[AusNOG] CAIA Seminar - 10:30am, 16th Mar 2015, EN715 - VIRL: The Virtual Internet Routing Lab

[Jason But]

Hello all

I anybody is in Melbourne next week (perhaps for Cisco Live), you may be 
interested in attending Simon's presentation at Swinburne University as part 
of our Seminar series.

Details below

Regards

Jason
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CAIA Seminar Notice
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For more information, please visit http://caia.swin.edu.au/seminars

Title:    VIRL: The Virtual Internet Routing Lab

Speaker:  Simon Knight

Time:     10:30am, 16th Mar 2015

Location: EN715, Level 7, EN Building

Abstract:

VIRL is a network simulation platform that allows network operating
systems, to run in a virtual environment. It provides a drag-and-drop user
interface to design network topologies, an automated configuration engine
to configure IP addressing and routing protocols, and a simulation engine
based on OpenStack, allowing clustering across multiple physical servers.

The VIRL platform includes virtualised versions of Cisco's four main
routing operating systems (IOS, IOS-XR, IOS-XE and NX-OS), which can be
connected to other network devices such as firewalls, layer 2 switches,
Linux servers, or connected to external devices such as live BGP feeds or
physical hardware.

With the combination of real-world operating systems (using the same
control-plane code as production routers), traffic generators and automated
packet capture, VIRL provides a comprehensive platform for conducting
network research, change validation, training, education, and network
applications development.

This talk will cover the VIRL platform architecture, focusing on the key
components as well as looking at how such Network simulation system are
being used in the real world.

Biography:

Simon Knight is a Software Engineer in the Chief Architect's Office at
Cisco Systems. He is working on the Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL)
project, in the areas of automated router configuration, data collection,
visualisation, and integration with other systems.

Simon has a Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications) with First Class
Honours, and a Bachelor of Economics. He is completing his PhD thesis on
Automated Network Configuration.


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Dr. Jason But
Deputy Chair, Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and Robotics 
Engineering
Deputy Academic Director (Education Quality & Accreditation)
Course Co-Ordinator, Bachelor of ICT (Network Design and Security)

Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and Robotics Engineering
School of Software and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
CRICOS Provider 00111D

Phone:  +61 3 9214 4839
Email:  jbut at swin.edu.au
www:    http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/jbut
Office: EN606e