Track: Sales

Tips and tricks for selling middle-mile transport to transit providers and IXes in Carrier Hotels.

Target Audience: Fiber Transport Sales and Sales Engineering

Speaker: Jay Hanke
Company: South Front Networks/MICE/QCIX
LinkedIn Substack

Track: Network Development

Speaker: Ben Edmond
Company: Connectbase
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Track: Technical

Speaker: Ralph Huff
Company: Padtec
LinkedIn

Track: Sales

Speaker: Vincent Celindro
Company: Juniper Networks

Monday Social sponsored by Bluebird Networks

Track: Technical

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the latest IP revision, developed as a successor to IPv4. IPv6 provides a much larger address pool so that many more devices can be connected to the Internet. It also improves addressing and routing of network traffic.

Because the free pool of IPv4 addresses has been depleted, customers will want to request Ipv6 address space for new networks, and eventually transition their networks from Ipv4 to IPv6.

Are you ready to deploy IPv6, but you’re not sure where to begin? Whether you are an end user or an Internet Service Provider (ISP), ARIN can help you determine how much IPv6 address space is appropriate for your organization and tell you how to request space. You’ll also learn the basics of IPv6 and options for supporting IPv4 in your network.

Speaker: John Sweeting, ARIN

Track: Technical

Speaker: Chris Grundemann , FullCtl
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Sponsored by Arvig

Track: Network Development

Speaker: Sarah Bleau
Company: US Department of Commerce, NTIA

Track: Network Development

We will explore how data centers & carrier hotels can work with their competitors to create an interconnection ecosystem that benefits everyone involved, including customers. We will also discuss the challenges of building and maintaining such ecosystems and offer practical advice on how to overcome them.
Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the benefits of collaboration over competition in the data center industry and how it can lead to better services for customers. They will also learn about the importance of interconnection and the role they play in the digital economy.

Speaker: Rafael Possamai, Data Center Manager
Company: Bluebird Network
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Sponsored by Juniper Networks

Track: Government

Traditionally large companies have built middle mile networks by laying limited fiber across thousands of miles and opening it for access at a premium price. This model has worked well in the past when broadband infrastructure was centralized mostly across urban areas. With the availability of billions of dollars of federal and state funds (RDOF, ARPA, CPF, BEAD etc.), last mile rural infrastructure is coming up at speed without the availability of sufficient middle mile infrastructure to keep up with it. This is evidenced by the fact that on the budget of $1B of Middle Mile funds available under NTIA, over $5B of applications were received with an average of 40% match.
I will discuss the new model that rural operators can now use leveraging their existing last mile network and their relationships with other rural operators to set up regional, state and national middle mile networks at a fraction of the cost of the traditional model. In this new model, the focus is shifted from building single ownership middle mile networks to a coalition owned network that can not only serve and bring down the cost of the coalition but also provide services to outsider much more efficiently. Leveraging existing assets of the members of the coalition allows to drastically cut down on the cost of building, deploying and operating the middle mile network.

Speaker: Sachin Gupta, Director of Government Business & Economic Development
Company: Centranet

Track: Network Development

Moderator: Greg Elliot, 1623 Farnam
Panelist: Brad Campbell, Netrality
Panelist: xxx, Unite Private Networks
Panelist: TBD

Reverse Q&A format where Moderator makes an assertion and participants "pick a line and defend it".

Moderator: Marty Hannigan

Sponsored by Netrality Data Centers and Unite Private Networks