Topic of Presentation: European Peering Cultures: impact on network costs and end-user experience
Language: English
Bart van der Sloot joined Global Crossing in 1999, with the responsibility to build the Marketing and Sales organization of Global Crossing in Europe. He was instrumental in setting sales strategy, recruiting sales and marketing staff, implementing organizational structure, processes and systems and turning Global Crossings business from a “one-off deal” business into a business with recurring revenues from broadband, IP and voice services, serving virtually all European incumbent carriers and a large number of emerging carriers, web hosting companies and Internet Service Providers. In his current role he is responsible for Global Crossings business in Data Transport and IP Services with Carriers, Web hosting companies and Internet Service Providers in the Benelux and Central & Eastern Europe. From 2002 to 2009 Bart van der Sloot was a Board Member (and Treasurer) of the European Competitive Telecom Association (ECTA), an association representing over 100 carriers and service providers (including ISP associations) to ensure a competitive landscape through pro-competition regulation. Prior to joining Global Crossing, Bart van der Sloot spent 11 years at Philips Electronics, in various sales and marketing management positions. During his career at Philips Electronics he established the Communication Systems division as one of the major players in the European call centre market, created a Professional Services practice that successfully executed complex telebanking projects for major banks in Europe and Asia and developed some of Europe’s major incumbent carriers as distribution channels. Bart van der Sloot graduated at the Telecommunications group at the Technical University in Delft in 1988.
Abstract: Examples of different peering constructs across Europe. What is the effect of the Internet Exchange, neutral carrier houses, the incumbent and other market dynamics on costs and end-user experience. What are the optimal conditions for a flourishing internet environment.
