ERNET India not only has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country, it brought internet to India and supports building up national capabilities in the areas of networking, especially in protocol software engineering and tools for collaboration. ERNET India has developed a great network over the years, that provides numerous services to the education and research community. 

ERNET India is the nationwide terrestrial and satellite network with point of presence located at the premiere educational and research institutions in cities of the country. ERNET India’s focus isn’t limited to just provide connectivity, but to meet the needs of academic and research institutions by providing Training, Project management guidance, IT consultancy, Global roaming services etc. Other value added services are Video Conferencing, Domain registration and CUG services. Moreover, further to keep pace with the developing technology and enhancing innovation, ERNET India focuses in research and development in newer areas like Internet of Things, Virtual Reality, Augmented reality(AR) & Artificial Intelligence (AI)etc. 

Being an exclusive registrar for Domain Services for education and research under .in registry- edu.in, res.in and ac.in. 5457 academic domains during the year and Total 14663 domains have been registered. ERNET India is also registering विद्या भारत (Vidya.Bharat) domains.

As we know, worldwide mode of Education is witnessing transcending transformation towards digitization and use of various technologies. Tele-education is no more a luxury, but a way of education which utilizes all forms of digital contents and delivers best of breed lecturers to the far flung areas using internet. A similar and extremely successful project which was funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India has been envisaged, successfully implemented and operated by ERNET India. The concept of technology enabled teaching and learning through an online two-way interactive learning system is called Smart Virtual classroom. The implemented Smart Virtual Classroom successfully improved the quality of education, addressed the need of specialized teaching staff at remote/rural location and provided a single cross-state ICT enabled knowledge sharing platform for training & skill development of educationist / teachers. ERNET India established Smart Virtual Classroom facilities in 3204 Govt. owned/controlled schools plus 50 DIETs in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tripura, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The above project has been successful in conducting 20,016 sessions, benefiting 70,77,600 students and training 65,092 teachers across 3204 Schools and 50 DIETs till March 15, 2021.

ERNET India has always been in a sincere endeavor to find alternate means of connectivity solutions for the places where the connectivity has not been implemented or unsuccessful due to various challenges such as difficult terrain, River/ Railway tracks between the sites, frequent fiber cuts etc. In pursuit of exploring the alternative solutions, ERNET India has established a pilot R&D project based on free space optical communication technology (FSOC Technology) to provide high speed network connectivity between Kohima Secretariat and Kohima Science College, Nagaland. In research and development aptitude, ERNET India has been carrying out research activity on LiFi jointly with IIT Madras. Under this project, indoor LiFi Multi user testbed was setup to carry out experiments to study coverage range, optical power received at different coordinates, outage analysis at different distances in both Line of Sight (LoS) and Non Line of Sight (NLoS).

ERNET India as part of global project collaboration with APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Network) Asi@Connect initiative, had actively participated in Cyber Performance Phase-I activity. Under this project, ERNET India had participated in the tech-culture fusion platform including training programs and Cyber Performances with 6 beneficiary countries, namely India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bangladesh, South Korea and Pakistan. Subsequently, Cyber Performance Phase-II has been initiated for focusing production and broadcast of multinational cultural contents created by the beneficiary nations to document/broadcast aspects of local culture, history, ethnography, agriculture, health, musical and theatrical performance jointly with 5 beneficiary nations namely India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan and Nepal.

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