Abbreviation LEARN Founded at Moratuwa | Formation 1992 Legal status company | |
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Type Governmental organization-Academic computer network organisation | ||
The Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN), formerly the Lanka Experimental Academic and Research Network, is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within Sri Lanka. The history of the internet in Sri Lanka began with the launch of the 'Lanka Education and Research Network' (LEARN) in 1992. The first message was sent over LEARN was from the University of Moratuwa to the University of Colombo. LEARN currently connects all of the UGC funded Sri Lankan national universities, a number of public universities, higher education institutes under other ministries, the University Grants Commission, the Ministry of Higher Education, and six national research institutions. It is a private company, owned by fourteen national universities including the UGC since 2009. According to University Grants Commission, its international connectivity include a 7Gbps bandwidth to the commodity internet and a 2.5Gbps link to Singapore. It also connects the academic, world research internet through the TEIN4 network, SingAREN, Intenet2 and Google. LEARN is Sri Lankan's National Research and Education Network (NREN) and forms the Sri Lankan component of the global advanced Research and Education Internet network.
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Current Members
Current members of LEARN include 23 education and 6 research institutions. The full list of current members is shown below.