 Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals, and JSA Radio, your voice for tech and telecom, on iHeart Radio. I'm Jamie Scottukataya, here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC. Joining me here today, my friend Mr. Arnold Tipper, he is the Chief Technology Evangelist and co-founder of D-Kicks. Arnold, welcome to JSA TV. Yeah, welcome. And thank you for inviting me. It's a great time over here. Thank you. Oh, we're honored to have you here. So for our viewers who may not already know, can you tell us some of your latest news over at D-Kicks? So actually, those who are not yet familiar with the latest news on D-Kicks, I guess what we have done so far last year is that we really made New York the most relevant internet exchange in the US. So we are really broad. So in internet exchange, this really means that you have to be in all the facilities where telecommunication is not just in one facility, but all over the city. And I guess what we did is really, from three years ago to now, we now have 150 networks, almost 150 gigabits of traffic. We will add a new facility in Long Island shortly. I'm already able to announce this. This will be the first internet exchange on Long Island. And what we also did is we went to Dallas in this year. And this is really, I think, exceptional for the networking industry in the US. But not only that, what we also did in 2016 is we established an internet exchange in Madrid and we went from zero to 60 networks in half a year, which is incredible. It's amazing how you do it. Certainly you guys defined network-appearing fabrics for us with your work over in Frankfurt and now you've gone ahead and duplicated it and other key, key cities across for sure the US as well as the world. Basically, I guess we know how to do it technically, but what is most important, obviously, we also have the trust of our customers. Without the customers, we would not have any traffic on the networks. And obviously, the customers think that it decreases your eye choice if you go for internet exchange. Right. No, that's very true. Something I hear from your customers a lot, this trust factor. And when you're talking network and network security, it's an important thing. Few people may not realize, but peering has a lot to do with overall network security. And you guys are certainly leading the charge with your product called black-holing. Yes. So black-holing or to say DDoS, DDoS is something we have to live with. And we have seen it in 2016, DDoS attacks. This was not an internet exchange, but up to or even more than one terabit. You imagine one terabit, this is crazy. And at an internet exchange, we have the exceptional situation that not only one network is there, but a lot of networks. In the case, for example, in Dekex, Frankfurt, these are roughly 700 network. This means the DDoS traffic is able to come from 700 directions and the attack network has to deal with it. And this is why we already are engaged in counter-attacking this DDoS by helping our customers to immediately drop the traffic whenever it enters the fabric and not only when it hits your port when it's already too late. Wow, that's interesting. Very much so. So also, it sort of brings to mind that you have a very unique vantage point in the industry as you're able to see trends as they come in from the OSI stack, looking down, looking out. So tell us, what kind of trends are you seeing that could be on the horizon for 2017? I think we still see what we're already seeing in 2016 is that security will be one of the most interesting things. So the internet has become crucial and we cannot think without the internet anymore. But what we've also seen is like the DDoS attacks, that it is not really secure and we have to do something about it. The next thing which is already at the corner is that we see IoT, Internet of Things. These are connected to the internet and most of the or a lot of these devices are not secure. We have to do something about that and we have to be aware about that. So I would say what we have to take care of is security. We have to be aware that a lot of points in the internet, a lot of services are not yet secured and we have to take care of that. Very good point. There is a lot of IoT and security concerns coming up in this next year for sure in order to help prepare us as we get ready for the onslaught of data. And getting back to how your members trust you and I think this might be something very interesting to DKICS but you do a lot of member engagement in education if you will which I really find very intriguing and amazing such as your DKICS academy if you will. So can you tell us a little bit about what we might expect from DKICS in 2017 as you get your member education and networking lined up? Yeah, this is something of our latest services is the DKICS academy. So what we have found out that especially the knowledge about peering is just concentrated on a few persons. We have to spread this news. And so what we did is we said this is a new services DKICS academy. We will start with webinars so we will have certain topics where we are talking about between 15 and 30 minutes with experts both from DKICS as well as from the industry. And then I can imagine that we will broaden these services that we will have for example certificates as well and perhaps also like something like not a DKICS certified peering engineer or something like that. This is what we have in mind. Your DKICS academy is exactly what we need here in our industry making sure that there's so much positive reinforcing information not misinformation out there in the industry. Something we're here at JSA very passionate about. So we look forward to your DKICS academy as well as your DKICS summit such a famous far as well. Yeah. So the other thing we do is is the summit but the summit is more about networking and the traditional thing. So what we do is last year for example we had to summit in Munich for for the German and the surrounding countries as well and as in New York and in Istanbul at the same time. For sure we will have the summit 2017 again maybe in a little bit different format maybe not at the same time at the same places. But for sure we will have to summit as well because packets of course they have to travel across an internet exchange but without people there would be no packet. So the most important is that people meet and see these DKICS summits and any other opportunities where we are is where we want also to bring together the people who do the business. That's right. That's right. And so for anyone interested in learning more about DKICS who might be watching this here right now where can they go. So of course one of these events we are at all the major network events like PTC we are at Nanox we are at the RIPE events at IETFs we are at the DNOC the Star NOCs FR NOCs IT NOCs so many NOCs any NOCs almost around the world yeah. And telecom exchange you guys are often there and helping us support which we love and cherish. So for folks who want to learn more check them out at big events around the industry as well as DKICS.net but follow them on social Twitter, LinkedIn and of course check them out on their website DKICS.net. Thank you Arnold for joining us here today and lovely Honolulu and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV.