Dear SwiNOG community,
Please forward me to whomever you think should know about our community and the upcoming event.
This is the official Call for Paper email. Please submit your proposal via https://www.swinog.ch/cfp/
The 41st meeting of the Swiss Network Operators Group (SwiNOG) will be held in Berne on top of the Gurten on Tuesday April 28th, 2026.
Location: https://wego.here.com/l/46.91963060309784,7.439032069847434
Important Dates for http://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog41/
30.01.2026 Call for Papers
02.02.2026 Registration opens -> https://register.swinog.ch/
29.03.2026 Publication of preliminary agenda
19.04.2026 Registration closes
24.04.2026 Deadline for all slides
28.04.2026 Meeting Day
Topics for Presentations/Talks
Please re-submit your paper if you're still up with a topic which you have submitted earlier.
The number and length of presentations per session is not fixed, although we prefer it to be between 5 to 30 minutes.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of typical SwiNOG meeting topics:
* Security, DDOS Mitigation,
* IPv6
* Open-Source- / GitHub projects
* International view of the internet (incidents, outages, measurements)
* Routing & Peering
* Applications (DNS, Web, Network Virtualization, Orchestration, Monitoring etc.)
* Takeaways from your projects / troubleshooting-sessions
* Legal issues (BÜPF, etc.)
* Telecommunication politics (Net Neutrality, Incumbent monopoly, etc.)
* Off-Topic if you think the audience will enjoy
Feel free to talk to us about any kind of topic and collaboration! Or you can always start a discussion on the list - I'm sure people join in. Or join our telegram group at https://t.me/SWINOG
Language of Slides and Talks
The whole day will be hold in English, therefore we kindly ask you to produce your presentation in English.
Submission Guidelines
* All submissions must have a strong technical bias and must not be promotional.
* We also welcome lightning talks (3-5 Minutes). If entertaining – they can also be completely off-topic.
* Presentations should be suitable for a target audience of technicians from varied backgrounds, working for companies whose sizes may vary considerably.
* Presentation will be published (PDF) on the SwiNOG website after the event (if confirmed/permitted by the speaker).
* On request we publish modified slides (removed confidential content, etc.)
* Presentations should be suitable for a target audience of technicians from varied backgrounds, working for companies whose sizes may vary considerably.
To submit a proposal for a presentation, please fill in the form at https://www.swinog.ch/cfp/
We also welcome suggestions for specific presentations which you feel would be valuable to the SwiNOG community and we try to chase a speaker for it.
Greetings,
Simon
SwiNOG Core Team
swinog-core(a)swinog.ch<mailto:swinog-core@swinog.ch>
General Information (SwiNOG Community)
The Swiss Network Operators Group (SwiNOG) is an informal group of people who are concerned with engineering and operation of the Swiss Internet.
SwiNOG exists to enhance the quality of Internet services available in Switzerland. It does this by fostering the free exchange of technical ideas and information between different companies and organisations.
SwiNOG is a community for professionals who are operating, designing, or researching the Internet. It provides a technical forum where those working on, with and for the Internet can come together to solve problems with every aspect of their (net)work.
The meeting is designed to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information among network operators, engineers, researchers, and other professionals close to the network community.
More information about SwiNOG can be found at http://www.swinog.ch<http://www.swinog.ch/>
Information about the meeting will be published at http://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog41/
General Information (SwiNOG Organisation)
The SwiNOG Organisation Association is a non-profit association under article 60 and further of the swiss civil law. It manages the SwiNOG community ressources (domain, web, mailing-lists, etc..) and organises SwiNOG meetings.
Contact:
SwiNOG Organisation
8000 Zurich
Switzerland
Dear all,
[My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]
Thank you to all of you who already answered our survey on operators' main motives for network hardware upgrades. If you have not yet, it's not too late! Please help us get a more balanced worldview of the state of practices :-)
=> https://tally.so/r/rjEkZR
Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
--
Romain
On 27/03/2026 11:01, Romain Jacob via wrote:
Dear all,
[My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]
TL;DR
I lead an academic research project to better understand the motives behind network hardware upgrades. If you are operating a network infrastructure and have 10 minutes to spare, we would greatly appreciate you filling out this short (anonymous) survey: https://tally.so/r/rjEkZR
== Longer version ==
My name is Romain; I am a senior scientist at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where I research the environmental impacts of Internet infrastructure and how we can steer networks to become more sustainable in the future.
There is increasing evidence that a large part of the Internet's impact comes from the manufacturing, deployment, and recycling of hardware, suggesting that networks could substantially reduce their footprint by keeping network devices in operation for longer, despite possibly higher energy consumption in older hardware models. Some of my ongoing research aims to assess whether this hypothesis is correct; happy to tell you more about that if you are interested.
Assuming it is indeed correct that network hardware should be kept in operation for longer, if we want to encourage this, we must understand why networks are being upgraded today.
* What are the main motives behind network hardware upgrades nowadays?
* What factors are preventing or discouraging longer hardware lifetime in networks?
We prepared a short survey to help answer those questions. After some brief contextualization questions to clarify the network type and context, the core of the survey presents a list of possible motives for hardware upgrades and asks, for each, how important it typically is in your own network upgrades. The second half of the survey contains (optional) questions related to the current environmental sustainability practices in your organization. If you are operating a network or working for an organization that operates a public or private network infrastructure, we would greatly appreciate you filling out this short (anonymous) survey: https://tally.so/r/rjEkZR
And, naturally, you are more than welcome to share this survey within your own network (of humans, I mean). Many thanks in advance!
—
Romain
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Romain JACOB
Postdoctoral Researcher
ETH Zurich
Networked Systems Group (NSG)
Lead: Prof. Laurent Vanbever
www.romainjacob.net<https://www.romainjacob.net/>
@RJacobPartner<https://twitter.com/RJacobPartner>
@jacobr@discuss.systems<https://discuss.systems/@jacobr>
Gloriastrasse 35, ETZ G84
8092 Zurich
+41 7 68 16 88 22
Hi Team
I got notified that email from service(a)sbb.ch sent from the US
ServiceNow IP Address: 37.98.234.2 contain an URI blacklisted
as 'spamtrap hit' in uribl.swinog.ch which causes most emails to get
handled as spam (in our case rejected)
Unfortunately I have not yet managed to get my hands on an email which
contains this URI which is blacklisted.
I opened a case with the SBB Customer service and they sent me such an
email in an attempt to reproduce the issue:
Received: from outbound09.service-now.com (outbound09.service-now.com [37.98.234.2])
(using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)
key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256)
(No client certificate requested)
by idefix.imp.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 296EEC07A5
for <abuse(a)imp.ch>; Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:14:35 +0200 (CEST)
Unfortunately that email they sent me, contains no URI listed
@uribl.swinog.ch
sbb.ch and swisspass.ch are whitelisted, same for servicenow.com.
What other URI could be contained in 'most' of the replies sent from
service(a)sbb.ch?
Any help appreciated!
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
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Dear Swinogers
In May, Geneva Cyber Week takes place — in Geneva, of course! The Swiss
CSIRTs are organizing a two-day Technical Colloquium, "Peak Incident
Response," on 5–6 May:
https://www.first.org/events/colloquia/geneva2026/
<https://www.first.org/events/colloquia/geneva2026/>. Attendance is free
and a great program is lined up.
This is a technical conference focused on large-scale infrastructure.
What makes the event special is that we won't only have technical folks,
but also many people from the policy space — those working for UN
agencies, nonprofits, and similar organizations. Today, running and
securing the internet is more than technical work. It's important that
the non-technical world understands our concerns and challenges.
At the same time, this is an event that brings together the
technologists — the people who actually do the hard, unglamorous work.
This event is organized by volunteers; we've worked to make it free, and
what we need now are participants who make it worthwhile. Talks are
cheap: good questions in the Q&A and good conversations during the
breaks are what make this event worth attending. I hope to see many of
you there.
Feel free to reach back if you have questions or comments
Best
Serge
Sorry I wrote the wrong email:
If you want to come, have no ticket and did not yet write to the Waiting List - please do so: “Waiting List” core(a)swinog.org (.org not .ch)
Dear SwiNOG community
The Agenda for SwiNOG #41 - Tuesday 28th of April 2026 is published. - https://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog41/
(Very tiny slimy monsters delayed that a bit unexpectedly)
Registration
We’re fully booked but working hard to make it possible that we can raise the available seats.
If you want to come, have no ticket and did not yet write to the Waiting List - please do so: “Waiting List” core(a)swinog.ch
Location
See details under Location at https://swinog.ch/mettings/swinog41/
Gurtenbahn / Cablecar to Gurten
Please note, there is a new way how Gurtenbahn (the Cablecar to the event location) is handling tickets.
-> Do not buy a Gurten Ticket yet, we will send you a voucher code (Gurten Ticket is included in the SwiNOG Ticket).
Agenda
08:15 Registration, Coffee & Gipfeli (60 min)
09:15 Welcome & Agenda (5 min)
Morning Session 1 — Network Strategy & Optical Infrastructure
09:20 Wouter Van Renterghem | RETN GmbH — 25 min
The Road to Tier-"Something". Rethinking Network Strategy & Building Resilience Through PNIs, Peering and Smart Geographical Expansion.
09:45 Thomas Holterbach | University of Strasbourg — 20 min
bgproutes.io: A next-gen BGP data collection platform
10:05 Gerhard Stein | Flexoptix GmbH — 25 min
Understanding and optimising transceiver power consumption using internal metrics
10:30 Liam Taylor | EXA Infrastructure — 15 min
Shared Spectrum & MOFN
10:45 Morning Break (45 min)
Morning Session 2 — Swiss Internet Heritage
11:30 Arist Volger | SwissIX — 20 min
25 Years of SwissIX – A Quarter Century of Peering in Switzerland
11:50 Arist Volger | SwissIX — 5 min
SwissIX Update
11:55 Lunch Break (90 min)
Afternoon Session 1 — AI & Network Architecture
13:25 Tobias Bühler | netfabric.ai — 25 min
Toward Agentic Network Operations: What AI Can (and Can't) Do
13:50 Jolly Trivedi | University of Turku — 25 min
Ethics and Oversight in AI-Driven Cybersecurity
14:15 Remi Locherer | modus one ag with Arista Networks — 25 min
EVPN Unleashed: Scaling Multi-Domain Fabrics with EVPN Gateways
14:40 Tilmann Zäschke | ETH Zürich — 20 min
SCION Inter-Domain Routing
15:00 Afternoon Break (45 min)
Afternoon Session 2 — Automation & Community
15:45 Damien Garros | OpsMill — 25 min
The Network Automation Map: Navigate Your Journey with the NAF Automation Framework
16:10 Leandro Lerena | Zebbra AG — 15 min
Building a Vendor-Agnostic E2E Testing Ecosystem with Netlab
16:25 TBD | Megaport — 15 min
TBA
16:40 Andrew Vieyra | CommunityRack.org — 10 min
CommunityRack.org - New Projects and Focus!
16:50 Severin Dellsperger | OST University — 10 min
CHNUG
17:00 Social Event
Already a big “Thank You” to our Sponsors
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