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PERN - Pakistan Education and Research Network is funded by the Pakistan Higher Education Committee (HEC) and is a nationwide educational intranet connecting premiere educational and research institutions of the country. The network provider for PERN is NTC. The network design consists of three nodal points at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi interconnected by 50Mbps. Educational institutions are connected by a minimum of 2Mbits/s. PERN is also trying to provide access platform for the interconnection of universities/educational institutions with the Virtual University.
All land based Internet connectivity is via the Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) in Karachi where the fibres come ashore. PIE in turn is managed by Pakistan Telecommunication Compant Limited (PTCL). PTCL has excess capacity on its long haul international fibers.
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