The Organisation for ZANOG25 is in its final stages, the agenda has been published so register now to secure your place.
Date: 23-24 April 2025 Venue: Coastlands Hotel, Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa.
Register here : https://events.nog.net.za/event/58/
Registrations close on 16 April 2025
The agenda for ZANOG25 is now available. Visit https://nog.net.za/zanog2025/ for more details. This agenda is subject to change.
There will be a half day training workshop on “How to build DNS infrastructure for ISPs” the morning before the main event.
RSVP here for the training: https://events.nog.net.za/event/72/ Note the prerequisites for this training. There is a vetting process in place to ensure the candidates meet the requirements and will attend the session.
Training is limited to two registrations per organisation.
Below more details on the ZANOG25 agenda
23 April 2025
Time Session Info 8h00 Morning tea and croissants 9h00 Newcomers' session : How to get the most out of ZANOG 9h30 Welcome 10h00 Coherent Optics 101 Mark Tinka 10h30 O-E-O, No Need to Slow: The Optical Routing Revolution (Byren Meintjes) 11h00 Morning Coffee 11h30 Contemplating Internet History: Where Do We Go Next? (Jim Cowie) 12h00 Community Panel Amreesh Phokeer featuring : 12h30 Community Panel (continued) Sara Alamin (SdNOG) 13h00-14.30 Lunch 14h30 Every ISP Needs To Use A QoE Middle-Box On Their Network (Frantisek (Frank) Borsik) 15h00 Unlocking Network Visibility through Programmable Data Planes (Gerrit Avenant) 15h30 VPP: A 1Tbps+ fully open source router (Pim van Pelt) 16h00 Tea / Whisky BOF with quiz / informal social 17h00 Beers for Peers
24 April 2025
8h00 Morning tea and croissants 9h00 Building skills for the next-generation of Internet Plumbers 9h30 Virtualized firewalls and networking in Linux (ProxMox) (Hendrik Visage) 10h00 Linux: B-RAS with accel-ppp (Ian Coetzee / Russell Cook) 10h30 Containerlab - Network labs for the future (Nardus le Roux) 11h00 Morning Coffee 11h30 Building and operating a global DNS anycast network (Sara Alamin) 12h30 .ZA ASN vulnerabilities: A CSIRT.net.za overview (Warwick Ward-Cox) 13h00-14.30 Lunch 14h30 Current and looming legislation: What should ISPs be worrying about? (Dominic Cull) 15h00 Maps, opinions and best practices: ISPA’s fibre projects (Ant Brooks) 15h30 Roadmap to restoring AFRINIC : A strategy workshop for AFRINIC members and stakeholders Closing Cocktail
Looking forward to seeing you in Durban!