PLNOG 2012 Conference

5-6 March 2012, Warsaw

Sponsors

Sponsors of the next edition of PLNOG are:

Gold Sponsors:

Brocade

Brocade (listed on Nasdaq: BRCD). From enterprise data centers to the core of Service Providers environments, Brocade Communications develops unique network solutions that are the platform for the global exchange of information traffic. Solutions delivered by a global ecosystem of partners help various organizations confronted with a growing mass of information flow to operate more efficiently and maximize the business value of those data. Brocade Communications – headquarter in San Jose, California; employs over 4000 people; 2 billion USD for the financial year 2009. More information about Brocade can be found on the Internet at www.brocade.com or by contacting via e-mail, writing to us at info@brocade.com.

cisco

Cisco Systems Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, gowernment and home communications. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-wheter in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that mekae networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company’s ineption, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 63 000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies.

Dlink

D-Link is one of the world’s leading networking infrastructure providers, delivering innovative, high-performing and intuitive products for both businesses and consumers. For nearly 25 years, D-Link has designed, developed and manufactured award-winning networking, wireless, storage, security and IP surveillance solutions. D-Link delivers its extensive range of networking products to organisations and consumers though its global network of channel partners and service providers. D-Link understands the significance of accessing, managing, securing and sharing data and digital content, and has pioneered many IP technologies to deliver a fully integrated Digital Home and business network experience.

Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2009 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet’s flagship FortiGate product delivers ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet’s broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise – from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world. www.fortinet.com

Fsecure

Innovation and responsiveness to virus threats are the basis of the success of F-Secure. Since 1988, the Finnish manufacturer provides protection for desktops and laptops, and mobile phones. Award-winning solutions of the F-Secure company are available on a subscription basis, with more than 200 ISPs and cellular operators worldwide. Since 1999, the corporation is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. It is one of the top fastest growing companies in the world. The latest information on threats on the Internet can be found daily on the blog run by the Research Group F-Secure www.f-secure.com/weblog/

Global

Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is a leading global IP and Ethernet solutions provider with the world’s first integrated global IP-based network. The company offers a full range of data, voice and collaboration services with an industry leading customer experience and delivers service to approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500, as well as to 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. It delivers converged IP services to more than 700 cities in more than 70 countries around the world. Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.

HP

HP helps telecom operators, data centers and vendors content by providing innovative technology, products and services that enable them to pursue business processes in an optimal way, that is, taking into account both the performance needs and reliability, as well as taking into account the economic conditions. HP solutions are exclusively based on open industry standards in terms of both hardware and software. To HP customers in Poland belong not only the largest horizontal and vertical portals, but also start-ups.

Juniper

Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon, and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking for global service providers, leading enterprises, and public sector organizations. Our core routers, switches, and security hardware and software run the world’s largest and most demanding global networks.

NTT

NTT Europe

Founded in 1988, NTT Europe has headquarters in London and offices in Paris, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, offering a wide range of customized enterprise solutions with expertise in private networks, global Tier-1 Internet backbone and related ICT solutions to enterprises worldwide.

NTT Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, which is the international arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group (NTT Group) – the largest telecommunications company in the world.

NTT Europe can provide the following services collaborating with other affiliates all over the world:

  • ARCSTAR: Global, secure, closed network service, covering more than 159 countries worldwide
  • Global IP Network: Global Tier-1 Internet backbone, assuring the same excellent service with 24×7 superior customer support and maintenance
  • ICT Solutions: IT Managed Services, System integration
NTT Communications

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) was founded in 1999 as the wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, one of the world’s largest telecommunication companies.

NTT Com delivers high-quality voice, data and IP services to customers around the world. The company is renowned for its diverse information and communication services, expertise in managed networks, hosting and IP networking services as well as industry leadership in IPv6 technology. NTT Com’s extensive global infrastructure includes Arcstar IP-VPN service that reaches more than 150 countries, a Tier 1 IP backbone connected with major ISPs worldwide, and secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe.

NTT Communications Group has subsidiaries and offices in 67 cities in 25 countries/regions around the world. NTT Communications alone has more than 8,000 employees worldwide.

Veracomp

Veracomp is the Polish specialized distributor of IT solutions. Veracomp sells products and services exclusively to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. The company has been operating in 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Veracomp has particular expertise in the technological areas such as networks, telecommunications, IT security, servers & storage, IT infrastructure management, audiovisual systems & Digital Signage, Document Management Systems, Digital Medicine and SOHO products. Apart from financing and logistics, Veracomp offers presales advises, help in acquiring customers and finalizing sales, as well as technical services and marketing support. Educational back-up in the region is offered by Compendium, a Veracomp subsidiary. For more information, visit http://www.veracomp.eu

Silver Sponsors:

ATMAN

ATMAN* is a leader of data transmission in Poland offering:

  • Internet access
  • Data transmission
  • Collocation & hosting
  • ISDN telephony
based on own telecommunications resources:
  • Fibre optical backbone network using N×10 Gbps links
  • 8 Metropolitan Area Networks
  • AC-X dedicated network of access nodes
  • Data centers of collocation space over 5800 sq m

ATMAN has approx. 350 direct operator connection points with IP networks and is the only Polish operator present in AMS-IX in Amsterdam, DE-CIX in Frankfurt and LINX in London. The major customers of ATMAN services are carriers, media, Internet portals and the companies and enterprises valuing the quality and reliability of telecommunications services.

For more information please visit: www.atman.pl and www.telehouse.pl.

*) trade mark of WSE listed ATM S.A. — the first commercial Internet provider in Poland.

Beyond

The Beyond.pl Company is the owner of BEYOND DATA CENTER – one of state-of-the-art the most independent data centers (Independent Carrier Data Center) in Europe. Meeting the highest standards of power supply stability, physical security, fire protection, refrigeration systems and communications is an ideal place for the implementation of single window for the maintenance of IT resources and data for the most demanding customers.

Connections with multiple network operators, advanced infrastructure and highly qualified personnel make use of BDC is the perfect choice for Internet services, telecommunications operators, companies implementing ERP systems, companies providing the software in the ASP or SaaS model, processing centers and storage integrators, companies multimedia, and each company that wants to put their equipment, systems and data in place to guarantee smooth and uninterrupted operation. More information on: www.beyond.pl

Connected

Breaking barriers in telecommunications. We are one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Małopolska region. Our company’s main advantage is high quality of services and professionalism, so our offer is directed to corporate customers only. The complexity of services rendered on the basis of our own local backbone enables full control over these services. Thanks to using optical fibre infrastructure and base stations located in many points in Cracow, we reach even the most distant locations within the city and its surroundings. Internet access offered by our company is mainly based on Tier-1 connections. Connecton refund and peering policy make it possible for us to offer services at the quality which can be only obtained in the largest IP exchange nodes worldwide. One of our projects is CIX (Cracow Internet eXchange) which allows for providing professional service of IP traffic exchange in the peering system.

Offer:
Internet access, Transit of traffic to foreign and Polish operators, Server colocation, Access to traffic exchange nodes, Data transmission.

DE-CIX

DE-CIX is a neutral, independent owner and operator of an international node for IP traffic exchange (IX), DE-CIX platform in Frankfurt (Germany) and two German regional IXes: “WORK-IX” in Hamburg and “ALP-IX” in Munich. DE-CIX Management GmbH is owned by eco eV, a German non-commercial Internet connection manager. DE-CIX was formed in 1995 and offers peering between Internet service providers, broadband and content providers. DE-CIX is the largest hub for Internet traffic exchange and one of the three largest IX telecom operators.

Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks – American manufacturer of network equipment, has its offices in over 50 countries in the world (including Poland), characterized by high functionality and performance of the proposed solutions. The company was founded in 1996 and at the beginning was a supplier of solutions mainly for operators. Today the portfolio of products is tailored to the requirements of many different clients, not just the ISP market, but also for academics, broad Enterprise, Data Center, and many others

Hawe

HAWE Telekom is a modern telecommunications company owned by the listed by GPW Group HAWE company. The Company pursues a strategy, “Operator for operators,” provision of telecom services to national and international services, based on their own infrastructure, HAWE National Fiber Network. This network currently has over 3000km, till the end of 2012, the company will have an infrastructure with a length of nearly 4.000km. It will connect major metropolitan areas and key administrative, economic and scientific centers of the country. In addition, the network has been brought to the borders of the conuntry, which allows connections with other operators from Germany, Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. HAWE Telekom services: sales and leasing of fiber optic data transmission based on DWDM and IP systems, Internet access, collocation facilities along the HAWE National Fiber Network and specialized telecommunications networks service.

Linx

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is one of the world’s largest and longest established Internet Exchange Points. It has a reputation for quality and reliablity and offers an extensive range of peering options for its members.

With over 350 networks connecting at the exchange from the UK, mainland Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, LINX can help make your network run faster, more reliably and at a lower cost. For more information please visit: www.linx.net

Metroport

Metroport is a group of collaborating partners in the field of the internet providing. The first meeting of few small firms has been conducted in 2007. Our resources and possibilities, arising thanks to close collaboration are still growing up. If You are representative any kind of ISP business and You`re just reading this text we invite You and Your firm to the partnership into our co-working group. What can You yield cooperating with us? The simplest answer is: everything. We think that without cooperation small firms, just like we suppose to be can`t compete with the big corporations on the telecommunication marketplace. If we separately can`t effectively compete with ones, our future is questionable and unsure. Binding our forces and cooperation diametrically change our position. Together we can reach the best providers and sellers. Gaining the best prices of customs and services, we are creating and selling the top telecommunication products and services. Additionaly what differs us from big corporations and forwarding us to the best privileged position are our personal commitments and efforts. Thanks to such things the effect we gain has no other equivalent in our domestic ISP marketplace. We have our own hardware IPTV station, thanks to we can facilitate introducing to Your offer cheap digital television service. We also are the virtual GSM provider, so You can propose to Your clients cell phone services and mobile internet access.

PLIX

PLIX is the leading Polish commercial node for IP traffic exchange. Through PLIX flows about 40% of Polish Internet – more than 100Gbps. PLIX actively works for the development and promotion of peering and attract to Poland global content providers. PLIX involves in initiatives related to Internet security, such as CERT, which is builded together with the Secure Cyberspace Foundation. Currently PLIX lists more than 150 operators from Poland and Europe.

Salumanus.net

SALUMANUS – a company that has been present on the market since 2002 is a provider of specialized components and devices dedicated for data transmission in IT systems. The company focuses on the sales of advanced, active devices which can be used in efficient transmission networks. The main emphasis and direction of the company develompent is focused on devices for optical transport systems.
SALUMANUS directs its offer to telecommunication integrators, ISP companies and cable television providers. Our offer includes: transceivers (compatible with Cisco, HP, 3COM, D-Link, Nortel, Juniper, Huawei, etc.), media conversion platforms (managable and unmanagable, stand-alone and pluggable in 19″ rack mounts), active and passive CWDM/DWDM (multiplexers, transponders, OADM, amplifiers and compensators), SDH/PDH networks components, E1 multiplexers, L2 and L3 switches, testers and analyzers and GEPON (wide range of OLT and ONU devices, as well as the passive part).

szara.net

S-NET. z o. o. is the owner of the neutral Data Centre in Krakow – Szara.net, which is placed in two buildings. The company provides Internet access services for business and the operators and data transmission, transit traffic to foreign carriers andand implementation of national and lease the last mile of dark fiber in Krakow. The newest service provided by the company is SIP Reseller package, dedicated to ISP.

Telehouse

Telehouse.Poland — a new telecommunications center of Poland

The facility was designed for collocation and telecommunications purposes and dedicated to carriers and Web portals considering future development possibilities and long-term availability of collocation space, power supply and fiber-optic lines. Telehouse.Poland guarantees:

  • Neutrality, i.e. no local monopoly constraints (internal cabling, access to third-party operators within the premise, price of links)
  • Compliance with Tier-3 Data Center requirements according to TIA classification
  • Safe investment guaranteed by Polish WSE listed company with stable financial standing and large equity capital
  • Ability to connect to Telco.Ring — a redundant fiber-optic ring connecting most used telecom nodes in Warsaw, equipped with DWDM multiplexers that enable using outbound lines of 10 and 2,5 Gbps in any node

Telehouse.Poland was established by ATM S.A. — the first commercial Internet provider in Poland.

Vector

VECTOR is a European provider of solutions for the rapidly growing telecommunications industry, offers advanced systems used in mobile and fixed networks. The company specializes in the integration and production of solutions that enable network operators to provide multimedia services such as digital television, internet and telephony.

VECTOR is leading Polish systems integrator for IPTV taking into account individual requirements resulting from the specifics of the operator network operator and offered services.

VECTOR offers a complete solution (turn-key solution) containing the hardware, software and services support from solutions design, through implementation of the system design and integration of systems and network operator to maintain and carriage system during its operation.

Detailed information is available at www.vector.com.pl.

Sponsors:

3S

Slaskie Sieci Swiatlowodowe (3S) is a telecom operator established in Slask and Zaglebie. It builds and gives access to fiber-optic infrastructure and access to other operators, large enterprises and institutions. 3S has a network of fiber optic lines with a length of 900 kilometers. Infrastructure covers the area of 2000 km2 which is inhabited by more than 3 million inhabitants of the Silesian agglomeration. 3S leases to customers fiber optic and other telecommunications infrastructure. Furthermore, based on modern technology, Metro Ethernet, provides data transmission services, operator Internet access and monitoring. Transmission between the main nodes, located in Katowice, Mikolow, Gliwice, Bytom and Chorzow, takes place with a capacity of 10 Gb/s. 3S network is present in all cities of the Silesian agglomeration.

3SF

3Services Factory is a newly established data centers, located in Katowice and Bytom, in close proximity to the A1 and A4 motorways and airports in Pyrzowice (Katowice) and the Balice (Krakow). The investment is a response to market demands and growing needs of the wider development of the IT industry, telecommunications and other industries. 3SF Data Center is a joint project PCC and TKP SA www.3sf.eu

AMSix

AMS-IX – Amsterdam Internet Exchange – is a neutral and independent Internet exchange providing services since the early 1990’s. AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet Interconnection Points worldwide. More than 350 Internet networks come together in Amsterdam from all over the world to exchange Internet traffic of over 944 Gbps. The AMS-IX platform provides professional, high quality, non-blocking peering services for IP traffic with a diverse profile, be it regular IP data such as e-mail, but also video/TV, as well as voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX). More information on: http://www.ams-ix.net

Antik

Antik Technology presents the Juice IPTV family – a cost-to-performance end-to-end IPTV solution. Whether you are a telco operator, integrator or ethnic TV you can pick what you need from our offer.

  • Juice Ember™ Encoder – perfectly tuned H.264 live TV encoder
  • Juice Head-end™ software family – IPTV middleware server, archive server (nPVR, timeshifting, etc.) or VoD servers
  • Juice FullHD IPTV STB family – price-breaking Juice Pro™ DualTV IPTV box and the brand-new Juice Lite™ Hybrid IPTV/DVB box.
  • Simply, all you need for your IPTV project from one supplier – Antik Technology, 130+ employees hi-tech designer and manufacturer based in Slovakia and Czech Republic. Real-time H.264 encoding doesn’t have to be an investor’s nightmare. Antik’s Juice Ember H.264 encoder/ transcoder based on an ultra-fast chipset will move your project quickly into black numbers – tested for Over-The-Top delivery.

    Juice Pro is a Full™ set-top box with an embedded 4+1 port managed switch (QoS, VLANs). DualTV (multi-room) feature was integrated to enable watching of different channels on different TV sets at the same time. Juice works as a home multimedia centre. The PowerLine feature allows installing the box in customer premises without any extra cabling – free middleware included in each box.

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    Crowley

    Crowley, a telecommunications operator, one of the fastest growing providers of integrated telecommunications services to businesses. Launched in 1999. Its shareholder is a U.S. telecommunications company, Crowley Data LLC. The network enables integration of geographically distributed elements of IT infrastructure, provides broadband Internet access and access to a wide range of value added services. Crowley’s innovative services optimizing telecommunications costs are provided to over 5,000 clients, including Polish National Bank National Remembrance Institute, Polish Radio, Radio Zet or company CH Cegielski. In 2004, Crowley was qualified by the organization of the RIPE NCC to the prestigious Class LARGE comprising only 5% of large Internet operators in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa

    Dcenter

    dcenter.pl is an initiative created as a combination of cutting-edge technical solutions with the experience of people, for many years bounded with telecommunications, data transmission and Polish Internet network backbone.

    dcenter.pl have a server room located in the center of Warsaw, which meets the highest technological requirements, while located close to major inter-nodes, which enables provision of a full range of services related to the collocation, telecommunications and data transmission.

    Gratka

    Company’s mission is to advise, supply and implement its customers the highest quality of modern IT solutions adjusteed to their individual needs and requirements.

    Specialization of the company is creating social networking sites, boards, information and e-commerce applications such as CMS, DMS, CRM and SEO and SEM services.

    Gratka Technologie has its own facilities in a form of modern Data Center in Gdansk, whose resources are made available within the provided services. The company offers the highest quality hosting services, colocation of own and dedicated servers.

    With its unique combination of high-quality technology with an experienced and qualified team of specialists in the field of SEO / SEM and usability, analysts, engineers, designers, managers, developers and administrators, Gratka Technologie can quickly and efficiently design, create and maintain information systems providing real value and increase the advantage competitive customers.

    Netart

    NetArt was established in 1997 and provides comprehensive customer services in domain names registration and domain brokerage services. The company also offers hosting services and creating websites. The number of domains operated by NetArt is more than 500,000 what gives a leading position in domain names registration and hosting services. The company serves more than 300,000 Customers and owns 30% share in the market of Polish commercial Internet services. Top quality customer service has been confirmed by emblem of “Customer-Friendly Company” awarded to NetArt by Management Observatory.

    SGT

    SGT S.A. (Slaska Grupa Telekomunikacyjna) has created a modern, digital media platform that combines features of online media (interactive, quick access to information) with the advantages of cable TV (wide range of channels, digital video and audio quality.) Making good use of infrastructure, knowledge and experience of the operators, a completely new, innovative television was created.

    TP

    Polish Telecom is one of the largest and most valuable brands in the Polish economy and part of the global telecommunications group France Telecom. TP has created the largest telecommunications group in Central Europe, which includes also: PTK Centertel – Orange network operator, TP Emitel and Wirtualna Polska.
    TP services are used by 7.5 million landline customers and more than 2.1 million broadband Internet connection clients. In addition, the TP provides television services to nearly 240,000 customers and for 156,000 also services of internet telephony. It provides service to over one million customers using the services provided using the TP links by other operators. In 2007, TP became the producer on the film market, is has already cooperated producing dozen of films, including Oscar-nominated “Katyn.” It also offers its own TV channels, Orange Sport and Orange Sport info.
    TP is actively involved in building the information society and combating the digital division. Works with local administration on the development of Internet access in underdeveloped areas.

    Teliasonera

    TeliaSonera International Carrier is the only pan-European provider of wholesale services that can offer IP, capacity and voice services. TeliaSonera International Carrier owns and manages more than 43,000 km of fiber-optic cable and has more than 100 points of presence across Europe, the United States and Asia. In Europe, TeliaSonera International Carrier handles more IP traffic and sells more capacity between countries than any other communications provider. More than 85 percent of the European internet market uses TeliaSonera International Carrier’s IP backbone. For more information, visit www.teliasoneraic.com.

    Event Sponsor:

    Crowley

    Crowley, a telecommunications operator, one of the fastest growing providers of integrated telecommunications services to businesses. Launched in 1999. Its shareholder is a U.S. telecommunications company, Crowley Data LLC. The network enables integration of geographically distributed elements of IT infrastructure, provides broadband Internet access and access to a wide range of value added services. Crowley’s innovative services optimizing telecommunications costs are provided to over 5,000 clients, including Polish National Bank National Remembrance Institute, Polish Radio, Radio Zet or company CH Cegielski. In 2004, Crowley was qualified by the organization of the RIPE NCC to the prestigious Class LARGE comprising only 5% of large Internet operators in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa

    Organizer:

    • proidea

    Diamond Sponsor:

    • cisco

    Platinum Sponsors:

    • Brocade
    • CCPartners
    • Huawei
    • zte

    Gold Sponsors:

    • Arbor
    • axence
    • ekinops
    • Fortinet
    • GTS
    • HP
    • netiona
    • netiona
    • Salumanus
    • zycko

    Silver Sponsors:

    • Ancotel
    • APC
    • Falesia
    • Metroport
    • S4tech
    • Software Mind
    • Vector

    Bronze Sponsors:

    • 3S
    • TP

    Lunch and Coffee Break Sponsors:

    T-shirts and Lanyards Sponsors:

    After Party Sponsor:

    • Crowley

    Technology Partner:

    • cisco

    Partners:

    • CCIE
    • CONFidence
    • EuroNOG

    Media Sponsors:

    • DI
    • Dobreprogramy