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France-IX is the Premier Internet Peering Service Provider in France, offering public and private interconnection services through its carrier and data center neutral exchange points in Paris and Marseille. France-IX interconnects several hundreds of telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers, content delivery networks and all other Internet networks worldwide with significant traffic in the Internet French market.

This enhances the affordability and latency of the Internet traffic exchanged between its members and thus improves the overall quality of the Internet in France. Founded in June 2010 with the support of the French Internet community, France-IX is a member-based association whose core values are neutrality, sustainability and constant improvement of the Internet. For more information, visit www.franceix.net.

French Tech is a collective brand with the aim of accelerating the growth of the French digital economy and strengthening its international competitiveness. The Aix-Marseille Provence Metropolis has obtained the label in November 2014.

Its mission is to federate, to coordinate and to boost the whole digital ecosystem (private and public accelerators, high tech clusters, digital and management schools, fablabs, communities, economic development agencies, enterprises…) around 4 major aims and a focus on startups:

To foster their emergence
To enable them to grow quickly
To propose them support systems to conquer global markets
To encourage businesses to locate in the territory and create local jobs

AMFT has the ambition to become The European Digital Place To be! To achieve this goal, the territory has major assets, among them, a strategic geographical position where Europe, Africa, Middle East and Southeast Asia come together and the arrival of the biggest Internet backbones in Europe.

Platinum Sponsor

DE-CIX provides premium Internet Exchange services and operates several carrier-neutral and independent Internet Exchanges internationally. The company serves 1300+ carriers, ISPs and content networks from 100+ countries, including all leading international players in various metro markets in Europe, the Middle East, North America and India. With 6+ Terabits per second of peak traffic, DE-CIX Frankfurt is the world’s leading Internet Exchange. For more information, please visit www.de-cix.net.

Gold Sponsor

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure combines the elasticity and utility of the public cloud with the granular control, security and predictability of on-premises infrastructure to deliver high performance, high availability and cost-effective infrastructure services.

Interxion is a leading provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving a wide range of customers through 48 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. Interxion France has two campuses, one in Paris with seven data centres, and one in Marseille with two data centres.

Interxion Marseille is Europe’s telecommunications gateway to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. With 13 submarine cable systems linking these regions to Marseille, the city has become a fast-growing content and connectivity hub. There are now more than 130 international and national connectivity providers, 4 Internet exchanges and leading cloud platforms and content providers using the Interxion Marseille campus to interconnect and exchange traffic and content with one another.For more information, please visit www.interxion.com

Verisign, a global leader in domain names and internet security, enables internet navigation for many of the world’s most recognized domain names and provides protection for websites and enterprises around the world.

Verisign ensures the security, stability and resiliency of key internet infrastructure and services, including the .com and .net top-level domains and two of the internet’s root servers, as well as performs the root zone maintainer function for the core of the internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign’s Security Services include Distributed Denial of Service Protection and Managed DNS.

Silver Sponsor

Hilco Streambank is a leading IPv4 broker in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. For large or complex IPv4 transactions, our IPv4 team will arrange and negotiate direct transactions between buyers and sellers looking for custom solutions. For parties looking to take advantage of a new simplified process, IPv4Auctions.com provides a great way to quickly and efficiently get the resources you need. Check out IPv4Auctions.com to view previous sale prices.

EdgeConneX® is the only global Edge Data Center® provider. Creating purpose-built, edge-of-network infrastructure solutions that extend the Internet’s reach, EdgeConneX enables the fastest and most secure delivery of content, cloud services and applications. Edge Data Centers host bandwidth-intensive and latency-sensitive data closer to End Users, establishing a more secure, reliable and cost-effective distribution model for the internet.

For more information, please visit the EdgeConneX Internet of Everywhere® at edgeconnex.com.

IELO-LIAZO is a leading French network operator providing neutral and independent telecom infrastructures to telcos, service providers and carriers.

We focus on four carrier-class ranges of products: colocation, IP transit, transport and local access. Our IP transit is based on an Open Peering Policy. We hand over more than 95% of our traffic directly to our 1,400+ direct peers. We provide access to thousands of end customer buildings with our 1,000+ km fibre networks in France, including the Paris region and ten of the main French cities.

Because we built direct routes without any intermediate connectors between data centres, our fibre network is natively 100G ready.

We are dedicated to the carrier market to guarantee the level of services our partners expects.

HOPUS is an Internet service provider of a new kind. Born with the Internet exchange principles, we focus on providing quality routes to major networks that usually don’t connect IXs. We are trying to establish a virtuous model in which content can reach eyeballs with the best possible quality at a fair price. Eyeball networks receiving some payback on the traffic they carry and all members being enlisted to offer guarantees on their networks. Big eyeballs providers trust us, big content providers trust us – meet networks that matter at www.hopus.net.

Kentik is a traffic intelligence company that offers the industry’s first purpose-built big data SaaS that turns huge volumes of NetFlow, BGP and other network data into actionable insights. Kentik stores 90 days of instantly accessible, online raw flow records. We also perform ad hoc traffic analysis at scale, detect DDoS, and provide powerful BGP peering analytics visualisations.

Coffee Break Sponsor

Since launching in 2011, Twitch has evolved its reputation as the world’s leading social video service and community for video game culture to now encompass an array of emerging content surfaced by its users. As a result, 15 million visitors gather daily to interact about video games, music, the creative arts, their lives, and more with over 2 million unique creators who broadcast each month.

Enter is a leading ISP focused on providing network connectivity, cloud and datacenter solutions throughout Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific.

Our IP backbone spans Europe’s largest PoPs as well as the U.S. and far East to serve companies in Europe, North America and APAC.

We offer a wide range of network services from ethernet, access and remote peering as well colocation services at our neutral interconnection facility in Milan Caldera.

In 2012, we developed Enter Cloud Suite, the first European, OpenStack-based cloud IaaS service. Enter Cloud Suite is available in Milan, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

Bronze Sponsor

Sparkle is TIM Group’s fully owned Global Operator and among top #10 international service providers worldwide. Through its backbone of around 560,000 km of fiber spanning from Europe to Africa, the Americas and Asia, Sparkle offers a full range of IP, Data, Cloud, Data Centre, Mobile Data and Voice solutions to fixed and mobile operators, Internet Service Providers, Media and Content Players, as well as Multinational Enterprises. Its sales force is active worldwide and distributed in 36 countries.

Find out more about Telecom Italia Sparkle at www.tisparkle.com

Zayo owns and operates a 205,187 kilometer network in North America and Europe. This all-fiber backbone, 18.5 million kilometers of it, includes connectivity to thousands of data centers, enterprise
locations, carrier exchange points, wireless towers, media centers, entertainment venues, financial exchanges and cloud providers. We offer dark fiber solutions which provide our customers with dedicated
high-capacity, low-latency bandwidth.

In addition, Zayo’s offerings encompass a range of managed bandwidth, lit fiber-based solutions, including wavelength, Ethernet, video solutions, and our Tier-1 IP
network. Our expansive global network footprint and extensive metro coverage deliver bandwidth that is flexible and scalable for enterprises, carriers and government.

Connectivity Sponsor

Supporting Sponsor

Netflix is the world’s leading Internet entertainment service with over 117 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 140 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

The Internet Society is the trusted independent source for Internet information and thought leadership around the world. It is also the organizational home for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). With its principled vision, substantial technological foundation and its global presence, the Internet Society promotes open dialogue on Internet policy, technology, and future development among users, companies, governments, and other organizations. Working with its members and Chapters around the world, the Internet Society enables the continued evolution and growth of the Internet for everyone.

Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that provides crucial fixes to eliminate the most common routing threats. MANRS outlines four simple but concrete actions that network operators should take: filtering, anti-spoofing, coordination, and global validation. Joining MANRS means joining a community of security-minded organizations committed to making the global routing infrastructure more robust and secure. Please visit the MANRS table to learn more about how to implement the four Actions and join the MANRS community.

XCloud Networks is on-premise, off-the-shelf solution for building and managing web-scale networks utilizing open networking equipment.

There’s integrated load-balancer, ACL, AI-based monitoring, integrated billing, zero touch provisioning, native integration with some open-source software – all is packed with intuitive Intent-based web interface.

Our solution is known to improve service implementation and delivery time 100X and TCO 10X.