Self-Nominations Open for NSP Committees

Calling self-confident networkers across Pakistan!

NSP is currently open to self-nomination by NSP members (and aspiring members as well) for inclusion in various committees of NSP except the Advisory Committee and the Core Management Committee. Please see our previous blog post for a description of various committees that NSP will be having shortly and depending on where you can contribute the most, you can apply for inclusion in the group.

Please write to secretariat@nsp.org.pk for self-nomination. Please include the following in your email at the minimum:

• details about yourself,
• recent resume
• a digital photograph or URL for the same,
• a home page (optional) and
• a statement of interest detailing why you think you are well suited to be included in the given committee

And lest we forget, you an also nominate someone else. Please include your suggestion with contact details and some introduction and one of the NSP Core Management Committee member will contact the nominee for taking the process further.

NSP is Growing!

NSP is growing! And we bet you do would not like to anything short of that! Currently, NSP is managed by a Management Committee. However, the popularity of the Society, especially after the successful hosting of SANOG8 event in July/August 2006, it is necessary to equip the body with sufficient structure to sustain the welcome growth.

Apart from the Core Managing Committee, that will keep on steering the Society, NSP will have an Advisory Committee comprising of carefully selected members who hold high technical calibre, profound personal integrity, a clear vision and very good industry reputation. Members of Advisory Committee will serve NSP in an honorary capacity.

To manage various programs and events of NSP, we will now have a Program Committee. The committee will be responsible for the overall event management, sponsorships, logistics and content for the events hosted by NSP. This committee might also, on need-basis, comprise Program Sub-committee(s) that will include people representing NSP events in Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta etc and other parts of Pakistan.

Academic activities are part of the mission statement of NSP. To establish fruitful and effective liason with the acedemic world, we will have an Academia Committee. This will mainly comprise of HOD/Dean of various academia to promote the ICT and technology specific institutions, Universities i.e. NSP-affiliated institutions and NSP-endorsed curriculum.

Finally, NSP believes in less talk and more work. Based on this guiding principle, NSP will have various Tasks Forces dedicated for taking ahead their respective areas forward in Pakistan under the NSP umbrella. Tasks Forces will be created and deconstructed on need-basis. Typically, Tasks Forces will have clear, tangible goals in front of them that they will achieve for the Society.

NSP Membership Co-ordinator

A quick note for all aspiring NSP members. We have appointed a coordinator for making the membership process fast as well as carrying a human touch. If you are in Pakistan and want to sign-up as a member of NSP, please contact Farrukh at 0300-8994483.

Juniper Seminar in Karachi

Juniper Networks is organizing a full day (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) seminar titled Juniper Networks Secure and Assured Networking on 14th September 2006 at Karachi Sheraton Hotel.

 

From the announcement:

 

Networking environments are undergoing a fundamental change. The concept of the trusted network has disappeared. The trend is towards running multiple services over a single infrastructure. But there is a problem.

Status quo networks are no longer good enough.

What you need is a robust network that keeps up with the changing times without sacrificing security OR performance. And there is none better than Juniper Networks to address these challenges.

Join Juniper Networks for a 1 day seminar on Secure and Assured Networking.

Just because users have access doesn’t mean they should have the run of your resources! At this seminar you’ll learn:

• How to reduce the complexity of security solutions without compromising security
• How to increase revenue dramatically by integrating the latest web-based applications to your network
• Proven ways to simplify network design while maintaining predictable performance

Registration can be done online here.

 

Juniper is finding its share of the upswinging market in Pakistan where increased IT and Telecom spendings have even earned a dedicated Cisco Systems country office in Islamabad.

Readers might be interested to know that Juniper Networks recently secured deals with Ufone, Transworld Associates, and NTC for the provisioning of core routers. Juniper Networks is also reported to be looking to fill up a position of Systems Engineer to be station in Pakistan to enhance the support the company offers to its service provider customers.

IPv6 Forum Pakistan Gets A Home!

Ever since the exciting launch of IPv6 Forum Pakistan Chapter early this August (2006), lots of positive things have happened very quickly. The enthusiasm of the crowd at SANOG 8, the involvement of ISPs in experimenting out IPv6 deployments in Pakistan and the involvement of the Government of Pakistan in these new-age initiative earned IPv6 Forum Pakistan a dedicated new home for itself!

IPv6 Forum Pakistan will be a peer chapter of the 40-ish worldwide chapters of IPv6 Forum actively promoting IPv6 adoption around the world and would work closely with Networkers’ Society of Pakistan. Yusuf Bhaiji, Chairman NSP has also been nominated as President, IPv6 Forum Pakistan recently.