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Location
Gurten Park im Grünen, on top of Berne
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Agenda @ SwiNOG #41
| Time | Duration | Topic | Presenter | Company |
| 08:15 | 60min | Registration, Coffee & Gipfeli | ||
| 09:15 | 5min | Welcome & Agenda | Simon Ryf | SwiNOG |
| 09:20 | 25min | Rethinking Network Strategy & Building Resilience Through PNIs, Peering and Smart Geographical Expansion This presentation explores the evolution of RETN’s underlying network, tracing the full journey from early architectural decisions to its current position as 11th biggest IP network in the world. It will candidly address the milestones, trade-offs, and course corrections encountered along the way, offering both a technical and strategic perspective, providing practical insights for network operators seeking to build robust, future-proof infrastructure in an increasingly interconnected and complex ecosystem that navigates through decreasing prices and growing customers' expectations. | Wouter Van Renterghem | RETN GmbH |
| 09:45 | 20min | bgproutes.io: A next-gen BGP data collection platform Public BGP data provided by collection platforms such as RIPE RIS and RouteViews is essential for monitoring and analysing BGP and Internet routing. In this talk, we introduce bgproutes.io, a next-generation BGP data collection platform designed to improve routing visibility and monitoring. We explain how bgproutes.io differs from existing platforms and how operators and researchers can access and explore the collected data through a public API and interactive analytical dashboards. We then show how bgproutes.io uses the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) to collect routing information beyond best-path announcements, enabling visibility into routes received from multiple peers and at different stages of the BGP decision process. Finally, we present how bgproutes.io performs RPKI Route Origin Validation (ROV) and ASPA validation on every collected route, and how these validation results are exposed to users through both the API and the dashboards. | Thomas Holterbach | University of Strasbourg |
| 10:05 | 25min | Understanding and optimising transceiver power consumption using internal metrics In high-performance optical communication systems, transceiver health and efficiency are critical to network reliability and energy use. This presentation explores Versatile Diagnostics Monitoring (VDM) features in modern transceivers (>100G), focusing on Thermoelectric Cooler (TEC) current metrics. By analysing TEC current alongside temperature and cable length, we identify optimal operating conditions that minimise power consumption without sacrificing performance. Using software prototypes and real-world VDM data, this talk demonstrates how to evaluate and visualise transceiver efficiency in watts, providing practical insights for designing and operating more energy-efficient optical networks. | Gerhard Stein | Flexoptix GmbH |
| 10:30 | 15min | Shared Spectrum & MOFN As network demand grows operators are looking at ways of scaling beyond individual wavelength services. The costs and complexities of building and maintaining a full DWDM network can however be prohibitive. In recent years shared spectrum and MOFN have arisen to seek to address these challenges and bridge the gap. | Liam Taylor | EXA Infrastructure |
| 10:45 | 45min | Morning Break | ||
| 11:30 | 20min | 25 Years of SwissIX – A Quarter Century of Peering in Switzerland SwissIX was launched in 2001 – right after the burst of the Internet bubble – with a handful of ISPs and a simple mission: keep local traffic local. Twenty-five years later, the exchange carries more than a terabit per second of traffic, connects hundreds of networks, and has become a key part of Switzerland's Internet infrastructure. This talk takes a look back at how we got here: from the spirit of the early days – when Nokia was not primarily known for its routers – to the evolution of today's high-capacity peering fabric. Along the way, we will revisit some of the technical and operational milestones that shaped SwissIX and reflect on how we see the role of SwissIX in the years to come. | Arist Volger | SwissIX |
| 11:50 | 5min | SwissIX Update The usual quick update from SwissIX before lunch. Not 73 and not "six seven" either, but 77! | Arist Volger | SwissIX |
| 11:55 | 90min | Lunch | ||
| 13:25 | 25min | Toward Agentic Network Operations: What AI Can (and Can’t) Do Agentic AI is revolutionizing fields like software development, knowledge work, and customer support. In networking, it promises the same potential: a shift toward "virtual operators" capable of reasoning across infrastructure with the precision of a senior engineer. Drawing on NetFabric's deployments in diverse environments, this talk provides a fact-driven exploration of this promise. We move beyond the hype to discuss the tangible potential of an AI-first approach while surfacing the practical limitations and technical roadblocks. By specifically examining the challenges of high-volume log analysis, we demonstrate what it takes to move from human-first monitoring to AI-first systems that deliver meaningful, autonomous actions. | Tobias Bühler | netfabric.ai |
| 13:50 | 25min | Ethics and Oversight in AI-Driven Cybersecurity AI is redefining cybersecurity by detecting threats faster and automating defense like never before. But as these systems gain more control, a critical question emerges: Who watches the algorithms that watch us? This session will spotlight the ethical and regulatory challenges of AI-driven security, from bias and false positives to privacy risks and accountability. Will present how frameworks like GDPR and the EU AI Act can guide responsible AI use, helping organizations build security that's not just smart, but fair, transparent, and trustworthy. | Jolly Trivedi | University of Turku |
| 14:15 | 25min | EVPN Unleashed: Scaling Multi-Domain Fabrics with EVPN Gateways Learn how to break the barriers of flat EVPN designs by leveraging a hierarchical gateway architecture to scale multi-site networks. This session explores how to isolate fault domains and optimize control plane state while maintaining seamless Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity across data centers. | Remi Locherer | modus one ag with Arista Networks |
| 14:40 | 20min | SCION Inter-Domain Routing SCION is a path-aware inter-domain network architecture designed for high security and resilience. | Tilmann Zäschke | ETH Zürich |
| 15:00 | 45min | Afternoon Break | ||
| 15:45 | 25min | The Network Automation Map: Navigate Your Journey with the NAF Automation Framework Modern networks demand automation that teams can trust, understand, and safely evolve. Yet many organizations still struggle to move beyond ad-hoc scripts, brittle workflows, and unclear architectural models. This session introduces the NAF Automation Framework, a modular reference architecture designed by practitioners for practitioners. We will walk through its core building blocks—Intent, Observability, Collector, Executor, Orchestrator, and Presentation—and explore what makes them reliable, predictable, and scalable. By establishing a shared mental model and common lexicon, this framework helps teams align on concepts, compare architectures, and collaborate more effectively across tools, vendors, and organizational boundaries. Attendees will leave with clearer language, stronger architectural intuition, and practical patterns to accelerate automation in their own environments. | Damien Garros | OpsMill |
| 16:10 | 15min | Building a Vendor-Agnostic E2E Testing Ecosystem with Netlab Network automation has a habit of failing in surprising ways the moment it hits production. Inspired by the netlab presentation at SwiNOG 40, we finally realized that integrating on-demand virtual topologies into daily development was achievable in the near term. In this talk, we share how we built a comprehensive End-to-End automation testing ecosystem bridging code authoring and safe deployment. We'll show how we moved from monolithic scripts to reusable building blocks with a vendor-agnostic device interface, allowing engineers to write automation logic once and run it across platforms. The main focus is our automated validation pipeline: a custom FastAPI-driven Remote Lab service leveraging netlab and Containerlab to provision topologies on the fly. We'll demonstrate how engineers can test their automation against virtual devices (like FRR and Cisco IOL) with just one line of code—guaranteeing changes are proven safe before touching production. | Leandro Lerena | Zebbra AG |
| 16:25 | 15min | TBA TBA | TBA | Megaport |
| 16:40 | 10min | Introduction to CHNUG This session provides an overview of the Swiss Network User Group (CHNUG), a community-driven initiative dedicated to fostering collaboration within the Swiss networking landscape. | Severin Dellsperger | OST University |
| 16:50 | 180min | Social Event |
Sponsors of SwiNOG #41
 | SwissIX Gold Sponsor |
 | Arista & modus one Gold Sponsor |
 | RETN Supporter |
 | Amazon Web Services Supporter |
 | Megaport Supporter |
 | Exa Infrastructure Supporter |
