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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
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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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Qaid-e-Azam University is connected through PERN and its ISP is NTC. The traceroute results (taken on 28th Feb 11:00 am from NIIT) showed that the link from PIE (Pakistan Internet Exchange) to PERN was congested.
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203203.99.50.201 (203.99.50.201) 0.587 ms 0.554 ms 0.512 ms 2 lo-0-bras1.dsl.net.pk (203.82.63.253) 73.298 ms 47.573 ms 47.993 ms 3 g9-12-iba.nayatel.pk (203.82.48.181) 48.001 ms 47.732 ms 47.867 ms 4 58-65-175-217.nayatel.pk (58.65.175.217) 50.030 ms 47.644 ms 48.548 ms 5 f0-gw3.nayatel.pk (58.65.166.250) 61.361 ms f1-gw3.nayatel.pk (58.65.166.254) 49.751 ms f0-gw3.nayatel.pk (58.65.166.250) 49.473 ms 6 rwp44.pie.net.pk (202.125.155.93) 50.626 ms 58.595 ms 49.983 ms 7 rwp44.pie.net.pk (202.125.148.167) 52.027 ms 49.698 ms 49.898 ms 8 perne3-I.rwp44d1.pie.net.pk (202.125.155.66) 452.197 ms 471.535 ms 458.162 ms 9 Pernisb-II.ntc.net.pk (202.83.173.236) 468.185 ms * 471.782 ms 10 192.168.2.2 (192.168.2.2) 472.025 ms 479.785 ms 480.237 ms 11 * ntc.net.pk (202.83.169.195) 475.816 ms 497.043 ms |
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