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Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka.

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka.

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka.

APAN56 to be held in Colombo

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Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka. A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a specialized Internet Service Provider (ISP) dedicated to support the needs of the research and education communities within a country, and it is distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects, in addition to providing many other services.

Linux is known to be the most assential platform of a campus IT infrastructure. Most of the IT service applications such as web, email, identity management, LMS, Library systems, etc have to be run on Linux to get their best performance. Being it is free opensource, Linux and the most of it softwares/tools have become only the solution for state accadamic institutions which have to be run on a very low budget.

LEARN, Lanka Education and Research Network of Sri Lanka (NREN) in Sri Lanka has joined hands with ICE (Indonesia Cyber Education institute) to provide online educational courses free of charge for the undergraduate students of Sri Lanka. This is a tremendous opportunity for Sri Lankan undergraduates who are willing to enhance their knowledge in subject areas or seek new knowledge. This is totally a free opportunity available for a limited number of students.

Proposed New Fire Exit, New Staircase and New Entrance for Library Building and Space Allocated for LEARN Office, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya - 2022

Supply of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to Lanka Education and Research Network- 2022

Lanka Education and Research Network hereby request quotations for Supply of a Minimum 200 of

Supply of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to Lanka Education and Research Network- 2022

Lanka Education and Research Network hereby request quotations for Supply of a Minimum 200 of

Optimizing network performance is a key part of tuning up a campus network. The metrics of the network performance include latency, packet loss, jitter, bandwidth, and throughput. The figures can be measured regularly or occasionally where your network perform as desired is extremely important. Such measurements should further help you to detect device/service overloading, network bottle-necks, flooding and any unusual behaviours. 

Proposed New Fire Exit, New Staircase, and New Entrance for Library Building and Space Allocated for LEARN Office, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya - 2022

The workshop targeting institutional network administrators is to examine the today's essentials of a campus network. It should build up the knowledge needed for IPv6 capability, building none blocking paths linking cloud services, monitoring and performance tuning of a campus network.

The knowledge gained from the training should help network administrator to revisit their network topology to do necessory adjustment for its best use while implementing a monitoring/troubleshooting tool set.

The program targets the network/systems engineers from LEARN member institutions

LEARN is seeking offers for the provision, delivery, installation, and support of Video Conferencing Devices and Accessories. We are inviting quotations for the proposed hardware equipment in the RFQ.

RFQ

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes and research institutes in Sri Lanka, and provide network related services to them.

Applications are hereby invited from citizens of Sri Lanka for a Management Trainee (Intern) position in our office located at the University of Peradeniya. This position is offered only for 6 months.

Job Description:

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka. A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a specialized Internet Service Provider (ISP) dedicated to support the needs of the research and education communities within a country, and it is distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects, in addition to providing many other services.

You can relax a bit, when your campus network and its services running properly, but fear of an unexpected failure somewhere is always on your head. Hence keeping eye on every devices and application services around the clock could be very hard. A well setup tool set could ping you when something went wrong.

The workshop will train you, how you could setup a free open source monitoring tool set to monitor your network and its services while alerting you when something went wrong.

Detail here

Assistant Manager – Human Resources & Administration

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking-related services. Applications are hereby invited from citizens of Sri Lanka for the Assistant Manager – Human Resources & Administration post in our office located at the University of Peradeniya.

LEARN Internship Opportunity for Undergraduates (two positions)

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes and research institutes in Sri Lanka, and provide networking related services to them. Applications are hereby invited from the relevant undergraduates of LEARN member institutions for their internship of their industrial training.i

As you aware Zoom is a great platform for discussions and also is best for small groups when everyone can meet at the same time. We call it as synchronous meetings.

Is Zoom best for presentations and lectures for large group and also when everyone has a different schedule ?. Such meetings are known as asynchronous meetings ?. On this aspect, Kultura is one of the top.

Accessing services through the LEARN Identity Access Federation (LIAF) should be familiar to everybody. The way that you access the LEARN Zoom service is over the LIAF. Similarly, there are quite lot of R&E services around the world that you can access them over LIAF using your institutional credentials. The infrastructure required for your institution to get access to those services while being a member of LIAF should already be in place.

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes and research institutes in Sri Lanka, and provide networking related services to them. Applications are hereby invited from citizens of Sri Lanka for the Data Engineer post in our office located in the University of Peradeniya.

Digital Conferencing Facility (Zoom) received from BDREN Facilitating Distance Learning using Digital Conferencing Facility (fDLuDCf) of Asi@connect project provides enterprise grade video conferencing facility that you can use for the regular meetings, conferences and distance learning/education. LEARN provides  Zoom Pro accounts for the member institutes that allows them to schedule/manage online meetings.

LEARN provide easy access to different User Applications via academic networking. To introduce some of them to the end users, LEARN will be hosting a two hour webinar for free of charge detailed are as follows,

Topic: Online Seminar on R&E Tools and Applications powered by LEARN

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is proud to host more than 100 locations around Sri Lanka with high-speed academic and research network hotspots supporting eduroam. LEARN has taken this initiative to promote global wi-fi roaming to Sri Lankan R&E community and it will allow any eduroam user to get connected to LEARN from any of these hotspots free of charge. All costs associated with this will be bared by LEARN itself and the global R&E community can get the benefit of accessing network free around the country.

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking related services to them. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the companies act of Sri Lanka.

Get your lifelong Identity to access many educational services around the world.

The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking related services to them. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the companies act of Sri Lanka.

Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide network-related services. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the Companies Act of Sri Lanka.

Applications are hereby called from citizens of Sri Lanka for the following position in our office located at the University of Peradeniya.

Secretary / Personal Assistant

Job description:

Zoom has unexpectedly become one of the most essential service for day to day activities of everybody, to have  online meetings, virtual classes (Webinars). Some of the main campuses started conducting their academic activities using Zoom while the use of Zoom rapidly increasing. 

LEARN pays Zoom to provide the service free of charge for the teachers and the students of the LEARN member institutions. You can have meetings and conduct lectures from your home using your own Internet connection.

With the spread of COVID-19, Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is taking active measures to reduce the risks to the staff while maintaining services to the NRENto the National Research and Education Network (NREN) community and provide uninterrupted connectivity to students, and academic, research and supportive staff of research and education institutions in Sri Lanka.

In an emerging academic network, having an identity for each user with a proper identity management is a crucial need, since there are numerous applications around the globe that will enable academics to ease their research and education activities. LEARN Identity Access Federation (LIAF) is to support world-wide academic services through eduGAIN and services introduced by LEARN itself.

eduVPN is a VPN service provided for the international research and education community. It aims to offer both secure access to campus networks as well as the ability to be safer when using the Internet when eduroam is not available and you are relying on insecure WiFi networks to connect. The essential eduVPN user experience should be: "open your laptop and be securely online".

The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN)  has crossed another milestone in the history by completing 30 years of its establishment in 1989. LEARN will be celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 07th of October 2019 in Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo.

The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking related services to them. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the companies act of Sri Lanka.

Applications are hereby invited from citizens of Sri Lanka for the following post in our office located in University of Peradeniya.

5 Days IPv6 workshop is supported by Asi@Connect funded the project called uplifting resources to deploy IPv6, DNS/DNSSEC, and monitoring of the network performance and its security, under TEIN.

More detail at https://ipv6.nuol.edu.la/

LEARN organizes half day workshop on "Facilitating Digital Conference Service to LEARN R&E Community" targeting faculty and researches in faculty/institutional level. LEARN effort is to make R&E community aware of use of Digital Conferencing in R&E.

LEARN organizes one day seminar on "Facilitating Digital Conference Service to LEARN R&E Community" targeting IT Technical staff of LEARN member institutions. The target group is Systems/Network/LMS administrator from LEARN member institutions.

Learn Identity Access Federation

Digital identity in R&E cyber space is about persons official data including his username and the password stored in computer database. The database is known as an Identity Database. Each R&E institute is expected to maintain an identity database of its staff (and students).

The second event (1st Train the Trainers workshop) of Facilitating Distance Learning using Digital Conferencing Facility of Asi@Connect project awarded to BdREN is going to be hosted by Lanka Education and Research Network in Negambo Sri Lanka. 

The workshop conducted by LEARN sponsored by DMS Electronics (pvt) Ltd with the support of their key partners is going to provide the best practices to properly setting up an institutional network with all its essential to monitor, troubleshoot, manage and secure. It includes network design/implementation, core layer and distribution layer configuration, NAT/fire-walling and monitoring/management.  

The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking related services to them. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the companies act of Sri Lanka.

Applications are hereby invited from citizens of Sri Lanka for the following post in our office located in University of Peradeniya.

Annual NOC meeting 2018 which is going to be held in the middle of December, is to review the progress you have made on deployment of Eduroam, IPv6, proper Identity stores in your campus. The meeting includes progress review, a hands-on workshop on advance use of pfSense for institutional fire-walling and visualization of inbound/outbound traffic and explanation of the procedure to register your identity provider with the LEARN identity federation.

The whole program targets the most senior network/systems engineers from LEARN member institutions

The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education institutes, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking related services to them. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the companies act of Sri Lanka.

Applications are hereby invited from citizens of Sri Lanka for the following post in our office located in University of Peradeniya.

The Network Security Workshop focuses on day to day activities and system components to provide comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience allowing you to gain valuable experience in network security best common practices, tools and techniques. Participants will be able to examine the key concepts, protocols and the policies involved in establishing and maintaining security for a network, and building an understanding and familiarity with their operation.

India is to connect NKN to research and education networks of SAARC nations; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Pakistan is the only SAARC nation that has been left out of this initiative.

The 1Gps link to LEARN is going to be inaugurated on 15th January 2018.

SingAREN hosted a launch event on 1 December 2017 for the announcement of the 100G circuit connecting Singapore to Japan via Hong Kong.

The link enables the completion of the Asia Pacific Ring (APR) across the Pacific between Asia and North America, to facilitate advanced research and education collaboration across the Pacific Ocean.

SingAREN's international and local partners witnessed this special occasion.

Pls refer to the below article for details:

“Launch of the First 100G International Research & Education Link in Asia,  1 Dec 2017”

Technical Assistance Center (TAC) of LEARN provides engineering assistance to its member institutes. The main objective of this service is to help the member institutes who are not qualified to practically implement their services. Therefore, LEARN has started this remote engineering assistance service namely LEARN TAC to facilitate its members.

The inaugural LKNOG Conference was held on 20 October 2017 at the Galle Face Hotel. Over 100 network operations professionals representing ISPs, telecommunication service providers, universities, and public and private sector organizations attended the event. The program covered topics including cybersecurity, IPv6, network monitoring and measurements, DNS security, Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), cloud technology, next-generation wireless technology, the Internet of Things, and number resources and policies.

LEARN had two workshops recently,
1. Eduroam workshop
2. Deployment of IPv6 in Campus network workshop

NOC meeting 2017 (01 day) is to review the progress you have made and to share your experience of above two. Each institute are expected to do a 10 minute presentation of the same.

By definition, the network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager, SMS or other alarms. LEARN believe that no institute can run a better network without having a monitoring system. It is a basic requirement for every institute to have a monitoring system.

On the other hand system admin should be able to constanly measure the real network bandwidth and it performance to make sure that the each segments of network has no bottle necks.

The two days workshop covers all essentials of network monitoring and measurement needed in a Campus network.

Venue: Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya
Duration: 3 days
Class size: 60

Asi@Connect local launch is a major milestone for LEARN Network.

Asi@Connect provides high-quality, congestion-free network access to academic and research institutions worldwide. This connectivity is provided free of charge to all institutions connected to the LEARN network.

This is a good opportunity to bring up the Network Researchers, officials of Sri Lankan Government, delegates from the European Union, the Korean Government and the LEARN community (State universities and research and education institutes) to one stage.

Objectives of the Local Launch

• Announce to the policy makers, and R&E network community about the Asi@Connect project and how LEARN is involved in the same.
• To make the LEARN member institutions and researchers aware of the Asi@Connect project and its benefits
• To make the researchers get involve and utilize the project resources and funds

Host by
LANKA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK
20th JUNE 2017
at Hilton, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Limited number of Seats are available

Register Now !

Please contact Mr. Dinesh Gunawardena on +772 228 075 (dinesh@learn.ac.lk)

Event Agenda

Announcement from APAN General Manager

Dear Friends

The Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN, www.apan.net) holds two large meetings every year, on the development and use of National Research and Education Networks (NREN), to support research, education and benefits to society.

For over twenty years APAN has supported a wide range of interests around NRENs. It has active working groups in a range of application, technology and network engineering areas, including Network Security, Identity and Access Management, IPv6, Cloud services, Telemedicine, e-Culture, Agriculture, Earth Monitoring, Network Engineering, Education, Disaster Mitigation, Internet of Things, and others (https://apan.net/wg ) . These working groups foster international collaboration and many partnerships have emerged from them.

The next APAN Meeting (#44) will be held in Dalian, China, over the week 27 August – 1 September 2017. (http://apan.net/meetings/apan44/)

The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Sri Lanka. We interconnect universities, other higher education, and research institutes in Sri Lanka and provide networking related services to them. We are a company limited by guarantee (association) registered under the companies act of Sri Lanka.

LEARN Technical Assistance Center (TAC) is to provide remote engineering assistance in both networking and system administration to it member institutions.

Applications are hereby invited from system/network engineers of LEARN member institutes who has shown active involvement in development of his campus network , for the following post in our office located at the University of Peradeniya.

Network/Systems Engineer

Job Description:
Responsible for providing assistance in configuration of network devices and servers, implementation of network monitoring system, network design, preparation of technical specifications, technical evaluation, implementation of new network services and troubleshooting network and its services.

Qualification and Experience:

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of an Operating System specifically like in Linux flavor (Ubunutu, Debian, CentOS, etc) is much easier to learn than the other none-GUI interfaces, and it can serve as a starting point for learning the system. For non-programmers, the GUI is the only interface available. The GUI is also much easier to use than the programmatic interfaces, since it is easier to point-and-click on buttons than it is to write and debug code.

However, when you came to deal with much customizable application usually used for network services specifically for service running on research and education networks, you may not longer survive with pointing-and-clicking on buttons on attractive GUI. One of the major disadvantages of using any GUI is that if it does not have the functionality to do what you want it to do, then you are simply stuck. Therefore you must have to look what is happening deep inside or behind what you have seen in a nice GUI.

LEARN become bigger and bigger, network security has become one of the most important factor for the company to seriously consider. Security incidents are almost everyday. Competency to handle them is vital.

LEARN is going to support 30 engineers from its member institutions to participate in APNIC 42 Network Security Workshop and the Conference from 28th September to 5th October. The trained engineers will then be able to efficiently handle day to day security incidents while strengthening their campus network security.

Further details about the APNIC 42 Conference can be found on the conference website: https://conference.apnic.net/42

List of Participants

1. WP Weerasihghe, University of Colombo
2. Vishwajith Mapa, University of Colombo School of Computing
3. Kanchana Susantha Senanayake, Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
4. Buddhima Munasinghe, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo
5. Nadeesha Ranaweera Arachchi, University of Moratuwa
6. DIK Solangaarachchi, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya
7. APHP Gunasekara, Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurweda Institute

Over 200 local and international Internet specialists will converge in Colombo in October for the APNIC 42 Conference, at the Hilton Colombo.

Running from 3 – 5 October, the conference is one of the Asia Pacific’s most important Internet events and is supported by local hosts Sri Lanka CERT|CC, as well as ICTA, LEARN, and CSSL.

Staff from governmental organizations, research and educational institutions, Internet service providers, data centres, Internet Exchange Points and online content providers from across the Asia Pacific will attend the three-day conference.

Internationally renowned speakers include Zaid Ali Kahn from LinkedIn, Internet Hall of Fame member Geoff Huston, Farsight Security's Merike Kaeo, Anurag Bhatia from Hurricane Electric, and many more. Presentations will cover topics such as Internet security, the latest in internet infrastructure technologies and operations, women in ICT and more.

The event will be sponsored by DMS Electronics (Pvt) Ltd., Hewlett-Packard, and Aruba Networks. Information Technology Center this time also join hand with LEARN to host this event at the IT Center of University of Peradeniya.

In this three days annual NOC meeting, network engineers are going to present NOC updates since last NOC meeting 2014. They may share the knowledge and experience while presenting current status of their local network and its services, successful stories and future development plans.

The working group formed at the last meeting for the deployment of IPv6 and VOIP will meet again to evaluate the progress they have made so fay. Any issues can be discussed. Deployment of eduroam throughout the LEARN member institutions will be considered.

ION Conference will be co-located with SANOG 25 and taking place on 18th January 2015 in Amaya Hills Hotel, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

The twenty fifth South Asia Network Operators Group (SANOG) conference will be hosted by LEARN in Kandy, Sri Lanka on 16th to 24th January 2015 in collaboration with Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya with the support of University of Peradeniya.

This will be the forth time a SANOG event is hosted in Sri Lanka and it has been hosted twice by LEARN. For the third time it was hosted again by LEARN in January 2011 in Colombo with the support of .LK

Nominations from LEARN member Institutes

LEARN member institutions may send any number of nominations by giving a prioritized list. LEARN shall allocate sheets depends on the size of the class rooms. The local registration fee can be seen at the SANOG website. LEARN shall provide 20% discount for LEARN member institutions on FULL registration.

LEARN Fellowship Program for SANOG 25

ISOC monthly guest lecture on "Taking ICT to Society" will be held on 31st May 2014 at 4.00pm at Information Technology Center (Seminar room), University of Peradeniya. The event is organized by Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter with the support of LEARN and it is sponsored by LEARN.

All are invited

The first day of the workshop will be for the Annual NOC meeting of network engineers to meet together and then share the knowledge and experience. Engineers will present status of their local network, its services, successful stories and future development plans.

At this event, a working group will be created to work on Voice Over IP and IPv6 for the deployment of VOIP and IPV6 in LEARN Institutes.

The workshop which will be conducted together with Information Technology Center will train system administrators/engineers of LEARN member institutions to provide them better understanding of best practices of design a campus network apart from configuration of access layer, distribution layer and core layer devices. The participant will design a sample campus network at the LAB and configure it to connect to LEARN VPLS and then to commodity Internet and Academic Internet. Access control to improver the security level and network measurement and troubleshooting to raise the quality of service will also be covered.

It will be a new experience for students, undergraduates, researches and academic/non academic staff of LEARN member institutions to have fast Internet access. It is an another major milestone for LEARN to go for Gibabit Internet access. The current Internet access bandwidth (300Mbps) has been upgraded to 1.65Gbps with effect from 14th August 2013 and it is 1.8Gbps during night.

This allows LEARN to offer 4 times as present dedicated Internet access bandwidth to all its members provided that their local link capacity is sufficient enough to occupy the new bandwidth. Apart from Internet access bandwidth LEARN has upgraded most of 10Mbps local links to 20Mbps and all 34Mbps local links to 100Mbps.

New Internet access bandwidth of each institute is as follows

It is our pleasure to announce a workshop to be conducted by LEARN after long time as a kick-off for a series of workshop we are planing to do. The first workshop is going to be conducted as a joint program with the Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya.

The intention of this workshop is to train technical officers and junior system administrators/engineers of LEARN member institutions on basics of networking engineering and network troubleshooting. The hands-on activity will allow them to experience common network technologies and its troubleshooting. This training will help participants to troubleshoot their home network and to improve the quality of service provided to the respective institution, and also to support LEARN to properly render its services to the end users.

Furthermore, we shall attempt to create a forum of technical persons of LEARN member institutions to improve the collaboration.

Venue: Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya
Duration: 2 days
Class size: 30
Target group: technical officers and junior system administrators/engineers from LEARN member institutions

The office and the Network Operations Center of LEARN moved to a new location at Information Technology Center, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya. It was declared open on 31 December 2012. Prof. A. Senaratne, Vice-Chancellor, University Of Peradeniya, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.

Prof. H. Abeygunawardena, Chairman/LEARN, Prof. K. M. Liyanage, Director/IT Centre, Prof. K. S. Walgama, Chief Executive Officer/LEARN, Prof. H. B. S. Ariyaratne, Dean/Veterinary Medicine & Animal Science, Mr. M. D. Ganthune, Bursar, Mr. N. S. Weerakoon , Director/LEARN, Mr. N. J. M. Silva, Director/LEARN were at the Opening Ceremony.

LEARN will be hosting the 34th meeting of the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo from August 25 to August 29, 2012.

This 5-day event will highlight tutorials, oral presentations and demonstrations covering advanced network technologies and applications. There will be plenty of opportunities to interact with researchers and practitioners from Asia Pacific and beyond during this meeting.

The APAN 34th programme spans network and application technologies as well as case studies of advanced networking in areas such as:

• Application: Medical, High Definition TV, Middleware, e-Culture and Agriculture.
• Technology: IPv6, Network Security, Future Internet Testbed, Unified Communications and Sensor Networks.

The program of this event will consist of a number of workshops/tutorials and meetings of working groups.

Workshops/Tutorials

• Network Research Workshop
• Network Security Workshop
• Unified Communications Workshop

Working group meetings

• Agriculture
• eCulture
• Future Internet
• IPv6
• MiddleWare
• Medical
  

LEARN is joining hands with Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL), ISOC Sri Lanka Chapter and ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) in facilitating an IPv6 test flight for local Internet Service Providers on 8th of June 2011 to mark the World IPv6 day. The main page is hosted at LEARN and replicated at http://www.isoc.lk/ipv6drill.

The seventh video-conference event of the SERENE video conference series was a historic event in that it was the first South Asian Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) event to be bridged through an MCU in South Asia.

The video conference was was bridged through the LEARN MCU in Colombo operated from the LEARN Network Operations Center in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and where possible the sites were connected through the TEIN3 links at between 1.5 and 4 Mbps using High Definition (HD) codecs and cameras. This was a first for LEARN and a first for GDLN in South Asia, and it demonstrated to the participants the benefits of using NRENs and regional REN links for improving the quality of interactivity of international discussions.

Quoted below are some comments from the participants about the quality of the experience:

Recently, video conferencing facilities of LEARN received a major upgrade through the financial support of the IRQUE project, a World Bank assisted project.

Under this upgrade, LEARN received a state of the art Video Conferencing Bridge (MCU) which enables connection of twelve sites with high-definition video (HD -720p). Universities of Colombo, Kelaniya, Moratuwa, Ruhuna, Sri Jayewardenapura, Visual & Performing Arts, Uva Wellassa, and Wayamba, LEARN Office in Kandy, and the IRQUE Project Office in Nugegoda also received high-definition video conferencing units and 40" LCD displays.

The new facilities supplement the high-definition video conferencing facilities previously provided to the universities of Eastern, Jaffna, Peradeniya, Sabaragamuwa, South Eastern, the UGC and the Ministry of Higher Education, also under the financial support of the IRQUE Project.

The new facilities will enhance activities such as remote teaching and remote participation at meetings, saving not only fuel, but also time that would otherwise be wasted in traveling.

On April 22, 2010, the office and the Network Operations Center of LEARN moved to a new location at 538/8 Sieble Place, Peradeniya Road, Kandy. Until now the staff of LEARN operated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. The move was necessary to accommodate the staff of LEARN and new facilities.

The location of the new office is shown in the map below.

The much anticipated connectivity to the Academic Internet through the TEIN3 network was established on April 1, 2010. LEARN is now connected by an IPLC (International Private Leased Circuit) of bandwidth 45Mbps to the Mumbai POP of the TEIN3 network.

TEIN3 connectivity provides high-quality, congestion-free network access to academic and research institutions worldwide. This connectivity is provided free of charge to all institutions connected to the LEARN network.

This is a major milestone for LEARN, as this is our first link to the Academic Internet as well as our first direct international link. Although LEARN has been in operation for approximately two decades, up to now we were only connected to the commodity Internet through local commercial Internet service providers.