ATCON, AfriNIC Workshop On IPV6 Holds Next Week

Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), in partnership with Africa Network Information Center (AfriNIC), will next week organise a three day International Workshop on IPv6 in Lagos.

The workshop holds from August 12 to 14, 2014.

Ajibola Olude, executive secretary, in a press statement, said that, participations at the workshop are targeted to Network Engineers in the African Telecoms industry including the academics.

He said that resource persons for this workshop are international experts coming from outside Nigeria.

He said that the workshop is expected to provide impetus for Nigerian Network operators to migrate from IPV4 to IPV6 with its attendant advantages and provide qualitative training for those engineers that managed our networks which would help, as we  tackle the problem of quality of service  in the telecommunication industry.

He added that the workshop will, "Provide Nigerian Network Engineers with the required knowledge to compete favourably with their counterpart in the global market and enhance, as well upgrade, the performance of our Network Engineers on network management with the ultimate goal of ensuring the sustainable growth of the Nigerian Telecom Industry.

Also, it will boost the productivity level of the Nigerian network engineers.