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SURF, the national research and education network of The Netherlands, had held a direct interconnect with a well-renowned CDN since 2019. At the end of 2023 the IP Transit providers of SURF changed, causing 48% of the CDN traffic to travel indirectly through one of the new transit providers. With BENOCS, SURF optimized their peering strategy and saved significant costs on their IP-Transit.

Next Wednesday, August 21 at 11:35am local time, Hari Jayaraman will present at Asia Peering Forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His presentation, entitled “Forward path – matching routes to traffic levels”, will visualize indirect peering routes and assymmetrical traffic paths and the impact these have on networks.

Exciting news! A research paper co-authored by BENOCS co-founder and CTO, Ingmar Poese, has been accepted at this year's SIGCOMM, taking place from August 4-8 in Sydney, Australia.

Next week we are excited to be sponsoring TNC 24 in Rennes and are looking forward to meeting up with the European NREN community once more.

It's (already) that time again - RIPE88 is happening next week in Krakow. Stephan, our CEO, and Hari (Manager Sales & Strategy) will be joined by our CTO and co-founder Ingmar, as well as Aitor, our product manager.

Next week our senior network engineer, Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD, is off to Dresden to the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA Conference 2024). There he will take part in an exciting program surrounding topics on network function virtualization, software-defined networks, content distribution networks, and a whole bunch more.

It's time for the broadband and media community to come together again for the 2024 edition of ANGA COM in Cologne. Stephan will be around on day 1 (May 14) and Shankar Mondal will on the ground Wednesday and Thursday.

In a few days, Hari will take off, bound for India and SANOG41, taking place from April 29-30 in Mumbai. We are excited to be sponsoring the event for the very first time and can’t wait to meet up with the South Asian network operations and communications services community. Will we see you there?

Cologne-based internet provider NetCologne has chosen BENOCS to intelligize the network analytics for its IP-network. With BENOCS’ help, NetCologne plans to optimize their network traffic, saving costs and further increasing satisfaction among their 485,000-strong customer base.

From March 5-7, Péter will be in Krakow for Peering Days and is looking forward to catching up with all of you in the Peering community. Reach out to him or us if you'd like to arrange a meeting - or even just have a coffee.