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| Countrywide Virtual Classroom |
BdREN is a platform for delivering effective distance education where teachers and students can interact in real time. This is especially significant in a country like Bangladesh where access to education is limited by factors such as geography, lack of infrastructure facilities etc. The network enables co-sharing of information such as classroom lectures, presentations and handouts among different institutions. |
| Collaborative Research |
BdREN enables collaboration among researchers from different entities like Internet2, APAN, TEIN3, CERN etc. It also enables sharing of scientific databases and remote access to advanced research facilities. |
| Virtual Library |
The Virtual Library involving sharing of journals, books and research papers across different institutions, is a natural application for BdREN. |
| Sharing of Computing Resources |
High-performance computing is critical for national security, industrial productivity, and advances in science and engineering. The network enables a large number of institutions to access high-performance computing to conduct advanced research in areas such as weather monitoring, earthquake engineering and other computationally intensive fields. |
| Grid Computing |
| BdREN has the capability to handle high bandwidth with low latency and provision to overlay grid computing. Some of the grid based applications are climate change/global warming, science projects like Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and ITER. BdREN will be the platform to realize many such innovative applications. |
| Network Technology Test-Bed |
| BdREN provides test-bed for testing and validation of services before they are made available to the production (commercial) network. BdREN will also provide an opportunity to test new hardware & software, vendor interoperability etc. |
| E-Governance |
| BdREN acts as a super highway for integrating e-Governance infrastructure such as government data centers and networks. BdREN will provide bulk data transfer facility required for e-Governance applications. |
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