# Ten Years of ITNOG

DevFeed: [Ten Years of ITNOG](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ten-years-of-itnog-11363.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2026/04/itnog-10/>)

Published: 2026-04-22T05:25:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [VXLAN](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vxlan.md>), [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/evpn.md>), [5G](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/5g.md>), [Ethernet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethernet.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [5g](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/5g.md>), [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [ethernet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethernet.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evpn.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [sharding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sharding.md>), [threading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/threading.md>), [vxlan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vxlan.md>)

## AI overview

A personal recap of ITNOG 10 in Bologna highlights the event's networking presentations, including VXLAN-based 5G-to-Ethernet services, security functions in EVPN/VXLAN, BGP routing optimization for 26 million paths, and hollow-core fiber technology.

## Source excerpt

I spent the last two days in Bologna at ITNOG 10 in the excellent company of Italian networking engineers (many of them personal friends) and a few guests from around the world. As always, the organizers and the program committee didn't disappoint - it was a smoothly organized, lovely event full of interesting presentations. Thanks a million to everyone involved; I'll definitely be back! Now for the highlights, starting with the ultimate catnip for the differently attentive: running two presentations in parallel on the same screen with the soundtrack distributed via headphones. I've never seen anything like that, and while it looked weird (I have no idea how the presenters took it), it turned out to be very useful, as you could easily tune out AI-washing presentations and switch to something more interesting. On the other hand, you could be faced with a hard choice of having to select one of two excellent presentations: Read more ...