Steve Gibbard Consulting

Steve Gibbard is an expert on critical Internet infrastructure.  His most recent focus has been on network topology for critical DNS services, including designing infrastructure to support several top level domains. He has also done extensive work on Internet peering and exchange points.  Steve is a frequent speaker at Internet industry conferences, and writes regularly about issues of Internet infrastructure design and economics.

Steve's current "day job" is as Network Architect at Packet Clearing House.  He is a former Senior Network Engineer at Cable & Wireless, and has also held network engineering positions at Digital Island and World Wide Net.

Due to constraints of time and attention, Steve is selective about the consulting projects he accepts, but is always happy to entertain interesting proposals.  Current areas of interest include network topology for DNS, content delivery networks, video distribution and IPTV, and hosting content for "hard to reach" parts of the world.

Steve's resume

Papers and Articles:

• "Smart Growth" for the Internet, Any2 Exchange Quarterly Newsletter, November, 2007.
• Myanmar Internet Shutdown, CircleID, October 4, 2007
  
• Observations on Anycast Topology and Performance, DNS Operations Workshop, July, 2007.
• Geographic Implications of DNS Infrastructure Distribution, Internet Protocol Journal, March, 2007.
• Internet Mini-Cores: Local communications in the Internet's "spur" regions, SANOG, February, 2005.
• Looking Glasses (PDF of slides), NANOG, January, 2005.
• Economics of Peering, Switch and Data Peering Forum, October, 2004.
• ISP Experiences with DDOS attacks, PAIX Peering Forum, December, 2003.

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