NSP is playing host to APNIC trainings in Karachi in the month of May 2007. Following trainings will be conducted under the program:

• Internet Resource Management Essentials (IRM-E) [1 day]
• Routing Workshop [4 days]

The venue is NDC Training Academy, Sharah-e-Faisal Campus, Suite No. 202, Progress Center, Sharah-e-Faisal, Karachi.

NSP members will receive a special 50% discount on APNIC Member training fees as this is being subsidised by NSP. To register for this discount please contact Mr M. Nadeem, General Secretary for NSP on +92-300-2128919 or Mr. Farrukh Aqeel (Admin Officer) on +92-300-8994483. Mr M. Nadeem is also contactable via email on mnadeem@nsp.org.pk. Please do not register online through APNIC for the discount. These discounted places are limited.

Please note that seats are limited and the registration will be on a “first come - first served” basis with priority given to APNIC and NSP members.

For registration, follow this link.

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! 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.

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 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.

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.

Latif Ladid (right) and Yusuf Bhaiji (left) at SANOG8 which preceeded the launch of IPv6 Forum Pakistan launch.

Latif Ladid, president of IPv6 Forum, today announced the appointment of Mr Yusuf Bhaiji, Chairman Networkers’ Society of Pakistan, as the new President of IPv6 Forum. Here is the announcement:

It’s my great pleasure to announce to the IPv6 Forum Pakistan list that we have won Yusuf Bhaiji to lead this new initiative as its president and progress the overall mission of this forum to peer with the other 40 chapters around the world and drive the many tasks started to fruition.

I trust you will all join me in supporting Yusuf in this expanded responsibility on top of his compatible NSP activities.

I wish to take the opportunity to express my great pleasure in working with all of you to advance the IPv6 Forum Pakistan to the same level as its peers and lift up the political and business community to a higher level of awareness and action putting Pakistan on the IPv6 worldwide map.

Latif Ladid,
President IPv6 Forum

With a die-hard technologist like Yusuf at the helm of the affairs of IPv6 Forum Pakistan, we have all the reasons to anticipate exciting, and practical advancement in the IPv6 adoption activities in Pakistan.

A number of NSP members (and ‘aspiring members’) have expressed their interest in finding new jobs for themselves. Senior industry insiders close to Networkers’ Society of Pakistan too expressed their wish to hire new talent for their growing needs through the social network of NSP.

Helping its members with their professional careers’ development is a direct benefit of a social cobweb of NSP. While we develop a useful and easy-to-use careers development module to the NSP site for our members, we will be posting useful job opportunity announcements to our Careers section.

Today, we have posted one such announcement relating to Telecommuting VoIP Jobs in Pakistan.

Okay, for all those who were there (or wished they were there) can now see the snaps of the SANOG8 event online here. We have tried to describe those pictures in detail where we caught foreign visitors so that we can have a good memory.

Again, we will request that those who are privately uploading their snaps online, please tag them as sanog8 so that we can see them all in one place.

NSP’s main website is temporarily out of service. Our service provider decided to shift our account to a new server without considering the age-old make-before-break principle. Please bear with us as we sort this out. We will keep updating the blog in the meanwhile.