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RIPE 56 Sponsors

There are several sponsorship opportunities at RIPE Meetings.You can read about the benefits of sponsorship and an idea of how much it might cost. We are happy to answer any questions you have. Send your e-mail to meeting@ripe.net.

Connectivity Sponsor
	COLT Telecom is a leading European provider of business communications. The company's wholesale division acts as a partner for operators seeking comprehensive infrastructure services in Europe. COLT serves more than 1,400 wholesale customers, fixed and mobile carriers, as well as service providers, offering data, voice and managed services. COLT's network has a unique breadth and depth in Europe, enabling them to offer comprehensive and high quality European access solutions to wholesale customers: a 13-country, 20,000km network that includes MAN's in 34 major cities with direct fibre connections into over 15,000 buildings and all important public and private Internet Exchange Points.
Social Event Sponsors
	DE-CIX is the carrier neutral and independent Internet Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany. Founded in 1995, DE-CIX established an environment for the bilateral settlement-free exchange of Internet traffic (peering). DE-CIX is focused on acting as the gateway between Central and Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. The company serves more than 230 carriers and ISPs from over 30 nations including leading international players (such as AT&T, Sprint, Google) and many players from Eastern Europe (Ex. TEO, UKRTELEKOM, Elion). This makes DE-CIX the market leader for Central and Eastern Europe.

	DENIC is the central registry for all domains under the Top Level Domain .de. Its functions and tasks are multifaceted: For instance, it provides an automatic electronic registration system for administering .de-Domains, it operates a network of name servers distributed all over the world and provides a range of further services for the German Internet community. In administering the Top Level Domain .de, DENIC performs a technically demanding task, and along with its members, it shoulders responsibility for an important segment of the Internet.

	eco - Verband der Deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.V. is the association of the German Internet Industry. It currently represents 360 members, promoting their commercial development as well as providing advice and support to companies whose products and services are available via the Internet. eco is a founding member of EuroISPA (the association of European Internet Service Providers) and EURO-IX (the association of European Internet Exchanges). It operates offices in Berlin (Lobbying), Cologne (Marketing Communications) and Frankfurt (Services).

	Netnod Internet Exchange is a neutral and independent organisation, operating six national Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Sweden. It is one of the oldest IXPs in Europe and the largest IXP in Scandinavia. In addition to traditional IXP services, Netnod also offers a range of other services through its fully owned subsidiary Autonomica, such as I Root Service, DNS unicast and anycast slave services and distribution of offical Swedish time through NTP.

Co-Sponsors
	ancotel is a leading supplier of innovative services for carrier-neutral colocation, telehousing and interconnection. ancotel's "Kleyer 90" brand represents the entire complex at Kleyerstrasse 8890 and Rebstöcker Strasse 2531 in Frankfurt am Main. It is here that ancotel has built up Europe's largest and most important telecommunications network node for international carriers and providers. More than 300 carriers can be reached via the physical and virtual ancotel meetme rooms (mmr). In 2006, the ancotel Hong Kong Ltd. and ancotel UK Ltd., London were built up, in order to launch the ancotel product vmmr®. ancotel is an independent, owner-run company headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

	Cube Optics, located in Mainz, Germany uses proprietary technologies to supply customers with extraordinarily compact, high performance and low-cost fiber optic systems. Products extend from components used by OEMs to custom designs embedded into subassemblies. CUBO has specialised on simple and lowest-cost access transport solutions. CUBO's passive and plug-n-play Passive WDM system enable CAPEX savings of 50% and drastically drive OPEX and energy costs down. Cube Optic's Metro Core and Metro Access Network solutions are implemented by the major European carriers, operators and ISPs and power IX, ADSL, VDSL and FTTx in over 10,000 European nodes.

	Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services, offering premium colocation, traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network service providers look to Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) centers for world-class reliability and network diversity. Equinix IBX centers serve as critical, core hubs for IP networks and Internet operations worldwide. With 39 IBX centers located in 18 strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Equinix enables customers to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure on a global basis.

	Force10 Networks is a pioneer in building and securing high performance networks. Based on a revolutionary system architecture that delivers best-in-class resiliency and massive scalability, Force10’s TeraScale E-Series switch/routers ensure predictable application performance, increase network availability, and reduce operating costs. Today, many of the world’s largest Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks depend on Force10 Networks.

	ICSS, the international wholesale arm of the Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the biggest voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe and the Americas and Asia. ICSS has redesigned its portfolio from traditional voice and transport services to advanced innovative wholesale services and customised IP solutions. The business activities and efforts of ICSS focus on serving the following market segments: broadband operators (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP SPs), mobile operators and MVNOs, content, application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of the services of ICSS is an expanding ultra-modern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.

	Interxion is Europe’s leading provider of carrier-neutral internet data centre services. With 22 data centres across Europe, it has the widest data centre footprint and supportsover 1,000 customers including enterprises, systems integrators, Internet Service Providers, hosting and telecommunications companies. In Interxion data centres, customers have access to 14 major European Internet exchanges and over 450 ISP/Carrier networks. Interxion data centres meet the most stringent industry requirements, offering the highest level of security, 2n availability of power, and a multiple and cost-effective choice of connectivitysolutions. Interxion has unparalleled experience in designing, delivering and operating ultra high power density solutions supporting blade server environments up to20 kW per rack.

	Limelight Networks is a content delivery partner enabling the next wave of Internet business and entertainment. More than 1,300 Internet, entertainment, software and technology brands trust our robust, scalable platform to monetise their digital assets by delivering a brilliant online experience to their global audience. Their architecture bypasses the busy public Internet using a dedicated optical network that interconnects thousands of servers and delivers massive files at the speed of light – directly to the access networks that consumers use every day. Their proven network and passion for service assures their customers that every object in their library will be instantly delivered to every user, every time.

	Tiscali International Network (TINet) is the only carrier exclusively dedicated to the wholesale IP/MPLS market and has network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC. TINet provides ISPs with reliable connectivity to the Internet within seven working days and gives content providers direct reach to all major eyeball networks. Tiscali International Network guarantees customers proactive management of SLAs and protection from DDoS attacks. TINet has the third largest IP network in Europe and the second largest IPv6 network worldwide. The company has achieved over 200% growth in traffic every year of its existence and has developed a sustainable and growing wholesale business.

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