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The ISZT (Council of Hungarian Internet Providers) is a Hungarian body representing providers of Internet services. It was established in 1997 with the aim to provide professional and coordinated advocacy for Hungarian ISPs. The association offers membership to all Hungarian Internet service providers.
The ISZT collaborates with the Hungarian government in order to enhance the overall Internet performance and achieve the best legal and economic environment to promote market growth.
ISZT is also responsible for the Hungarian domain name registration process and for coordinating other Internet-related services such as BIX (Budapest Internet Exchange). BIX is a provider-neutral Internet exchange that serves the interest of the whole Internet community.
Platinum Sponsor
Founded in 1992, the RIPE NCC is the oldest and largest of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).
- As a not-for-profit membership organisation, it administers Internet number resources to more than 15,000 members in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia.
- As an RIR, the RIPE NCC is governed by policies developed by the RIPE community via open, transparent and bottom-up processes.
- As secretariat for the RIPE community, the RIPE NCC provides neutral platforms for community interaction to develop Internet number policies and to share experience and ideas.
The RIPE NCC also participates in Internet governance discussions, ensuring that the perspective and experience of the RIPE community is included in those discussions.
And the RIPE NCC maintains several technical elements vital to the Internet infrastructure on behalf of the wider Internet community, including the RIPE Database and K-root, one of 13 root name servers. With the support of thousands of community members around the world, the RIPE NCC is also building RIPE Atlas, the largest Internet measurement network ever made.
Silver Sponsor
Thanks to its real-time probing and smart routing policy, NSI – the Border 6 software – delivers 100% availability, high performance and transit cost management in BGP routed environments. It comes with a full set of traffic, performance, billing and routing analytics to help Network Architects with their capacity planning and troubleshooting tasks and also helps in automating the fight against DDoS or any other network faults.
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.
ThousandEyes is a Network Intelligence platform that delivers visibility into every network an organization relies on, enabling them to optimize and improve application delivery, end-user experience and ongoing infrastructure investments. Leading companies such as Equinix, ServiceNow and Twitter, as well as eBay and other members of the Fortune 500, use ThousandEyes to improve performance and availability of their business-critical applications.
ThousandEyes is backed by Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Tenaya Capital and GV (formerly Google Ventures), and has headquarters in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit https://www.thousandeyes.com or follow @ThousandEyes on Twitter.
Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR) is a global technology leader for fiber optic subsystems and components that enable high-speed voice, video and data communications for telecommunications, networking, storage, wireless, and cable TV applications. For more than 25 years, Finisar has provided critical optics technologies to system manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for network bandwidth and storage. Finisar is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA with R&D, manufacturing sites, and sales offices worldwide.
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.
Coffee Break Sponsor
Founded in June 2011, Twitch is the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers, video game culture, and the creative arts. Each day, close to 10 million visitors gather to watch and talk about video games and more than 2 million streamers. Join the millions of people who come to Twitch to stream, view, and interact around these shared passions together.
Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 93 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 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.
Bronze Sponsor
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.
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