Session: A Day in the Life of a Packet

Internet access can be spotty in some parts of the world due to long ping times, scenic routing, disasters, and general lack of infrastructure. You may or may not already be familiar with some of the open source and not-for-profit projects that help address Internet quality of service, privacy-protecting name servers, and tools for managing globally available services. The Internet is built on open source. In fact, if you follow the packets, you’ll find many tools that help run the Internet are built on open source. Join Equinix’s Edward Vielmetti, the manager of the company’s Open Source Partner Program, to learn about open source network tools and explore how these tools make the net better,