NOC Update#

Konstantinos Prantzos — AMS-IX

• Why: NOC updates are the purest postmortem-and-operations genre at operator events: what broke, what was learned, what changed. For a PM in DC/fabric work, an exchange NOC's year in review is a compact source of failure modes in shared-layer-2 fabric at carrier scale.
• What: The AMS-IX NOC's update on operational events, incidents, and infrastructure work over the preceding period. The program gives only the title and the AMS-IX Technical Track tag; whether it includes incident postmortems or is limited to maintenance and statistics is not stated. (from abstract only; no description published)
• How: N/A — this is an operational report rather than a technique talk.
• Where applicable: Broadly instructive for anyone running always-on layer-2 fabrics and peering platforms; the specific incidents are AMS-IX's, but the failure classes (optics, port flaps, maintenance risk, member-side mayhem) are universal in exchange and DC fabrics.