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- Wireless
- Campus wireless horror stories
- Open Source Controller?
- eduroam nas_id naming standards for inter-org troubleshooting
- Establishing shared credentialing capabilities for testing and troubleshooting authentication from other institutions, modeled on PerfSONAR
- 5G and CBRS for campuses
- Automation
- Looking for small scale network automation options to go beyond simple Ansible running on a laptop.
- BNS
- Why isn’t there a really goodTerraform provider for configuring networks running IOS-?? and JunOS?
- Tools
- Campus Networking / Segmentation
- EVPN-VXLAN replacing virtual chassis in Juniper switching/routing
- EVPN
- Network Overlay
- EVPN/VXLAN adoption.
- IPv6 deployment experience and strategy
- High performance overlay (eg wireguard)
- Network Architecture for 100% north/south flows
- Campus Design (L3/building vs backhaul), LAG, chassis vs. fixed switch
- Integrating research networking into a production campus environment
- Preferred DNS/DHCP
- Security
- Routing Security
- ZTA
- NAC setup/solutions
- Updated NAC solution, particular dot1x on wired
- Campus RBAC/ZTA
- Campus firewalling/NAT
- BGP Threat Feeds (flowspec) / RTBH
- What feeds are being used
- UT Austin wrote an API for their security team to use to inject blackhole routes
- How often border filters are updated
- Use block/allow instead of blacklist/whitelist
- Network Firewall Policy manager
- Network Honeypots
- CMMC
- RBAC and the cloud
- DDoS
- Cloud/SaaS
- SaaS network management tools - the good, the bad, and the ugly;
- Cloud network architectures (loosely coupled and tightly coupled).
- Other
- Readying next generation Network Engineers
- Work-study students, permissions, training
- Making sure the students have actual guided work and a mentor, and not just boring grunt work
- Working with the relevant departments to have promising students directed to you
- Writing an exit note
- Community Training
- Self-service network troubleshooting
- Campus Direction
- Public Safety Radio
- IT Disaster Resource Center
- Building Management Tools for Campus Networks
- DNS record management
- Network Monitoring
- High Performance Computing / infrastructure and storage support / 100G Edge
- Building Automation
- Readying next generation Network Engineers
- Next year
- Remove "invitation only" and utilize Internet2 registration (I'm iffy on this personally)
- Box lunches and $25 fee, lose the afternoon break