Hec adding value and digitalization in education

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, the 7th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2021) in Dubai. "Extend Connectivity, Drive Growth" is the subject of this year's conference. In his keynote lecture, "Accelerating Digitalization and Creating New Value in Education," Waqar Mahmood, CTO of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC), discussed HEC's active investigations throughout the digital transformation of the education business.

Waqar Mahmood began by outlining HEC's goals and strategy. During the education informatization reform, he pointed out that the existing higher education information system faces three challenges: accelerating teaching resource sharing, addressing information silos in education applications, and providing high-quality services to achieve efficient operations.

Waqar Mahmood discussed how a significant number of higher education services, such as smart classrooms, online learning, and smart campuses, must be connected to many clouds in order to efficiently exchange instructional resources. He went on to say that multi-cloud cooperation, low latency, high dependability, high bandwidth, and network access anytime and everywhere are all issues and requirements posed by education services on networks.

Pakistan's HEC has consistently advocated the progressive improvement of smart classrooms in universities and colleges to conform with the digital transformation agenda. In the first phase, 50 institutions have been covered, and a future-oriented completely linked, fully intelligent, and multi-purpose education network has been built using a cloud-network convergence architecture.

Wireline, Wi-Fi, IoT, and 5G mobile networks on campus have been optimised, allowing professors and students to access university resources and the Internet from anywhere at any time.

On the WAN side, Pakistan is constructing PERN, a statewide education and research network. 100GE networking is used in the IP backbone network. The network has already reached 63 locations, is connected to the national data centre, and serves over 350 universities and colleges. By 2025, it is expected that more than half of the world's universities would be connected to the PERN, which will provide a variety of cloud services such as LMS and CIMS.

Education is the cornerstone of long-term growth. Waqar Mahmood closed his lecture by stating that the rapid advancement of ICT technology ensures equitable access to educational materials and the creation of high-quality education. He went on to say that they would continue to cooperate with Huawei to support the evolution of conventional teaching techniques toward intelligent and contemporary education that correctly leverages leading digital education concepts and new technologies, based on the cloud-network convergence architecture.