In 2015, the Network Startup Resource Center conducted nearly one hundred field activities in dozens of countries to help advance local network engineering expertise and Internet infrastructure.

Through partnerships with local groups in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East to deliver technical training courses, provide direct engineering assistance, and fund conference fellowships, NSRC programs brought together thousands of network engineers and Internet developers across the world.

The NSRC team looks forward to working with our many peers and colleagues to connect more people and enrich the global Internet in the coming year ahead.


This past week NSRC instructors Dean Pemberton and Hervey Allen have worked with Indiana University instructor Ron Milford to present the TEIN NOC workshop on network monitoring and management and Software Defined Networking in cooperation with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and intERLab. The workshop included 34 students from 19 TEIN member countries from around Asia and the Pacific. For more details about the workshop see https://nsrc.org/workshops/2015/nsrc-tein-ait-noc/ and our temporary site at https://wiki.lpnz.org/doku.php?id=2015:nsrc-tein-ait-noc:start

Chris Elliott and Phil Regnauld of NSRC are joined by Ferenc Csorba of RIPE and Misak Khachatryan of GNC-Alfa CJSC to teach a 5 day hands-on workshop on Network Management and Monitoring best practices and tools. 22 participants from Armenia were present here in Yerevan, Armenia. We had a very fast class this week, and some very interesting discussions during the workshop. Congratulations to everyone!

Thanks to O'Reilly for providing books to the participants. We look forward to more events in partnership with RIPE NCC.

NSRC participated in the 17th Pacific Network Operators Group workshop and meeting PACNOG17:

http://www.pacnog.org/pacnog17/

Held in Apia, Samoa. A BGP Routing workshop was led by Philip Smith and Andy Linton, and a Linux Network Security workshop was led by Jon Brewer and Dean Pemberton.

We are wrapping the 4th day of the Inaugural RwandaNOG workshop. During the event, organised in collaboration between NSRC and the Rwanda Information and Communication Technology Associtaion (http://ricta.org.rw/), 6 trainers from the NSRC (Fanta Bouba, Khoudia Gueye Sy, Patrick Okui, Philip Smith, Brian Candler and Phil Regnauld) worked alongside local trainers to deliver two trainings on Advanced Routing and Systems Administration. NSRC Director Steven Huter was present for opening of the event.The workshops, which ran in parallel, were well attended, with nearly 60 participants from the industry, government and academic sectors present.

The NSRC finished 2014 with a series of successful network trainings and engineering activities. Our success was only made possible by the collaborators, sponsors and trainers around the world that we count as friends.

Este Octubre 27-31 el NSRC organizó , enseño y apoyo talleres sobre Gestión de Redes y Redes IPv6 en la reunión 2014 de WALC (Workshops América Latina y el Caribe) que se llevó a cabo en Manta, Ecuador en la Universidad Laica "Aloy Alfaro" de Manabí.

This past October 27-31 the NSRC organized, taught and supported workshops on Network Monitoring and Management and IPv6 Networking at the 2014 Workshops for America Latina and Caribe (WALC) meeting held in Manta, Ecuador at the Universidad Laica "Eloy Alfaro" de Manabí.

Por mas información / For more information:

http://eslared.org.ve/walc2014/
https://nsrc.org/workshops/2014/walc/

This past week the NSRC in conjunction with the TEIN*CC (http://www.teincc.org/) and the Philippines Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI - http://www.asti.dost.gov.ph/) have taught an Advanced BGP Workshop (https://web.nsrc.org/workshops/2016/preginet-bgp/) in Quezon City, Philippines. This event works with network operators in the Philippines, Laos and Bhutan to spread more BGP knowledge and peering to improve the Internet.


This past week the NSRC helped to support the Third Tanzania Network Operators Group meeting and workshops (http://www.tznog.or.tz/) held in Zanzibar from August 30th through September 4th. Courses taught included an introduction to UNIX/Linux, Network Monitoring and Management, Routing and Systems and Network Security. Pictured below are four of the instructors (from left to right):

Maina Noah, SEACOM (Tanzania)
Simon Mayoye, SEACOM (kenya)
Abibu Ntahigiye, TZNIC (Tanzania)
Clevem Mmari, NSRC/University of Oregon (United States/Tanzania)

Congratulations on a successful event!

NSRC instructors Hervey Allen, Hans Kuhn and Bob Rotsted are teaching a Virtualization Security and Operations Workshop as part of the RIPE NCC regional meeting held in beautiful Tbilisi, Georgia. The RIPE-NCC meeting and tutorial were held May 19-20 with Bob Rotsted presenting on "Securing Internet Systems." More information on the workshop is available at https://nsrc.org/workshops/2015/ripe-nsrc-virt/

As trainers we meet enthusiastic engineers who know what they want to build and want the technical skills to match their vision. NSRC and APNIC trainers met with engineers from various island nations and continents for the PACNOG15 technical workshops in Port Villa, Vanuatu, in July of 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLiWLeYq4nM&list=PLV88ZmvwupLzbnQGdSl4ZGY8xVvQkk_3m

This past week the NSRC participated and taught in the first Bhutan Network Operators Group meeting (http://www.nog.bt/btnog1/) meeting held in Phuentsholing, Bhutan at the College of Science and Technology. The NSRC team of Hans Kuhn and Dean Pemberton working with Dawa Sonam of Bhutan Telecom taught a workshop on Virtualization and Cloud technologies. For more information on this workshop and others taught by many of our friends see:

https://nsrc.org/workshops/2014/btnog/