DANTE's Operations
DANTE's Operations are handled by:
DANTE's Chief Operations Officer
Marian Garcia Vidondo
The Operations team
Emma Apted
Xavier Martins-Rivas
Fausto Vetter
Wayne Routly
Tereza Murphy
Network Operations Centre
Network Operations Centre Manager
Toby Rodwell
The DANTE NOC has a staff of 9, including the NOC Manager. There are 6 Tier2 engineers who remotely configure all the network elements and investigate any network outages. They work in shifts of 2 or 3 between 0500 and 2100, Monday to Friday, and outside of these times one of them is on-call. There are also 2 Tier3 engineers, one of whom is primarily responsible for routers, and the other is primarily responsible for the optical transmission and switching equipment. Finally, a member of the DANTE Systems Admin team is based in the NOC, to give direct support to the network monitoring systems and other NOC tools.
NOC Team
Ross Winter
Nikolay Manolov
Rebecca Corn
Arefin Ahmed
Akileswaran Radhakrishnan
Henry Agbenu
Scott Clarke
Luca Rinaldi
Mian Usman
Chief Operations Officer
Marian Garcia Vidondo
Marian Garcia Vidondo finished her masters degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1999 at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) specializing in optical communications. At the end of 1999 she moved to
England working as a Software Engineer at Techne Ltd (Duxford) developing embedded software for electronic devices.
In April 2000 she became part of the Operations team at DANTE, working
on day-to-day operational issues. During this time Marian participated in different projects such as the 'GEANT-IPv6' project focused in the deployment of native IPv6 in the GÉANT network. This project was considered a pioneering deployment of native IPv6 at a pan-European level.
Since January 2003 Marian became Operations Manager at DANTE and in July 2007 she was promoted to Chief Operations Officer. Marian is responsible for the operations of GÉANT, the Pan-European research network, providing IP services and point-to-point Ethernet connections to the National Research Networks in Europe. She is as well responsible for the operations of advanced multi-domain services in Europe such as the multi-domain monitoring service. Marian works together with other networks like Internet2 and Esnet in America in the
definition of the global operations for such services.
Emma Apted
Emma studied Physics with Computational Physics at the University of Kent in Canterbury, graduating with a BSc in 1992. She then joined the Customer Support team at EUNet GB supporting various ISP services where she was hostmaster for the DNS co.uk domain. The company became PSINet UK then PSINet Europe then Telstra Europe where she moved into Network Operations and Engineering. She specialised in OSPF and BGP routing, transit services, peering and RIPE LIR co-ordination and projects included PoP moves and Internet Exchange connection migrations. In her last year at Telstra she was also involved in the implementation of SDH and voice customer connections.
Xavier Martins-Rivas completed his Master's degree in Computer Science at EFREI (France) in 2005 after two years in Paris and one year at Concordia University in Montreal (Canada). In July 2005 he started work as a Network Engineer in the GEANT2 NOC.
Fausto Vetter
Fausto Vetter gained his Computing Information System Bachelor degree from UFSC Brazil (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina). During his graduation period, he became involved with network measurement and performance projects developed by the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network, also known as RNP (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa). He subsequently worked on perfSONAR activities, being responsible for initiating the development of some measurement point services and the management and visualization tools.
Fausto joined DANTE as part of the Service Desk team that has been established to deliver new multi-domain services to European NRENs.
Wayne Routly
Wayne Routly graduated from NMMU (South Africa) with a Masters degree in Information Technology in 2004 after finishing a Bachelors in Computer Science from the PE Technikon in 2003. He spent several years as the Information Security Officer/Security Engineer for the NMMU. In 2005 he joined Fabric Technologies based in London as an Infrastructure Engineer responsible for firewall and network services deployment and management.
Wayne joined DANTE in March 2008 as a security engineer for the operations team. His interests are information security, virtualisation and data integration.
Tereza Murphy
Tereza joined DANTE in September 2009. She has many years of experience in business and process analysis, project and change management within the utility, telecommunication and network engineering industries.
Network Operations Centre (NOC) Manager
Toby Rodwell
Toby Rodwell studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham, gaining his BEng(Hons) in 1993. After graduating, Toby served in the Royal Navy, leaving in 2001 in order to pursue a career in IT and telecommunications. Having qualified as a Cisco Certified Network Professional, he joined Convergys EMEA Ltd, a company which develops billing software and manages customer support centres. Based in Cambridge, Toby was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the enterprise network, with particular responsibility for network monitoring, record keeping and asset management.
Toby joined DANTE in June 2003 as a network engineer in the operations team. His interests lie in network monitoring, security and routing, and he is the Operations point of contact for QoS issues.
