EPF 2023 Sponsors

Console Connect is a platform for the Software Defined Interconnection® of applications and infrastructures. It allows users to self-provision private, high-performance connections among a global ecosystem of enterprises, networks, clouds, SaaS providers, IoT providers and applications providers. Console Connect is the only digital platform that is underpinned by one of the world’s largest private networks and a Tier 1 global IP network that is ranked in the top 10 for IPv4 and IPv6 peering, delivering higher levels of network performance, speed and security to meet the digital needs of today’s interconnected users and communities. Accessible from 900+ data centres in 50+ countries worldwide, the platform is integrated with all major hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and more. Through the Console Connect portal or via its API, users can access a broad range of native and third-party solutions. To learn more about Console Connect, please visit website.

Kentik® is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT, or service provider. Network and cloud professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run, and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights, and insanely fast search.

BBIX's philosophy is to contribute to the development of the Internet by providing an ideal Peering environment for consistency of interconnections. As a carrier-neutral IX provider since its establishment in 2003, BBIX has become one of the major IXPs and has been chosen by many ISPs, content players as well as enterprise customers to exchange their Internet traffic in the region or globally. Our slogan "No Peering, No Internet" is also well known in the Internet industry. Looking ahead to the further expansion of the use of computing resources, we strive to provide greater value to customers and partners worldwide by using the latest technology for the 5G, IoT and IPv6 era.

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on six continents. For more information, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

NIX.CZ is a company which associates Czech and foreign Internet related businesses in order to mutually interconnect their networks. The access to the company’s infrastructure is enabled through seven locations in Prague. They also provide services in Bratislava and Vienna. NIX.CZ has been bringing together Czech and foreign Internet service providers for more than 25 years. Since 2015, NIX.CZ has operated a peering node in Bratislava (NIX.SK). This node was connected to the Prague node in 2019, which allows the connected networks to peer with companies connected in both countries. The Czech neutral peering node is a member of the foreign organizations Euro-IX and RIPE NCC. Its employees cooperate with other world IXPs and present at foreign professional conferences, such as NANOG, Global Peering Forum or European Peering Forum. Since its inception, the NIX.CZ association has been a co-organizer of the Peering Days conference and the community meeting of the CSNOG group. The active participation of association representatives in professional events enables NIX.CZ to obtain up-to-date information that is important for the further development of the node.

Smartoptics provides innovative optical networking solutions and devices for the new era of open networking. Our customer base includes thousands of enterprises, governments, cloud providers, Internet exchanges as well as cable and telecom operators. We have an open networking approach in everything we do which allows our customers to break unwanted vendor lock-in, remain flexible and minimize costs. Our solutions are used in metro and regional network applications that increasingly rely on data center services and specifications. Smartoptics is a Scandinavian company founded in 2006. We partner with leading technology and network solution providers such as Brocade, Cisco and Dell and have a global reach through more than 100 business partners.

Nokia creates the technology to connect the world. We develop and deliver the industry’s only end-to-end portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing that is available globally. Our customers include communications service providers whose combined networks support 6.1 billion subscriptions, as well as webscale companies and enterprises in the private and public sector that use our network portfolio to increase productivity and enrich lives. Our advanced automation software, intelligent analytics and innovative silicon solutions are helping our customers to automate peering and optimize network performance, protect their networks against volumetric DDoS attacks, and scale their infrastructure with innovative IP, optical and SDN solutions.

RETN is one of the fastest growing independent Eurasian network providers, with unique resources to connect Europe and Asia. It offers a wide range of connectivity services, such as IP transit, Ethernet & VPN, Capacity, Remote peering to major IXPs, Colocation and Cloud Connect. RETN’s most distinctive feature is its ownership of an extensive, international fiber network. Encompassing more than 132,000km across 865+ PoPs it allows RETN to have maximum control of its physical network, which is running on leading equipment vendors such as Infinera, Juniper and Ciena. RETN provides telecommunication services throughout its own homogenous DWDM and IP/MPLS Network Platform and widely branched land routes with industry leading uptimes, and multiple layers of redundancy for its 1700 customers.

BENOCS GmbH – a spin-off of Deutsche Telekom – is a small company with big plans to revolutionize the way network traffic is managed. Their intelligent and fully automated solutions fit networks of any size and provide ISPs as well as CDNs strategic ways of coping with growing network traffic. With BENOCS Analytics, network operators, transit and wholesale carriers, Hosting and CDNs gain end-to-end visibility of their entire traffic flows.

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and carrier routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. Due to the high stability and an open automation approach, Arista counts the world's largest networks among its customers and allows not only cloud providers, but also service providers and Enterprises to use these advantages. All of this is based on Arista EOS, Extensible Operating System, which not only runs on any Arista hardware platform, but can also be used for hybrid, public and private cloud approaches. For service providers, Arista offers a constantly expanding portfolio of technologies for mapping customer services based on VXLAN, EVPN and/or MPLS.

Home to global content from carriers, cloud, content delivery networks (CDNs), gaming platforms, ISPs and internet security specialists, NAPAfrica has become a local aggregation point where content meets consumers. In a world where the ease of interconnection, seamless peering arrangements and platform reliability are essential, the NAPAfrica internet exchange delivers. NAPAfrica operates internet exchange points (IXPs) in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa. NAPAfrica is located within Teraco data centre facilities in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Now ten years old, the IXP’s founding goal is to help make Internet access more accessible for Africa. With more than 560 member ASNs from over 50 countries, NAPAfrica is the largest internet exchange on the African continent. Members are encouraged to participate in online discussions and meet at Technical Roundtable events throughout the year.

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CDN77, one of the leading global providers of content delivery network services, helps the world’s most popular websites and apps bring a seamless online experience to their users. Determined always to deliver the best performance, exceptional support, and a client-first approach, CDN77 gives a fresh impetus to the CDN market.

As the pioneer in defining and building the Edge, EdgeConneX has built and delivered a full spectrum of data center solutions, from Hyperlocal to Hyperscale. We work with our service provider customers to define, build, and deliver carrier-neutral data center capacity that brings the Edge to our customers and our customers to the Edge — where they need it, when they need it, in the configurations they demand, to optimize the global delivery and access to content, cloud, networks, and applications.

Welcome to Open Connect: The goal of the Netflix Open Connect program is to provide our millions of Netflix subscribers the highest-quality viewing experience possible. We achieve this goal by partnering with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver our content more efficiently. We partner with over a thousand ISPs to localize substantial amounts of traffic with Open Connect Appliance embedded deployments, and we have an open peering policy at our interconnection locations. If you are an ISP with a substantial amount of Netflix traffic, review this information to learn more about the program. If you would like to learn more about Open Connect, please visit our website.

Since 2005, Team Cymru’s mission has been to save and improve human lives by working with public and private sector analyst teams to help track and take down threat actors, criminals, and human traffickers around the globe. The company delivers comprehensive visibility into global cyber threat activity and is a key source of intelligence for many cyber security and threat intelligence vendors, as well as many Global 1000 companies. The company’s Community Services division provides no cost threat detection and intelligence to network operators, hosting providers and more than 130 CSIRT teams across 86+ countries. In addition, network operators and hosting providers who partner with Team Cymru have access to no cost DDoS mitigation, threat intelligence, network threat detection and other services. Learn about the no-cost Nimbus threat detection and network analysis solution by visiting the website.