National Knowledge Network (NKN) is a multi-gigabit[4] national research and education network, whose purpose is to provide a unified high speed network backbone for educational and research institutions in India.

Depending on the type of connectivity required by the user organization, geographical presence, and the location of Point of Presence (PoP) of NKN, (belonging to Core and Distribution), connectivity would be provided to the institutes.

Advanced applications in areas such as Health, Education, Science & Technology, Grid Computing, Bioinformatics, Agriculture, and Governance will be an integral part of NKN.

The entire network will seamlessly integrate with the global scientific community at multiple gigabits per second speed.

IPv6 Segment— IPv4 Segment— AS Numbers— NKN has got 2405:8A00::/32 IPv6 block from APNIC (Regional Internet registry for Asia-Pacific Region) and allocating /48 block to every connected member institution.