ITW is always one of those events where the telecom industry compresses months of conversations into a few very busy days.
This week, Virgil Truica represented FastNetMon at International Telecoms Week 2026 in National Harbor, meeting with carriers, telecom operators, infrastructure providers, hosting companies, IXPs, and long-time industry partners from around the world.
What makes ITW different is the density of the people attending. You are not walking around collecting random leads. Most conversations are directly with decision-makers responsible for international connectivity, peering relationships, transport capacity, infrastructure expansion, and commercial partnerships across global telecom networks.
For us, that means real discussions about network visibility, DDoS mitigation, operational reliability, and protecting critical infrastructure from increasingly large-scale attacks.
This year, one topic kept surfacing repeatedly across conversations: the continued growth of massive IoT-driven botnets and the operational pressure caused by increasingly large volumetric attacks. Telecom operators and infrastructure providers are seeing attack traffic volumes continue to rise, while expectations for uptime and resilience remain uncompromising.
One thing remains consistent across the industry: operators want better visibility and faster response times without adding operational complexity. That is exactly the problem FastNetMon was built to solve.
ITW also gave us a chance to reconnect with existing customers and partners we have worked with for years. Events like this are still one of the best reminders that the internet industry is ultimately built on long-term relationships and trust.
We also had the opportunity to meet new providers and infrastructure teams exploring ways to improve their DDoS detection and mitigation workflows as attacks continue to grow in scale and sophistication.
There is always value in hearing directly from the companies operating large-scale telecom and connectivity infrastructure every day. Those conversations help shape both our roadmap and the way we think about operational simplicity, scalability, and deployment flexibility.
Beyond meetings and discussions, Virgil Truica also took part in the TSF Charity Run organised during International Telecoms Week 2026. The annual 5K run supports Friends of Telecom Without Borders and helps raise funds for emergency telecommunications services for people affected by crises and disasters around the world. It was great to see the telecoms community come together for a good cause outside the meeting rooms and conference halls.
Thanks to everyone who met with us during the week. It was great to see familiar faces, make new connections, and spend a few days talking networks and infrastructure with the global telecoms community.
See you at the next event!
