It’s proven: The more bandwidth you have, the more you will use. The eco Association’s Nico Goss discusses the findings of the Bavarian telecom and ISP M-Net that the provision of high-speed Internet through Fiber to the Home or Business significantly influences demand for broadband. Measurements by the eco member...

How does the message we type get transmitted to its recipient? It’s all about routers, fiber, and the light in the fibers, as Wolfgang Tremmel, Head of the DE-CIX Academy, tells dotmagazine in interview. Wolfgang Tremmel takes us on a journey as the light in the fibers - how a data packet is transformed into energy,...

When natural disasters strike, crisis zones need communications to coordinate rescue activities. But exactly this infrastructure may be down in an emergency. Gerhard Betscheider from SES Techcom Services explains the life-saving work of emergency.lu around the world. Rapid disaster response via satellite When a natural...

How can we build the digital society of the future? How does connectivity influence economic growth and the employment market? And what investments need to be made today to enable the transformation of tomorrow’s business world? Internet industry specialist and strategy and management consultant Gerd Simon talks to...

A look toward future trends in connectivity, data and storage, and how Africa will overcome the “digital divide” by Gregory Gerot from BroadGroup. A connected future Data is global. There will be an estimated 34bn connected devices on the planet by 2020. How we use this data and how we connect it is rapidly becoming...

Despite all the political efforts and advancements in broadband expansion, company decision-makers in all sectors in Germany continue to see a need for improvement in digital infrastructure. The eco Association sees broadband rollout as the most important infrastructure project in the near future. Around one quarter...

Interview with Theresa Bobis, Regional Director South Europe at DE-CIX Fundamental to the global networks that make up the Internet are the undersea cables that span the oceans connecting continents. One fundamental seabed for submarine interconnectivity is the Mediterranean Basin, home to fiber connecting Africa, Europe,...

eco publishes White Paper “Infrastructure for Live Broadcasting – State of Play and Future Challenges” What is the impact of a major international sporting event on Internet traffic flows? What are the infrastructure challenges for delivering live sporting coverage via streaming? How do fans use second screens during...

The latest dotmagazine issue on Connectivity, Networks and Digital Transformation is now online! What is the economic value and impact of connectivity? What needs to be done to enable the digital society of the future? What is the cost of high latency for a company doing business in China? The May 2017 issue of dotmagazine,...

Despite the positive prevailing mood, digitalization has been slow to take hold in Germany. And added to this, sceptics suggest it will result in the loss of jobs. But this scepticism is based on a limited awareness, according to eco CEO Harald A. Summa. In this interview he explains this and the chances that digitalization...

Speakers sought for four focus topics Conference, exhibition and networking on today’s and tomorrow’s security trends on 28-29 September 2017 German-language conference, but English-language papers also accepted From 28 to 29 September 2017 eco – Association of the Internet Industry and heise Medien invite...

 Report on the eco Competence Group Networks event "After the Euros and the Olympics  Frankfurt, Sept 15th 2016 – Usage of video online has increased massively over the past few years, and video is a major driver of traffic in global networks. Sport, in turn, is a driver of live streaming. As the trend...

 Summit, Executive Brunch & River Cruise  OX Summit connects the key decision-makers from hoster, telco, cable and mobile carriers to exchange the valued business insight and technology expertise that regional and global providers need to transform their growth. This is the industry & portfolio...

Interview with Dean Belev, NetIX  In this Podcast Dean Belev, Vice President Sales NetIX, talks to Judith Ellis about he main security threats, network security and distributed peering. NetIX is an internet pioneer based in Sofia (Bulgaria). The company is specialized in offering carrier-grade network security...

 When sports meets the Internet  Large international events broadcast live and directly to your mobile device. Interactive real-time voting for competitions, streaming high-quality footage, social media commentary – the infrastructure...

Security incident management for network operators Cologne, 19.02.2015 – Detecting incidents and anomalies occurring on networks is crucial to avoid negative impact for daily business. How to detect irregularities and how to react correctly and quickly in order to eliminate those occurrences - this was the topic of...