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National Knowledge Network (NKN)

April 7, 2021
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About National Knowledge Network

  • NKN is a state-of-the-art Pan-India network and is a revolutionary step towards creating a knowledge society without boundaries.
  • The Government’s decision to set up the National Knowledge Network was announced in the Budget Speech, 2008-09.
  • A High Level Committee (HLC) was set up under the Chairmanship of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India to coordinate and monitor the establishment of the National Knowledge Network.
  • Government has approved the project on Establishment of National Knowledge Network in March, 2010 
  • National Informatics Centre (NIC) is the implementing agency of NKK
  • It facilitates advanced distance education in specialized fields like engineering, science, medicine etc. as well as enable an ultra-high speed eGovernance backbone.
  • It bridges the existing knowledge gap in the country and helps the country evolve as a Knowledge Society and also spur economic activities in the Knowledge domain.
  • It is the  national research and education network, whose purpose is to provide a unified high speed network backbone for educational institutions in India
  • The network is designed to support Overlay Networks, Dedicated Networks, and Virtual Networks
  • The entire network seamlessly integrate with the global scientific community at multiple gigabits per second speed
  • By facilitating the flow of information and knowledge, the network addresses the critical issue of access and creates a new paradigm of collaboration to enrich the research efforts in the country. 
  • The network design is based on a proactive approach that takes into account the future requirements and new possibilities that this infrastructure may unfold, both in terms of usage and perceived benefits.
  • NKN is intended to connect all the knowledge and research institutions in the country using high bandwidth / low latency networks.
  • NKN is designed to provide high availability, Quality of Service, security and reliability. 
  • The purpose of NKN goes to the very core of the country’s quest for building quality institutions with requisite research facilities and to create a pool of highly trained professionals. 
  • The participating institutions at the edge would seamlessly connect to NKN at gigabit speed. NKN shall be a critical information infrastructure for India to evolve as a knowledge society. 
  • Currently, NKN inter connects about 1700 major Research and Educational Institutes in India, thereby providing a powerful platform to close to five crore students, researchers, academicians and government officers. 

Objectives of NKK

To interconnect all institutions of higher learning and research with a high speed data communication network to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative research. 

Role of NKN:

  • Establishing a high-speed backbone connectivity which will enable knowledge and information sharing amongst NKN connected institutes
  • Enabling collaborative research, development and innovation amongst NKN connected institutes
  • Facilitating advanced distance education in specialized fields like engineering, science, medicine etc.
  • Facilitating an ultra-high speed e-governance backbone
  • Facilitating connection between different sectoral networks in the field of research
  • Link to Global Networks to collaborate with the research communities across the globe

Application areas of NKK

The application areas envisaged under the National Knowledge Network cover

  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Health
  • e-governance
  • Grid Computing (High Performance Computing)
  • The leading mission oriented agencies in the fields of nuclear, space and defence research are also part of NKN
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