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21 February – 3 March 2022

Sponsors Profile


Platinum Sponsors

APJII logo

"Indonesia Network Information Center (IDNIC), serving as NIR in Indonesia, is a unit under Asosiasi Penyelenggara Jasa Internet Indonesia (APJII) that receives exclusive delegation from APNIC to distribute and allocate IP Addresses. This delegation represents a high level of trust since the mandate is only given to specific countries. The establishment of IDNIC allows its members to purchase and manage resources in a more timely and economical manner without worrying about the language barrier and currency risk. Recognizing the advantages of IDNIC membership, the number of IDNIC members, including internet service providers, corporates, government, and educational institutions, has increased every year. "

IAA logo

The Internet Association of Australia Inc (IAA) is a member-based association working for the benefit of the Internet and the people who build and operate it. Founded in 1995, IAA supports its members by providing technical services including peering through its IX Australia network of 35 POPs across Australia as the largest non-profit, carrier-neutral Internet Exchange in Australia. IAA also provides industry events, policy advice and professional development opportunities for its members. IAA is committed to the development and growth of the Internet industry both within Australia and internationally. IAA also operates exchanges in New Zealand on behalf of NZIX.

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"IPv4.Global provides a trusted marketplace for buying, selling and leasing of IP blocks. Transactions range from smaller blocks through our online platform to large private exchanges through our brokerage business. We operate in all Regional Internet Registries. IPv4.Global is dedicated to reliable, transparent service and publishes current and historical information on the transactions we serve. We have completed more transfers than anyone else in the world. Our experience gets results.

IPv4.Global is a division of Hilco Streambank."

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"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 https://team-cymru.com/community-services/nimbus-threat-monitor/.

Technical Training Partner Sponsor

ISOC website

The Internet Society defends and promotes Internet policies, standards, and protocols that keep the Internet open, globally connected, and secure. Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), a global initiative supported by the Internet Society, establishes security baselines for network operators, Internet Exchange Points, content delivery networks, and cloud providers. The Infrastructure and Community Development initiative builds local Internet infrastructure by improving interconnection and peering, with an emphasis on local community training and network operator groups, and development and deployment of Internet Exchange Points. ISOC also works in developing community networks, measuring the Internet, encryption, and more.

Distributed Peering Social Sponsor

Equinix website

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.

Gold Sponsors

PCCWGlobal website

Console Connect is an easy-to-use platform for the Software Defined Interconnection® of businesses, applications and infrastructure. It allows users to self-provision private, high-performance connections between a global ecosystem of enterprise, carrier, cloud, SaaS, IoT, UCaaS, Security-as-a-Service, IX and other Network-as-a-Service partners. Console Connect is the only platform that is underpinned by one of the world’s largest private networks, delivering higher levels of performance, speed and security to meet the digital needs of today’s interconnected businesses.

Flexoptix website

"Flexoptix GmbH Technology providers. Optimizers. Experts. Flexbox creators.

Flexoptix is a leading technology provider of optical components with a passion for optimization and engineering since 2008. They are technology providers, optimizers, experts. They are the Flexbox Creators. With the creation of the Flexbox, aka, the “Network Engineer’s Swiss Army Knife” Flexoptix pioneered and revolutionized universal transceivers.

Not only passionate about optical technology but also passionate about the community and making things happen, Flexoptix actively supports community meetings globally at international, regional and local levels. Flexoptix is proud to support APRICOT in making the APRICOT 2021 meeting happen."

HKIX website

"HKIX, a subsidiary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), is a neutral and professional layer-two settlement-free IXP based in Hong Kong for faster and cheaper interconnections among different networks on Internet. We enable customers for direct connection at our core sites and satellite sites, or connect us via resellers.

With over 340 different ASN connected, we are serving all local and international networks including commercial service providers and research and education networks. Owing to its large scale and the high traffic volume it serves, HKIX is now widely considered as one of the largest IXP in Asia Pacific region.’"

Larus website

LARUS-an Embracing Digital Globalisation company focusing on IP address solutions.

As a globally leading IP solutions company, we have an extensive network of telecommunications companies, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and IP address owners worldwide.

LARUS is envisioned as a “Painless & Fastest On-Demand IP Address Solutions” for every Internet user and helps them with IP address sourcing problems.

  • IP Leasing Service (with 48 hours to get your IP address)
  • IP Management Service
  • IP Brokerage Service (Buy and Sell)
  • IPv6 Training

To learn more about Larus, visit https://www.larus.net/ or contact us at info@larus.net.

SGIX website

PLDT Enterprise is the preferred digital services partner of the B2B market. As the corporate business unit of the PLDT Group- the Philippines’ largest and fully integrated telco company—its vision is to make a positive impact on every single business by simplifying the complex for various industries. With its wide range of fixed line, wireless, and ICT services—which run on the Philippines’ most extensive fiber optic backbone, cellular network, and data center footprint—it continues to deliver solutions that create real value for every customer.

As the international business arm of the group, PLDT Global Enterprise aims to enable large enterprises, international carriers, CDNs, and OTTs among others. It aims to provide industry-leading communication infrastructure and platforms by connecting its customers to the Philippines and beyond—paving the way for unprecedented growth and success.

SGIX website

Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX) is one of the largest non-profit Internet Exchange operating in the region. As an Open and Neutral Internet Exchange with its peering points located within major data centres across the country, SGIX manages a distributed network that enables seamless exchange of Internet traffic between all connecting peers and at the same time, help to improve their overall network performance. SGIX peers include service providers from Global and Domestic Carriers, IP Transit, Content and Social Media, Video Streaming, Cloud, Content Distribution Networks, Gaming, Educational Institutions, Research Organizations, and many others.

Conference Social Sponsor

MICORSOFT website

Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Our worldview

  • Intelligent cloud and intelligent edge
  • Ubiquitous computing
  • Ambient intelligence
  • People-centered experiences

Our customer Solution Areas

  • Gaming
  • Search, ads & news
  • Modern life
  • Modern work
  • Business applications
  • Applications & infrastructure
  • Data & AI
  • Security

Diversity in Tech Sponsor

Akamai website

Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, enterprise access and video delivery solutions is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics and 24/7/365 monitoring. To learn why the world’s top brands trust Akamai, visit www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter. You can find our global contact information at here.

Community Sponsors

ALITER Networks website

Aliter makes a difference with circular IT – for people, planet and profit. Our mission is to have half a million IT products reused by 2025.

We became a certified B Corporation in 2020 and are proud to be recognized for using our business as a force for good. And by choosing to rent or purchase refurbished, good-as-new IT products through Aliter, you’re helping us get there – by reducing CO2 emissions and e-waste. A sustainable choice for the planet and your budget.

Aliter has offices in the Netherlands and Singapore, and can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Attokyo website

AT TOKYO Connectivity - We offer a highly productive network environment whereby our customers can always continue to generate new business opportunities. We are able to do this via our platform that promotes simple and effective connectivity, making us an important global network hub and a central connection point for data centers across Japan and around the World.

AWS website

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

AWS is the leading cloud platform with

  • Most functionality
  • Largest community of customers and partners
  • Most secure
  • Fastest pace of innovation
  • Most proven operational expertise
  • Most extensive global cloud infrastructure
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DE-CIX (German Commercial Internet Exchange) is one of the world’s leading operators of Internet Exchanges. In total, in its 28 locations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America, DE-CIX provides over 2100 network operators, Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers from more than 100 countries with peering and interconnection services. The connected customer capacity of all DE-CIX locations worldwide exceeds 70 Terabits. Taken into operation in 1995, DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Germany, with a data throughput of more than 10 Terabits per second (Tbps) and over 1000 connected networks, is one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world.

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TEIN CC website

Asi@Connect

The EU co-funded Asi@Connect project provides a dedicated regional high capacity and high-quality internet network, Trans-Eurasia Information Network(TEIN), for research and education(R&E) communities across Asia-Pacific and Europe, and leverages e-infrastructures developed for public service projects. This project marks the 4th phase of EU funding to the Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN) program which was launched as an Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Initiative in 2000; it successfully established a regional research and education internet network from scratch in 2004 and progressively expanded its geographical footprint over the years. Asi@Connect takes over the R&E backbone from TEIN-4, the most recent phase in the TEIN Initiative and will continue to connect regional researchers with their counterparts in Europe via GÉANT, the world’s most advanced international research and education network, providing the Asia-Pacific countries with a gateway for global research collaboration. Asi@Connect receives €20 Million funding from the EU up to 2023 with additional financial contributions from the Asian partners.

The Asi@Connect partners are the National Research & Education Network associations (NRENs) of Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, The Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, and Vietnam.

TEIN Cooperation Center (TEIN*CC)

Asi@Connect is managed by the regional networking organisation TEIN*Cooperation Center (TEIN*CC). TEIN*CC was endorsed by the ASEM8 Summit in Brussels in October 2010. It was established in Seoul, Korea in August 2011 as a non-profit Foundation Corporation to take responsibility for the 4th phase of the TEIN project which started in April 2012. The Korean Government, the Ministry of Science and ICT, supports TEIN*CC operation and management, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government is providing office facilities. TEIN*CC actively collaborated with other regional R&E network organisations around the world to provide better opportunities for research and education to TEIN community. For more information, please visit www.teincc.org, follow us on Twitter and Facebook .

Peering Sponsors

AMSIX website

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is a neutral member-based association that operates multiple interconnection platforms around the world. Our leading platform in Amsterdam has been playing a crucial role at the core of the internet for more than 25 years and is one of the largest hubs for internet traffic in the world with over 9 Terabits per second (Tbps) of peak traffic. Connecting to AMS-IX ensures customers such as internet service providers, telecom companies and cloud providers that their global IP traffic is routed in an efficient, fast, secure, stable and cost-effective way. This allows them to offer low latency and engaging online experiences for end-users. AMS-IX interconnects more than 1000 IP-networks in the world.

BKNIX website

Bangkok Neutral Internet Exchange (BKNIX) is the first neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Thailand. Our mission is to enhance the Internet usage experience of local and international users by providing Layer 2 IXP through high speed, low latency carrier-class equipment. BKNIX is NOT a transit provider. BKNIX is considered as an important Internet infrastructure that supports the continuous growth of exchange of internet data in the Thailand.

JPIX website

JPIX, established as the first commercial Internet exchange (IX) in Japan in July 1997, has been providing an environment for IX exchanges from a neutral standpoint. Serving more than 250 companies, the most of any IX provider in Japan, we play a vital role as a part of the core of Japan’s Internet. JPIX will continue to provide a better Internet infrastructure, while contributing to the overall development of the Internet globally as well as in Japan. https://www.jpix.ad.jp/en/

LINX website

Our 950+ strong membership community spans all major cloud, data communications, telecommunications, financial, and enterprise companies across more than 85 countries worldwide. While LINX is known for its robust, reliable and extensive peering network, our service goes much further. We offer a growing number of interconnection services, colocation in world-leading data centres, and extensive guidance and support to new members looking to interconnect.

MYIX website

MyIX (Malaysia Internet Exchange) is operated by Persatuan Pengendali Internet Malaysia. The non-profit organization was initiated by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) in September 2006 through the cooperation of local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect and exchange local Internet traffic.

MyIX is managed by a committee that comprises elected representatives of local Malaysian ISPs.

Membership is open to Network Service Provider’s and existing entities whose primary business is the hosting of content (including but not limited to hosting corporate websites, dedicated server hosting, shared hosting or offshore hosting). It is also open to entities – including enterprises – which are involved or associated with content delivered via the internet.

MyIX achieved 1.2Tbps peak traffic in August 2021. Currently total membership stands at 125.