APNIC staff attended the 16th Pacific Network Operators Group (PacNOG 16) in Honiara, Solomon Islands from 1 to 5 December 2014.
PacNOG 16 continues its focus on capacity development for network operators from the Pacific Islands, and held two parallel workshops, Advanced Routing and Linux/System Administration and Network management in addition to the Conference Plenary on the first day of the event.
The Plenary presentations included:
- The IANA oversight transition and Internet governance issues for the technical community by ICANN
- The work the Network Startup Resource Centre (NSRC) is doing
- RIPE Atlas
- ADSL/Broadband deployment to remote centres in the Solomon Islands
- Marshall Islands IP/ISP network, services and operations
- USP online campus network operations and upgrades
- Peering and IXPs
APNIC activities:
- Elly Tawhai gave the APNIC Update, including current statistics on IPv4, IPv6, AS numbers and IPv4 market transfers.
- Along with Philip Smith, representing NSRC, Kevin Meynell conducted the BGP Routing workshop. Philip also gave a brief presentation on Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), their benefits, and how to set them up.
- Elly also met with APNIC Members to answer their membership queries and provide them with more information about IPv6 deployment.
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