InterLAN attends the 8th edition of the annual conference ‘’The New Global Challenges in Cyber Security, organized by CERT-RO and ITU, that takes place between 15-17 of october 2018 at National Library, Bucharest. The topics for this year range from policy developments at European and International level, capacity building tools and initiatives, to the implementation of the new technologies in the cyber security field, as well as insight in the global threat landscape.
RIPE 77 Meeting takes place between 15 and 19 October in Amsterdam, Netherlands. InterLAN delegates attends RIPE 77 and participates during 5 days of presentations, tutorials, workshops and open discussions.
InterLAN Internet Exchange, the largest neutral IXP in Romania for data traffic and internet exchange consistently reached in the recent months an aggregate traffic peak of over 150 Gbps.
As a result of traffic growth in Frankfurt, the interconnection capacity was increased to 100 Gbps.
InterLAN brings together and serves more than 100 operators: internet access service providers, content providers, internet domain name service providers, educational networks, banking and financial companies, social media platforms, public institutions. InterLAN hosts 5 out of 13 DNS root name servers: D-Root (University of Maryland), E-Root (NASA AMES Research Center), F-Root (Internet Systems Consortium) Root (operated by Verisign), K-Root (operated by RIPE NCC) and L-Root (operated by ICANN).
Currently, InterLAN Internet Exchange platform has 135 connected ports with an aggregate capacity of nearly 800 Gbps.
Blizzard Entertainment becomes a traffic partner in InterLAN Internet Exchange. Blizzard Entertainment is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. The company became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception.
TVSAT Media Group becomes a traffic partner in InterLAN Internet Exchange.
Asociatia Interlan together with ANISP, organized a press conference related with NETCITY Project in Bucharest.
The talks and debates were conducted by both president of the associations, Eric Andrei Baleanu (Asociatia Interlan) and Catalin Cuturelea (ANISP) along with other representatives of telecom industry: Dan Georgescu (Counselor of the Minister of Communications and President of AOTR – Association of Telecommunications Operators in Romania), Mihai Constantin (AOMR – Association of Mobile Operators in Romania), Marian Bumbar (General Counselor, Member of the Public Utilities Committee), Tiberiu Gîndu (ANISP, Executive Director) as well as other representatives of network operators.
During the conference, the representatives of the operators complained that the failure to comply with the legal conditions regarding the implementation of the ANCOM Opinion issued in 2013 for the metropolitan Netcity network and the carelessness of the national regulator of telecommunications (ANCOM), which faild to issue a decision in this respect two years ago, lead to the extinction of the small and medium-sized operators on the market and, implicitly, the disappearence of competition with direct negative effects on end-users.
Eric Andrei Băleanu stated that 10 years ago Romania was placed first in Europe and on third place in the world at Internet connection speeds, and in the present days we are currently out of the top 10. Nicolae Căpuşeanu (Dynamic Distribution) and Adrian Calineata (Pronet Soluții IT) pointed out the problems faced by small operators in relation to Netcity, and how this non-compliant project threatens their bankruptcy business.
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InterLAN attends „Enhanced National Cyber Security Services and Capabilities for Interoperability”, the first workshop organized by Romania National Computer Security Incident Response Team at Ramada Hotel, Constanta. The event focuses on the technical development for The National Cybersecurity Services Platform, an open running project. The project aims to ensure the interconnection of CERT-RO and other national cybersecurity capabilities and services with the EU cooperation mechanisms and core service platform, facilitating an efficient information sharing and incident management at the national and European level.
During the workshop more than 40 representatives from the public, private and academic environment will talk about issues related to launching the platform and facilitating technical discussions from the development stage so that the most appropriate solutions are implemented.
InterLAN is hosting the 7th regional RIPE SEE Meeting in Timișoara, Romania. The agenda consists of two days of tutorials, presentations and discussions about security, IPv6, BGP, routing, peering new Technologies, GDPR, data protection.
InterLAN became an authorized RoTLD partner and implemented the .ro domain management system, the application is available here https://registrar.interlan.ro.
RIPE 76 Meeting takes place between 14 and 18 May, in Marseille, France. InterLAN delegates attends RIPE 76 and participates during 5 days of presentations, tutorials, workshops and open discussions.