After a lot of thought, a bit of encouragement, and just enough foolish sense of duty, I’ve decided to run for the NANOG Board of Directors in this year’s election. NANOG is where I learned much of what has made me a good engineer and a bunch of what makes me a decent human. It’s where […]

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Today I’m headed off to San Diego and the first ever Americas Interconnection Summit, put on by Open-IX. This open, neutral event is targeted at all Internet participants interested in interconnection, including Internet Service Providers, Content Providers and Content Delivery Networks, Data Center and Internet Exchange Operators, and related network hardware and software suppliers. The […]

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What an incredible start to the year we’ve had! So many great conferences and so much amazing work has already been done across the Internet industry in 2015. The race towards the future, and my travel around the world, continues this week in Dubai with MENOG 15 (which is also a RIPE NCC regional meeting). […]

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After nearly 3 weeks at home (my longest stretch since last August), I’m off to join the already-in-progress APRICOT 2015 in Fukuoka, Japan. For those who don’t know, the annual APRICOT (Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies) is a: Ten-day long summit consist[ing] of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other […]

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Wow! What an amazing year 2014 has been. Here at Deploy360 we’ve been extremely busy! Whether it was organizing meetings, hosting meetings, creating content, curating content, public speaking, researching, meeting new people, making plans with old friends, or traveling between all of these things (so many planes), we’ve barely had time to catch our breath […]

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I’m really excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the 1.0 meeting of the Hong Kong Network Operators Group (HKNOG) next week! The full-day HKNOG 1.0 meeting will be held on Monday, 01 September 2014 in East Hong Kong. This is a free to attend event, so if you are a network engineer based […]

Chris Grundemann speaking on IPv6, and talking BCOP, at HKNOG 1.0 is a post from don't panic – One Network Technologist's View of Life, the Internet, and Everything.

AfPIF is the African Peering and Interconnection Forum and this year it is being held in Dakar, Senegal from 26 to 28 August, 2014. The 5th African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AFPIF) will be held over a 3-day period in August in Dakar, Senegal to discuss the future of peering in an era where the […]

Chris Grundemann attending AfPIF to talk BCOP is a post from don't panic – One Network Technologist's View of Life, the Internet, and Everything.

Well, I’m over 100,000 miles flown this year, but it’s not time to slow down yet! I leave again today for South Asia and the third meeting of the Singapore Network Operators Group, SGNOG 3. Similar to many NOGs around the world: Singapore Network Operators’ Group (SGNOG) is formed to provide Service/Content Providers and vendors […]

Chris Grundemann in Singapore at SGNOG 3 is a post from don't panic – One Network Technologist's View of Life, the Internet, and Everything.

That’s right, the whole team is here in Djibouti, Djibouti for the 2014 edition of the Africa Internet Summit! And what a summit. There is so much going on you really need to check out the agenda and make some tough choices. Today we’re enjoying the opening ceremonies, an ISOC spam workshop, and ION Djibouti. […]

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It has now been about eight months since I joined the Internet Society as the Director of Deployment & Operationalization and I still get asked on a fairly regular basis “what do you do?” Well, with ISOC’s Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle’s recent departure, and with my time here having exceeded both my first […]

Human Network, Human Challenges is a post from don't panic – One Network Technologist's View of Life, the Internet, and Everything.