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On February during my 2006 trip to Pakistan I Les Cottrell had a face-to-face meeting with Atta-ur-Rahman Federal Minister/Chairman, Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan and advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Science and Technology. Together with Atta was Sohail Naqvi Executive Director, (Ex-Officio Federal Secretary), HEC.
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Over tea and biscuits using my his laptop I Les Cottrell presented to them Atta and Sohail the results from PingER measurements of networking in Pakistan. The main conclusion I presented was that though the Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) was well provisioned with 155 Mbits/sec links between the major cities, the university connections to PERN (the last mile) varied in capacity but were all under 2Mbits/s. Consequently these links were badly congested resulting in large jitter and packet loss that was observed by PingER. Some of these results were published and presented at a conference in India taht I attended on the way to Pakistan
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