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Cabinet gives green signal to National Knowledge Network | The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) on Thursday approved the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) with an outlay of Rs 5990 crore to be
implemented by the National Information Centre (NIC) over a period of ten years. One of the important recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission
(NKC)
is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions through high speed data communication
network. This would encourage the sharing of knowledge, specialized resources
and collaborative research. The Government's decision to set up such a National
Knowledge Network was announced by the Finance Minister in the Budget speech
of
2008-09. An initial amount of Rs.100 crore for the fiscal 2008-09 was allocated
to the Department of Information Technology, for establishing the National
Knowledge
Network. The architecture of the National Knowledge Network will be scalable and
the network will consist of an ultra-high speed core (multiples of 10 Gbps and
upwards). The core shall be complemented with a distribution layer at appropriate
speeds. The participating institutions can connect to the NKN at speeds of 1 Gbps
or to the distribution layer through a last mile connectivity bandwidth. The NKN
will enable scientists, researchers and students from diverse spheres across the
country to work together for advancing human development in critical and emerging
areas. The NKN will catalyse knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer between
stakeholders seamlessly - that too across the nation and globally. NKN is expected
to encourage a larger section of research and educational institutions to create
intellectual property. The NKN would enable use of specialized applications, which
allow sharing of high performance computing facilities, e-libraries, virtual classrooms
and very large databases. |
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