When we were designing the Interop Network, we we took a quick survey of that people thought was important and came up with some focus areas that everything would relate back to.

It didn’t take long for us to develop a simple list…

Education. No one is allowed to design or build something by themselves. During the
course of this build everyone has done any or all of the following :
Presented their design to their peers. Taught on how to do their design.
Taught on how to use their infrastructure. Taught on how to troubleshoot
their infrastructure or just waxed lyrical on a particular RFC.

Monitoring. This year we intend to do the impossible and we want to know about all the
network problems before anyone tells us about it. To that extent we’ve
put in a huge effort to ensure that every device, link, path and protocol
is managed monitored and distilled up into a single reporting system.

Statistics. Last, we are taking all of the information we are generating and instead
of just dropping it in the Bit bucket we are going to use it to collate
statistics on any and all values we care about (I think there is even a
plan to see how many gallons of water we will consume during the install
at Vegas). When someone later wants to know how the network behaved just
after the first keynote. We want to be ready with an answer.

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