Date and Location

14 - 18 July 2014, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Host

The Pacific Network Operators Group (PacNOG) would like to thank OGCIO for hosting this event.

About

PacNOG 15 Educational workshop and training is a continuation of capacity development program for the IP-ISP network operators from the Pacific Islands.

Register

Registration for PacNOG 15 is now closed.

The participant information regarding hotel rooms, arrival information, conference and workshop venue, transportation, visa information, currency, local information, contacts, is now available.

Hotels which are close by include Olympic Hotel (5 mins walk), Chantillys Hotel (15 mins walk), Moorings Hotel (15 mins). An affordable motel close by is Hibiscus Motel (5 minutes walk).

Venue

PacNOG was held at the Vanuatu Provident Fund building (see this map). The map shows Port Vila and the location of VNPF building and the Vila Mall. The opening session took place inside the VNPF building, 4th floor. OGCIO office is across the road inside the Vila Mall building on level 1. Tracks 1 & 3 were at the Vila Mall building on level 1 while track 2 took place inside the VNPF building, 4th floor.

Topics

The final agenda for PacNOG 15 is now available. The conference outline is below.

Day 1 (Monday, July 14th)

• Morning: Plenary Conference on Operations and Country Updates
• Afternoon: Technical Tutorials
• Venue: Nation Provident Fund Building, Port Vila

Day 2 (Tuesday) - Day 5 (Friday): Technical Workshops

• Track 1: BGP Routing
• Philip Smith (NSRC), Jethro Webston (VIX)
• [Course Web Site]
• Venue: OGCIO Training Rooms, Port Vila

• Track 2: Network and Systems Security
• Dean Pemberton (NSRC), Jon Brewer (NSRC)
• [Course Web Site]
• Venue: VNPF Building, Port Vila

• Track 3: Introduction to MPLS/VPNs
• Nurul Islam (APNIC)
• [Course Web Site]
• Venue: OGCIO Training Rooms, Port Vila

Presentations

The presentations were posted on the completion of PacNOG 15 and are included in the detailed agenda page.

How to get to Vanuatu

Virgin Australia, Air Calin, Air Vanuatu, Solomons Airlines, Fiji Airways and Air New Zealand all fly to Port Vila

More Information

For further information please contact the PITA Manager.

Links

• PacNOG main web site
• PacNOG 1, PacNOG 2, PacNOG 3, PacNOG 4, PacNOG 5, PacNOG 6, PacNOG 7, PacNOG 8, PacNOG 9, PacNOG 10, PacNOG 11, PacNOG 12, PacNOG 13 and PacNOG 14 workshop web sites.
• Subscribe to the PacNOG mailing list
• Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA)
• APNIC
• Network Startup Resource Center

Sponsors

PacNOG is made possible with the ongoing support of many organisations with common interests in the development and stability of the Internet network infrastructure, operations, services and performance. We are always interested in expressions of interest of support from other organisations who share our desire to improve the Internet in the Pacific.

Organisations who wish to support this or future PacNOG meetings should please contact the PITA Manager.

We'd like to acknowledge the generous support of APNIC, Network Startup Resource Center, ICANN, National Science Foundation, O'Reilly Media and University of Oregon.