About Us

The National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6) was established by the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communication (MEWC), Malaysia in March 2005 . It serves as the National Centre for IPv6 research, human resource development and monitoring of IPv6 development for Malaysia. As part of its mission, NAv6 plans and implements appropriate programs in order for Malaysia to be an IPv6 enabled nation by 2010.

The Malaysian government has entrusted NAv6 with to develop the National IPv6 Roadmap . The Roadmap will be the blue print that will be used by the country to implement the migration of its network to IPv6. The Roadmap was completed and submitted to the government in March 2008.

NAv6 started working with two government agencies in their pilot implementation of IPv6 networks in early 2008. The rest of the agencies will also migrate to IPv6 networks in accordance with the Roadmap.

On human resource development for IPv6, the CNE6 and CNP6 courses was developed by Nav6. We started to conduct these certfication training courses in 2006 to provide comprehensive knowledge and skills on IPv6. These structure courses are endorsed by the Global IPv6 Forum which Nav6 or its partner will conduct at least once every quarter.

In addition to training and IPv6 consultancy, NAv6 also provides other services such as network security audits for ISPs and collaboration on information technology related research and development.

The main focus of the NAv6 is the promotion of IPv6 and support government agencies and other organizations in Malaysia and also the Asean region in their migration to IPv6.

"To lead Malaysia in next generation's technology advancement"

History

Network Research Group (NRG), a pioneer research group in the area of Advanced Computer Networks was established under the School of Computer Sciences in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang in 1992.

NRGs areas of focus include Real Time Multimedia Communication, Network Monitoring, IPv6, Satellite Communication, Wireless, Network Security, and Mobile Technologies.

In March 2005, Network Research Group (NRG), of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, was appointed as the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence(NAv6) by the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications (MEWC) Malaysia, in recognition of their role in IPv6 activities. NAv6 was officially launched on 18 March 2005 by Y. Bhg. Datuk Dr. Halim Shafie, Secretary General, MEWC Malaysia, at USM.