RST Forum has been seeing an influx of professionals travelling from Pune and other parts of Maharashtra to RST Forum in Mumbai, to become Networking & Security Experts. Going by the Forum's Mission of bringing industry experience & knowledge to IT Professionals thus providing them wings to explore greater heights in the Industry. RST Forum has brought industry skills to Pune by starting professional certification training centres in Shivaji Nagar - Pune

Currently Pune is the 7th ranking industrial metro of India. Pune has achieved a place in the Guinness book of world records for having the fastest urban growth rate. Pune "Detroit of India" is becoming more vibrant and is necessitating a spruced up infrastructure. Pune's glorious list of institutes includes Fergusson College, Symbiosis institutes, AFMC (Armed Forces Medical College), Pune Institute of Engg & Technology, SNDT Women's University and one of the 12 United World Colleges.

Pune City, has also attracted interest from the IT companies due to the IT Park being developed within the township. The government promoted Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park at Hinjewadi has attracted scores of infotech majors from around the world along with top Indian IT players like TCS, Infosys and Wipro having a major presence here. Privately promoted IT Parks are also big in number. Pune attracts 20 per cent of the total industrial investment in the country .

The goal of this forum is to encourage greater cooperation and collaboration amongst group of networking and IT Professionals by sharing information, resources, and experiences. To achieve its goal forum conducts Technology workshops, Technology update sessions, Trainings for industry certification, Technology advisory meet, Professionals meet for emerging technology discussions, etc.

RST Forum’s prime collaboration mechanism is providing comprehensive trainings on industry certifications from Cisco, Microsoft, and others. These trainings are conducted by industry working professionals who have extensive hands-on experience in designing and deploying solutions. These thorough hands-on trainings are provided with an aim to create skilled professional with real understanding of technology and its application. These working instructors and CCIE professionals make participants practice on exercises and case studies that reflect real-world situations, so skills developed by these training are immediately useable on the job. Forum’s Lab hosts high end fully populated Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Servers, etc. with Wi-Fi access to lab devices. This substantiates forums belief that “all taught in class should be proved, demonstrated and practiced by all participants.”

RST Forum also hosts web based forum for Certification and Technology support. This web based message system allows its users to ask, hundreds of technical support experts about their technology and certification problem. RST forum is a tight knit community of working professionals that provide timely help on technical queries, certification queries and solution design related queries. Answers to questions are much clearer and easier to find through RST forum when compared to newsgroup technical support discussions. RST Forums allows previously answered questions to be found instantly, saving the user and the support professional time.