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  At present there is not an Academic or Research network in Bangladesh. In the beginning of 1996, they first thought to set up an academic and research network in Bangladesh named BERNET (Bangladesh Education  and Research Network). The network started in mid 1998 with limited connectivity. You can find the topological map of BERNET at
http://www.ugc.org/bernet.htm^{Image Removed}
 But in 2003 they gave it up. The reasons, according are:
1. It is not easy to get country wide data connectivity available in our country.
2. Only BTTB (Bangladesh Telephone & Telegraph Board) provides DDN service for data network, but does not cover the whole country and this is not cost effective for the academic and research institutions.
3. There are not resource or content developed by the academic or research institutions of Bangladesh that can be used by others.
4. Most of the decision makers of every sectors of Bangladesh solely think of Internet bandwidth and are not aware of Intranet. So wheneverone try to talk about the academic network, the decisions are restricted to Internet Bandwidth.

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HostSearcher found 13 unique www hosts out of  182 discovered by Google in the ac.lk domain. All of these had RTT's < 400ms.

More information can be found at http://nsrc.org/ASIA/LK/17-Oct-2006_Sri-Lanka-Internet-Status.pdf&nbsp^{Image Added};

Comparison of TCP Throughput with Digital Access Index

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