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NATEXPO, an annual international exhibition and conference focused on technologies, professional equipment and services for television, radio and new media broadcasting and cinema production, opened at VDNKh in Moscow on November 16.

On November 7-8, Krakow, Poland, hosted the 29th Euro-IX biannual forum. Held since 2001, this year the forum marks 15 years since its inception. Over 130 people representing 41 companies and organizations attended the forum, including representatives of traffic exchange centers, hardware manufacturers and software developers, technology experts and other industry professionals.

On October 28, MSK-IX held the MSK-IX TV EVENT SPB roadshow for cable operators, to present a new TV VLAN service, which enables cable operators to receive TV signals from broadcasters without intermediaries. The event was attended by over 60 representatives of communications providers, television companies and content distributors.

MSK-IX delegates attended the fourth hackathon hosted by RIPE NCC.

The new, fourth issue of the magazine Internet Inside is devoted to the critical infrastructure of the net and its security, sustainability and stability. Leading Russian and foreign experts took part in a virtual roundtable discussion and shared their views on these issues.

A Major international telecommunications conference and exhibition opened in Jurmala today

ENOG 11 participants discussed IXPs on the Russian and global markets

Materials about the conference are available on the MSK-IX website and its Facebook page.

The key role of information security in ensuring a country’s IT sovereignty was the main topic discussed at the IT+Sovereignty forum, held on May 23 by the Institute of Internet Development (IID), Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC), the Regional Public Center of Internet Technology, the Foundation for Information Democracy and the Coordination Center for TLD .RU.

On May 19, St. Petersburg played host to the 6th Russian IPv6 Day forum. It took place, as usual, at the Popov Central Museum of Communications, which has become the symbol of the forum, Guests of the Russian IPv6 Day love to explore the museum's unique collection tracing the history of communications: from mail, telegraph and telephone to radio and television and, finally, to mobile and satellite-based communications. The conference is traditionally organized by the MSK-IX company in cooperation with the Technical Center of Internet (TCI).

On May 12, a discussion panel marking the sixth anniversary of TLD.РФ, Russia's first Cyrillic domain, took place on the sidelines of the Moscow Media Communications Forum. Invited to speak at the meeting, organized by TLD.РФ's registry, the Coordination Center for TLD.RU/.РФ, were those who, six years ago, stood at the root of what is now seen as the most successful national IDN development project and an exemplary one for new TLDs. The speakers included Yelena Voronina, Andrei Kolesnikov, Arkady Kremer, Alexei Platonov, Mikhail Yakushev and ICANN representative Patrick Jones.

The social network VKontakte has joined Russia's leading Internet exchange point MSK-IX. Now Russia's top three social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir owned by Mail.Ru Group are accessible via MSK-IX for mobile operators and their users. Peering exchange via Internet eXchange helps Internet companies reduce the content delivery route and keep major network channels. For end users, it means faster download speeds of website content, games and apps, and also fewer chances of problems arising due to disruption in mobile operators' networks. Peering exchange also makes it possible for MSK-IX to exchange traffic with the VKontakte social network whose key data centers are based in St. Petersburg.