Inside Seabone: experiences of a Tier-1 Backbone#

Gabriele Laghi, Patrizia Rossi, Antonio Ferretti

• Why: A Tier-1 operational tell-all is exactly the "failure stories and hard-won lessons" category this PM up-ranks — Tier-1 backbones see failure modes no one else does.
• What: Behind-the-scenes operational experiences running the Seabone Tier-1 IP backbone. (title only)
• How: Unknown; expect scale, peering, capacity engineering, and incident practice from the deck.
• Where applicable: Tier-1/transit scale — some lessons are inherently scale-dependent, but the operational patterns (maintenance, convergence, tooling) transfer.