A state-of-the-art E-learning Studio with six simultaneous synchronous LCD panels was launched at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s (Deemed University) Ettimadai campus on 7 July, 2004, by Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Indian IT major, Infosys Technologies. Mr. Bhaskar Narayan, Director, Satellite Communications, Indian Space Research Organization, (ISRO) was the distinguished guest of honour for the function.

This studio and e-classroom is the front-end of the high bandwidth satellite network, which has made Amrita University a fully interactive, multimedia capable, multi-disciplinary virtual university – the first of its kind in the nation. It will enable interactive classroom sessions across all four campuses of the university in the three south Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The teacher is empowered with the unique capability of performing two-way live audio-video interaction between four AMRITA campuses located at Coimbatore, Kochi, Bangalore and Amritapuri (Kollam). The facility is equipped with 130 seats for classroom instruction, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using the dedicated satellite link with a bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps.