BeLISAC project proposal encompasses procurement of computing resources which will be placed at 4 (four) Data Centers in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan in order to overcome hardware crunching problem in NORDUnet where previously licensed account were running under fDLuDCf project and in order to cater more meetings and classes in future. CamREN and LERNET have been included who are provided Zoom Controller and Zoom MMR facilities (5% of the installed computing resources and full cloud recording support) from the installed hardware in these 4 (four) countries.
As a follow-up of fDLuDCf project, all the Zoom licensing resources is provided by NORDUnet. It is to be mentioned that under fDLuDCf project NORDUnet provided more than 30,000 Zoom licenses for six (6) countries. The licensing support is still provided by NORDUnet even after the expiry of the project in June 2021 as a goodwill gesture. NORDUnet has made the commitment that it is not going to withdraw it till a sustainable solution becomes available for all the beneficiary countries.