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In 2010, following a series of workshops and site visits, the team at SEECS/NUST and SLAC has worked with Pakistan’s Education and Research Network (PERN) and Pakistani Universities to put together an end-to-end (E2E) network monitoring infrastructure for PERN connected higher education sites. So far they have installed the PingER monitoring tools and started gathering data at 18 sites in Pakistan. In addition they are working on a further 8 monitoring sites. This includes 4 sites (SEECS/NIIT, COMSATS, PERN and NCP/Quaid-i-Azam) which have been in place for a longer time. Over the last year the number of monitoring host – remote host pairs (both in Pakistan) has increased from about 30 to over 220.
The figure below shows the main regions where the hosts are located and how the regions are connected by PERN: 
The difficulty of the installations has varied host to host. The technical installation has been simple and not resulted in delays. The delays between deciding to install a monitoring host and gathering measurements from the host have mostly been due to: machine availability; getting administrative approval within university; and delays in making the DNS record entry. The table below shows the history of the installations:
Monitoring Site | URLs | Installed (Month/year) | Ist Data Gathered (Month/year) | City | State | ||||||
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, NUST | monitor.niit.edu.pk | 1/2005 | 2/2005 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
COMSATS University | pinger.comsats.edu.pk | 2/2007 | 3/2007 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
Pakistan Education Research Network PERN, Islamabad | pinger.pern.edu.pk | 4/2007 | 5/2007 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
NCP, Quaid-e-Azam University | pinger-ncp.ncp.edu.pk | 4/2007 | 5/2007 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
UET at Lahore | pinger.uet.edu.pk | 7/2009 | 8/2009 | Lahore | Punjab | ||||||
International Islamic University at Islamabad | vle.iiu.edu.pk | 4/2010 | 4/2010 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
Lahore School of Economics | 111.68.102.40 | 4/2010 | 8/2010 | Lahore | Punjab | ||||||
University of Balochistan | pinger.uob.edu.pk | 4/2010 | 4/2010 | Quetta | Balochistan | ||||||
University of Arid Agriculture at Rawalpindi | pinger.uaar.edu.pk | 6/2010 | 9/2010 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
UET at Taxila | pinger.uettaxila.edu.pk | 6/2010 | 6/2010 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
Agriculture University of Peshawar | pinger.aup.edu.pk | 6/2010 | 6/2010 | Peshawar | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||||
UET at Peshawar | pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk | 6/2010 | 6/2010 | Peshawar | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||||
NED University of Engineering & Technology | npm.neduet.edu.pk | 8/2010 | 8/2010 | Karachi | Sindh | ||||||
Allama Iqbal Open University | pinger.aiou.edu.pk | 10/2010 | 11/2010 | Islamabad | Punjab | ||||||
Punjab University, ITC, Department | pinger-itc.pu.edu.pk | 10/2010 | 11/2010 | Lahore | Punjab | ||||||
National College of Arts | pinger.nca.edu.pk | 10/2010 | 12/2010 | Lahore | Punjab | ||||||
Hazara University at Mansehra | pinger.hu.edu.pk | 10/2010 | Peshawar | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
KUST at Kohat | pinger.kohat.edu.pk | 10/2010 | 12/2010 | Peshawar | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||||
FAST at Peshawar | pinger.pwr.nu.edu.pk | 10/2010 | 12/2010 | Peshawar | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||||
University of Science & Technology at Bannu | pinger.ustb.edu.pk | 10/2010 | Peshawar | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |||||||
FAST at Lahore | pinger.lhr.nu.edu.pk | 11/2010 | 12/2010 | Lahore | Punjab | ||||||
University of Sindh at jamshoro | pinger.usindh.edu.pk | 12/2010 | 12/2010 | Karachi | Sindh | ||||||
Isra University at Hyderabad | pinger.isra.edu.pk | 12/2010 | 12/2010 | Karachi | Sindh | ||||||
Lahore College for Women University | pinger.lcwu.edu.pk | 12/2010 | 12/2010 | Lahore | Punjab | ||||||
Pakistan Education Research Network PERN, Quetta | pingerqta.pern.edu.pk | 12/2010 | 12/2010 | Quetta | Balochistan |
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In addition work is in progress to install: BUITMS in Quetta, Bolochistan; Sind Agriculture University Tandojam in Karachi, Sind; NCEMB University in Punjab, Lahore; Virtual University Lahore, Ounjab; Air University in Islamabad, Punjab, Kinnaired College for Women in Lahore, Punjab.
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