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NEWS

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NSRC Director Steven Huter talks with the Marconi Society about "The Equalizing Force of Connectivity" and its impact on workforce development around the globe.
CENIC and Link Oregon partner to improve networks in the Pacific Northwest. News release CENIC and Link Oregon Forge Unique Regional Partnership to Share Resources and Expertise."
NSRC is highlighted (pp. 13-18) in the 2018 Annual Report by the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) titled, "The Spirit of Cooperation: Building the Global Research and Education Network Fabric."
NSRC co-sponsored Internet2 Fellowship recipients to attend the 2019 Internet2 Global Summit.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

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Workshop participants at the Network Monitoring and Management workshop held in Ekiti, Nigeria

Linux System Administration workshop group picture from SANOG 33 held in Thimphu, Bhutan

Students working on a lab in the Linux System Administration workshop at SANOG 33 held in Thimphu, Bhutan

Group picture of the NSRC-GARNET Campus Network Design and Operations workshop held on the GIMPA campus in Accra, Ghana

PACNOG37 Annual Meeting

Aug 8-12, 2022: Suva, Fiji

The Pacific Network Operators Group met at the Pacific-Japan ICT Centre. NSRC Engineer and Trainer Philip Smith co-taught a Routing Infrastructure and Security Operations Workshop with Edwin Sandys from the University of the South Pacific.

SANOG37 Network Monitoring and Management 2.0 Tutorial

July 12-13, 2021: Sri Lanka

NSRC Assistant Director Hervey Allen presented a tutorial covering core network monitoring and management concepts including newer more scaleable tools and techniques and what is meant by “observing” vs. monitoring. 100 participants were introduced to Prometheus, Grafana, Elastiflow and Kibana.

WALC 2020 Network Monitoring and Management Workshop

November 23-27: Online

NSRC trainers, volunteers and staff Hervey Allen, Carlos Armas, José Domínguez, Miguel Hernandez, Rolando Perez and Carlos Vicente worked together to provide a hands-on, interactive, on-line workshop in Spanish on Network Monitoring and Management as part of the 2020 Workshops for America Latina andthe Caribbean (WALC) event organized by EsLaRed. Thirty five participants from 14 countries took part in the activity that used the new NSRC cloud-based Virtual Training Platform.

Ekiti Connectivity Workshop

September 2020: Ekiti, Nigeria

NSRC trainer and Mozilla OIE Fellow Seun Ojedeji conducted a 3-day workshop for the Ekiti State connectivity initiative in Nigeria. The workshop covered Network Monitoring & Management with 16 participants. The State of Ekiti drastically reduced the Right-of-Way cost for laying fibre optic in May 2020 in order to spur broadband adoption, education, as well as technical innovation and business creation.

A FEW WORDS WITH ...

Paul Robertson, President of the Tohono O’odham Community College, speaks to the nature of Cyberinfrastructure as a strategic asset for geographically isolated tribal colleges.

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Tech Training Workshops in a Pandemic World
During 2020-2021 NSRC training activities were done remotely by NSRC staff and contractors, but in some cases, such as mnNOG3, these events have involved a mix of local on-the-ground participation with remote assistance in a hybrid teaching environment...
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