Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF)
21 – 23 August 2018, Westin Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
| August 21, 2018 - DAY 1 “Peering Coordinators Day” |
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | “Session 1a: Welcome Remarks” Welcome and Introduction – Nishal Goburdhan (AfPIF PC Chair) | |
| 09:30 – 10:20 | “Session 1b: Scalability: - The Big Case for a Small IXP – Nurani Nimpuno (Asteroid) - Scalable Fabrics Playbook – Mikael Holmberg (Extreme Networks) - Edge Fabric: Steering oceans of content to the world – Robel Kitaba (Facebook) | Moderator: Nishal Goburdhan |
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Peering Personals #0 | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 – 12:20 | “Session 2: Peering and Transit Tutorial #1” - FENIX: Scaling Peering Routing Security – Michal Halenka (NIX.CZ) - Protect your peering edge – Riaan Vos (Internet Solutions) - Moving Objects to AfriNIC’s IRR – Dev Jeenia (AfriNIC) | Moderator: Kyle Spencer |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Peering Personals #1 | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Networking & Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | “Session 3: Peering and Transit Tutorials#2” - Netflix content distribution and how ISPs can control traffic flows from Netflix – Nina Bargisen (Netflix) - 1.1.1.1 … cleanup and privacy – Martin J. Levy (Cloudflare) - Africa Internet: The Globes Right Attention – Mark Tinka (SEACOM) | Moderator: Andrew Owens |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 – 17:15 | “Session 4: Measurements and Research Panel” - “World Internet Data Explorer – Amreesh Phokeer (AfriNIC) - Analyzing Africa’s city-to-city latencies – Josiah Chavula (University of Cape Town) - BGP Bugs, hiccups and weird stuff: Stuff seen by RT-BGP Toolkit - Martin Winter (HE) | Moderator: Frank Habicht |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Peering Personals #2 | |
| 19:00 onwards | Opening Peering Social – Sponsored by TERACO Beer and peer Venue: Cartel Rooftop Bar |
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| August 22, 2018 - DAY 2 “AfPIF Plenary Day #1” | ||
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| 08:00 – 08:30 | Registration |
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| 09:00 – 10:30 | “Pre-Session 1a: New Comers Session” (Plenary Room) - Introduction and getting the most out of AfPIF – Hisham Ibrahim/Kyle Spencer | “Pre-Session 1b: Peering Bilateral” Peering Bilateral Rooms: Bartholomew Diaz and Marco Polo |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Group Photo & Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 – 12:20 | Session 2a: Opening Session Nishal Goburdhan/Kyle Spencer Keynote Presentations : - Cape to Cairo and Other Journeys – Ben Roberts (Liquid) - The Economics of Data Centers, Interconnections and Peering in Africa – Michele McCann (Teraco) | Moderator: Hisham Ibrahim |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | Peering Personals #3 | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Networking & Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:20 | “Session 3: Interconnection Economics" Speakers: - International Internet Bandwidth and Pricing Trends in Africa – Patrick Christian (Telegeography) - Traffic Trends in Africa – Jerome Fleury (Cloudflare) - Peering Isn’t Free: The UIXP’s Quest for Sustainability and Independence – Kyle Spencer (UIXP) | Moderator: Mathieu Paonessa |
| 15:20 – 15:30 | Peering Personals #4 (If need be) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 | Peering Bilateral Meetings Session #1 | Peering Bilateral Rooms: Bartholomew Diaz and Marco Polo |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Super Teacher Gala Dinner Sponsored by ISPA Venue: LookOut |
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| August 23, 2018 - DAY 3 “AfPIF Plenary Day #2” | ||
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
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| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 1: Dissecting the South African Cloud Panelists: - Graham Beneke (ISPA) - Mike Needham (Amazon) - Brett Lewan (Microsoft) - Kervin Pillay (Internet Solutions) - Willem Marais (Liquid) | Moderator: Andrew Owens |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 | Peering Bilateral Meetings Session #2 | Peering Bilateral Rooms: Bartholomew Diaz and Marco Polo |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Networking & Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3: Implications of OTT Policy and Regulation Over-The-Top Services: Understanding the challenges and opportunities – Martin Koyabe (CTO) Panelists: - Dominic Cull - Albert Mucunguzi (ICT Association of Uganda) - William Stucke - Prenesh Padayachee | Moderator: Mathew Chigwende |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 – 17:30 | Lightning Talks and Updates - PeeringDB Updates – Arnold Nipper (PeeringDB) - IXF: IXPDB Updates – Andy Davidson - INX-ZA Update – Riaan Vos (Internet Solutions) - The KINIX Growth Momentum – Nico Tshintu (ISPA-DRC) - Lessons learnt – Typical African IXP – Emmanuel Kwarteng (GIX) - Growing a community: The KZNNOG experience - (TBC) | Moderator: Kyle Spencer |
| Closing Remarks AfPIF-2019 Host Announcement | Nishal Goburdhan/ Kyle Spencer (AfPIF PC Co-chairs) |
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