P AKISTAN E DUCATION & R ESEARCH N ETWORK

1. PAKISTANEDUCATION&RESEARCHNETWORK PERN2 – Looking into the Future

2. An Introduction • An integral part of providing IT infrastructure to the overall education system • Launched in 2002 as part of IT Action Plan of Government of Pakistan. • Collaborative effort of GoP, NTC and PTCL • Designed, Operated and Maintained by National Telecom • Managed by Higher Education Commission • Based on communication medium variants, viz. OF (light), DRS(radio), DXX(copper), VSAT(satellite)

3. Initial Launch • Comprised of three Point of Presence PoP(s)/nodal points i.e. Islamabad, Lahore & Karachi. • Interconnectivity of 2x2 Mbps through existing National Fiber System. • 56 universities/institutions were aimed to initially connected to their respective PoP(s) at 128Kbps Intranet/Internet. • 8Mbps Internet bandwidth with distribution as 2Mbps at Islamabad & Lahore PoPs and 4Mbps Internet bandwidth on Karachi PoP.

4. First Upgrade – Sep. 2004 • Interfaces upgrade on the Core routers • Core bandwidth enhancement from 2x2 Mbps to 50x50 Mbps • Internet bandwidth enhanced from 8 Mbps to 155 Mbps • A minimum of 2 Mbps connectivity to each university depending upon the communication medium • International bandwidth distribution on the three PoPs as follow, • 65 Mbps on Islamabad PoP • 57 Mbps on Lahore PoP • 33 Mbps on Karachi PoP

5. First Three Years Development (2002-05)

6. Achievements • Fifty nine (59) public and private sector universities/institutes now connected. • Access to International bandwidth and interconnectivity of universities/institutes. • Public IP addressing to each institute. • Infrastructure for resource and knowledge sharing for various applications • Video Conferencing amongst connected institutes • Mirroring of MITOCW web site

8. Communication Media

10. Second Upgrade – Now Upgradation of Core and Last-Mile Connectivity While Redesigning PERN

11. Objectives • A high speed dedicated Educational Network for universities and higher learning institutions of Pakistan. • Provide state of the art True Infranet for education and research work to academic and research institutions of the country. • Rolling out new emerging technologies for today’s and future bandwidth hungry applications and research. • IPv6 enabled network • MPLS based routing/switching • Data transmission over DWDM • Achieving following for each segment of the network • Gigabit transmission speed • High level of data/information security • Resource sharing both in centralized as well as distributed manner

12. Objectives (contd.) • Availability of higher bandwidth at universities’ last mile to enable • Collaborative research • Knowledge sharing • Resource sharing • Distance Interactive learning • Video Conferencing • Addition of further 59 Public/ Private sector chartered universities/ degree awarding institutes for both Intranet and Internet services. • The reduction in recurring cost by increasing the number of PoPs.

13. Proposed Action Plans • Seven (07) Point of Presences (PoPs) for the Core • Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Quetta and Peshawar. • Three (03) additional PoPs are under consideration • Faisalabad, Sialkot, Muzaffarabad • PoPs will be created at public sector universities or HEC’s regional centers. • Provisioning a pair of dark fiber for the interconnectivity of the PoPs, initially at STM-64. • A total of 125 universities/ institutions will be provided connectivity to PERN. • Last mile connectivity of the universities in major cities through gigabit metro networks and metro network connectivity to the PERN2 PoPs.

14. Scale of Infrastructure Upgrade • Ten (10) Regional Access Giga PoPs across the country. • Gigabit Metro Ethernet rings over leased dark fiber in three (03) major cities of Pakistan. • Leased dark fiber long haul connectivity of more that 4500 Km. • More than 250 Km of Metro ring in each major city. • 10 GigE metro ring and STM-16/STM-64 for long haul connectivity. • Coverage to 90% of higher learning institutions. • Approx. 300,000 students, faculty members and researchers will be facilitated with the PERN2 services. • Three (03) data centers and a NOC will be established.

15. Next Three Years Development (2005-08)

16. PERN2 Rollout Plan

17. PERN2 Phasing • Phase-I • Metro Network and Giga PoP in ISB/RWP Sep. 2007 • Phase-II • Metro Network and Giga PoP in Seven (07) Cities Mar. 2008 • Phase-III • Long Haul connectivity between PoPs Mar. 2008 • Phase-IV • Data Centers and a NOC for PERN2 Jun. 2008 • Phase-V • International R&E Connectivity with NRENs Mar. 2008

19. PERN2 Long Haul Fiber Layout Map Distant Universities Link

20. Q&AThanks!

22. Distant Universities/Institutes to be terminated on Islamabad POP Return

23. Colleges And Campuses of Karachi Metro Area May be Connected To PERN2

24. Distant Universities / Institutes to be terminated on Hyderabad POP Return

25. Other Universities/Institutes of Hyderabad Metro Area May be Connected To PERN2 Return

26. Other Universities/Institutes of Quetta Metro Area May be Connected To PERN2 Return

27. Colleges And Campuses of Lahore Metro Area May be Connected To PERN2

28. Distant Universities/Institutes to be terminated on Lahore POP Return

29. Distant Universities / Institutes to be terminated on Multan POP Return

30. Other Universities/Institutes of Faisalabad Metro Area May be Connected To PERN2 Return

31. Other Universities/Institutes of Peshawar Metro Area May be Connected To PERN2

32. Distant Universities / Institutes to be terminated on Peshawar POP Return