EPF 2025 Sponsors

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.

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, from cloud and digital transformation to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), 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 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We enable our customers to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.

GNM-IX by GNM is a secure, internationally distributed IX facilitating high-performance traffic exchange between telecom operators and content providers across Europe and Asia. We offer scalable and resilient peering solutions both regionally and globally, ensuring optimal network efficiency. With 81 PoPs across 19 countries, GNM-IX provides seamless, low-latency connectivity. Our platform handles 9.04 Tbps of peak traffic, interconnecting 600+ ASNs to enhance network performance, redundancy, and scalability. Recently GNM-IX has expanded its presence across Central and Southeastern Europe, further enhancing connectivity in the Balkan region. By leveraging cutting-edge infrastructure and a distributed architecture, GNM-IX empowers networks to optimize traffic flow, reduce costs, and improve end-user experience. GNM, as a backbone provider, offers high-capacity connectivity solutions, including DWDM, L2VPN, and VLAN services, as well as IP Transit and Remote IX solutions—ensuring robust and flexible network expansion opportunities.

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.

Smartoptics is a Scandinavian company founded in 2006, providing innovative optical networking solutions designed for the new era of open networking. We focus on solving network challenges and increasing the competitiveness of our customer base, ranging from cable and telecom operators to cloud providers, Internet exchanges, governments, and enterprises. We leverage modern software design principles and expand network horizons by taking an open approach in everything we do, which empowers our customers to break free from vendor lock-in, remain flexible, and minimize costs. Built on open networking standards and protocols, our solutions are used in metro and regional network applications as well as in metro access networks.

InterLAN-IX, established in 2005 by a Romanian association of telecom operators, is a neutral internet exchange point designed to facilitate free traffic exchange across the internet. It operates 18 points of presence across Romania, including major cities and additional locations in Frankfurt and Sofia. This extensive network supports over 150 operators from Romania and beyond, encompassing a diverse range of network operators, educational networks, content providers, and enterprises. With traffic exceeding 600 Gbps and partnerships in Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific, InterLAN-IX is recognized as one of the significant internet exchanges in Romania and Southeast Europe. The platform is committed to enhancing the performance of IP networking for all participants, promoting a robust local telecom community and contributing to global internet infrastructure as a supporting member of Euro-IX and RIPE NCC.

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.

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NL-ix: The Internet platform behind millions of businesses Every day, NL-ix enables countless companies to work at full capacity, transporting data smoothly across the European continent through Peering, dedicated Transport, and direct Cloud connectivity. It does this not with flashy advertising, but by focusing on building a robust infrastructure that forms the backbone of business communications. As one of Europe’s leading Internet Exchanges, we offer a broad spectrum of interconnection services that ensure businesses stay connected in a secure, high-performance environment. Whether you need Peering, Transport, Cloud connectivity, or managed solutions, NL-ix provides a comprehensive suite of services tailored to your needs. Infrastructure You Can Trust Our network is at the heart of everything we do, and we constantly work to improve it, to make it more resilient, faster and more cost-effective. With strategically located interconnection points and resilient architecture, NL-ix provides ultra-reliable, high-performance connectivity for businesses that demand the best. Personalized Business: We Pick Up the Phone At NL-ix, we believe in a hands-on, customer-first approach. When you call us, we answer. We don’t hide behind automated responses or generic support tickets. Our dedicated team of experts is available to provide personalized support, ensuring that any issues are resolved quickly and efficiently. Our customers trust us because we prioritize real relationships and tailored solutions. With NL-ix, you’re not just connecting to an Internet Exchange—you’re partnering with a team that is dedicated to delivering high-quality, secure, and personalized interconnection services. Join us and experience the difference of a truly customer-centric IX.

Founded in 2013 as a spin-off from Deutsche Telekom, BENOCS introduced the industry’s first ever ISP/ CDN cooperative solution allowing network operators more network traffic control. Today, BENOCS gives CSPs, Hosting Companies, CDNs and NRENs a strategic way to cope with growing content demands, providing their customers around the world with full visibility of their network traffic from source to destination. Every facet of telecommunications companies benefits from BENOCS products: from network operations, backbone engineering and network planning teams, to peering and IP Transit sales. BENOCS customers have the competitive advantage in the connectivity market.

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global provider of critical internet infrastructure and domain name registry services, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names. Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the Domain Name System and the internet by providing root zone maintainer services, operating two of the 13 global internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. To learn more please visit verisign.com.

Ascenty, a Digital Realty and Brookfield company, is the largest provider of data center and connectivity services in Latin America, currently operating and/or building 36 data centers across Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia. These facilities are interconnected by a proprietary 4,000 km fiber-optic network. The company specializes in building and operating world-class data centers, serving the world’s leading cloud and technology providers, as well as clients in the financial, retail, industrial, healthcare, and service integrator sectors. To support its expansion, Ascenty relies on its shareholders — Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a Canadian asset management firm, and Digital Realty, the world’s largest data center company. In 2024, Ascenty began offering ServiceFabric®, Digital Realty’s orchestration platform, which supports the integration of applications, AI and high-performance workloads, cloud environments, and more than 500 data centers worldwide. To learn more about Ascenty, visit our website: www.ascenty.com”

IPv4.Global partners with network owners to monetize assets, source scarce resources, conserve capital through IPv4 leasing and facilitate private sales of these vital assets. We provide sophisticated, world-class IPAM and DDI software. Our consultants help with expansions and transitions of all sorts, including network data normalization and migration, renumbering, and business process automation. And we facilitate the sale and purchase of facilities and lend against the IP assets of mature organizations.

Home to carriers, cloud providers, content delivery networks, ISPs, and Internet security and gaming platforms, NAPAfrica is Africa’s most significant Internet traffic aggregation point, with over 646 unique member ASNs from more than 50 countries. In a world where the ease of interconnection, seamless peering arrangements, and platform reliability are essential, the NAPAfrica Internet exchange delivers.

Since 2005, Team Cymru’s mission has been to save and improve human lives by working with public and private sector analyst teams around the world, enabling them to track and take down bad actors of all kinds. 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. Its Community Services division provides no-cost threat detection, DDoS mitigation and threat intelligence to network operators, hosting providers and more than 143 CSIRT teams across 86+ countries. Enterprise security teams rely on its Pure Signal™ platform for on-demand visibility into what’s happening virtually anywhere across the internet with a clarity similar to that of their own internal network telemetry. With this visibility, they close detection gaps, accelerate incident response and detect threats and vulnerabilities across entire enterprises and third-party ecosystems.