RIPE 60 - 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 email to meeting@ripe.net.
Meeting Host
CZ.NIC is an association founded in 1998 by leading providers of Internet services. It currently has 65 members. Key activities of the association include operation of the domain name registry for the .CZ domain and the 0.2.4.e164.arpa (ENUM) domain, operation of the CZ top-level domain and public education about domain names. CZ.NIC is working intensively on developing the ENUM system, extending and improving of the domain administration system and, at the same time, supporting new technologies and projects to further strengthen the Internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic. CZ.NIC is a member of CENTR, ccNSO, EURid and other industry bodies.
Event Sponsors
Interxion is a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centres. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 25 carrier-neutral data centres located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting and enterprise customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion's data centres offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks and 15 major internet exchanges.
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.
NIX.CZ works with Czech and foreign Internet related businesses to mutually interconnect their networks. Access to its infrastructure is enabled at four localities in Prague. NIX.CZ is currently the largest neutral IXP (Internet Exchange Point) in the Czech Republic and is also among the top ten largest European IXPs. NIX.CZ Has encouraged and facilitated IPv6 protocol based peering since 2003.
Supporting Sponsors
Brocade develops extraordinary networking solutions that enable today’s complex, data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximise the business value of their data.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets.
Google's targeted advertising program, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry, provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Connectivity Sponsors
Dial Telecom provides services for both the wholesale and the retail sectors. Our wholesale sector specializes in providing cable ducts, dark fibre and backbone capacity to international and national carriers, ISPs, and ASPs. Dial Telecom also provides IP-based services to regional ISPs over its own fibre network. The company has an exceptionally well-developed Ethernet over fibre network and DWDM connections to most major regional capitals.
Dial Telecom is connected to the world's largest Internet exchanges (most notably to DE-CIX and KleyerEx in Frankfurt am Main, AMS-IX in Amsterdam, LINX in London and ECIX in Düsseldorf). Naturally, it is also connected to Czech NIX.CZ and Slovak SIX.SK.
CESNET (Czech Education and Scientific NETwork) is an association of all universities of the Czech Republic and the Czech Academy of Science. Its main goals are to operate and develop a high-speed national research and education network, CESNET2, to participate in analogous projects at European and global levels, to carry out original research in the area of networking technologies and their applications and to actively seek, adapt and develop corresponding applications.