Friday 22 July 2011

Victor Tang Appointed New Chairman for IPv6 Forum in Singapore

Singapore, 21 July 2011: PROGRESO Networks (PROGRESO), a specialist in IT training, consultancy and professional services, today announced the launch of Singapore’s first public IPv6 Forum Certified Network Engineer Courses - a timely and much awaited help for many who are grappling with the realities of IPv6 transition. PROGRESO is currently the only Authorized Training Centre in Singapore for a complete Silver, Gold and Trainer Gold IPv6 Forum certified courses

Mr Latif Ladid, Global President of the IPv6 Forum is in Singapore to launch the new certification courses and to appoint Mr Victor Tang, Managing Director of PROGRESO as Chairman for the Singapore chapter of the IPv6 Forum. “It is quite clear that Asia is leading in IPv6 adoption in the world. There is a real demand for IPv6 trained engineers and end-users to ensure a seamless growth of the internet based on IPv6.” said Mr Ladid who is also the Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center and Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society (ISOC).

“The ‘certified certification’ initiative from IPv6 Forum Education Logo program will further promote IPv6 adoption by providing an opportunity for networking vendors to enable their certification programs ‘IPv6 Ready’ and officially recognized. This next level of IPv6 Education Logo Program is designed to certify vendors’ certification programs uniformly across the industry,” added Mr Tang. “We are already partnering with USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia) - The National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAV6) to offer 3 levels of certification to IT managers, engineers and end-users.”

As IPv6 adoption increases globally, co-existence of IPv6 and IPv4 addresses on the internet is inevitable. PROGRESO’s new IPv6 Certified Network Engineer Courses will train IT managers and engineers to maintain interoperability and facilitate a smooth transition of the IP protocols across their networks. IPv6 implementation requires a new set of network configurations and capabilities. The new IPv6 Certified Network Engineer Courses will cover IPv6 addressing, ICMPv6, IPv6 Neighbour Discovery, Transition Approaches and Mechanisms, Mobile IPv6, Security, QoS, etc. that will help attendees to build, migrate and manage the IPv6 network with ease.

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About PROGRESO Networks

Established in 2004, PROGRESO Networks (PROGRESO) specializes in IT training, consultancy and professional services to Carriers, Government Agencies, SMEs and Systems Integration partners in Singapore and Southeast Asia. We assist our customers to deliver IPv6 solutions and ensure interworking with both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

We are partnering with Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) - The National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAV6) to provide IPv6 Forum Certified Network Engineer Courses in Malaysia, Singapore and the region. Our trainers come from training, consultancy and professional services backgrounds, bringing to the classroom not just academic knowledge but also practical experience and current updates on technology developments and the rapidly changing demands of the workplace.

There are currently 3 instructor-led, hands-on, IPv6 certification training courses for professionals and managers: Certified Network Engineer (Silver), Certified Network Engineer (Gold) and Certified Trainer (Gold). Course details and starting dates are available at www.progreso.com.sg.

About IPv6 Forum

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of worldwide leading Internet vendors, Industry Subject Matter Experts, Research & Education Networks, with a clear mission to advocate IPv6 by dramatically improving technology, market, and deployment user and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world.

To this end the IPv6 FORUM has:

•established an open, international FORUM of IPv6 expertise
•shared IPv6 knowledge and experience among members
•promoted new IPv6-based applications and global solutions
•promoted interoperable implementations of Ipv6 standards
•co-operated to achieve end-to-end quality of service
•resolved issues that create barriers to IPv6 deployment

The Internet Engineering Task Force has sole authority for IPv6 protocol standards. The IPv6 Forum reserves the right to develop IPv6 Deployment Guides to foster the operational use of IPv6. The IPv6 Forum is a non-profit organisation registered in Luxembourg since July 17, 1999.

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