Pakistan Educational Research Network

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 56 Pakistani educational institutes are interconnected; in the future the PERN-II project would further include 59 other educational institutes national-wide.

List of Universities Interconnected

Notes
* Reference of table [http://www.pern.edu.pk/home/network_diagrams/ConnectionSumm.htm Connection summery]
* 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) [http://www.apan.net/member/pk.html Reference ]
* PERN has mirror site of MIT OpenCourseWare, [ [http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=90538 HEC Launches MIT Open Course Ware (MIT OCW) on PERN] ]

PERN Architecture

References

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.pern.edu.pk PERN Official Website] Partners links:
* [http://mitocw.pern.edu.pk/ MIT OpenCourseWare Mirror site]
* [http://www.ntc.net.pk/ NTC developer of PERN]