AfPIF
| Type: | Non-profit |
| Industry: | Inernet |
| Founded: | 2010 |
| Website: | African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) |
| Facebook: | AfPIF] |
| Twitter: |  @AfPIF
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AfPIF, or African Peering and Interconnection Forum is an event that addresses key interconnections, peering, and traffic exchange opportunities and challenges on the continent. It provides participants with global and regional insights, with the goal of maximizing opportunities for growing infrastructure and services in the country, by gathering together infrastructure providers, Internet service providers ISPs, Internet Exchange Points [[IXP]s, international financial institutions, policymakers, and regulators.[1]
AfPIF is a non-profit event funded by international sponsorship and support.[1]
Conferences edit
AfPIF 2016 (August 30 - September 1) - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania[2]
AfPIF 2015 - The Lessons Learnt (August 25-27) - Maputo, Mozambique[3] Focused on regional interconnection dynamics and content issues that are critical components of transit deficits.
AfPIF 2014 - The Future of Peering (August 24-26) - Pullman Dakar Teranga Hotel, Dakar, Senegal[3] Focused on the future of peering in an era where the cost of transit is declining, as well as regional interconnection dynamics and content issues that are critical components of transit deficits.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), InternetSociety.org. Retrieved 2016 March 24.
- ↑ AfPIF 2016, InternetSociety.org. Retrieved 2016 March 24.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 AfPIF 2015, InternetSociety.org. Retrieved 2016 March 24.