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April 2026: Campus Network Design and Operations and Workshop, Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN), Kathmandu, Nepal
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March 2026: MMSU Campus Network Design and Operations Workshop at Mariano Marcos State University, City of Batac, llocos Norte, Philippines
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February 2026: APRICOT Practical Virtualization with Hybrid Strategies MasterClass, Jakarta, Indonesia
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November 2025: PacNOG 36 Conference Group Photo, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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October 2025: Mongolia NOG 7 (mnNOG7) workshops and conference, Ulaan Baatar and Glory Resort Terelj, Mongolia
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September 2025: ZAMREN Campus Network Design and Operations workshop Instructors, Livingstone, Zambia
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August 2025: btNOG12 Virtualization Workshop Participants, Thimphu, Bhutan
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August 2025: SANOG 43 Conference Organizers, Thimphu, Bhutan
NEWS
NSRC is partially sponsored by the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program in the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) via NSF grant award# 2029309.
Google has supported the NSRC with 5 million in funding and more in donations of hardware. Read More.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
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Campus Network Design and Operations and Workshop, Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN)
April 27-May 4, 2026, Kathmandu, Nepal
NSRC instructors Brian Candler, Dale Smith, Philip Paeps and Sebastian Buettrich worked with NREN team members to teach a 5-day workshop on Campus Network Design and Operators as well as provide several days of direct engineering assistance to NREN.
BGP Intermedia Operations & Best Practices at NZNOG 2026
March 23-25, 2026 Christchurch, New Zealand
Philip Smith and Warren Finch (ISOC) taught a 3-day workshop on BGP Intermediate Operations & Best Practices at the start of the NZNOG 2026 event.
APRICOT 2026 MasterClasses and Talks
Feb 4-12, 2026 Jakarta, Indonesia
NSRC personnel taught MasterClass workshops on Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators and Practical Virtualization with Hybrid Strategies as part of the APRICOT 2026 event that took place in the Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel. During the event NSRC either led or were involved in sessions on Interconnecting with CDNS, GIT, Peering Forum and Women in Tech.
PCIO Workshop at PacNOG 36
Dec 25-28, 2025 Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Philip Smith, Philip Paeps and Tashi Phuntsho taught a 4-day workshop on Practical Cybersecurity for Internet Operators as well as providing multiple presentations during the PacNOG 36 Conference Day.
Supercomputing 2025 NRE Theater
Nov 18-20, St. Louis, MIssouri, United States
Hervey Allen helped to lead the 2025 Supercomputing Theater as part of the Network Research Exhibitions group activities during the full event from Nov 16-20. Over 60 individuals provided presentations during 2 1/2 days of the SC25 event on the main conference floor.
NSRC Upcoming!
During June NSRC will be assisting with an online network monitoring and management tutorial on June 18th as part of the AfNOG 2026 workshop and tutorial week. From June 22-26 NSRC will lead workshops on Campus Network Design and Operations (CNDO) and Routing Infrastructure & Security Operations Workshop (RISO) as part of the Tanzanian Education and Research Network (TERNET), Tanzania Network Operators Group (TZNOG), and the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) event taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Blast from the Past
ICANN and NSRC Collaborate on Training Events
A 2018 overview of four trainings we helped organize: two in Nairobi, Kenya and in Helsinki, Finland, that focused on DNSSEC deployment, and two in London, United Kingdom and in Antananarivo, Madagascar. More stories are available here.
ARCHIVED MATERIALS
Our repository of historical, web and network-related materials maintained by the NSRC since 1989. View our Archived Materials.
