Announcement
On Friday 2nd April 2009 the following email was sent by Nimal Ratnayake announcing the connection of the Sri Lankan LEARN Network to the TEIN3 network.:
It is with great pleasure that I share with you the news of Lanka Education and Research Network(LEARN) getting connected to the TEIN3 network. The link was brought up on April 1, 2010.
This is a major milestone for LEARN, as this is the first time we are getting connected to the Academic Internet. Although LEARN has been in operation for almost two decades now, we only had access to commodity Internet so far.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank David West, George McLaughlin, Li Zhonghui and the TEIN3 NOC and all the others who were involved in making this a reality.
I would also like to mention the generous support given by Steve Huter of NSRC, and David Crowe of NERO, both from U of Oregon, who donated a router interface card for use with the link, and Michael Foley of the GDLN/World Bank who hand carried the card on his way to Sri Lanka.
The financial support of the European Commission which covers the bulk of our subscription is greatly appreciated.
Getting connected to the academic Internet would simply be unaffordable for us without their support.Nimal Ratnayake
Lanka Education and Reseach Network (LEARN)
Impact on Routes to US
The commodity Internet path is longer in terms of no of hops than the TEIN3 path, but slightly shorter in terms of latency, mainly because they go through Mumbai.