The annual Networking Conference (TNC) is the forum where companies have a unique opportunity to present their products and services to a community of 'early adopters’. TNC brings together more than 650 leading figures and decision makers from national research and education networking (NREN) organisations, research institutions, technology industries and government representatives, as well as some of the world's premier networking engineers. They present and discuss the technical and strategic aspects of network provisioning and related services and identify equipment, connection requirements, and engineering functions and services necessary to the research and education community. Together, TNC participants represent an annual information technology investment budget of more than 1,000 million euros.
GÉANT, the European Research and Education Networking Association, provides a forum where those interested in advanced network technology collaborate, innovate and share knowledge to foster the development of Internet technology and associated services for research and education. GÉANT is also the pan-European data network project dedicated to the research and education community, and in GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, an international virtual organisation that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking.
Ciena is a network strategy and technology company with a unique ability to translate best-in-class technology into value through a high-touch consultative business model. We believe in driving an industry ecosystem and offering the greatest degree of flexibility in how our customers consume technology to deliver the most rewarding experiences and business outcomes. We develop and apply technologies across packet and optical networking and distributed software automation that drive openness, virtualization and collaboration for customers worldwide to meet surging bandwidth demands and facilitate the shift to the cloud.
For more information, visit: http://www.ciena.com
To meet today's changing bandwidth demands, R&E network operators need optical transport platforms that simplify operations while accelerating new service turn-up, and all while lowering TCO. This kind of scalability can be achieved with intelligent networks that automate manual operations and with revolutionary technology that fundamentally alters the TCO paradigm. Infinera’s Intelligent Transport Networking solutions achieve both of these goals without compromise by integrating best-in-class technology across all its platforms:
For more information, visit: www.infinera.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector helps government, education, and nonprofit customers deploy cloud services to reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation across the globe. With AWS, you only pay for what you use, with no up-front physical infrastructure expenses or long-term commitments.
For more information, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/
6,000 education institutions worldwide use Dropbox for secure content based collaboration. Leading research universities in Europe and the US use Dropbox for active storage and true cross-platform team working. Dropbox Education now comes with EU data location, and gives IT the administrative tools they need to manage users, monitor activity and control sharing.
For more information, visit: http://www.dropbox.com
Dimension Data believes technology helps you achieve great things in the digital age. Our services deliver the outcomes you need to accelerate your business, wherever you are in the world. The OneCloud Partner Programme brings together the shared experience and technical capability that enable our OneCloud partners to take cloud services to market effectively and efficiently.
For more information, visit: http://www.dimensiondata.com
Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data centre, storage and computing environments. Arista’s switching platforms, ranging from 10 to 100 gigabits per second, redefine scalability, agility and resilience. Arista has shipped more than 10 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Committed to open standards, Arista is a founding member of the 25/50GbE consortium. At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), an advanced network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms, and modern core architecture enabling in-service upgrades and application extensibility. The Arista team is comprised of experienced management and engineering talent from leading networking companies. Arista designs revolutionary products and delivers them worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers with a strong dedication to partner and customer success.
For more information, visit: http://www.arista.com
ECI delivers elastic network solutions globally to CSPs, utilities as well as data center operators. Along with its long standing, industry proven packet optical transport, ECI offers a variety of SDN/NFV applications, a comprehensive cyber security solution and a range of professional services. ECI's ELASTIC solutions ensure open, future-proof, and secure communications. With ECI, customers have the luxury of choosing a network which can be tailor made to their needs today – while being flexible enough to evolve with their changing needs in the future. At ECI, customer success is our success. For more information, please visit us at www.ecitele.com.
For more information, visit: http://www.ecitele.com
ownCloud is the open platform for more productivity and security in digital collaboration. ownCloud offers a solution to organizations that need to share confidential data internally and externally. The open platform offers better productivity and security within digital collaboration, and enables users to access data no matter where it is stored or which device is being used.
For more information, visit: https://www.owncloud.com
Verne Global owns and operates a 44-acre data center campus in Keflavik, Iceland. As a strategic location between the world’s two largest data center markets, Europe and North America, Verne Global is addressing three key issues facing today’s data revolution - energy pricing, power availability and sustainability. Verne Global offers GÉANT’s research community a low-cost, 100% carbon neutral power solution with unparalleled pricing predictability. Connected to the European and wider global NREN network via NORDUnet, Verne Global offers research and academic institutions an optimised and environmentally friendly solution to base their compute tasks.
For more information, visit: https://verneglobal.com
Nextcloud is the next generation open source, self-hosted, enterprise-ready file access and communication platform. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! Nextcloud puts IT back in control.
For more information, visit: https://nextcloud.com
Flowmon Networks empowers businesses to manage and secure their computer networks confidently. Through our high-performance network monitoring technology and lean-forward behavior analytics, IT pros worldwide benefit from absolute network traffic visibility to enhance network & application performance and deal with modern cyber threats. Driven by a passion for technology, we are leading the way of NetFlow/IPFIX network monitoring that is high performing, scalable and easy to use. The world’s largest businesses, internet service providers, government entities or even small and midsize companies rely on our solutions to take control over their networks, keep order and overcome uncertainty. With our solution recognized by Gartner, recommended by Cisco, Check Point and IBM, we are one of the fastest growing companies in the industry.
For more information, visit: http://www.flowmon.com
The Internet Society is a global non-profit focused on a global accessible open Internet and the policies and technologies needed to support this Internet
For more information, visit: www.internetsociety.org
Atea is your strategic turnkey Partner in the GÉANT framework in 22 countries. Join us to hear how we enable and support local NRENs and partners with the world first Marketplace using eduGAIN access combined with our Billing and Managed Services offerings.
For more information, visit: www.ateaglobal.com
Corsa Technology is a networking equipment company delivering WAN-scale open, programmable SDN hardware platforms to customers worldwide. To enable innovative service offerings, better service level assurance and network management, Corsa SDN switching and routing platforms feature true hardware virtualization with dynamic, programmable traffic management and line-rate per-flow forwarding at internet scale.
For more information, visit: http://www.corsa.com
The RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. As such, we allocate and register blocks of Internet number resources to Internet service providers (ISPs) and other organisations. We’re a not-for-profit organisation that works to support the RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) community and the wider Internet community. The RIPE NCC membership consists mainly of Internet service providers, telecommunication organisations and large corporations.
For more information, visit: https://www.ripe.net
Xantaro is an international Service Integrator for carriers and service providers, as well as for enterprises and organisations, whose core business relies on the network. With a comprehensive service portfolio, Xantaro supports its customers in designing, implementing, maintaining and developing high-performance networks innovatively and economically. The Xantaro Group was founded in 2007 and employs almost 100 employees at five sites across Germany and the UK. Flexibility, reliability and short response times characterise the company as much as its customer and service focused team standing with enthusiasm for technological innovations and team spirit for 360° Service Integration. Xantaro Group is headquartered in Hamburg Germany. For further information please visit www.xantaro.net
For more information, visit: www.xantaro.net
At ADVA Optical Networking we're creating new opportunities for tomorrow's networks, a new vision for a connected world. Our intelligent telecommunications hardware, software and services have been deployed by several hundred service providers and thousands of enterprises. Over the past twenty years, our innovative connectivity solutions have helped to drive our customers' networks forward, helped to drive their businesses to new levels of success. We forge close working relationships with all our customers. As your trusted partner we ensure that we're always ready to exceed your networking expectations. For more information on our products and our team, please visit us at: www.advaoptical.com.
For more information, visit: http://www.advaoptical.com
InAcademia is a simple, one-button online service that allows online retailers to validate if a customer is a student or affiliated to an education institute in another way. It’s a low cost, easy to implement service providing lightening fast, entirely secure validation.
For more information, visit: https://inacademia.org
Sparkle is the wholly owned subsidiary of TIM Group (NYSE:TI) with the mission to develop and consolidate the Italian telco’s international services business. As a leading global carrier and through a global backbone of around 560.000 km of fiber, Sparkle offers a full range of IP, Data, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Data and Voice solutions to fixed and mobile operators, Internet service providers, Media and Content providers and to Multinational enterprises. Its sales force is active worldwide and distributed over 37 countries.
For more information, visit: http://www.tisparkle.com/
PICS Telecom has 24 years of expertise in Asset Management Services and as a supplier of network equipment. We support the largest telecom carriers in the world, along with MSOs and Enterprise companies. Our global footprint includes offices in the UK, US, Hong Kong, Poland and Hungary.
For more information, visit: http://www.picstelecom.com
ACOnet is the acronym for "Austrian Academic Computer Network" and represents the network for science, research and education (NREN) in Austria. It is operated by the University of Vienna, in co-operation with other Austrian Universities, since 1992. ACOnet provides a powerful and resilient backbone network infrastructure, mainly based on Gigabit and 10Gigabit Ethernet technology. Most of all, ACOnet is a scientific network that strives to provide support for public institutions in the fields of research, education and culture. Data exchange among participants as well as with participants of scientific networks in other countries is provided free of charge, limited only by the physical bandwidth of the participant's respective connection. ACOnet boasts more than 200 participants from all over Austria, such as univiersities and other institutions of higher education, students' dormitories, regional school networks, libraries and museums, hospitals, federal ministries and municipal magistrates, etc.
For more information, visit: https://www.aco.net
Austrian Airlines is the flag carrier of Austria and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. The airline is headquartered in the grounds of Vienna International Airport in Schwechat where it also maintains its hub. It flies to 6 domestic and more than 120 international year-round and seasonal destinations in 55 countries as of July 2016 and is a member of the Star Alliance. Austrian Airlines is the official Airline for TNC17 and offers a 15% discount on all flights to TNC17. You can read here more about this special offer.
For more information, visit: https://www.austrian.com/
GÉANT is a membership organisation acting with and for its members to further research and education networking in Europe and globally. It serves the research and education networking community in Europe, helping them to deliver innovative networks, technologies and services for research and education. GÉANT is also the leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe's economic growth and competitiveness. The organization mobilises the expertise and experience of hundreds of professionals from among its staff, member organisations, institutions and the wider research and education networking community.
For more information, visit: http://www.geant.org/
The European Union's Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
For more information, visit: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020