Global Peering Forum 2025 - Denver Colorado

Contribution List

46. A Brief History of Interconnection in Denver

Denver’s telecommunications landscape has evolved from its 19th-century telegraph roots to a key hub for digital infrastructure. Early telephone networks, led by the Colorado Telephone Company and later Mountain Bell, shaped regional communication, while the rise of cable giants like Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) made Denver a major player in the cable industry. Today, the city hosts a...

4. Advancing Connectivity: IX-API Updates and Innovations

Mr Richard Petrie (LINX)

Presentation: IX Automation in EMEA
A look back at IX-API, it’s adoption across major EU IXs and what are the current drivers to drive wider adoption. The presentation will also touch on how work with other peering tools such as Peering Manager has developed and how using quality source data such as PeeringDB has contributed to the wider adoption of peering automation.

42. Automation to fight piracy: the Italian experience

Draft presented at grnog 16 (April 2024) - https://grnog.indico.nogalliance.org/event/9/timetable/:
Automation to fight piracy: the Italian experience

• how it works (League Soccer SerieA)
• why it has been introduced (political situation)
• how dangerous is it
• issue: blackholing of Cloudflare / Google Drive
• extension of the system to other contents
• What we do (as I run an ISP...

44. Encroaching on the Incumbents: Lessons Learned

Brief history of how IXs have evolved over the years, and not always in a good way. In this presentation, we’ll review my attempt at modernizing the interconnection landscape in Los Angeles, while embracing the open ideology of the industry’s past.

2. Forward Path Matching routes to traffic levels

Mr Stephan Schroeder (BENOCS)

Typically, having a direct interconnect with a peer in multiple locations would make most traffic ingress and egress via these direct interconnects with that peer. In reality, this is often not the fact; traffic takes asymmetrical paths. Asymmetrical paths can cause latency and performance issues, load-balancing problems, routing instability and poor quality of service. Taking the traffic from...

45. Global Interconnectivity Report

Abstract: The presentation will cover recent network developments and interconnection trends. We’ll compare trends by region and interconnectivity growth markets, markets growing slower than expected. We will explore what AI means for networks and how networks may evolve to accommodate AI growth.

Time: 20-30mins

36. Good, Fast, Cheap: Which Two?

There is an infinite number of ways to improve the network. How do you prioritize?

This presentation is about identifying what's most important for your network, and how to prioritize competing priorities for precious dollars.

51. GPF 2025 Closing

Wouter Van Renterghem (GPF Board Director and PC member)

33. Interconnection in Romania: Insights from Internet Measurement Data

Tiberiu Gindu (ANISP - RoNIX)

an overview on how IP interconections (peerings) are seen for Romania - using various tools.

35. Internet and impacts associated with local norms in LATAM

Agustin Speziale (GPF)

The idea of this proposal for a talk at the next GPF 2025 meeting arises based on the results obtained in the survey carried out at the end of the GPF 2024, within the needs to talk about issues related to "REGULATIONS" arose and I offered to comment on those that are related in the Latin American region, where the organization I represent and I have more experience. The being made up of many...

40. Introducing the Quantum Internet Alliance

The Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) is a community made up of forty of Europe's leading academic, industrial and research technology organisations in nine countries, working together to build the world's first full-stack prototype quantum internet network.
In this presentation, AMS-IX as members of the Alliance will describe the function of the Alliance and its approach.

38. Introduction to peering for new to the industry Sunday afternoon

Introduction to peering for new comers. What is peering and why do we need it.

41. Is Public Peering still worthwhile in 2025?

Challenges and Opportunities of today’s Networks Operators and the role of IXP resellers

43. Marseille, at the Heart of the Mediterranean : Traffic Insights from France-IX

In just over a decade, Marseille has transformed from a regional interconnection point to the 6th-largest global Internet hub, up from 44th place in 2012. This remarkable growth is largely driven by its strategic geographic position, acting as a digital gateway between Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, and by the deployment of 18 subsea cables landing in the city.

Benefiting from...

34. PeeringDB: What's New and What's Next?

In this presentation we'll talk about PeeringDB organization updates, look at some of the recent feature developments, and then go over the key roadmap features planned for this year.

47. The journey of GPF

The Global Peering Forum (GPF) was founded in 2003 with the aim of creating a neutral platform for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators, and content providers to collaborate and establish peering relationships. Its founders envisioned an event that would foster direct interconnections, allowing smaller regional ISPs to connect with larger global networks and improve internet...

5. The Peering Model of the Future

Mr Ben Nicklin (Vodafone)

With the potential growth of paid peering and other internet commercial models, a Panel session shall be conducted with an Eyeball Network, a Transit provider, a CDN and an IX discus the future of peering models.

39. What happens in Southeast Asia Now? from the point of view of one Asian IX guy

The Internet is already ordinary common thing in Staes or Europe with long history and establishment. But still in Asia, growing countries and growing populations needs more and more for the Internet, related services, and values out of them, although there are still lack of infrastructures, clear rules of understandable regulations in each country.
I did have many chances to go these...