aql CEO Adam Beaumont in Lisbon for European Peering Forum
aql founder and CEO Prof. Adam Beaumont joins the global peering community in Lisbon, Portugal this week for the 12th annual European Peering Forum.
The EPF is among the world’s largest peering events, bringing together over 300 members, and potential members, of internet exchange points for several days of talks and discussions. The forum’s aims are to educate and share knowledge, and to provide an opportunity for members of the European peering community to interact and build relationships.
Topics of discussion this year include what kids do on the internet today, securing the internet at the exchange point and the future of peering. Companies speaking at the forum include Facebook, Equinix and Deutsche Telekom AG.
Beaumont co-founded IXLeeds, the internet exchange for the North of England and the UK’s only fully-independent exchange outside London, in 2008. aql built Leeds’ first carrier-neutral data centre – allowing operators to interconnect and facilitating the existence of the exchange.
aql has provided free space and power for IXLeeds since its inception in its metropolitan data centres, making Leeds the only city in the UK with its internet exchange right at its heart.
Through investment in IXLeeds and other critical pieces of the region’s internet infrastructure, aql has made it both possible and easy to run an internet business outside the capital. This has, in turn, kickstarted Leeds City Region’s now-burgeoning tech economy, brought in thousands of high-paying digital jobs and built the region’s status as a hub for innovation.
The European Peering Forum is hosted by AMS-IX, DE-CIX, LINX and Netnod, four of the world’s leading internet exchange points. It runs from 18-20th September 2017.
For more information, visit www.peering-forum.eu and www.IXLeeds.net.
