It's #NetMCR's (https://www.netmcr.uk/) 10th birthday this Thursday (11th) in #Manchester from 7pm!

There's 3(!) talks this time:

- Wren Wood, ‘Emergency Broadcast Connectivity’:

Ever wondered how you can see a correspondent live from the middle of nowhere, or embedded deep in a warzone? Wren will be pulling back the curtain on what goes into making live news. With a wide range of scenarios, and having to prepare for the absolute unknowns, they will discuss how you plan, deploy and execute reporting from all kinds of scenarios. Including connectivity from mobile networks to microwave links and satellite to dark fibre - all of the challenging environments there are.

- Michael Young, ‘The Apprenticeship Gap’:

We’re really excited to hear from Michael, who’s coming to us to speak about his employer’s apprenticeship scheme. His team’s intention was clear; to bring in new skills, and foster new ways of working that could help move the organisation forward. In practice, it wasn’t entirely straightforward to match new capabilities with how teams were already operating. We’ll hear the story of how Michael’s team identified the issues, talked about them openly, and started changing on both sides in order to meet in the middle.

- James Blessing, ‘Digital Infrastructure in the North’:

There are things being built in the north that we may well all be interested in. James will tell us all about the recent DINA26 meeting, and what we should be aware locally to that end. Slightly cryptic? You’ll just have to come and see for yourself!

Go and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) is on again this Thursday (14th) in #Manchester.

There's no talk scheduled as yet, so feel free to propose one, or just go along to chat to other nerds 😝, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) is on again this Thursday (9th) in #Manchester.

There will be 2 talks:

* Ross Moya, ‘BNG evolution at a fast growing altnet’:

A deep dive into how we scaled our BNG deployments to support rapid subscriber growth and the features and improvements we picked up along the way.

* Thomas Mangin, ‘Ze: What ExaBGP should always have been’:

We’re very delighted to have Thomas back again to speak about BGP, and this time he’s back with a new and improved project. There will be BGP, there will be Go, and there will be some judicious use of new-fangled programming methods.

Go and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) is on again this Thursday (12th) in #Manchester.

The talk will be by Mark Tearle, titled:

‘It is a disaster! Reacting to the Unexpected’*

Mark has flown across the world, avoiding flight disruptions, to present an interactive talk about disasters that befall networks, data centres and telecommunications infrastructure across the globe. A curated set of incidents will be discussed and the question posed - how would you or your organisation respond?

Go and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) is on again this Thursday (12th) in #Manchester.

The talk will be by Lewis Hill, ‘Migrating from VMWare to Proxmox’:

"We’re very excited to hear from Lewis, who is coming to us with his first talk, and it’s on a really pertinent subject for more than a few of us. Not one to miss!"

Go and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) in #Manchester is on tomorrow (8th January) at the Northern Monk (https://www.northernmonk.com/pages/manchester) from 7pm.

Tim Panton will be talking about ‘Quantifying 5G Uplink Performance From a Moving Vehicle’

Sounds complicated/interesting 😀

Go and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

#Networking #MeetUp

#NetMCR (https://www.netmcr.uk/) in #Manchester is on Thursday 6th November at the Northern Monk (https://www.northernmonk.com/pages/manchester) from 7pm.

This month there are two talks:

*Ollie King, "Building the 2nd Largest SLU Network":
How 650 cabinets were sub-loop unbundled reaching 28k locations in 18 regions

*Thomas Mangin, "Exa Cube":
The R&D journey into hardware production for an access provider’s customer routers tl;dr ‘I built my own CPE!’

Come and chat with some nice people, have some weird 🍻, and if you're hungry, 🍔 and 🍟!

Sadly I won't be going, as I'm not working in Manchester any more ;(