The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, in partnership with Africa Network Information Centre, is organising a four-day international workshop on IPv6 in Lagos.
Participation at the workshop are targeted at network engineers in the African Telecoms industry including the academics, ATCON said in a statement on Friday.
Resource persons for this workshop are international experts coming from outside Nigeria.
The workshop is expected to provide impetus for Nigerian Network operators to migrate from IPV4 to IPV6 with its attendant advantages.
The forum, bill to hold from June 18 to June 21, will also provide training for engineers that manage networks, which will help to tackle the problem of quality of service in the telecommunications industry.
ATCON explained in the statement, "This will provide Nigerian network engineers with the required knowledge to compete favourably with their counterparts in the global market.
"It will 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 telecoms industry, and boost the productivity level of our network engineers."
