Based on a proposal submitted in 1992 to Sri Lankan government,[5] LEARN connected to the internet in 1995 opening doors to the Internet era in Sri Lanka[3][6] Today LEARN as the National Research and Education Network in Sri Lanka, connects all of the UGC funded Sri Lankan national universities, a number of public universities, higher education institutes under other ministries, the University Grants Commission, the Ministry of Higher Education, and six national research institutions.

[7] It is a private company, owned by fourteen national universities including the UGC since 2009.

According to University Grants Commission, its international connectivity include a 7Gbps bandwidth to the commodity internet and a 2.5Gbps link to LEARN point of presence in Singapore.

It also connects the academic, world research internet through the TEIN4 network, SingAREN, NKN, LGN, Internet2 and Google.

LEARN as the NREN forms the Sri Lankan component of the global advanced Research and Education Internet network.