New

Zealand

Network

Operators

Group

What?

Mailing list started in 1998

Approx 800 subscribers

People who keep internet going in NZ

Sister groups / mailing lists incl NANOG, RIPE, FrOG, SANOG.

Annual meets from 2002

Why?

Meet and learn from each other

Hear from carefully selected speakers, from beyond as well as within NZ on current and future developments within the industry.

Overseas meets of similar nature are expensive and not many NZ ISPs - mainly small to medium businesses ( the expense or time of sending their key technical team.)

Meet as a group to share experiences that are unique to NZ.

Who?

Target audience mainly be technical staff within the network operations team of Carrier Networks, Internet and Telecommunication service providers. These are the people who design and run the networks and systems at Internet related organisations.

Attendees: Sample job titles

Technical ISP and telco staff at all levels including: Technical Director, Network Manager, Operations Manager, Technical Specialist, Senior Network Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator, Senior Engineer, Senior Systems Programmer, Senior Programmer, IP Network Engineer, Senior IP and Data Solutions Design Technologist, Mail server administrator, System Administrator, Software Engineer, Programmer.

Who? (Attendees)

Sample of Organisations with staff present: Telecom, TelstraClear, Alcatel, Broadcast Communications Limited (BCL), ihug, InspireNet, Orcon Internet, Woosh, Mercury Telecommunications, Compass, WISENet, Citylink, FX, Tasman Solutions, Catalyst IT, One Squared, Domainz, Computerland, CCIP/GCSB, NZ Defence Force.

Who? (Speakers)

Names of a few NZNOG 2005 overseas speakers: Phillip Hazel, Exim email server author from University of Cambridge, UK; Bill Manning, b-root server admin & ep.net; William B. Norton, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix; Bill Woodcock, Research Director, Packet Clearing House; Nurani Nimpuno, APNIC; Joe Abley, Internet Systems Consortium (isc.org);

When? & Where?

When: 22 to 24 March 2006

Where:
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ

www.nznog.org

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