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The Lanka Education And Research Network (LEARN), started in 1990, is the NREN (National Research and Education Network) of Sri Lanka. LEARN is a member of APAN and interconnects 24 sites in Sri Lanka with link speeds ranging from 128kbps to multiple 2Mbps links. The establishment of 2Mbps links to 8 sites with the financial support of Sida/SAREC has been a major milestone in this path. LEARN is currently in the process of upgrading the link bandwidths to 16 of its sites to 10Mbps over optical fiber. Several links have already been upgraded, and the remaining links will be upgraded by June 2007. This upgrade was made possible with the World Bank funded IRQUE Project providing funds for 10 of the 16 links.
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More information can be found at http://nsrc.org/ASIA/LK/17-Oct-2006_Sri-Lanka-Internet-Status.pdf
UseFul Links
- MOSAIC The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project They have done case studies on Internet for almost 30 countries including India and Pakistan. Although some of them are not recent, but some of the information here may be still relavent. http://mosaic.unomaha.edu/gdi.html
- http://www.telegeography.com/
- http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
- http://www.apdip.net/projects/dig-rev/info/
- http://www.nationmaster.com/cat/int-internet
- The American Physical Society (APS) Forum on International Physics (FIP) has organized two sessions on the Bridging the Digital Divide at the April 14-17 2007 meeting in Jacksonville, Florida.