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1 C-DOT/TENDER/CAPITAL ITEMS/ /007 DT: S.No. Page No. / Clause No. Type Description Pre-bid Query Suggested Changes Remarks/C-DOT Clarifications C-DOT Clarifications / 3>>d 7/9 2/2 Server - Memory (Page No 21) DC DC DC DC Successful bidder may also be asked to pickup the C-DOT Routers (1U size) from C-DOT and install at Delhi and Mumbai ISP gateway Sites alone with the items as mentioned at S.No.1 & 2. The commercial part should contain information on price quoted for equipment upto C-DOT designated place (site) Tender should be submitted on or before the closing date, i.e before (1400 hrs.) 1024 GB using 8X128GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank Interfaces Required: 32x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 6.4 Tbps of wire speed performance. Please specify the C-DOT location from where the C-DOT Routers shall be picked up and subsequently has to be installed at Delhi and Mumbai location ISP gateway sites. We understand that under designated place mentioned here is for Delhi and Mumbai location. Please confirm our understanding. Kindly provide the bid submission date extension for a week. We will be providing 48 DIMM slots which is 24 DIMMS more than requested. This will allow as to scale to same capacity using 64GB DIMMs compared to 128GB DIMMs with 24 DIMM Slots Interfaces Required: 36x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 7.2 Tbps of wire speed performance. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane 1024 GB using 16 x 64 GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank more number ports in same form factor Request to remove 50 GE requirement. 25GE interface access though breakout cables. link with point no. 1 above Change in specs of RFP Flexibility to use any port as 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane request to remove 802.3by from 25 Gigabit Ethernet request to remove 802.3by from 25 Gigabit Ethernet should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes Only successful bidder of Item S.No. 1 will need to pick up the C-DOT router from C-DOT Delhi office for the installation at ISP sites at Delhi and Mumbai Yes Change in specs in RFP 64GB/128GB Modules subject to meeting the scalability requirement without discarding any module.

2 SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 2GB Cache (b) 2 x 10G Electrical RJ45 Clarification requested (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP28 optical (Naptech or equivalent card), quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots 6 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots. (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC 1. Integrated Dedicated Remote Management controller (enabled) Remote management solution should support SSL encryption of HTTP traffic) with required license GB using 8X128GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank, expandable 2TB (c) 6x8TB SATA HDD 10K (or higher) 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots (At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16) To support 100G/200G NIC Request to change: "Integrated Management controller (enabled). Remote management solution should support SSL encryption of HTTP traffic with required license" Request to allow: 1024 GB using 16 X 64GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank, expandable 6TB 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K (or higher) Rack Mountable with accessories Rack Mountable with accessories (3U/4U) Additional Query Additional Query Interfaces Required: 32x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. For the required 4 Qty of internal SSD drives, 4GB of cache is an overkill and not required. Also, 4GB cache is not provided by all major server vendors with their 2 socket configuration. Request to relax this point. Request to confirm if 2x10G BaseT ports are required on a PCI-e slot or embedded ports will suffice the requirement. FPGA based Naptech Card makes the requirement propreitory. Request to generalize the Infiniband card brand specification for wider participation. Change in Specs of RFP 2GB Cache or higher Should support Intelligent Offload, Teaming and MSI/MSI- X features., Napatech and Mellanox or equivalent Card as mentioned are optional items required for testing and comparing the performance for certain application. One can be replaced by other in terms of Qty. depending on the price at the time of placing the order. Dual socket server can maximum provides upto 6 PCIe slots. With 8 PCI-e slots all major server vendors Change in specs of RFP has to provide their 4 socket server which will 6 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion increase the overall cost. Request to relax this point slots. for better commecials and offering. Dual socket server can maximum provides upto 6 PCIe slots. With 8 PCI-e slots all major server vendors has to provide their 4 socket server which will increase the overall cost. Request to relax this point for better commecials and offering. Servers comes along with their own management controller. There is no separate Remote management controller. Remote management as a functionality is provided by the server management software. Please confirm if our understanding on the CDOT requirement is correct. 128GB RAM Modules are very costly compared to equivalent memory provided using 64GB DIMM's. Also, the 4 socket servers are scalable to 6TB of RAM. Request to update the specification. With a SFF server, the maximum drive capacity which a vendor can offer is 2TB. Also, with the SATA/NL-SAS drives, the Drives RPM are limited to 7.2K. Request to confirm the capacity required on high capacity drives and their Quantity. Since this spec is for mission critical 4 socket server, the number of I/O expansion slots should be on the higher side. Twelve PCI- 3.0 slots servers are 12 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots available from all major OEM vendors. Also, no server vendor can offer all their PCI slots working on x16 bandwidth. There are typically a mix of x16 and x8 speeds. Request to mention the Rack Server form factor like described for the Type-1 server. The type-1 & type-2 server does not mentions the requirement of Fiber channel HBA cards The type-1 & type-2 server does not mentions the requirement of redundancy at the card levels being server configuration to be mission critical. Interfaces Required: 36x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. Change in the Specs of RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G NIC per PCIe slot Change in the Specs of RFP Integrated out of Band Remote Management controller (enabled). Remote management solution should support SSH and HTTPs protocol with required license. Change in Specs of RFP 128GB/64GB modules. Scalability should be without discarding the existing module. Change in the Specs of RFP 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K Not Required, Not Required, more number ports in same form factor

3 GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 6.4 Tbps of wire speed performance. 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 7.2 Tbps of wire speed performance. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane Request to remove 50 GE requirement. 25GE interface access though breakout cables. link with point no. 1 above Change in Specs of RFP 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba DC 100 Gigabit Ethernet. DC DC DC should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane request to remove 802.3by from 25 Gigabit Ethernet request to remove 802.3by from 25 Gigabit Ethernet should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache (b) 2 x 10G Electrical RJ45 Clarification requested should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 2GB Cache For the required 4 Qty of internal SSD drives, 4GB of cache is an overkill and not required. Also, 4GB cache is not provided by all major server vendors with their 2 socket configuration. Request to relax this point. Request to confirm if 2x10G BaseT ports are required on a PCI-e slot or embedded ports will suffice the requirement. Change in Specs. In RFP For 2 GB cache and Type-2 Server 4GB or higher Cache Should support Intelligent Offload, Teaming and MSI/MSI-X features (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP28 optical (Naptech or equivalent card), quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots 6 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots. FPGA based Naptech Card makes the requirement propreitory. Request to generalize the Infiniband card brand specification for wider participation. Dual socket server can maximum provides upto 6 PCI-e slots. With 8 PCI-e slots all major server vendors has to provide their 4 socket server which will increase the overall cost. Request to relax this point for better commecials and offering., Napatech and Mellanox or equivalent Card as mentioned are optional items required for testing and comparing the performance for certain application. One can be replaced by other in terms of Qty. depending on the price at the time of placing the order. Change in Specs. In RFP 6 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots.

4 (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC 1. Integrated Dedicated Remote Management controller (enabled) Remote management solution should support SSL encryption of HTTP traffic) with required license GB using 8X128GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank, expandable 2TB (At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16) To support 100G/200G NIC Request to change: "Integrated Management controller (enabled). Remote management solution should support SSL encryption of HTTP traffic with required license" Request to allow: 1024 GB using 16 X 64GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank, expandable 6TB (c) 6x8TB SATA HDD 10K (or higher) 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K (or higher) 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots 12 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots Rack Mountable with accessories Rack Mountable with accessories (3U/4U) Additional Query Additional Query The type-1 & type-2 server does not mentions the requirement of Fiber channel HBA cards The type-1 & type-2 server does not mentions the requirement of redundancy at the card levels being server configuration to be mission critical. Dual socket server can maximum provides upto 6 PCI-e slots. With 8 PCI-e slots all major server vendors has to provide their 4 socket server which will increase the overall cost. Request to relax this point for better commecials and offering. Servers comes along with their own management controller. There is no separate Remote management controller. Remote management as a functionality is provided by the server management software. Please confirm if our understanding on the CDOT requirement is correct. 128GB RAM Modules are very costly compared to equivalent memory provided using 64GB DIMM's. Also, the 4 socket servers are scalable to 6TB of RAM. Request to update the specification. Change in Specs. In RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G NIC per PCIe slot Change in Specs. In RFP Integrated Out of Band Remote Management controller (enabled). Remote management solution should support SSH and HTTPs protocol with required license. Change in Specs in RFP 8x128GB/16x64GB modules. Scalability should be without discarding the existing module. With a SFF server, the maximum drive capacity which a vendor can offer is 2TB. Also, with the SATA/NL-SAS drives, the Change in Specs in RFP Drives RPM are limited to 7.2K. 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K Request to confirm the capacity required on high capacity drives and their Quantity. Since this spec is for mission critical 4 socket server, the number of I/O expansion slots should be on the higher side. Twelve PCI- 3.0 slots servers are available from all major OEM vendors. Also, no server vendor can offer all their PCI slots working on x16 bandwidth. There are typically a mix of x16 and x8 speeds. Request to mention the Rack Server form factor like described for the Type-1 server.

5 Network Interface High performance, PCI Express Gen3.0 compliant, server Ethernet NIC with VLAN Tagging, IPV4 & IPV6 and teaming for failover and load balancing (a) 4 x Gigabit Ethernet NIC (10/100/1000 Mbps) (b) 2 x 10G Electrical RJ45 (c) Out-of-band management Port Optional (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) Include Optical patch cords (i) QSFP 28 to QSFP 28 optical patch cord 5 Mtrs. - 2Nos. (ii) Breakout cable to provide 10G/25G/40G interfaces. -2 Nos. PCI slots 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC PCI slots 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) 35/ SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache Point 4 - Hard Disk Controller 35/ 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) Point 8 - PCI Slots 36/ Red Hat Linux Enterprise v7 (Latest Version) (64bit) Advanced Platform CentOS 7.0 (64 bit) Point 13 - OS Support Kindly remove Cent OS support 38/ (a) 4x400GB SSD (b) 3x800GB (or higher) SFF 12Gb/s, 15K SAS Disks (c) 6x8TB SATA HDD 10K (or higher) Point 3 - Internal Storage Change Request : Request you to please include name of Mellanox / Equivalent Card also Optional (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card or Mellanox or equivalent card (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) Include Optical patch cords (i) QSFP 28 to QSFP 28 optical patch cord 5 Mtrs. - 2Nos. (ii) Breakout cable to provide 10G/25G/40G interfaces. -2 Nos., quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) Include Optical patch cords (i) QSFP 28 to QSFP 28 optical patch cord 5 Mtrs. - 2Nos. (ii) Breakout cable to provide 10G/25G/40G interfaces. -2 Nos. Change Request : 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots (At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC Change Request : 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots (At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC Need to change to 8GB Cache or 2G or higher since 4GB Cache is not available with us Kindly amend the clause as "At least 6 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 2 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height" since we have only 2* X16 PCIe slots availabe in our Most of the Industry standard mezannine cards will fit 2 Proc servers. in x8. Hence the change is requested. Please note that 8TB SATA comes in 7.2K RPM only while 10K RPM is mentioned. Kindly amend the same. Also note that the 4 proc server supports only 2.5" Chassis. Hence 8TB SATA drives will not be possible within the same enclosure. Request to change as 2TB 7.2K RPM drives with Qty increased to max 17 Nos (Max of 24 Drives) Also note that 800GB is not available with all leading OEMs. Hence request to change it to 900GB or higher SAS disks. 38/ SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache Point 4 - Hard Disk Controller 38/ 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) Point 8 - PCI Slots 39/ Red Hat Linux Enterprise v7 (Latest Version) (64bit) Advanced Platform CentOS 7.0 (64 bit) Point 13 - OS Support Kindly remove Cent OS support Since this is an open source free and community supported OS, hence the support can only be on a best effort basis. As per Industry standards, in the 2.5" HDD bays, the maximum available capacity is 2 TB only in 7.2K RPM. Need to change to either 8GB Cache since 4GB Cache is not available with us Kindly amend the clause as "At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 10 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height" since we Considering the form factor, we have a total of 13 PCI have only 3* X8 PCIe slots availabe in our slots out of which 10 nos are x16 and rest 3 nos are 4 Proc servers. x8 Since this is an open source free and community supported OS, hence the support can only be on a best effort basis. Please include : Mellanox or equivalent card Please include :(At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC Please include :(At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC, Napatech and Mellanox or equivalent Card as mentioned are optional items required for testing and comparing the performance for certain application. One can be replaced by other in terms of Qty. depending on the price at the time of placing the order. Change in the specs of RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G NIC per PCIe slot. Change in Specs. In RFP For 2 GB cache and Type-2 Server 4GB or higher Cache Change in Specs. In RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G NIC per PCIe Slot Change in Specs. In RFP 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K Type-2 Server 4GB or higher Cache X16 Slots in lieu of X8 are acceptable

6 / SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache 35/ 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) 36/ Red Hat Linux Enterprise v7 (Latest Version) (64bit) Advanced Platform CentOS 7.0 (64 bit) 38/ (a) 4x400GB SSD (b) 3x800GB (or higher) SFF 12Gb/s, 15K SAS Disks (c) 6x8TB SATA HDD 10K (or higher) Point 4 - Hard Disk Controller Point 8 - PCI Slots Point 13 - OS Support Point 3 - Internal Storage Need to change to 8GB Cache or 2G or higher since 4GB Cache is not available with us Kindly amend the clause as "At least 6 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 2 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height" since we have only 2* X16 PCIe slots availabe in our Most of the Industry standard mezannine cards will fit 2 Proc servers. in x8. Hence the change is requested. Kindly remove Cent OS support Please note that 8TB SATA comes in 7.2K RPM only while 10K RPM is mentioned. Kindly amend the same. Also note that the 4 proc server supports only 2.5" Chassis. Hence 8TB SATA drives will not be possible within the same enclosure. Request to change as 2TB 7.2K RPM drives with Qty increased to max 17 Nos (Max of 24 Drives) Also note that 800GB is not available with all leading OEMs. Hence request to change it to 900GB or higher SAS disks. Since this is an open source free and community supported OS, hence the support can only be on a best effort basis. As per Industry standards, in the 2.5" HDD bays, the maximum available capacity is 2 TB only in 7.2K RPM. Change in Specs. of RFP For 2 GB cache and Type-2 Server 4GB or higher Cache Change in Specs. of RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC Change in Specs. of RFP 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K 65 38/ SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache Point 4 - Hard Disk Controller Need to change to either 8GB Cache since 4GB Cache is not available with us Type-2 Server 4GB or higher Cache 66 38/ 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) Point 8 - PCI Slots Kindly amend the clause as "At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 10 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height" since we have only 3* X8 PCIe slots availabe in our 4 Proc servers. Considering the form factor, we have a total of 13 PCI slots out of which 10 nos are x16 and rest 3 nos are x8 X16 Slots in lieu of X8 are acceptable / Red Hat Linux Enterprise v7 (Latest Version) (64bit) Advanced Platform CentOS 7.0 (64 bit) TERMS AND CONDITIONS> Pg No.3 Point 13 - OS Support However, separate bid document with separate EMD in financial bid should be submitted for each of the item being quoted. Consolidated EMD shall not be accepted and the bid shall not be considered. IMPORTANT: Separate bids should be submitted for each item, incase you are participating for multiple items. Similarly, as mentioned above, EMD should also be separately enclosed with each bid. However, tender fee shall be payable for one item only, details of which should be indicated in all the bids. Consolidated EMDs shall not be accepted. Kindly remove Cent OS support Sir/Madam, Since, this statement shows Bidder can participate for all/ any number of items as mentioned in the requirement (RFP pg No. 4)defined in tender document. Please confirm whether bidder can participate for any number of item/items. Since this is an open source free and community supported OS, hence the support can only be on a best effort basis. Yes

7 Dear Sir/Madam,we are NSIC (National Small Industry Corporation) Registered 11. The EMD is payable by all Company. Please confirm whether NSIC categories of bidders and quotes without registered are exempted for EMD and E.M.D. shall be treated as invalid. EMD Tender Fee Payment. shall be exempted for Govt. bodies / If exempted then NSIC document should Clause No 11> Pg No.8 PSUs,SSI & SME organizations ( who be place along with Technical Bid or are exempted from payment of EMD ) Commercial Bid. on production of relevant proof. Bids without E.M.D. shall be treated as invalid/rejected. EMD submitted in the form of Fixed Deposits will not be 69 accepted IPFIX PROBE/GENERATOR Q.3.a Please provide detailed specifications of individual locations in terms of monitoring port numbers, speeds, and interface types. This is needed to propose a proper combination of Probes needed. Accepted, Provided relevant certificates for claiming exemption to be enclosed along with the Technical bid Two ISP sites at Mumbai will be connected to 100 Gbps QSFP28-LR4 ports. Two ISP Sites at Delhi will be connected to CFP LR-4 Ports. Bidder should accordingly provision the optics of 100 Gbps QSFP28 ports of IPFIX probe. Optical Patch cords to connect the two end shall also be provided by the bidder Q.5.e Q.10.a Please explain why this feature is needed and how this copes with IPFIX standard. PEN (Private Enterprise Number) is used to send the Properitary parameters defined by the vendor as Part of IPFIX template being exported to collector/analyzer Q.10.c 2 Q.01 Q.12 Please provide acceptance testing document. Is it on-site training, training in our facility or remote training? IPFIX COLLECTOR & ANALYZER Please provide detailed specifications of individual locations in terms of expected flows/s rate per location. What is requested primary data retention period on the Collector? How long should Collector keep raw flows? This is needed to propose a proper set of Collector appliances. Please clarify the scope of DDoS protection within this project as we, in general, consider this topic as a separate area. Acceptance Testing document will be based on the Specifications and features as asked and will be prepared before the installation. Training at the premise of C-DOT New Delhi. The flow rate is as per RFP. The event Data (Suspected and malicious) Data for at least a month for report generation and historic analysis. Security analytcs must be able to predict and report the DDOS attack based on the behaviour based analysis of IPFIX flows along with the external intelligence Q.21.a Please provide acceptance testing document. Q.21.c Is it on-site training, training in our facility or remote training? 3 LOAD BALANCER CARDS IXIA NTO 5288 (1X100G) Acceptance Testing document will be based on the Specifications and features as asked and will be prepared before the installation. Training at the premise of C-DOT New Delhi.

8 81 a. b. NTO 5288 supports 100G on CFP Port, that works only for LR4 and SR10. SR4 is not supported on CFP. Relevant Interface to interconnect QSFP28 and CFP port may be provisioned by the bidder. In order for CFP and QSFP28 to interoperate, using LR4 at both NPB and Netflow Collector might work. 82 c. Please provide acceptance testing document EMD Exemption a. We are registered MSME organization, please find our MSME and Udyog Aadhar certificates, we request you to confirm we 85 are exempted from submission of EMD fee. The 2% of the total quoted value should be submitted in the form of 3 Bank Guarantee only in the Financial Please allow exemption for EMD as we fall Bid envelope with a validity of 6 months under SSI units and with an undertaking in the technical bid for the same (without disclosing the 86 amount). Delivery of all the material within 4-8 Delivery Date 87 weeks on receipt of PO Network Interface High performance, PCI Express Gen3.0 compliant, server Ethernet NIC with VLAN Tagging, IPV4 & IPV6 and teaming for failover and load balancing (a) 4 x Gigabit Ethernet NIC (10/100/1000 Mbps) (b) 2 x 10G Electrical RJ45 (c) Out-of-band management Port Optional (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) Include Optical patch cords (i) QSFP 28 to QSFP 28 optical patch cord 5 Mtrs. - 2Nos. (ii) Breakout cable to provide 10G/25G/40G interfaces. -2 Nos. 8 PCI slots 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC 8 PCI slots 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) NetFlow collector/analyzer will be connected to IPFIX probe using 10G- SR Interfaces. Only IPFIX probe will be connected to 100 G Port of NTO. The relevant Interface for 100 G port to make it compatible with CFP port may be accounted by bidder for two locations of Delhi. Th e appropriate optical patch cords will be required to be provisioned by the bidder. Acceptance Testing document will be based on the Specifications and features as asked and will be prepared before the installation. Accepted, Provided relevant certificates for claiming exemption to be enclosed along with the Technical bid Accepted, Provided relevant certificates for claiming exemption to be enclosed along with the Technical bid 10 weeks from the date of receipt of PO NO CHANGE Change Request : Request you to please include name of Mellanox / Equivalent Card also Optional (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card or Mellanox or equivalent card (c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) Include Optical patch cords (i) QSFP 28 to QSFP 28 optical patch cord 5 Mtrs. - 2Nos. (ii) Breakout cable to provide 10G/25G/40G interfaces. -2 Nos., quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) Include Optical patch cords (i) QSFP 28 to QSFP 28 optical patch cord 5 Mtrs. - 2Nos. (ii) Breakout cable to provide 10G/25G/40G interfaces. -2 Nos. Please include : Mellanox or equivalent card Change Request : Please include :(At least 4 Qty 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots x8 & 2Qty x16 ) (At least 4 Qty x8 & 2Qty x16 ) To support -Architecture donot support 100G/200G NIC (1) 200G NIC is not available, Kinldy remove (2) At least 2 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height), Napatech and Mellanox or equivalent Card as mentioned are optional items required for testing and comparing the performance for certain application. One can be replaced by other in terms of Qty. depending on the price at the time of placing the order. Change in Specs of RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G NIC per slot

9 Internal Storage: (a) 4x400GB SSD (b) 3x800GB (or higher) SFF 12Gb/s, 15K SAS Disks (c) 6x8TB SATA HDD 10K (or higher DC DC DC DC Interfaces Required: 32x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 6.4 Tbps of wire speed performance. (c) 6x8TB SSD or higher Interfaces Required: 36x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 7.2 Tbps of wire speed performance. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane (1) in large form factor,sff cant intermix in 4 processor, (2) you are asking for 8 TB SATA drive 10K RPM but as per Technical Standard SATA Drive Maximum 7.2k RPM (3) Because of Technical Limitation in 4 CPU Server SATA doesnot support in 4 Proc server, so please change to 6x8TB SSD or higher more number ports in same form factor Request to remove 50 GE requirement. 25GE interface access though breakout cables. link with point no. 1 above Change in Specs. In RFP 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K Change in Specs of RFP 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane request to remove 802.3by from 25 Gigabit Ethernet request to remove 802.3by from 25 Gigabit Ethernet should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes 103 Pg. 4. Point b IXIA module 1x100 G card along with Looks like IPFIX Probe has to be IXIA products. 100Gbase -SR4 QSFP28 and Licenses will be installed at existing IXIA Load Balancer Please clarify. Model 5288 at Delhi ISP sites The 100G module asked is for existing Network packet Broker of IXIA already installed. IPFIX Probe is a seprate item to be selected by this tender

10 Pg. 29. Point 1 Rack mountable 1/2 U appliance which shall be able to generate un-sampled standard based flows of traffic up to 200 Gbps The Flow traffic of 200Gpbs mentioned is very high with the limit on the Form Factor. To cater such traffic High End appliances are needed which might have a form factor of 3U. Also, to cater this, it is needed to connect more than 1 appliance in cluster to achieve the desired result. Request you to allow 3U and above Form factor & clustering of appliances to quote 104 Pg. 30 Point 5(f) One local collector having configurable file storage format in CSV in addition to NetFlow-v9/IPFIX/JSON We can replicate the traffic on any port where a server (collector) can be connected and desired reports can be generated. Request to make it as ability to mirror the traffic to any port to collect information as required. 105 Pg. 30 Point 9 Data Purging a. Automatically purging of local collector data file based on allocated storage size & time of file in FIFO logic b. Automatic purging of logs with configuration(say 70%) of allocated size Unlike competing solutions which are just an x86 server with a couple of accelerated NIC cards, the Gigamon visibility node is completely designed from the ground-up to support visibility. It has a small amount (32G) of flash storage in which configuration, logs and keying material is stored. It has no need for bulk storage, and consequently has none. We recommends attaching one of the many packet and session capture tools to it, and we can replicate packets from any ingressing port to that tool which is required. 106 Request you to make this point optional. 13 point 32 / On receipt of all the material at the site as per the terms and conditions of the tender and technical requirements / specifications. 60 ii) On installation, commissioning, acceptance test by C-DOT for the entire material. 20 iii) On successful running the integrated solution for one month from the date of acceptance test. 20 On receipt of all the material at the site as per the terms and conditions of the tender and technical requirements / specifications. 70 ii) On installation, commissioning, acceptance test by C-DOT for the entire material. 20 iii) On successful running the integrated solution for one month from the date of acceptance test

11 14 point 30 last para/ PAYMENT TOWARDS CAMC will not be made upfront. The same shall be made either once in three months or six months or one year as the case may be on submission of an appropriate invoice subject to satisfactory services rendered and accepted by C-DOT. We need to pay AMC charges in advance to the OEM, We request to confirm if the payment per year can be made on submission of BG for the entire AMC value for every year on year at the begining. 108 page 36,39 Point Note: / Note: L1 calculation shall be made for Sl. No. 3 & 4 (Type1 and type2 servers) consolidated. Therefore same OEM/SI should quote for both types of servers. Data Center switches, both types (Sl. No. 6 &7) should be from same OEM for interoperability of Fabric. L1 will be selected based on the combined price of both types of switches from the same bidder/si. Kindly confirm if EMD and one bid can be made for item 3 &4 and for item 6 &7 respectively. Yes, agreed (One EMD for items 3&4 and one for items 6&7) Page No. 43, Point No. B.7 / Interfaces Required: 32x100Gbase- SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards. Interfaces Required: 36x100Gbase-SR4 QSFP28 ports at wire speed (L2 & L3 Both) populated with modules to support OM3/OM4, cabling standards Page No. 43, Point No. B.7 / Flexibility to use any port as 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Page No. 43, Point No. B.8/ Minimum ing bandwidth 6.4 Tbps of wire speed performance. Page No. 43, Point No. D/ Page No. 43, Point No. D/ Page No. 43, Point No. D/ 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. Minimum ing bandwidth 7.2 Tbps of wire speed performance. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes Change in the Specs of RFP 25GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE with optics or breakout cables. 116 Page No. 43, Point No. D.27/ IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet.

12 Page No. 48, Point No. B.7 / IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3by 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. Page No. 49, Point No. D/ Page No. 49, Point No. D/ Page No. 49, Point No. D/ Page No. 35, Point No. 4/ SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 4GB Cache Page No. 35, Point No. 7/ (b) 2 x 10G Electrical RJ45 DC DC DC DC IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T, 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 25 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet. should support VXLAN (RFC7348) and VPN control plane should have buffer of ateast 30 Mb should support MPLS and 1 million ipv4 routes SAS RAID Controller (RAID 5/6) 12Gbps with 2GB Cache Clarification requested Change in Specs. In RFP For 2 GB cache and Type-2 Server 4GB or higher Cache Should support Intelligent Offload, Teaming and MSI/MSI-X features. 123 Page No. 35, Point No. 7/(c) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP 28 optical (FPGA based Napatech card, quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side) 2 x 100G SR-4 QSFP28 optical (Naptech or equivalent card), quotation mandatory with separate price but optional from purchaser side, Napatech and Mellanox or equivalent Card as mentioned are optional items required for testing and comparing the performance for certain application. One can be replaced by other in terms of Qty. depending on the price at the time of placing the order. 124 Page No. 35, Point No. 8 / 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots 6 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots. Change in Specs. In RFP 6 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots Page No. 35, Point No. 8 / (At least 4 Nos. PCIe x8 or above and At least 4 Nos. of PCIe x16 full length, Full Height) To support 100G/200G NIC Page No. 36, Point No. 8 / 1. Integrated Dedicated Remote Management controller (enabled) Remote management solution should support SSL encryption of HTTP traffic) with required license. Page No. 38, Point No. 2/ 1024 GB using 8X128GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank, expandable 2TB Page No. 38, Point No. 3/ (c) 6x8TB SATA HDD 10K (or higher) Page No. 38, Point No. 8 / 8x PCIe Gen 3.0 ( x16 ) I/O expansion slots Page No. 39, Point No. 11/ Rack Mountable with accessories Additional Query (At least 3 Nos. PCIe x8 and At least 3 Nos. of PCIe x16) To support 100G/200G NIC Request to change: "Integrated Management controller (enabled). Remote management solution should support SSL encryption of HTTP traffic with required license" Request to allow: 1024 GB using 16 X 64GB LRDIMM, 2666MT/s, Quad Rank, expandable 6TB 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K (or higher) Change in Specs. In RFP (At least 2Nos. PCIe x16 and 4 Nos. of PCIe x8 full length, Full Height) To support 100G NIC per PCIe slot Change in Specs. In RFP Integrated Out of Band Remote Management controller (enabled). Remote management solution should support SSH and HTTPs protocol with required license. Change in Specs in RFP 8x128GB/16x64GB modules. Scalability should be without discarding the existing module. Change in Specs in RFP 6 x 2TB SFF 12G NL-SAS HDD 7.2K 12 x PCIe Gen 3.0 I/O expansion slots Rack Mountable with accessories (3U/4U) The type-1 & type-2 server does not mentions the requirement of Fiber channel HBA cards

13 132 Additional Query The type-1 & type-2 server does not mentions the requirement of redundancy at the card levels being server configuration to be mission critical. Additional Information No more queries are entertained. All the other terms & conditions remain unaltered The last date of the submission of the bid is on (Upto hrs) Please note tht Techno-Commercial Bids pertaining to Sl.nos. 3 & 4(SERVERS) are now to be submitted in a single bid with Single EMD. Please note tht Techno-Commercial Bids pertaining to Sl.nos. 6 & 7(SWITCHES) are now to be submitted in a single bid with Single EMD. The Price bid must be as per samle format given in Annexure - IVA