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Ex Internet plumber, now leading a fun team of tech and business wizards at Kentik as we bring a fresh approach to visibility into infrastructure performance, availability, and security issues. We’re hiring!
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email: avi at freedman and .netCurrent Gadgets
2019 16" MBP 64GIpad Pro
Blackberry Key2 Red
S20 Ultra
Ipad mini + Logitech ultrathin
2004 HPA TT R32
2020 Tesla Model 3 P
Devon Tread 1 and misc other timepieces
Where to find me:
CEO at Kentik TechnologiesSF and Seattle. Pre-COVID, was in and around SF mostly, and usually PHL, BOS, NovA, NY monthly.
Eating at Fogo de Chao, Eating at Midwest Grill, Eating at Sagami, Eating at Sushi Sasabune, and Eating at Craftsteak.
Deprecated Gadgets
Too many phones and laptopsIntegra, Legend, 1992 325i, E39 M5, E43 M3, 2009 GT-R, 2003 RS6, 2009 Jeep SRT8
Old Old Press
A picture from a Forbes article, mostly about netaxs, from Dec 1995.And the article(poorly formatted copy).
And an except from his December 1996 article.
PPTs/Tutorials
Securing the Edge: On the Weakness of Firewalls , ACM QueueAn old Multi-Homing FAQ I wrote.
A newer Multi-Homing FAQ I wrote.
Choosing an upstream provider
How to Multi-Home
BGP 101
BGP 102
Engineering robust routers
Boardwatch Articles
Stopping The FloodYour Own Address Space
Multi-Homing With and Without BGP4
Where We Are In The “Routing Columns”
Ethel the Aardvark Goes BGP Routing
Usenet New Servers - the Simple Version
Configuring a Cisco Router, Part 1
Web Proxy Caches and BW Augment
Satellite-Based Bandwidth Augmentation
IP Space Update, Usenet, IP Filtering
DNS Servers and PI Space
Stuff I Used to Do
Started & Ran Netaxs (PHL’s first ISP) (1992-1999)Ran AboveNet Engineering (1998-1999)
VP Network, Chief Network Architect, Chief Network Scientist, Distinguished (hah) Software Engineer, Akamai (1999-2009)
CTO at ServerCentral, 2009-2014
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