Name: C-level Insight: The Future of Data Centres & Cloud Services in Africa
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We present leading Webinars focused on business issues within the Wholesale Telecoms Industry to complement the Capacity Magazine and Events. Stay tuned!

Are you prepared to face a DDoS attack? Does your organization have a solid defense strategy in place?  
 
DDoS attacks loom as an ever-present threat, capable of wreaking havoc on network infrastructure and drastically compromising user experience. These attacks, varying in type and intensity, can have dire consequences such as infrastructure damage, revenue loss, diminished productivity, and severe reputational damage to your organization's assets and credibility. 
  
Join our webinar to delve into the latest DDoS attack trends, potential targets, and their impact on assets and organizations. Gain essential insights on preparing for and managing a DDoS attacks, including: 
 
- Proactive planning strategies prior to an attack 
- Effective actions to undertake when attacked 
- Basic approaches to DDoS attack mitigation

Protecting your network from DDoS attacks – a practical guide

Join Capacity Media and Hilco Streambank, for a free webinar on 22nd May 2024.

IPv4 addresses are finite and all of them have been assigned. Some networks have acquired more than they need over time, and some growing networks need more addresses. 

In this webinar and you will hear about:

• How to audit your network utilization to identify addresses that could be sold or adjust your purchases to the right size. 
• Learn about the market and empower your consulting services team to uncover revenue for customers which they can apply to more consulting, hardware, and software.

Speakers Include:

• Lee Howard, Senior Vice President at IPv4.Global
• Jonathan Dono, Director of Systems and Networks at Hartwick College
• Trevor Dodson, Senior Director of Infrastructure and Operations at Lewis & Clark College

IP Renumbering and Reselling

UK networks were designed for today’s needs. But what about tomorrow? In a rapidly evolving tech landscape, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest trends that will impact network demand.

Join us for a webinar led by industry experts on 25th April at 1pm BST to explore:

• The latest disruptive technology innovations driving data demand, including distributed ledger technology (DLT), the metaverse, quantum computing, extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI).

• Practical guidance on navigating this technological shift.

• Strategies for securing your network’s future in light of all this change.

• Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights that will help you prepare your network for the challenges and opportunities in 2024 and beyond.

Speakers include: 

• Mathew Preston, Head of Technical and Partner Success, Wholesale Fixed, Virgin Media O2 Business
• Jürgen Hatheier, Chief Technology Officer, International at  Ciena
• Simon Clement, Director of Technology Strategy, Liberty Global

Five emerging technologies set to impact network demand

Accelerate your Connectivity: direct and ultra-fast connection from Marseille to the world

Join Capacity Media, Telehouse and Orange Wholesale for a free webinar on 28th March 2024 at 3pm CET.

This is your opportunity to gain valuable insights into the strategic positioning, connectivity ecosystems, global development initiatives, and partnership opportunities offered by Telehouse and Orange Wholesale in the ever-evolving global data center and connectivity market.

Join the webinar and hear more about:

• How Telehouse has put itself at the centre of the global data centre market by establishing a presence in some of the world’s key connectivity hubs 

• Telehouse’s wide connectivity ecosystem.

• Telehouse’s global development to help capitalise on terrestrial and subsea cable infrastructure. 

• How Orange provides robust infrastructure to reach Telehouse data centres in key markets and those in other parts of the world.

• Orange’s worldwide submarine cable and terrestrial fibre network.  

• Orange’s capacity to connect Telehouse data centres and cloud regions – making the two well-matched and with a wide footprint to offer resources to international customers.

Speakers include:

• Sami SLIM – Managing Director France – TELEHOUSE
• Franck MORALES – CMO – Orange Wholesale International
• Younès STOUKY – Head of Product Marketing - Orange Wholesale International

Accelerate your Connectivity

In celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day theme #InspireInclusion, Capacity Media's emPOWERED Network and Women in Tech World Series (WiT) are hosting an interactive panel discussion exploring this theme and what it means in the drive for gender parity. 

Join the webinar and:

- Gain insights into practical strategies for fostering inclusivity both at an individual and business level within the technology and telecoms industry.
- Hear first-hand experiences and real-life examples of successful inclusivity initiatives, along with the importance of community allyship in driving positive change.
- Learn actionable steps for advocating for inclusivity, engaging in meaningful discussions, and integrating inclusivity into company values and practices.
- Leave with a deeper understanding of how to promote inclusivity within your teams, workplaces, and broader tech communities.

Meet our speakers:
• Michaela Jeffery-Morrison, MD, Women in Tech World Series (moderator)
• Mark Freed, CEO, Men for Inclusion
• Penny Cuthbert, EMEA Head of Delivery, Cprime
• Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, Director, Women in Telecoms & Technology (WiTT)

Inspiring Inclusion

Service provider networks are getting larger and more complex. Performance expectations are going up and downtime expectations are going down. Meanwhile, the network team is still tiny – what an enterprise might call a “skeleton crew!”

How can lean teams tackle the chaos of network monitoring – pulling data about diverse CDNs and cloud providers, and correlate that with traditional network data like interface status and flow/traffic? All the while keeping costs low and ensuring high quality digital experiences for subscribers and customers? Can AI meaningfully contribute to this challenge or is it just hype?

Join us on Feb 29 at 10am ET, 3pm GMT, 4pm CET as we explore the challenges service providers face and what to do about it. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn:
• How AI/ML have been used in Network Observability historically
• How to use large language models to accelerate troubleshooting today
• How to collect and analyze data from diverse sources
• What Kentik’s newly launched SaaS NMS adds to the picture
• Benefits of Streaming Telemetry with a live demonstration

AI-assisted Network Monitoring: Real or Hype?

For decades, the scourge of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has plagued the internet. Join Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik, and Aaron Weintraub, Principal Engineer at Cogent Communications, as they explain how organizations can identify customer networks sending the spoofed traffic that leads to DDoS attacks.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:
·      What is spoofed traffic and how does it contribute to DDoS attacks
·      How NetFlow analytics can police networks from spoofed traffic
·      Advice for addressing customer networks sending spoofed traffic

Doug Madory is the Director of Internet Analysis for Kentik where he works on internet infrastructure analysis. The Washington Post dubbed him “The Man who can see the Internet” for his reputation in identifying significant developments in the global layout of the internet. Doug is regularly quoted by major news outlets about developments ranging from national blackouts to BGP hijacks to the activation of submarine cables. Prior to Kentik, he was the lead analyst for Oracle’s internet intelligence team (formerly Dyn Research and Renesys).

Aaron Weintraub is the Principal Engineer at Cogent Communications. He has been with Cogent for the past 23 years and currently serves as the key member of the engineering team responsible for overseeing peering and backbone traffic engineering.

Fighting DDoS at the Source

A faster path to revenue: Understanding global Internet connectivity trends and insights

Capacity and Kentik, in partnership with Orange International Carriers hosted a webinar to discuss events affecting global connectivity, BGP monitoring, and reveal how Orange keeps an eye on its market share and competitive activity.

Our panel of experts Doug Madory, Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik, and Sonia Missul, IP Transit Product Manager (AS 5511) at Orange International Carriers share their insights on what network teams can do to ensure success in 2023.

In this webinar you'll learn:

- How to understand and act on changes in network operator market share
- How Orange monitors market share and competitive activity
- What monitoring BGP announcements can reveal.

Understanding global Internet connectivity trends and insights

Are you ready to respond to a DDoS attack? Do you have a defence plan in place? DDoS attacks can strike at any time, potentially crippling network infrastructure and severely degrading user experience. Depending on their type and severity, the impact can result in damaged infrastructure, lost revenue, decreased productivity and irreparable harm to your organization’s brand and resources. 
 
This webinar will discuss the latest trends in DDoS attacks, who the potential targets are and the effects on assets and organizations. Most importantly, this session will provide you with invaluable information to help you get ready for and deal with a DDoS attack, including: 

• How to plan before you get attacked 
• What to do when attacked 
• Basic approaches to DDoS attack mitigation

How to keep your network safe from DDoS attacks – a practical guide

Capacity and Nokia, in conjunction with BSO, LINX and NorthC Data Centers, will host an executive roundtable discussion on September 22 at 2:00PM BST / 3:00PM CET to discuss the role of data center interconnection in the cloud ecosystem. The round table will be moderated by Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor at large for Capacity, and will spotlight the critical role that automation plays in enabling customers’ digital transformation journeys and boosting service providers’ operations agility and efficiency.
Panel:
• Michael Ourabah, CEO, BSO
• Richard Petrie, CTO, LINX
• Bart van Aanholt, CCO of NorthC Data Centers
• Manolo Ortiz, head of the webscale business in EMEA, Nokia 
In this webinar the panel will share their views and discuss:
• The role of data centers and interconnection in the cloud ecosystem
• Customers changing demands for access to cloud services
• Technical and business challenges in enabling more dynamic cloud services
• How automation is vital to successful customer and service provider outcomes

Interconnection: why automation is critical for a successful cloud ecosystem

Peering Ecosystems in the MENA region – Spotlight on the Jeddah Hub and the Equinix Internet Exchange™ in partnership with Mobily.

Capacity and Equinix, in partnership with Mobily will host a webinar on June 15 at 10am BST / 1pm GST to focus on Peering ecosystems, with a spotlight on the Jeddah hub in the MENA region. 

Join our panel of experts including Kamel Al Tawil, Managing Director MENA and Martin Atkinson, Senior Manager of Peering and Interconnection EMEA, Equinix. Thamer Alfadda, Senior Vice President Wholesale and Mohammed Alserier, Director Wholesales Marketing and Business Development, Mobily.

In this webinar the panel will share details about the recent Equinix and Mobily partnership, and the availability of Equinix Internet Exchange™ in the Mobily JED1 data centre, a carrier neutral facility. Enabling networks including Operators, ISPs, Content Providers and Enterprises to exchange Internet traffic easily and effectively to and from the Middle East region to the rest of the world.

In this webinar the panel will discuss:

• Peering- Jeddah Hub and the Equinix Internet Exchange™
• Connect and establish peering arrangements with of networks, cloud & IT service providers and enterprises
• Aggregate traffic to multiple peers on one physical port
• Handle multiple peers while moving high-traffic peers to private interconnections
• Reduce network hops and congestion for end users.

Peering Ecosystems in the MENA region

Webinar kindly sponsored by stc, Telstra & Verizon Partner Solutions

ITW & INCLUSION FIRST PRESENT: BREAKING THE BIAS IN TELECOMS

You probably know that you will, at some point, migrate to SD-WAN but how do you know if your connectivity is fit for purpose?

The pace of change businesses face creates a need for agility and the flexibility, resiliency, and security to embrace new opportunities and resolve emerging challenges. Network providers have been adapting to be able to deliver more flexible solutions to their customers, including secure, SASE aligned SD-WAN and underlying network services amongst others. This webinar will explore partnerships and strategies to facilitate visibility and control, along with a competitive edge to enterprises.

- What key challenges are enterprises facing relating to network adaptability, secure access and service provision?
- How do emerging hybrid workplace models change network strategy?
- Can enterprises achieve more operational efficiency and cost savings by working with a managed service provider?
- What are carriers doing to make their services more attractive to customers?

Adaptability & The Shift to Flexible Hybrid Networks

CSPs have traditionally focused on improving B2C customer journeys online and in retail outlets. There is opportunity in digitally empowering the enterprise customer segment, both large enterprises and SMBs, by facilitating B2B digital commerce, using the power of 5G, IoT and open APIs to forge new digital ecosystems. 

CSPs can become true digital enablers and system integrators, offering their core assets in an as-a-service model to enterprise customers, using a platform approach.

In this webinar, we discuss connected enterprises and the role of integration to:

1. Enhance your customer experience journeys by containerizing & cloud-enabling legacy backend assets (Part 1)
2. Create new revenue opportunities by digitally empowering enterprise customers and SMBs (Part 2)

Connected enterprises – B2B opportunities for CSPs

In this webinar we will learn the reasons why the city of Queretaro, in Mexico, is becoming the most important digital hub in Latin-America. We will learn about the Mexican and Latin market and how the data explosion in those countries are leading a growing need for neutral infrastructure. Finally, we will present our solution for this increasing need, and how Mexico could connect with USA and the rest of the world.

The Mexican phenomenon: a new era of data explosion

In collaboration with Equinix and datamena, we are inviting you to this free to attend webinar that will offer insights on Dubai International Business Exchange™ DX1.

This panel of executives will discuss trends driving the demand for interconnection, peering and more data centre infrastructure in the MENA region. You will learn about:

• Traffic and Capacity Trends over 4 years in MENA & Gulf region

• Dubai Regional Hub – Digital Corridor rich Network and Cloud Density & Diversity

• Access to submarine and terrestrial cable – with low latency across MENA and Home to UAE-IX, the neutral Internet traffic exchange platform for the Middle East.

Spotlight on Dubai - MENA Regional Business & Interconnection Hub

In today’s telecom market, tighter margins, tougher competition, and the insatiable demand for bandwidth are all forcing global carriers to innovate at the speed of light.

Software-defined networking technology, or SDN, seems to be the answer to most of these challenges but as the concept continues gaining fervent adepts (and critics), it is becoming increasingly difficult to get unbiased information to make informed decisions.

This webinar will provide a view of SDN through the lens of a carrier network and give attendees some help to assess their organisation’s readiness and willingness to adopt SDN.

Capacity Media and NTT Ltd will host a live webinar on Thursday 30 September at 4pm London time (5pm Central European Time / 11am New York time) to discuss Software-defined networking technology (SDN) from the point of view of a carrier network and give attendees some help to assess their organisation’s readiness and willingness to adopt SDN.

During this webinar, participants will:

- Explore the technology behind the concept,
- Understand the impact on organizational and operational cultures, and;
- Learn from the case study that is NTT Ltd's experience with SDN.

The discussion will be led by Shawn Morris - Vice President, Systems, Applications & Software, Global IP Network Division of NTT Ltd.

The Myths and Realities of SDN – Best Practices and Lessons Learned

This webinar offers a spotlight on the Muscat IBX data center (MC1) and Internet Exchange, a joint venture between Equinix and Omantel, are strategically located in the heart of the digital ecosystem connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. This partnership is capitalizing on a unique strategy to extend the reach of the subsea cables landing in Muscat to MC1. This confluence of cable systems with carrier-neutral colocation, interconnection and peering has accelerated the growth of digital corridors linked with Oman including dynamic markets like Singapore and Pakistan as well as the local market, and this is expected to continue to grow further. In partnership with Equinix and Omantel.

Digital Corridors: Why the Middle East Is A Growing Hotspot for Digital Exchange

Speakers: 
- Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer, MainOne
- Mr Jan Hnizdo, Chief Executive Officer, Teraco Data Environments
- Mr Robert Mullins, President & Chief Executive Officer, Raxio
- Mr Asif Valley, National Technology Officer, Microsoft
- Mr Stephane Duproz, Chief Executive Officer, Africa Data Centres
- Mr John Eland, Chief Strategy Officer, NTT Global Data Centers
- Mr Philip Cooper, Director, Digital Infrastructure Accelerator
- Ziad Youssef, Vice President, Secure Power, Middle East & Africa, Schneider Electric
- Mr Amine Kandil, Chief Executive Officer, N+ONE

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