NetIX, a global Internet exchange platform, part of Neterra Group companies, has won the "Best Peering Operator of the Year" award at the "CC Global Awards 2023". With these awards, the Carrier Community, a global telecom club with over 8000 members, honors the best providers of telecommunications services in various categories.
“We extend our warmest congratulations on your remarkable achievement as the recipient of the CC-GLOBAL AWARDS 2023 #CCGA. Your hard work and dedication have truly paid off, and we firmly believe that you will continue to achieve even greater success in the future. We are delighted to be part of your journey,” the organizers said.
The founder and CEO of Neterra and NetIX, Neven Dilkov, thanked them sincerely for the recognition.
The award ceremony took place in Berlin as part of the organization's summit Europe 2023 GCCM – Berlin on 26-27 June 2023.
Neven also participated in a round table on the topic “How to interconnect now and in the future – which choice and new standards do we have?”
During the discussion, he shared his amazement at the fact that interconnection between telecom operators in the world continues to be as difficult and hard as it was 30 years ago. Neven urged his industry colleagues to "wake up" and adapt to the new realities.
"We have had terrible experience struggling to interconnect with the largest telecom operators in the world, while the hyperscalers (cloud service providers such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure), which are not even telecom operators, managed to take over 50% of the world’s data center business and started to eat our breakfast, lunch and dinner," Neven commented.
He criticized the professional community for the lack of uniform standards for interconnection, that are imperative to create and implement as soon as possible.
Neven pointed out that the so-called smart IoT devices need better standards so that they deserve their name "smart". At the moment, they are rather "dumb”, and users need technical assistance from specialists until they are set up to work in sync with other devices and networks.
Finally, he ended his speech optimistically, expressing hope that despite the pressure, telecom operators will survive. According to him, the biggest competitive advantage that will always be on the side of viable telecoms is exceptional customer service.