Lanka Education and Research Network

The Lanka Education And Research Network is the NREN (National Research and Education Network) of Sri Lanka, which interconnects Educational and Research institutions across the country, and provide network related services to them.

We currently interconnect all of the UGC funded state universities, a number of public universities under other ministries and private universities, the University Grants Commission, the Ministry of Higher Education, and a number of national research institutions including the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Our network is an advanced network supporting IPv6 and multicast. It currently includes optical fiber links ranging from 34 Mbps to 10Mbps to most campuses, and 2 Mbps links to universities at distant locations where optical fiber is not available. Smaller institutions/ campuses are connected with links ranging from 2 Mbps to 128kbps.

We have redundant international connectivity through multiple operators. At present our international connectivity include a 130Mbps link to the commodity Internet and a 45Mbps link to the academic/research Internet through the TEIN3 network.

We also have a direct connection to SchoolNet, the network connecting secondary schools in Sri Lanka.