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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. In 2002 PERN had 2Mbps backbone links between major cities. The current (Jan 2007) network design was put in place in 2005 and consists of three nodal points at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi interconnected by 50Mbps. Each PoP has international access. 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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More information can be found at http://nsrc.org/ASIA/LK/17-Oct-2006_Sri-Lanka-Internet-Status.pdf
UseFul Links
- Presentation "Quantifying the need for imrpoved performance for S. Asia", by Les Cottrell & Shahhryar Khan, at the Internet2 Planning Meeting: Enhancing REsearch & Education Connectivity to and within S. Asia, Arlington Virginia USA, April 26, 2007
- 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.