National Knowledge Network

National Knowledge Network (NKN), which would bring together all the stakeholders in Science, Technology, Higher Education, Research and Development etc would also play a great role in facilitating e-Learning. All these institutions could exchange content/data/information with speeds of the order of gigabits per second coupled with extremely low latencies; through PoPs in the respective institution/organization. NKN will interconnect all institutions engaged in research, higher education and scientific development in the country. The final phase of NKN is at an advanced stage of planning. The NKN platform could also be used for e-Learning applications.

The objective of the National Knowledge Network is to bring together all the stakeholders in Science, Technology, Higher Education, Research & Development, and Governance with speeds of the order of gigabits per second coupled with extremely low latencies; through PoPs in the respective institutions/ organisation.

NKN will interconnect all institutions engaged in research, higher education and scientific development in the country, over a period of time.

The output of the project will be a high capacity countrywide Infrastructure at education & research Institute level, which will be available 24x7 to support education and research application, and other application as envisaged by these institution which require very high bandwidth.

The outcome of the project be difficult to quantify. The NKN will facilitate the knowledge sharing, collaborative research, countrywide classrooms (CWCR) etc. and help the country to evolve as Knowledge Society. This will also contribute in socio-economic activities of the country indirectly.