PERN2 is largest nationwide terrestrial network with point of presence located at the premiere educational & research institutions and regional centers of Higher Education Commission in major cities of the country. PERN2 is not only limited to just providing connectivity, but to meet the entire needs of the educational and research institutions by hosting and providing relevant services and information to the users. PERN2 is an integrated platform for network research and middleware development.  For the development of network technologies and applications such as performance measurement, IPv6, multicast, MPLS, VoIP, e-learning, and multimedia, also as well as for the support of Grids such as EcoGrid, Medical Grid and e-learning Grid etc.

PERN2 offer our users a variety of new services including IPv6, Multicast, and Light Path.  Due to the need of guaranteeing service level quality to our users, PERN2 also introduced a powerful management system. 
The goals of PERN2 network design are:

•    Hybrid technology: IP (routing) over optical Light Path (dark fiber, SDH,
      or Wavelength).
•    Dual networks: production and research networks.
•    Hierarchical topology: 3 tiers (cores, POPs, and end nodes).
•    Multiple services.
•    Highly reliable, stable and flexible network.