1. Roshan G. Ragel, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer
The 2nd Governors’ Meeting & Project Meeting - 28 August 2017
NREN Update - Sri Lanka
Roshan G. Ragel, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer

2. Preamble

3. Association
Formulated to establish Lanka Education And Research Network (LEARN), the NREN (National Research and Education Network) of Sri Lanka, as a Limited Guarantee Company.
Membership
16 Full Members
22 Associated and Affiliated Members
The Operation of LEARN is Governed by the Articles of Association of LEARN (2009).

4. Membership
University Grants Commission (UGC) & Universities under the University Act (16, 1978)
Institutes for Higher Learning under University Act
R&D institutes coming under Govt. Ministries
Any other Research or Educational Institute or Organization

5. Network Status

6. Local Links (via SLT) Total of 73 connections
Total local link (VPLS) subscription by members is 8.4 Gbps
Highest local link bandwidth is 1Gbps
University of Peradeniya
University of Moratuwa
Lowest local link bandwidth is 5 Mbps
All 16 Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education (SLIATE) institutes
All are Optical Fiber Links

7. Academic and Commodity Internet (1)
LEARN subscription
Dialog - 5 Gbps (Commodity Internet Access - IA)
Dialog Gbps (STM/16)
TIEN - 1 Gbps
Google Node - 10 Gbps
Internet 2 & SingAREN - 10 Gbps to Singapore Open Exchange (SOE)
Sri Lanka Telecom - 2 Gbps (IA)
10 Gbps link between LEARN VPLS at SLT and Dialog IDC
Total = 8.5 Gbps commodity and 1 Gbps Academic

8. Academic and Commodity Internet (2)
Member subscriptions
Total by all the connections Gbps (/9.5 Gbps = ~65%)
Current peak utilization Gbps (/9.5 Gbps = ~53%)
Some institutions are under subscribed
Largest institutional subscription is 750 Mbps IA
Smallest institutional subscription is 5 Mbps IA

9. Subscription and Member Utilization

10. Package Breakdown

11. Global Google Cache Node
Caches Google and YouTube content (serving this content from inside our network)
Freely available for our member institutions
Placed at the Dialog IDC
Recent Upgrade with Higher capacity hardware
Serving 2.5 Gbps at peak
Gives 2 Gbps caching benefit to the LEARN community

12. What’s New?

13. TAC (Technical Assistance Center) Service
Domain to be addressed:
Assistance to develop institutional infrastructure.
Design networks, provide technical specifications for them to prepare tender Documents.
Remote configuration of network devices and servers which are used for network services (NAT, proxy, , DNS, VOIP, Eduroam, IPv6 Deployment, monitoring)
Assistance to handle security incidents.
Recruitment of a Network/System Engineer for LEARN TAC is completed

14. Hosted an L-root Instance
A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet
L-root server is hosted by ICANN (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre)
LEARN is now hosting the only L-root server in Sri Lanka on a request from ICANN

15. Backup (Redundant) Links
Alternative links to the existing LEARN local links
Will be useful when there are unexpected interrupts in the regular network
First phase is to implement it on 4 member institutions to a charge
University of Moratuwa
University of Kelaniya
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
University of Peradeniya
The request to the implementation is already sent to the supplier

16. Cloud Services Cloud services for resource requirements of members
LEARN is proposing to provide cloud services to its members to support
disaster recovery
hosting services and
high performance computing requirements
The proposal is for LEARN hosting and managing the servers in a data centre
As of now, we have received some proposals from vendors and we are studying the same
Training/internship via Project

17. Asi@Connect Local Launch

18. Asi@Connect Local Launch

19. Thank You!