Network Startup Resource Center

Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)

Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) is a non-profit activity that has worked since the late 1980s to help develop and deploy networking technology in various projects throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent States. Partially supported by grant award 0726077 from the US National Science Foundation, the NSRC provides technical and engineering assistance to international networking initiatives building access to the public Internet, especially to academic/research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The NSRC is based at the University of Oregon, where we work in collaboration with the Advanced Network Technology Center (ANTC), and Network Services.

The NSRC works directly with the indigenous network engineers and operators who develop and maintain the Internet infrastructure in their respective countries and regions by providing technical information, engineering assistance, training, donations of networking books, equipment and other resources. The end goal in this work is to make it easier for local scientists, engineers and educators to collaborate via the Internet with their international colleagues by helping to connect communities of interest. By strategically working with universities, research institutes, Internet Service Providers, Regional Internet Registries, government agencies, supranational agencies, industry, private foundations and non-governmental organizations, the NSRC helps develop national and regional Internet infrastructure for collaborative research, education, and international partnerships.

Recent Stories

About NSRC-supported activites:

• (November 2009) BBCAfrique.com, part of BBC radio, aired a story (mp3 format) about the WirelessU-NSRC-ISOC wireless workshop held in Cotonou, Benin from 9-13 November.
• (October 2009) Online story about AIT/WirelessU Workshop held in Bangkok from 12-16 October: [Indonesian | English (machine translation)]
• (September 2009) University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter (CASCADE): "Make It, Break It and Do It All Over Again".
• (August 2009) Feature Story on the University of Oregon web site: "Local hands building local networks".

Upcoming Events

 APRICOT 2010

The NSRC will be teaching a Network Management Workshop at the 2010 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT 2010) from February 23-27 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 ICTP Workshop and Awareness Conference on Evolution of Wireless Technologies

The NSRC is participating in and sponsoring several participants from Africa to attend the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) 2010 Workshop and Awareness Conference on Evolution of Wireless Technologies to be in Trieste, Italy from February 22-March 12.
 More Events
A list of upcoming events is available here or you can view our network training workshops if you would prefer.

Publications

(Available in multiple languages and formats)

• Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure (RFC 2901)
• Expanding International Email Connectivity--Another Look
• History of the Internet in Thailand
• Country-Code Top-Level Domain Best Current Practices

Steven Huter and Adiel Akplogan contributed a short article for the Guardian's feature story about the future of the Internet, published on December 3, 2007.

Workshop Resource Centre

The Internet Society Workshop Resource Centre is a repository for sharing lab-based educational materials and planning tools for network technology workshops. Funded by ISOC and the Public Internet Registry, the WRC is developed by the NSRC and hosted at the University of Oregon, with additional support from the National Science Foundation.

Contact Us

Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
1225 Kincaid Street
1212-University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1212 USA

Phone: +1-541-346-3547
Fax: +1-541-346-4397
nsrc@nsrc.org

 

Core Funding From

Some Popular Items

• ISP Resource Document
• NSRC Publications
• Routing, BGP and IXP Resources
• Securing Network Services and Infrastructure
• Wireless Resources

Our Online Database

• Worldwide Connectivity Info
• Add/Edit Connectivity Info

Recent Activity

WirelessU-NSRC-ISOC: Cotonou, Benin Workshop

The NSRC teamed up with WirelessU, NetworkTheWorld.org, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and ISOC to support and teach a workshop on building low-cost wireless networks. The workshop was held at the Université d'Abomey-Calavi in Cotonou, Bénin from November 9-13. The local ISOC chapter (Chapitre Bénin de l'Internet Society) was the local host and assisted organizing the event.

Listen in mp3 format to a story aired by BBCAfrique.com on the workshop.

"Africa has been late for a long time in the use of wireless technologies. And now, as there are possibilities to have good low costs technologies, let's jump on them!" Pierre DOVONOU LOKOSSOU President ISOC Bénin

Participants learn how to build low-cost, long-range wireless antennas during the Wireless workshop held in Cotonou, Bénin (Photo by Marco Zennaro)

PacNOG 6

Hervey Allen and Sebastian Buettrich from NSRC taught a workshop covering Linux System Administration, Network Management and Security at the PacNOG 6 event in Nadi, Fiji. The PacNOG meeting and workshops were held in Nadi, Fiji from November 16-26, 2009. The event was supported by APNIC, Cisco Systems, ICANN, internetNZ, ISOC, ITU, National Science Foundation, O'Reilly Media, the University of Oregon and the NSRC. The local host for the event was Telecom Fiji.

Participants from around the Pacific region participate in the System and Network Administration and Security workshop during the PacNOG 6 event held in Nadi, Fiji