Talks

Talks, Workshops & Presentations

Would you like a member of the IXP Manager team to speak at your event? Get in contact with the project via admin (at) ixpmanager.org to discuss this further.

2024

IXP Manager v7. 41st Euro-IX Forum, Budapest, Hungary. Barry O'Donovan, November 2024.
In our latest presentation at Euro-IX, we review the current 'state of the nation' for IXP Manager, briefly mention highlights from the v6 release, and then introduce v7 in detail.
Leveraging Vagrant to Simulate Complex Systems for Network Application Development. RIPE 89, Prague, Czechia. Barry O'Donovan, October 2024.
We need to model complex environments when developing web applications like IXP Manager in a network engineering domain. These environments often consist of routers, switches, BGP daemons, SNMP daemons, looking glasses, and more. While mocking can be useful, it has limitations, and testing in a live production environment poses significant risks. This is where Vagrant — a tool designed to create and configure reproducible and portable development environments — can prove invaluable.
Introducing IXP Manager v7. RIPE 89, Prague, Czechia. Barry O'Donovan, October 2024.
INEX will shortly make our first new major release of IXP Manager in over three years. Barry discusses what triggers a 'major' new release and some new features, including member diagnostics, a new configuration UI, and peer-to-peer graph ordering.
IXP Manager – BGP & Route Servers. Euro-IX Route Server Workshop, NAMEX, Rome, Italy. Barry O'Donovan, March 2024.
A general overview of current and upcoming route server features within IXP Manager.

2023

IXP Manager Update - 2023. Global Peering Forum – GPF 2023, San Diego, California, USA. Barry O'Donovan, April 2023.
A general update on what's changed in IXP Manager since the previous GPF talk in 2019. Includes a first reveal of the new user interface for managing route server filtering.

2022

Bringing your IX and First Members Live. APRICOT 2022, Remote from Dublin, Ireland. Barry O'Donovan, February 24, 2022.
In this 2-hour tutorial, Barry O'Donovan demonstrates the initial steps required to turn a fresh installation of IXP Manager into a functional system to help power your IXP. We also do the world premiere of a new feature which allows members to implement the standard community based route server filtering via the UI without having to touch their own routers and apply complex community tagging configuration.

2021

Our Community and IXP Manager. Euro-IX – 20 Years of Cooperation, Virtual. Barry O'Donovan, June 29 2021.
In celebrating Euro-IX's 20 years of collaboration, Barry will show that collaboration is a two-way street with IXP Manager by taking a look at how our community has helped the project and reflect on how the project helps our community.
Automating and Securing Route Servers with IXP Manager. APNIC Academy, Virtual. Barry O'Donovan, June 15 2021.
Route servers are essential IXP infrastructure and one of IXP Manager's central features is the generation of a MANRS-compliant configuration, supporting both IRRDB and RPKI filtering and a built in looking glass. In this webinar, we will look at deploying a route server using IXP Manager supporting all the features mentioned.

2020

IXP Manager – An Open Source Success Story for Better Internet Connectivity. RIPE 81, Virtual. Barry O'Donovan, October 28 2020.
OAuth with PeeringDB for Network Operators. UKNOF45 – UK Network Operators Forum, London, England. Barry O'Donovan, January 15th 2020.
A presentation introducing OAuth 2.0 to network operators with a real world example of how we developed Login with PeeringDB support for IXP Manager.

2019

OAuth for IXP Operators. 35th Euro-IX Forum, Zaandam, Netherlands. Barry O'Donovan, October 20th - 22nd 2019.
A presentation introducing OAuth 2.0 to network operators with a real world example of how we developed Login with PeeringDB support for IXP Manager.
IXP Route Servers with RPKI. UKNOF44 – UK Network Operators Forum, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Barry O'Donovan, September 10th 2019.
IXP Manager Introduction. Af-IX, Balaclava, Mauritius. Nick Hilliard, August 19th - 22th 2019.
IXP Manager Installation Tutorial. AfPIF-10 - The African Peering & Interconnection Forum, Balaclava, Mauritius. Nick Hilliard, August 19th - 22th 2019.
RPKI at Route Servers. AfPIF-10 - The African Peering & Interconnection Forum, Balaclava, Mauritius. Nick Hilliard, August 19th - 22th 2019.
INEX's RPKI Implementation. RIPE 78, Reykjavík, Iceland. Nick Hilliard, May 20th - 24th 2019.
IXP Route Servers with RPKI and IXP Manager. GPF14 - Global Peering Forum, Montréal, Canada. Barry O'Donovan, April 9th - 12th 2019.
Updated version of the APRICOT 2019 presentation below. A best-practice integration of RPKI into the current IX route server context which still includes IRRDB support.
INEX's Shiny New Route Servers. 34th Euro-IX Forum, Toulouse, France. Nick Hilliard, March 31st - April 2nd 2019.
IXP Manager. APIX 19 (Asia Pacific Internet Exchange Association), Daejeon, South Korea. Barry O'Donovan, February 24th 2019.
An introduction to IXP Manager for the APIX audience. Also provides a general update on the state of IXP Manager as of Feb 2019.

2018

RPKI, Route Servers and IXP Manager. 33rd Euro-IX Forum, Venice, Italy. Barry O'Donovan, November 2018.
This is based on Nick's presentation at RIPE 77 (below). While not a IXP Manager specific presentation, it does reference IXP Manager and expand on our plans for RPKI.
RPKI at Route Servers. RIPE 77, Amsterdam, Netherlands.. Nick Hilliard, October 2018.
While not a IXP Manager specific presentation, it does reference IXP Manager and our plans for RPKI.
Migrating Legacy Applications to PHP. Laravel Live UK, London, UK. Barry O'Donovan, June 2018.
A PHP conference presentation on migrating legacy PHP applications to Laravel using our experiences with IXP Manager as a use-case example.
IXP Manager Workshop: Tutorial. LACNIC29, Panama City, Panama. Kyle Spencer (Uganda Internet Exchange Point), May 2018.
A rerun of Nick's workship from APRICOT 2018 below.
IXP Manager Update & Route Server Configuration. 32nd Euro-IX Forum, Galway, Ireland. Barry O'Donovan, April 2018.
IXP Manager Workshop. APRICOT 2018 / APIX, Kathmandu, Nepal. Nick Hilliard, February 25 2018.
Workshop introduction, an update on IXP Manager, an overview of its features, installation and configuration.

2017

IXP Automation. RIPE 75, Dubai, UAE. Barry O'Donovan, October 2017.
Automation with IXP Manager. NLNOG Day 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Nick Hilliard, September 8th 2017.
IXP Manager Update. GPF 12.0 - Global Peering Forum, New York City, USA. Barry O'Donovan, April 24 - 27th 2017.
As the project turns ten this year, it is a fitting time to deliver our first States-side presentation and update the community on some major milestone goals.
Cross Connect / Patch Panel Management. 30th Euro-IX Forum, Barcelona, Spain. Barry O'Donovan, April 9 - 11th 2017.
A ~5 minute lightning talk to introduce the new cross connect / patch panel management feature.

2016

Exporting Flow Telemetry for Fun and Profit. RIPE 73, Madrid, Spain. Nick Hilliard, October 2016.
Bird's Eye: A Simple Secure Micro Service for Querying Bird. RIPE 73, Madrid, Spain. Nick Hilliard (for Barry O'Donovan), October 2016.
Workshop: IXP Manager V4 Installation/Upgrade. 28th Euro-IX Forum (3rd IXP Manager Workshop), Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Barry O'Donovan, April 24th 2016.
The purpose of this presentation was to give attendees an idea of what’s involved and how things are progressing towards an official release of IXP Manager v4.
Workshop: Grapher: Anatomy of a Request. 28th Euro-IX Forum (3rd IXP Manager Workshop), Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Barry O'Donovan, April 24th 2016.
This presentation was a walk-through of how Grapher processes a request. There are essentially two sides to this: the HTTP request processing (including validation and access control) and the Grapher backend for processing a graph.
Workshop: Introduction and Update. 28th Euro-IX Forum (3rd IXP Manager Workshop), Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Barry O'Donovan, April 24th 2016.
Workshop introduction, an update on IXP Manager development and an introduction to the new graphing service - Grapher.

2015

Workshop: Introduction to IXP Manager and a Look at V4. 27th Euro-IX Forum (2nd IXP Manager Workshop), Berlin, Germany. Barry O'Donovan, October 25th 2015.
Workshop: Introduction to IXP Manager. 26th Euro-IX Forum (1st IXP Manager Workshop), Marseille, France. Barry O'Donovan, Nick Hilliard, April 12th 2015.
This was repeated by attendee request at the 2nd IXP Manager workshop. See the slides from that workshop which were updated.

2014

IXP Manager. APIX 10 (Asia Pacific Internet Exchange Association), Brisbane, Australia (delivered remotely). Barry O'Donovan, September 14th 2014.

2013

IXP Manager Update (v3.6.0). 23rd Euro-IX Forum, Helsinki, Finland. Barry O'Donovan, October 27th - 29th 2013.
IXP Manager Update. RIPE66, Dublin, Ireland. Barry O'Donovan, May 13th - 17th 2013.

2012

IXP Manager Update V3.0. 21st Euro-IX Forum, Stockholm, Sweden. Barry O'Donovan, November 11th - 13th 2012.

2011

IXP Manager. 18th Euro-IX Forum, Catania, Sicily, Italy. Nick Hilliard, May 30th - 31st 2011.
A lightening talk announcing the availability of IXP Manager on GitHub for the first time.

2010

IXP Manager. INEX Members' Meeting, Dublin, Ireland. Barry O'Donovan, June 2010.
An interesting historical presentation of IXP Manager v1 back when we were using the old Joomla templating design. This was when we made it available to the INEX members for the first time.