Pakistan Educational Research Network Explained

The Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN) connects universities and research institutes through high-speed Internet bandwidth. The main purpose of this network is to facilitate researchers/students in sharing data and to coordinate with each other though video conferencing.Currently 60(Pakistani) educational institutes are interconnected; in the future the PERN-II project would further include 59 other educational institutes national-wide at speeds of up to 10 Gbps. Another Institute Future Pakistan International is determined to restore scientific culture in Pakistan.

List of universities interconnected

Notes

• Reference of table Connection summary
• Column heading of Cities: Islamabad Lahore and Karachi Represent "Location of Routers" placed in.

Membership and affiliation

• PERN (Pakistan Educational Research Network) is primary member of APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network) Reference
• PERN has mirror site of MIT OpenCourseWare^[1]

See also

• Higher Education Commission
• Pakistan Academy of Sciences
• Hussain Ebrahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry

External links

• PERN Official Website

Partners links:

• MIT OpenCourseWare Mirror site
• NTC developer of PERN
• Future Pakistan International

Notes and References

1. http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=90538 HEC Launches MIT Open Course Ware (MIT OCW) on PERN