Scientists and researchers in Pakistan can now connect with their colleagues across the globe, thanks to a new high speed computer network link, made possible by GEANT, the advanced pan-European backbone network, and TEIN, the Asian equivalent to GEANT. GEANT was launched in 2000 by the European Commission and the Member States as a jointly funded initiative to upgrade Europe's research and education networking infrastructure. The EU-funded Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) today agreed to link with the Pakistan Education Research Network (PERN). TEIN and GEANT together serve close to 100 million researchers in Europe and Asia enabling ground-breaking research collaboration in fields such as climate change, radio astronomy and biotechnology.
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