Nsrc.org
Title
Network Startup Resource Center
Description
The Network Startup Resource Center provides technical advice and engineering assistance to developing area networking initiatives seeking to connect to the public Internet, especially to academic/research institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). There are numerous efforts in the less-connected countries of the world that have neither access to, nor funds for, private consulting assistance, particularly in universities and research institutes. We hope that our model of providing pro bono technical assistance to the locally based engineers, based on specific requests from them, increases the likelihood for establishing sustainable TCP/IP networks. The NSRC is not a funding agency and has no direct access to funding. Generally speaking, we are willing to help, or enlist other networking friends to help, with network architecture design, finding an appropriate international access provider, questions about routers/routing, DNS issues, hosting/mirroring web sites, organizing UNIX and TCP/IP training workshops, hosting engineering interns in US networks, building technical libraries, etc.
The roots of the the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) trace back to a volunteer effort to support networking in southern Africa in 1988, when Randy Bush designed, taught about, and helped deploy a multi-country (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and later many others) network using varying technologies, in order: FidoNet on dialup lines, UUCP on dialup lines, low-cost IP technology based on 9600 baud and below links using old PCs and publicly available PC-based SLIP routing software, and finally multiple, dedicated, medium speed (128-512kb) links to the public Internet.
In 1991, networkers in Peru asked the NSRC for technical assistance to help connect Peru to the Internet. With some financial support from UNDP and Union Latina, the NSRC facilitated the technical work and training for the first networking within Peru and to establish the links to the US. The NSRC was Peru's UUCP link to the outside world for over two years until Peru was able to upgrade to a 64kb, then 128kb, and then 512kb satellite IP link.
Languages
English
Contact
- University of Oregon
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- Eugene Oregon
- United States 97403
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- +1.5413461774
Additional Information
Related Domains
External Links
- Alexa: Nsrc.org
