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<span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Dear All,</span></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">We invite you to the "Death of Transit and</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-3505854372" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">t</span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">he
Evolving Role of IXPs" session on 23</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">March
2021</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-3505854372" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">from</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">13:00-15:00
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<span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">The global Internet industry is consolidating,</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">enabled
by recent developments in Internet infrastructure and services</span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">. As</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">a
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networks have the bulk of the Internet content and</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">they
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seek</span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">ing</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">direct
interconnection</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">with</span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">eyeball
networks. This session of the Virtual Peering Series – Africa will explore what this phenomenon means for Internet</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">E</span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">xchange</span></span><span class="x_xapple-converted-space" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)"> </span></span><span class="x_xauthor-206426172" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">P</span></span><span class="x_xauthor-12648040162" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(43, 43, 43)">oints
(IXPs) in Africa and around the world.</span></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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