Thought I would pass this along:
For those of you in the Washington D.C. area, NANOG 20 will be held on October 22-24 in downtown D.C. at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, near the Metro Center metro stop. This event represents a tremendous training opportunity for those involved in network design and operations.NANOG - the North American Network Operators Group - is an association of engineers and operators from internet and network service providers. See http://www.nanog.edu. The cost is only $300 if you register in advance.Previous meetings have included presentations on:Backbone traffic engineering
Coordination of inter-provider QoS
Deployment experience with queueing disciplines (CAR, RED)
Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication
Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures
Security issues for the Internet core
Routing policy specification and backbone router configuration
Building large-scale measurement infrastructure
Cooperative inter-provider caching
Alternatives to hot-potato routing
Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance
Experience with differentiated services
Reports from next-generation networks (Internet2, CA*net, etc.)
Inter-domain multicast deployment
Backbone network failure analysis
Inter-exchange point updatesTutorials have covered topics such as:BGP case studies
MPLS fundamentals
External route selection
IP multicast technologies
Distributed content caching in large IP networks
