NSRC
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| Type: | non-profit |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | Late 1980s |
| Founder(s): | Randy Bush, John Klensin |
| Headquarters: | 1501 Kincaid Street University of Oregon |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 51-100 |
| Email: | nsrc[at]nsrc.org |
| Website: | NSRC |
| Facebook: | NSRC |
| Twitter: |  @nsrcworld
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| Key People | |
| Steven Huter, Director Hervey Allen, Network System Engineer | |
Network Startup Resource Center - NSRC is an organizattion working for the development and deployment of Internet throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent States. Its main focus is deployment of internet in the academic institutes and non governmental organizations. It provides assistance to the teams working for the betterment of global internet. NSRC provides a platform for international communication between institutes, scientist, engineers and researchers. Engineers working with NSRC are always trying to make this communication easier and more accessible.[1]
NSRC gets the basic funding from National Science Foundation - NSF. Other donors are Carnegie Mellon, Cisco Systems, FreeBSD Mall, Google, IDRC, ISOC, O'Reilly, Richard Karp, Vint Cerf, and the University of Oregon.[2] Recently Google has contributed $1.5 Million to the center.[3]
History[edit | edit source]
NSRC started providing services of building internet infrastructure in 1988 in South Africa. They gradually moved on to other countries and provided network connectivity to Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, and assistance to many others. They build their centers in local universities and help people establish their own network and connect to the outside world.[4] Since its birth NSRC has provided assistance to build first ever network of:
- Peru in 1991.
- Egyptian Universities in 1993.
- Africa in 1994.
- Sri Lankan Engineers in 1995.
- Tanzania in 1996.
- Togo in 1997.
[5] In 1996 NSRC officially moved to University of Oregon. They participated in the development of AfriNIC and LACNIC. They provide funding for different Network Operator Group - NOGs throughout the world.[6] Since 1992 NSRC has provided more than $40 million of aid for the equipment and publications necessary for establishment of Internet in more than 100 countries.[7]
Events[edit | edit source]
NSRC arranges workshops, seminars, technical training and short courses all around the world for those who are interested in networking. It collaborates with APTLD[8], ICANN and ISOC[9] for their meetings. NSRC will be participating in ICANN42, ISOC INET Cotonou meeting, SANOG 18, WALC 2011 and PacNOG 10 this year. A complete list of upcoming events can be found here. Besides this NSRC has regularly been arranging workshops and hands-on training courses of networking since 1990. All the past and future trainings provided by the center can be seen here.