Interop is an annual

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology syste ...

conference organised by

Informa PLC Informa plc is a British publishing, business intelligence, and exhibitions group based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has offices in 43 countries and around 11,000 ...

. It takes place in the US and

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.46 ...

(

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

) each year. 2016 marked Interop's (US) 30th anniversary and throughout that time, Interop has promoted interoperability and openness, beginning with IP networks and continuing in today's emerging

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...

era.

History

The Las Vegas International Telecoms Show is called "the granddaddy of networking shows" because it was created in the late 1980s, a decade before the technology and internet bubble that made it a success. It reached a peak with 61,000 visitors at the 2001 edition, just before the bursting of this bubble, which resulted in a major stock market crash for this sector. This year's event was marked by innovation, and among the major telecom providers, the rivalry between Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems in the Terabit router market, while the so-called "alternative" operators, such as KPNQwest,

Global Crossing Global Crossing was a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services and operated a tier 1 carrier. It maintained a large backbone network and offered peering, virtual private networks, leased lines, audio and video co ...

and Carrier, launched revolutionary offerings in the enterprise market. After the crash of 2002, the fever has subsided. The 2004 edition in Las Vegas brought together less than 300 exhibitors. The following editions saw a recovery. The organizer of the 2013 edition hopes to increase the number of visitors from 18,000 in 2012 to 20,000 with the presence of 500 suppliers.

2020 dates

* Interop Tokyo - April 13 - 15

2019 dates

* Interop Las Vegas - May 20 - 23 * Interop Tokyo - June 12 - 14

2018 dates

* Interop ITX Las Vegas - April 30 - May 4 * Interop Tokyo - June 13 - 15

2017 dates

* Interop ITX Las Vegas - May 15 - 19 * Interop Tokyo - June 8 - 10

2016 dates

* Interop Las Vegas - May 2 - 6 * Interop Tokyo - June 8 - 10 * Interop London - June 21 - 22

2015 dates

* Interop Las Vegas - April 27 - May 1 * Interop Tokyo - June 10 – 12 * Interop London - June 16 - 18 * Interop Delhi - Summer 2015 * Interop Mumbai - Summer 2015

2014 dates

* Interop Las Vegas - March 31 - April 4 ** Demonstrated Shortest Path Bridging and

Software-defined networking Software-defined networking (SDN) technology is an approach to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring, making it more like cloud computing t ...

* Interop Tokyo - June 9 – 13 * Interop New York - September 29 - October 3

2013 dates

* Interop Las Vegas - May 6 - 10 ** InteropNet demonstrated IEEE 802.1aq ( Shortest Path Bridging - SPB) interoperability between

Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a su ...

Avaya Avaya Holdings Corp., often shortened to Avaya (), is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, that provides cloud communications and workstream collaboration services. The company's platform inclu ...

, HP, and

Spirent Spirent Communications plc is a British multinational telecommunications testing company headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex, in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. His ...

. * Interop Tokyo - June 12 – 14 * Interop Mumbai - November 20 – 22

2012 dates

* Interop Las Vegas - May 6 – 10 * Interop Tokyo - June 12 – 15 * Interop New York - October 1 – 5 * Interop Mumbai - October 10 – 12

2011 events

Interop Las Vegas was held in May 2011 at the

Mandalay Bay Convention Center Mandalay Bay Convention Center is attached to the Mandalay Bay resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The facility is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. It is among the largest convention centers in the U.S. It ...

. Exhibitors included

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

Citrix Systems Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud ...

D-Link D-Link Corporation is a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It was founded in March 1986 in Taipei as ''Datex Systems Inc.'' History D-Link Corporation changed its name fr ...

Exinda Exinda is a company that provides computer networking hardware for improving the performance of wide area networks (WANs), known as WAN optimization. In 2017, the company was acquired by GFI Software. Services As of 2008, Exinda provided wide ...

, Riverbed Technology and

F5 Networks F5, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in application security, multi-cloud management, online fraud prevention, application delivery networking (ADN), application availability & performance, network security, and access & auth ...

. Notable speakers include

Vint Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include ...

and

Mark B. Templeton Mark B. Templeton is an American businessman. He served as the President and CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc. from 2001 to 2015. Early life and education Templeton attended North Carolina State University, where he joined Lambda Chi Alpha fraternit ...

. The Tokyo Conference was held in June, 2011. The Mumbai conference was held in September, and the New York conference in October at the

Jacob K. Javits Convention Center The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, commonly known as the Javits Center, is a large convention center on Eleventh Avenue between 34th Street and 38th Street in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by architect James I ...

References

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