About Kevin Myers

Contact:

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ipv6-kevin-myers

Twitter: Kevin Myers (@stubarea51) / X (twitter.com)

Kevin is a Network Architect that’s spent the last 25 years working in network engineering/IT across Service Provider, Enterprise, SMB/SME and Government sectors.  Kevin has a strong focus on open and commodity networking that often includes vendors like MikroTik and IP Infusion. His work in this area has aided hundreds of rural, regional and non-profit ISPs in designing and building service provider networks to help bridge the digital divide and connect millions of people to the Internet. Kevin is also a strong advocate for IPv6 and has worked with dozens of ASNs over the years to migrate to the next generation of the Internet Protocol.  When he’s not tinkering with MikroTik, BGP, MPLS or IPv6, Kevin can be found: playing Chess, building Lego, attending his wife’s musical theatre performances and arbitrating Minecraft disputes between 4 very geeky kids.

Career Highlights

• Started professionally in IT/Networking in 1999
• Designed and built networks on 6 continents
• Worked as a Core/Design MPLS engineer for a regional US based telco
• Worked as Network Architect/Lead Engineer for a Fortune 500 global enterprise.
• Cisco Certified – CCNP R&S, CCNA R&S
• MikroTik Certified Trainer
• MikroTik – MTCINE, MTCRE, MTCTCE, MTCWE, MTCUME, MTCNA

Project Highlights

• Data Center move – successfully planned and executed a migration of a multi-million-dollar Data Center from one country to another as a lead project engineer
• Service Provider – Redesigned BGP Route-Reflector clusters to increase availability across regions and reduce convergence time between ILEC distribution networks.
• IPTV Deployment – Designed and implemented an IGMP/PIM based IPTV network to support 200+ channels of HD broadcast video across an ADSL2+ copper infrastructure.
• Enterprise merger – Designed and implemented the migration strategy to merge the networks of two multi- billion dollar global enterprises into one consolidated global network.
• Wireless backbone networking in Alaska – Supporting RF based video networks in remote Alaska to enable researchers to track whale migration in the Gulf of Alaska and backhaul the video feeds to a Data Center.
• Wireless media streaming in NYC – designed a hybrid RF/Fiber network to support live event streaming in New York City.

Areas of Interest

• Integration of MikroTik with traditional network vendors like Cisco, Juniper and Adtran
• White box networking
• Network Virtualization
• IPv6 Transition
• BGP and MPLS Design
• Traffic Engineering
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Software Defined WAN (SDW)