It's always great to see familiar faces at #ZANOG. We don't always get the opportunity to chat, but I see you 👀

Thank you for being such a supportive crowd!

#LibreQoS at ZANOG 2025:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9dcYXrnb68

"Every #ISP Needs To Use A #QoE Middle-Box On Their Network"

#ZANOG #latency #bufferbloat #jitter #RFC8290 #QualityOfExperience #broadband #OpenSource #FLOSS #WISP #FISP #ZANOG25 #QoS #InternetServiceProvider #WiFi #QualityOfService #sch_CAKE #FQ_CoDel #schCAKE #FQCoDel #BandwidthIsALIE #WiFi

Our very own @herberticus was speaking at #ZANOG 2025 recently in Durban, South Africa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXecXxkKQoU

Thanks for having us, ZANOG!

#LibreQoS #latency #bufferbloat #jitter #ISP #QualityOfExperience #QoE #broadband #OpenSource #FLOSS #ISP #WISP #FISP #ZANOG25 #QoS #RFC8290 #InternetServiceProvider #WiFi #FQ_CoDel #sch_CAKE #FQCoDel #schCAKE #QualityOfService #DaveTaht #SouthAfrica

We are about to wrap up down here in Durban, South Africa with the last talk by Ant Brooks of the ISP association: Maps, opinions and best practices: ISPA’s fibre projects.

We are ending on a high note at the Coastlands conference center at ZANOG'25.

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Next up, Dominic Cull of ISPA takes us on a legal quest - in his own words: Parental Guidance required, and his talk is called: Current and looming legislation: What should ISPs be worrying about?

I find these things interesting as many ISPs will face very similar issues across the industry - and which continent you're on only slightly changes the shape of the issues we're facing.

Dominic is speaking to us at ZANOG25 in Durban, South Africa.
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We have had a fulfilling lunch here in the Coastlands conference center and are now hearing from Tshepo Makhado on the YES' program: Addressing the Youth Unemployment Crisis in South Africa and BEE Enhancement

It's so encouraging to see the care going in to providing opportunities to the next generation.

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Nishal Goburdhan represents the INX internet exchange, and is giving an Update on their community exchanges - they are going to replatform on Nokia routers - they are not alone @eritap :)

Nishal is crushing it, and could double as a standup comedian here in Durban, South Africa.
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We are joined next by Yazid AKANHO of ICANN describing their Domain Metrica project.

It's a system to collect, combind and compare metadata related to domain names. It's always DNS!

We're almost wrapping up our morning here in Durban, South Africa.

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We are remixing the agenda for a little bit, and are joined at noon by
Warwick Ward-Cox of Network Platforms, who discusses .ZA ASN vulnerabilities: A CSIRT.net.za overview

We are ending the morning session on a strong security note in Durban, South Africa.

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We are joined after a coffee break by Sara Alamin, from Packet Clearing House. She is delivering a talk on Building and operating a global DNS anycast network

The ZANOG community is meeting at the Coastlands conference center in Durban, South Africa.
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Next up is a favorite topic of mine brought to us by Nardus le Roux of Nokia: Containerlab - Network labs for the future

I absolutely love tinkering with vendor interop using https://containerlab.dev also most recently in validating the design for FrysIX (which will be using Nokia gear going forward!) so am quite enjoying my morning here in Durban at #zanog

We are joined by tandem presenters Ian Coetzee and Russell Cook who have scaled up their PPPoE delivery at Coolideas with Linux: B-RAS with accel-ppp

This is a fascinating use case and I appreciated these insights very much, at ZANOG'25 in Durban, South Africa.
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Hendrik Visage of Envisage Cloud Systems teaches us about the power of virtualized firewalls in his talk Virtualized firewalls and networking in Linux (ProxMox)

We are well underway on day two at the Coastlands conference center in Durban, South Africa.
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We are starting our second day in Durban, with an interactive session : Building skills for the next-generation of Internet Plumbers, hosted by Graham Beneke.

We are headed into a day packed with interesting sessions here at #zanog

The final talk at ZANOG’25 for today is by yours truly showing the operations of VPP in small, medium, large and huge off the shelf computers, all the way up to 923Mpps/1.25Tbps.

Selfie taken from the podium at coastlands conference center in Durban, South Africa.

See you at the Social Event!

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We are addressed by Gerrit Avenant of Dendrite Cyber, who speaks of Unlocking Network Visibility through Programmable Data Planes.

We are nearing the end of day1 of this ZANOG25 conference, which is held at the Coastlands conference center in uMhlanga near Durban in South Africa.

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We are after a great lunch here in Durban, South Africa.

We are joined via video call by Herbert Wolverson ofr LibreQoS with a talk called: Every ISP Needs To Use A QoE Middle-Box On Their Network

Quality of service and experience is very important in congested networks, as is often the case with overbooked consumer connections.

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Just before lunch we hear a lightning talk from Team Cymru's Community Support Initiatives offered by Sam Muchiri of Team Cymru.

We are wrapping up our morning at the Coastlands conference center in Durban, South Africa.

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At ZANOG'25 we are about to listen to a panel discussing: Collaboration in Action - Elevating Network Operations Together

This panel is expertly moderated by Tarryn Kidd and we are joined by NOG experts Sara Alamin (SdNOG, Sudan), Donald Jolley (ZANOG, South Africa) and Yazid AKANHO (BJNOG, Benin).

Excellent content and insights on NOGs across Africa here in Durban.
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We've had coffee and I had a few chats with folks from the NOG community. After the break, Jim Cowie of the Internet History Project is speaking to safeguarding of Internet archeology with our (grand)children with the group: Contemplating Internet History: Where Do We Go Next?

@IHI

We are at #zanog hosted in Durban, South Africa.