The Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) was founded in 1987 to serve the faculty staff members and the higher education community at large. In 1987, EUN connected the Egyptian universities together. By the year of 1989, EUN was connected to the European Academic and Research Network (EARN) and connected all the Egyptian universities, in addition to some academic, research, governmental institutes as well. During this period and until 1993 EUN launched information services, such as; databases searching and document delivery to provide the higher education community with different resources of information helping the faculty staff members and researchers and sent them the results via e-mail.
In 1990, EUN endeavored to connect the Egyptian universities to the Internet, in 1993 the actual connectivity took place through 64Kbps and it became the main leading portal to the Internet in Egypt.
EUN had witnessed a lot of changes due to the rapid advancement of ICT. Currently, EUN has a 1024 Mbps international link to the Internet, 1024 Mbps to Internet2 (GLORIAD).
In addition to the connectivity, EUN is the Top Level Domain (.eg) of Egypt. Also it provides technical consultation in ICT to help academic community make the best suitable network solutions. EUN carries out web page design to its users and further hosting on its web servers.