Job Opportunity
Intern - Finance
Energize Your Finance Career: Exciting Finance Internship Available!!
Connecting Research & Education Community of Sri Lanka
The Lanka Education And Research Network (LEARN) is the National Research and Education Network (NERN) of Sri Lanka, which interconnects Educational and Research institutions across the country and provides network-related services to them.
A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is usually a specialized Internet Service Provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country, distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects.
We currently interconnect all of the UGC funded state universities, a number of public universities under other ministries, 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 2Gbps to 10Mbps to most campuses.
At present, our international connectivity bandwidth is 20 Gbps, including 3Gbps to academic networks that connect the academic/research Internet through the TEIN4 network, SingAREN to Internet2, and NKN.
We also have direct connections to SchoolNet, the network connecting secondary schools, and the Local Government Network (LGN), the network connecting government institutions in Sri Lanka.
Our Services
ac.lk domain registry service
LEARN as the authorized domain registrar of ac.lk helps national research & education institutions of Sri Lanka to create their own unique identity of the Internet by registering their .ac.lk domains. LEARN manages the primary DNS servers of ac.lk maintaining today's DNS security standards. LEARN member institutions either get their subdomains hosted at LEARN or get them delegated to their own DNS servers.
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
High-speed layer 2 local area network that interconnects local campuses and supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stack and advanced IP multicast.
Commercial/Commodity Internet
General internet service to individuals and companies.
Network Core Services
DNS hosting, EMAIL relaying/spam filtering, Network access controls and Global Google Caching (GGC).
Our Value Added Services
eduID
LEARN eduID offers students and staff lifelong access to global research and collaboration with a single login, providing secure access to Microsoft Office 365 educational packages and MS Teams.
LIAF
The LEARN Identity Access Federation (LIAF) allows the R&E community to access global and local services, including video conferencing, using institutional credentials and connecting to eduGAIN for simplified access to international resources.
Video Conferencing
The LEARN network offers the vCR as a free, on-premise teaching platform for large webinars, and Zoom as a paid, cloud-based service for meetings and virtual classrooms, requiring institutional credentials for access and pre-scheduling for larger events.
eduVPN
eduVPN is a VPN service for the international research and education community, providing secure access to campus networks and safer internet usage on insecure WiFi networks, with instances offered by NRENs, universities, and research labs for seamless VPN connections on users' devices.
LEARN TAC
The LEARN Technical Assistance Center (TAC) provides engineering support to member institutes, assisting their technical staff in network operations, while requiring institutes to appoint a dedicated technical person to liaise with TAC for this value-added service.
eduRoam
Eduroam is an international roaming service providing researchers, teachers, and students with easy and secure network access at institutions other than their own, using home institution credentials for authentication and receiving authorization from the visited institution, all at no cost to the users.
LEARN CSIRT
LEARN-CSIRT raises awareness of computer security issues and protects critical infrastructure by coordinating response efforts, gathering intelligence, and sharing incident information among its members.
IaMIaaS
LEARN provides the Identity Access Management Infrastructure, which includes Shibboleth IDP, Open LDAP, and Eduroam radius, with a browser interface for management. This will be subject to institutional agreement of terms, officially nominated Identity Manager, and official request to LEARN.
Capacity Development
Our Members
18
Full Members
16
Associate Members
25
Affiliate Members
