National Research and Education Network

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A National Research & Education Network (NREN) is a specialised Internet Service Provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country.

It's usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects. To satisfy the need of users, new protocols are introduced before being considered stable enough for deployment within the internet ^{[citation needed]}. Two examples of these protocols are IPv6 and IP multicast.

NREN also stands for Nepal Research and Education Network.

[edit] See also

• Information superhighway

[edit] External links

• India - High Performance Computing Networks & NRENS.pdf
• Internet2 US Research and Education Network
• Digital Divide & REN, Case of Bangladesh
• Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium REN in Asia & Pacific
• KIWI Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) New Zealand Research and Education Network

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