Rogerio Souza
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| Organization: | LACNOG |
| Country: | Brazil |
| LinkedIn: |  Rogerio Souza
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| Twitter: |  @RogerMariano75
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Rogerio Mariano is a Network Edge Strategy Director at Azion Technologies, in 2018 founded the Brazil Peering Forum - BPF (https://wiki.brasilpeeringforum.org) and has been the Chair of LACNOG (Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Group) and IETF-LAC between 2015-2017.
Overview[edit | edit source]
He has over 21 years of experience in the submarine cables industry and interconnection ecosystem, and technologies like Interconnection, CDNs Routin, Edge Computing and Submarine Cables also accompanying organizations like ANATEL, GSI, SubseaOFC, and GPF. Today his planning and implementation, working in submarine cable capacity, interconnection and strategic sourcing (procurement). Primarily focused on underlying network infrastructure design, strategy and acquisition, enabling growth global backbone & edge production network.
He has been a student of Brazilian School Internet Governance (https://egi.nic.br) and South School Internet Governance by OAS - Organization of American States in Washington, DC (https://www.gobernanzainternet.org).
In 2019 I was one of 60 globally selected by the Optical Society/OSA (https://www.osa.org) and Google for the Subsea OFC Submarine Cable School in Polvijärvi, Finland, an area that I served as a network program manager and network investment manager for 11 years.
Your scope of action includes sensitive regulatory, and M&A.
- Colocation (landing station, cache, and peering POPs);
- Fronthaul, long-haul dark fiber and ILAs;
- Metro fiber, wavelengths;
- Swap agreements, vendor strategy ;
- Effective in developing solutions for projects without pre-defined parameters;
- Planning and acquisition for network services and assets (transit/bandwidth/fiber/colocation);
Over the past 10 years, it has been a thoroughly dedicated part of Internet Governance which has worked with ICANN LAC Strategy WG and Public Policy for Latin American and Caribbean Region with a focus on deployment development for Internet access and connection in Latin America and the Caribbean.
He currently (2024) helps the Brazilian government through the Institutional Security Office of the Presidency of the Republic (https://www.gov.br/gsi/pt-br) and Anatel (https://www.gov.br/anatel/pt- br), Brazilian regulatory body in matters of security of critical interconnection infrastructure and submarine cables. He is also working at UNDIR (https://unidir.org/), an organization linked to the UN disarmament commission on critical security issues for submarine cables and interconnection in Cable Landing Stations through the work of Dr. Camino Kavanagh
His interests include the intersection of public policy and the internet and promoting information and communication technologies within society.
Work With ICANN[edit | edit source]
Rogerio attended the meeting as a Fellowship of the ICANN 54 in Dublin (2015).
Rogerio Mariano has been involved with ICANN since 2012. He is a member of the NCSG Member (Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group) and NCUC (NonCommercial Users Constituency ) in the Membership Affairs Team (MAT). Currently working on a project that creates a connection matrix of all ICANN stakeholders to be released in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is also a member and participates in the ICANN LAC Strategic Plan 2016-2020 and is a member of Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers (ISPCP) and ICANN LAC Strategy Work Group (ICANN LAC WG), studying and developing Public Policies for Internet Access and Connection in less favored regions in Latin America and the Caribbean.
References[edit | edit source]
- Rogerio Mariano, LinkedIn, https://br.linkedin.com/pub/rogerio-mariano/40/a13/65
- Members NCUC Working Teams, http://www.ncuc.org/participate/working-teams/
- Members NCUC MAT, http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/
- ICANN Brochures, http://www.ncuc.org/brochure/
- ICANN
- LACNOG
- LACNIC
- IGF Community
- Internet Society
- IETF
- EGI.br
- CGI.br