When: 23-25 October, 2017 Where: Cyberjaya, Malaysia Organizer: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN)   The workshop aims to bring Asi@Connect partners’ network engineers and security administrators to the level qualified for the operation & management of network for their NRENs and therefore promote international collaborations as well as Asi@Connect applications. As more and more security breaches being reported throughout the globe, it is such necessary that NRENs are more equipped to proactively identify potential security issues in their network BEFORE they are being exploited by hackers and malware. For that reason, this workshop will provide a combination of theoretical and practical knowledge/experience to 25 participants from 16 Asi@Connect partners in terms of a more secure NREN.

When: 9-13 October, 2017 Where: Thimphu, Bhutan Organizer: Ministry of Information and Communication, Bhutan         Information security has become very important with proliferation of ICT services. However, Information security has not been able to gain much attention in Bhutan partly because most of the efforts were focused on development of the infrastructure itself.               To counter these ever increasing threats, Bhutan has taken modest efforts through implementation of numerous measures such as deployment of virtual private network and other good encryption measures in sensitive networks. However, there still remains a gap in the competency of system administrators vis-a-vis the security requirements of systems and networks.     50 local participants will join this workshop envisaged to fill the identified gap. Through the workshop, they are expected to have some skills and knowledge for conducting regular security audits, real-time network monitoring and interpreting the data thus far gathered into important security alerts and messages.      

TEIN*CC is seeking offers for the provision, delivery, installation and support of new routing equipment to provide IP and MPLS (and associated services) as part of the Asi@Connect project. We are inviting quotations for the proposed hardware equipment. Maximum Budget allocated for this procurement is 590,000 Euros. This Request for Quotation (RFQ) is required by 30 November 2017. Please refer to the attached for full notice. Should you have any queries, please send email to tech@teincc.org.

When: 5 October 2017 Where: Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia Organizer: TEMDEC, Kyushu University       TEMDEC will organize the second Indonesia Telemedicine Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 5th October 2017 as joint project of Jakarta International GI endscopy symposium and Live Demonsration (JIGES-LD). This workshop started last year by inviting 11 Indonesian major university hospitals, both with doctors and engineers. Soon after that, they started monthly endoscopy teleconference across the country, and expanded their activities to other fields, such as neurology, fetus, dental, and orthopedics. In the coming workshop, the growing community will share their experiences and current problems for further expansion in the region.   You can find the attached file for detail program:

Call for Proposals: TEIN Annual NOC Workshop 2017     We are pleased to announce the Call for Proposals to host "TEIN Annunal NOC Workshop" aimed at facilitating network engineers for the network operation and management for their NRENs and therefore promote international collaborations throughout the TEIN network.     Please find attached for more details on the call.   

The Asi@Connect project plans to launch a procurement tender during this coming October. The tender will try to procure routing equipment and ancillary services in the TEIN Hong Kong and Singapore POPs. Please refer to the attached for further details on this PIN stage.  The tender dossier in which elaborates budget, technical specifications and award criteria will be distributed at the next phase (i.e. Contract Notice). The following summarize brief timeline/steps for the tender.   1. Prior Information Notice 2. Contract Notice - tender dossier distribution 3. Evaluation & Award 4. Delivery & Installation   Should you have any further queries, please address to tech@teincc.org. Remarks: No applications should be sent at this stage.  

When: 18-22 August 2017 Where: Dahka, Bangladesh Patuakhali Science and Technology University is first public university in greater Barisal division of Bangladesh. Recently it is connected with Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) and a campus network is going to establish from campus network sub-project which is a project of Ministry of Education funded by World Bank. Implementing agency of this project is BdREN and University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh. UGC/BdREN is a member of TEIN since 2012. PSTU has a good Technical Team of professionally skilled network engineers which makes it very much competent for hosting such training events with the collaboration of BdREN, TEIN*CC and in association with other renowned local technical resource persons as trainers/assistants.  

The Asi@Connect project seeks international point-to-point connectivity between the following territories and one of TEIN POPs (i.e. Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mumbai).   Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam   The capacities will be in the range 45M to 10G and term of contract of connectivity could be for up to a maximum of 3 years. Any organization who are nationally eligible (please refer to the Attachment 1) to participate in the tender must formally express interest, with the following information, addressed to [tech@teincc.org] by 24 July 2017.   Brief introduction of the candidate (less than 20 pages). Economic and financial capacity of the candidate (less than 10 pages, e.g. statement of financial position, Income statement for the recent two years). Technical and Professional capacity of the candidate (less than 10 pages, e.g. network resources such as ownership or reachability of submarine cables in the targeted country/region, Human resources of engineers, etc.) Please refer to the attached files for full notice.       About Asi@Connect, TEIN & TEIN*CC   Asi@Connect provides dedicated high-capacity internet connectivity for research and education communities across Asia-Pacific, namely Trans-Eurasia Information Network(TEIN); it currently interconnects universities and research centres in 20 countries. It also connects to the 50 million European researchers and academics served by the GEANT network and supports collaborative programmes in areas such as Earth observation, disaster warning, climate research, food security, delivery of e-health and e-learning. Asi@Connect is jointly funded by the European Commission and Asian partners and is managed by TEIN*CC (TEIN*Cooperation Center) based in Seoul, South Korea.  

Asi@Connect National Launch Event in Sri Lanka When: 20 June 2017 Where:  Hilton Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka   LEARN, Nationa Research and Education Network of Sri Lanka, will bring up the network researchers, officials of Sri Lankan Government and delegates from the European Union to one stage on 20 June 2017. This local launch event will be a good opportunity to share major activities of the Asi@Connect and to show how LEARN is involved in the project.  For more information: http://www.learn.ac.lk/asiaconnect                

      Where : University of Sydney, Australia When : 25-27. Sep. 2017   The 17th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop which is being hosted by AARNet, the Australian National Research and Education Network. This workshop will be held in Sydney, Australia, on 25-27 Sep. 2017. This will bring together leading network personnel from around the world to collaborate and exchange knowledge on new lambda networking technologies, middleware and applications. For more information: www.glif.is/meetings/2017/