I'm the CTO of a Italian ISP, we have 2000 radio towers all over the country and 150k active customers. We operate a very peculiar network based on a proprietary fixed wireless access platform and with unusually high backhauling mesh factor [1] which provides both extremely high redundancy and extremely painful headaches :)
Frustrated by the limitations of the big vendors [2] we decided to engineer our own SDN platform, based on a custom network appliance we designed on a multi-core CPU [3], Linux and OpenVSwitch.
It is a "bold" move to build what we expect to become the hardware platform our country-wide network.
We are now trying to set-up a small team (headcount <=4) focused on this project. We are based near Milan, Italy, but for this specific workgroup we are looking to form a distributed/remote team.
Essential requirements:
* already familiar with openvswitch
* development will be in C and nodejs (most of our network services are aready in nodejs: dhcp, radius, syslog, etc)
* full-time commitment, this is not a freelance post
Feel free to get in touch: mino@ngi.it
[1] i.e., the number of backhaul links per radio tower
I'm the CTO of a Italian ISP, we have 2000 radio towers all over the country and 150k active customers. We operate a very peculiar network based on a proprietary fixed wireless access platform and with unusually high backhauling mesh factor [1] which provides both extremely high redundancy and extremely painful headaches :)
Frustrated by the limitations of the big vendors [2] we decided to engineer our own SDN platform, based on a custom network appliance we designed on a multi-core CPU [3], Linux and OpenVSwitch.
It is a "bold" move to build what we expect to become the hardware platform our country-wide network.
We are now trying to set-up a small team (headcount <=4) focused on this project. We are based near Milan, Italy, but for this specific workgroup we are looking to form a distributed/remote team.
Essential requirements:
* already familiar with openvswitch
* development will be in C and nodejs (most of our network services are aready in nodejs: dhcp, radius, syslog, etc)
* full-time commitment, this is not a freelance post
Feel free to get in touch: mino@ngi.it
[1] i.e., the number of backhaul links per radio tower
[2] See the old but still very inspiring James Hamilton's rant: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/12/19/NetworkingTheLas...
[3] http://www.tilera.com/sites/default/files/images/products/TI...