12–14 Mar 2024
Lord Charles Hotel
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Contribution List

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  1. Amreesh Phokeer (Internet Society)
    Technical

    Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and route hijacking have
    become the most predominant network attacks. To address these threats,
    network operators currently rely on mitigation services like Remotely
    Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) and Resource Public Key Infrastructure
    (RPKI). In this paper, we seek to understand how operators leverage
    both of these mechanisms. Using data collected at multiple...

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  2. Mr Justin Colyn (Reliaconnect / COMSOL)
    Regulatory

    Justin would like to present a perspective that emphasizes awareness and education regarding the various last-mile technologies and their critical importance in shaping the success of your business. In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, it's crucial to choose the right last-mile technologies that align with your unique business needs.

    Our mission is to reintroduce simplicity, openness,...

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  3. Mr Nishal Goburdhan (INX-ZA)
    Lightning

    How and why INX-ZA anonymises Sflow exporting.

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  4. Sander Steffann (6connect Inc)
    Technical

    Automation is not just about generating router configs. To manage changes in a team without getting in each other's way a more advanced automation workflow is needed. This talk will discuss the issues and outline a possible solution.

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  5. Ivan Potapov (Qrator.Radar)
    Technical

    Recently, the Qrator.Radar team has released a new website, the main purpose of which is to help the community of network engineers solve various tasks related to the BGP protocol. One of the main tasks is to provide information about the connectivity of Autonomous Systems. In this report, I want to talk about how you can independently analyze connectivity, conduct a brief overview of popular...

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  6. Massimiliano Stucchi (AS58280.net)
    Technical

    The BGP communities attribute, which usefully enables network operators to signal specific requests or information to nearby ASNs, also lets them signal RPKI status. But should they? In this presentation, I show the results of investigating the propagation of RPKI information in BGP communities.
    There is a baseline of BGP Updates that is derived from the updates in RPKI - the creation or...

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  7. Thomas Weible
    Technical

    With the speed of 400G coherent technology was introduced to pluggable optical transceivers (OIF 400ZR and OpenZR+). This technology is complex and powerful for your network, it even has influence on your network device operating system.
    This talk will provide first insight in Nokia's implementation as well as known or potential interoperability issues addressed by the OIForum. If your...

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  8. Mr Tim Genders (Project Isizwe)
    Technical

    90% of the homes in South Africa do not have WiFi and consequently pay up to 50 time more for data than those who have WiFi
    • Africans use as much mobile data as Europeans but 5% of the fixed broadband data because the fixed broadband infrastructure is not there.
    • When considering internet revenue potential per hectare rather than per home, 8 million households are economically viable for a...

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  9. Mr Mark Campbell (Netscout|Arbor)
    Technical

    Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) continue to plague the internet and is ever evolving. This presentations aims to highlight the following Key Findings:
    - Internet Traffic Growth & Visibility Accelerating
    - The Power of Persistence
    - DDoS Attack Infrastructure Telemetry
    - Adversary Discovery Lifecycle
    - Carpet-Bombing & DNS Water Torture Attacks Increase Pace
    - World Events Fuel DDoS...

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  10. Mr Jac Kloots (Kentik)
    Technical

    This presentation will focus on the unprecedented cyber-attack on Orange España in January 2024, highlighting the novel misuse of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to induce an outage.
    We will explore the sequence of events leading to the service disruption, the attacker's strategy of publishing erroneous Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs), and the subsequent operational and...

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  11. Mr Mark Tinka (TransmissionCo)
    Technical

    This paper summarizes the key milestones that are expected to come to fruition in 2024 vis a vis DWDM and optical networking.

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  12. Ms Tiffany Markman (Tiffany Markman Writing & Training)
    Regulatory

    By the time you have your next haircut, generative AI will be exponentially more powerful than it is right now – which has many businesses and professionals in a panic. Are we, humans who generate content, about to be shown the door? No. There’s “ENOUGH ROOM FOR EVERY-BOTTY”. In this talk we explore the whys, hows and where-to-from-heres and you get the must-knows of prompt engineering...

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  13. Atish Joottun (University of Mauritius / Cyberstorm Mauritius)
    Lightning

    This research test and analyses the websites that are hosted and available in Mauritius, to conclude whether Mauritius is prepared against Quantum Computing. This research can also be applied to any other countries. Our methodology includes the validation of ports and TLS servers, checking the presence of firewalls and finally, the actual test. All the code has been documented and uploaded on GitHub.

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  14. Mr Jan Vermeulen (MyBroadband)
    Technical

    Regional Internet Registries like AFRINIC provide essential services for the functioning of the global Internet.

    Unfortunately, AFRINIC has been left headless and rudderless after its tussle with Cloud Innovation / Larus and its affiliates. As of September 2023 when this submission was made, work was underway to get it limping again. However, a lot must be done for Africa's RIR to become a...

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  15. June Okal
    Lightning

    The ICANN Grant Program is an exciting opportunity for eligible organizations across the globe to apply for funding for projects that are consistent with ICANN's mission and aligned with the objectives of the ICANN Grant Program.

    This program will make a difference in the Internet ecosystem, while also positively impacting people all over the world by investing in creative and innovative...

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  16. Eckart Zollner (Digital Parks Africa)
    Technical

    New High performance technology such as the one found in Blockchain applications, high power GPU's and Gaming technology requires a new approach for Data Centre environments. Power density above 25KW per rack can no longer be sufficiently cooled by traditional means and Data Centre's now have to implement more efficient alternate cooling systems.

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  17. Amreesh Phokeer (Internet Society)
    Technical

    Internet Resilience in Southern Africa

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  18. Matthias Kayser (Smartoptics AS)
    Technical

    IP over DWDM is a networking approach, that integrates IP and optical transport technologies.
    Basically, it’s a technology using DWDM pluggable transceivers embedded in a router, connecting directly into a DWDM system – eliminating the need for transponders, thus optimizing data transfer over optical networks. This improves scalability, efficiency, and is leading to less complex networks,...

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  19. Andrew Dolganow (Nokia)
    Technical

    Network are an attack path for ever increasing remote attacks on users and infrastructure. This presentation will highlight emerging/evolving quantum and DDOS security threats and discuss Quantum protection and DDoS detection and scrubbing mechanisms that can be deployed to secure network infrastructure today and beyond.

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  20. Bob Ochieng (ICANN)
    Lightning

    The New gTLD Program next round is an initiative coordinated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), that is enabling expansion of the domain name system. Via the introduction of new top-level domains (TLDs), the program aims to foster diversity, encourage competition and enhance the utility of the DNS.

    Many new safeguards to help support a secure, stable and...

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  21. Mr Bryce Allen (Teraco), Michele McCann (Teraco and NAPAfrica)
    Lightning

    Bryce Allen, Head of Sustainability at Teraco, will discuss the challenges for the South African ICT sector and strategies to mitigate the impact of high-powered infrastructure on scarce resources.

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  22. Byren Meintjes (ADTRAN)
    Technical

    Content aims to show future Access and Metro Agregation networks architectures to cost effectively expand as bandwidth demands grow.

    Going from 10G grey networks on dark fibre to 100g colored WDM interfaces.

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  23. Ms Shireen Powell (Project Isizwe)
    Regulatory

    78% of children at age 10 in South Africa are unable to read for meaning.
    Compare this to 3% in the UK, 4% in the USA, 13% in Chile and 35% in Iran and it is clear that South Africa will not globally compete in the next generation. Project Isizwe has deployed Wi-Fi into schools for learning and teaching with significant success. 80% of South African schools can be reached by ISPs either with...

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  24. Mr Sabelo Dlamini (SANReN)
    Regulatory

    SANReN - High-speed network dedicated to science, research, education, and innovation traffic. SANReN overview, the network, and the role entity play in contribution to the research and education in South Africa.

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  25. Mrs Dhashina Ramiah
    Regulatory

    In 2023, AI was a buzzword - the trending topic in social media, networking sites and conferences. It is now a daily reality and every almost every organization is experiencing a kind of information overload, trying to make sense of global guidelines which are rapidly being released and making decisions on their internal practices and governance policies for the responsible use of AI.

    This...

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  26. Shaun Pather (University of the Western Cape / Zenzeleni Networks Not-For-Profit)
    Technical

    As South Africa and the rest of the world edges towards 2030 there are two significant milestones that loom large. Globally all UN members have committed to the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To this end there is wide consensus of the importance of access to broadband internet and the adoption of associated ICTs to enhance and catalyse achievement of many goals. ...

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  27. Jac Kloots (Kentik)
    Technical

    Is spoofed traffic coming through your network? Are you absolutely sure? Service providers have an obligation to identify and remediate spoofed traffic coming through their networks. This lightning talk discusses how a NetFlow analysis platform and be used to identify and remediate the spoofed traffic that drives DDoS attacks.

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  28. June Okal
    Lightning

    The Coalition for Digital Africa is an initiative that aims to bring together stakeholders to expand the Internet in Africa and seeks to expand the reach of information and knowledge while avoiding duplication of efforts.

    The Coalition promotes innovation and encourages entrepreneurial efforts aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure to support the development of Africa’s digital...

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  29. Don Jolley (INX-ZA), Mr Edrich de Lange (ZANOG)
    Technical

    Dual Speaker talk.

    Donald to update on the ZANOG caches and performance

    Edd to update on ZANOG NTP stratum 1 servers to go live soon

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