re-posted with permission. > From: Michuki Mwangi <[email protected]> > Date: March 9, 2011 11:30:59 AM GMT+04:00 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Afpif] Peering Coordinators Day - Call for Presentations > Reply-To: [email protected] > > <Please distribute widely> > > Dear Colleagues, > > This is a Call for Presentations and Tutorials for the APIF Peering > Coordinators Day meeting to be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 10th > June 2011. > > The Peering Coordinators day is a one-day event capacity building event > and a precursor to the main AfPIF event scheduled for August, 2011 in > Accra, Ghana. The objective of the peering coordinators day is to > develop the technical & business capacity of African Peering managers > involved in establishing and implementing peering relationships and > agreements. Further, it will also seek to identify the technical > challenges as well as the solutions for regional interconnection, > including Internet Exchange Points. > > The event is open and will be of particular interest to Peering > Coordinators, Business development Managers, Internet providers and > operators, telecommunications regulators, content providers, Internet > Exchange Point (IXP) Operators, infrastructure providers, Data Center > Managers, National Research and Education Networks, Carriers and Transit > providers. The AfNOG 12 and AfriNIC 14 meetings will precede the event > - please see www.afnog.org. > > This is an open call to present at the event on technical issues related > to regional Interconnection, Peering and Traffic Exchange. If you are > interested in presenting: > > Please submit proposals online at: http://www.isoc.org/openconf/afpif/ > > * Submission Deadline is 10th April 2011 > * Notification of Acceptance is 18th April 2011 > * AfPIF Peering Coordinators Day 10th June 2011 > > Guidelines: > > The following topic and presentation areas are under consideration for > the event. > > - Peering and Transit Essentials > - Peering Architecture and Technical Requirements > - Peering Commercials and Contract negotiations > - Traffic Flow Analysis for Large Networks > - Content Deployment and Caching Techniques in Africa > - Technical Peering Configurations and Best Practices > - African Cross-border Interconnection - Regional Carrier Technical > Solutions > - Internet Exchange Points & Research and Education Networks Best > Practices and Updates > - Building Carrier Neutral Data Centers > > Tutorials are usually 1 to 2 hour sessions, while presentations may last > between ten (10) and thirty (30) minutes with room for Q&A. The Internet > Society will facilitate the necessary logistics. > > The Internet Society’s staff and a select panel of community experts > will make selection decisions. Selected presenters will be contacted by > the Internet Society to coordinate the logistics. > > *** Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial > content are usually not encouraged at such meetings. > > > For any further queries, please contact [email protected] > > We look forward to your contribution and participation. > > Best regards, > > Michuki Mwangi > Africa Bureau - Regional Development Manager > Internet Society > www.InternetSociety.org > _______________________________________________ > Afpif mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.afpif.org/mailman/listinfo/afpif
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