Pakistan Education and Research Network currently provides the following services to universities:

Currently available Services

• Access to International Internet Bandwidth.
• Access to over 11,000 Scientific Journals. Link to Digital Library
• Four or more public IP addresses for use by the university.
• Broadband link to other universities.
• Infrastructure for point-to-point videoconferencing.
• Sharing of large-size data amongst universities.
• Cheaper Bandwidth Rates for PERN Universities
• PERN Launches Video Reflector Service
  

Services under Beta Test

• Videoconferencing reflector for multipoint desktop videoconferencing.
  
• PERN Development Forum Idea Generation Bank.
• Community of Interest content generation and sharing system, along with discussion forums.

Planned services

• Full-fledged hi-tech video lecturing facilities.
• Web streaming service for video lectures.
• VRVS Video Reflector service for multipoint videoconferencing with international researchers.
• Centralized and distributed content servers for information sharing. This will include text and multimedia objects.
• Video Over IP and possibly Voice Over IP (VOIP) services for communication between universities.
• Computer and test equipment resource sharing across universities.
• Automated transactions between universities and HEC.
• Link with international research networks through APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Networks).
• Access to Online University Libraries.