Conference Plenary
DAY 1 - MONDAY - 14th July 2014
Venue: Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Vanuatu Provident Fund Building, Port Vila, Vanuatu.
08:30-09:00: Registration
09:00-09:40: Welcome Remarks
- Opening Prayer - Pastor Shem Tema, Secretary General Vanuatu
Council of Churches
- Welcome Remarks - Jackson Miake, Office of the Government Chief
Information Officer
- Welcome Remarks - Fred Christopher, Manager of PITA and PacNOG
Chair
- Opening Address and Keynote - Fred Samuel, Government Chief
Information Officer
09:40: APNIC Update.
- Elly Tahai, Senior Internet Resource Analyst, APNIC
- This short presentation covers what is happening around the
world with Internet resources and designed to keep the Pacific
network operations industry updated. Included are current
statistics on AS numbers, IPv4, and IPv6 address delegations,
IPv4 markets and transfers, policy implementation, ISIF
along with other recent APNIC news, and affects on the
industry.
- Presentation
10:00: ICANN Update.
- Savenaca Vocea, Vice President of Stakeholder Engagement for
Australasia and the Pacific Islands, ICANN
- To cover latest from ICANN 50 meeting, IANA oversight
transition and discussions around Internet Governance issues
for the technical community.
- Presentation
10:20: RIPE Atlas
- Philip Smith, NSRC
- The presentation explains what the RIPE Atlas Project is, and
introduces the audience to the small probes which are deployed
globally.
- Presentation
10:40: Group Photo and Morning Break - Break sponsored by
Digicel
11:00: Set up and development of the VIX - the OGCIO experience
- Jethro Webston, OGCIO
- This presentation describes the history of the VIX, Vanuatu's
Internet Exchange Point. It covers how the VIX came into
existence, describes the current situation with the VIX, and
discusses future opportunities.
- Presentation
11:20: Google Caches at the VIX and benefits to ISPs and
customers
- Steve Noorderbroek, CTO, Telsat Broadband
- This presentation covers the negotiation, installation and
operation of a Google Global Cache (GGC) at the Vanuatu Internet
Exchange and looks at the beneficial effects it has had on the local
networks.
- Presentation
11:40: MPLS Case study for Telecom Fiji
- Navitalai Taka, Team Leader IP Network, Telecom Fiji
- Navi will cover an Introduction of market and networks in Fiji
and deployment of MPLS, and what so far have been offered, the
shifts from traditional DDN to MPLS with network and operational
challenges and Analysis with Conclusion
- Presentation
11:55: From gearing up to managing the fibre network in Tonga
- Laupoini Manu, Network Manager, Tonga Cable
- A post deployment case study and the experiences of the Tonga
Cable from the Network Management, Engineering and some Market
perspectives
- Presentation
12:10: IPTV Rollout in Samoa
- Omana Sua, Bluesky Samoa
- Overview of IPTV infrastructure and deployment. Challenges
with delivering IPTV over various mediums in the islands. This
will also touch on some of the non-technical barriers to
IPTV in the islands such as competition from more traditional
satellite/cable TV.
- Presentation
12:35: Internet Wifi Services
- John Chand, ISP Engineer, Telecom Fiji
- John will discuss the various initiatives on network,
engineering and operational challenges faced in deploying
internet wifi services in Fiji
- Presentation
12:50: Acknowledgements and Closing
13:00: Lunch
Tutorials
14:00-17:30
Venue: Vanuatu Provident Fund Building and OGCIO Training Room
Tutorial 1 - TV Whitespace Technology for Remote Communications
- Jonathan Brewer, NSRC
- Television Whitespace Technology (TVWS) is an access
innovation which has properties very different to microwave
linking bands, and can enable near- and non-line-of-sight
communications, allowing connectivity to villages that have
never before had broadband. This brief talk will discuss
the technology, the radio spectrum,
and some case studies of how TVWS has been considered and used
to deliver broadband, including the regulatory challenges and
equipment development.
- Presentation
(44Mbytes)
Tutorial 2 - Investigating DNS Abuse/Misuse for Law
Enforcement Agents
- Dave Piscitello, VP Security ICANN
- This workshop exposes agents to strategies, techniques and
tools that infosec professionals use to identify abuses of the
Domain Name System (DNS), malicious registrations of domain
names, addresses or hosting. Through a combination of lecture,
demonstration, and hands-on exercises, attendees will learn how
to collect information that will be needed to further
investigate criminal activity. The tutorial will cover the
following:
- Enumeration of Attacks
- Challenges of distinguishing criminal from legitimate use of
DNS
- Accessing DNS, domain registration, and IP addressing
related information
- Dealing with domain seizures
- Tools to collect DNS and registration data
- Tools to locate and look at hosting sites and hosted data,
- Reputation tools
- Examples, use cases, and case studies
- Presentation available on request from author
18:00 - 21:00: Networking Reception at Holiday Inn, hosted by
OGCIO
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