Institute is promoting nationally.
Come take a digital adventure to California's state parks. From elephant seals to giant sequoias to Hearst Castle, K-12 students can join California park rangers on a variety of virtual field trips through the free programs offered by California Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students (PORTS). Thanks to the support of CENIC, classrooms across the state and nation are integrating PORTS videoconferences and resources into core subject areas, enriching the curriculum, and extending learning opportunities.
ID: 15848
Most large organizations have a Network Operation Center (NOC), responsible for operating, maintaining, and monitoring the network infrastructure. In addition, for an organization to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from cybersecurity attacks within the network infrastructure, another team may be created, the Security Operation Center (SOC). These two teams must work closely with one another in order to run a network operation that is cybersecurity aware. This presentation will walk you through cybersecurity incidents and lessons learned.
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ID: 15646
Some of these lessons have shown how to improve network infrastructure to better respond to cybersecurity attacks. This talk will also cover some projects that provided insight on the needs of both the NOC and the SOC, and ensuring that both network and security is baked — as opposed to bolted on — into both teams.
ID: 19391
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) is an initiative, supported by the Internet Society, focused on reducing the most common threats to the global routing ecosystem through a variety of localized implementation methods. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a technology that enables network operators to verify the integrity of routing information.
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ID: 14455
In this session, we will describe the CENIC-initiated pilot to facilitate MANRS adoption and implement a RPKI deployment on a regional scale among CENIC and Pacific Wave research universities. The MANRS RPKI pilot is a collaborative effort involving contributors from CENIC, NSRC, ESnet, and ARIN, as well as from the research university community. We will report on the pilot progress to date, including community experience and insights from the MANRS RPKI workshops, as well as discuss the challenges and opportunities as we chart our next steps.
Threat intelligence is coming at us fast, and so are the attackers. With numerous sources and thousands of indicators, it’s a daunting task for organizations to make effective use of threat intelligence, and to create a symphony of useful information from a cacophony of threat data.
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ID: 15129
Threat intelligence is critical to combat the ever-evolving threat landscape facing organizations of all types. Simply sending out a ton of indicators around is not enough. More and more organizations are not only accessing threat intelligence but also dedicating personnel to manage and operate threat intelligence tools and integrations. For the University of California, multiple locations with autonomous security teams staying consistent in aggregating and consuming all of the threat intelligence would be almost impossible without a coordinated focus.
Topics of this presentation will include identifying relevant threat intelligence sources, partnering with threat intelligence groups and agencies, empowering the teams that use the information, tools for gathering and disseminating the information, and the human factors that must also be considered with threat intelligence.
This presentation will be an overview of how the UC Systemwide CISO office provides coordination, aggregation, and distribution of threat intelligence across UC’s campuses and health systems.
To encourage audience participation, the presentation will utilize a real-time polling application to pose questions related to threat intelligence, current practices, trends, and challenges. Audience members are able to use their mobile devices (phones, laptops, and tablets) to respond to the poll questions and see the results – live.
In this hands-on, experiential workshop, see how the public library is using high-speed connectivity in fun ways in its programming. Find out how a Dungeons and Dragons game can be supplemented with digital tools, step into an eSports broadcast session, and learn to code a robot with a web-based coding platform. After the hands-on experiences are complete, participate in a discussion about why this more leisurely utilization of network speeds still has value and still fits a community need. Participants that want to be on-camera for eSports should not wear green. If you have accounts with Roll 20, DnD Beyond, Obsidian Portal, Parallax or Twitch – brining your credentials to such accounts will enhance the experience, but is not required. A personal computer is helpful, but not required. Participation is limited to 30 people.
ID: 15022
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