October, 2015
Experience life with 1000000000 bps Page 2 Former President Smt. Pratibha Devi Patil inaugurating the NKN Project on 9 th April 2009
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 3
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 4
Introduction Key Highlights of NKN NKN is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-india network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in the country An idea from Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India (GoI) National Informatics Centre (NIC) designated as Project Execution Agency GoI approved budget of INR 5990 Crore (USD 1 billion) for NKN in March, 2010 Allocation of INR 48 Crore (USD 7.7 million) for implementation of Pilot phase of NKN Will connect Research & Development, educational, health, and agricultural institutes 1500+ institutes to be connected; connectivity has been extended to 1330 institutes 9 th April 2009: Hon ble President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil inaugurated NKN Project. On this day the status was: 16 PoPs 26 Backbone Links 57 Edge Links 5th March, 2011: Hon ble Minister for communications and IT, Shri Kapil Sibal and Hon ble Minister of State for Communications and IT, Shri Sachin Pilot launched Logo and Website of NKN 31 PoPs 76 Backbone Links 216 Edge Links Page 5
Introduction Management Overview NKN End User Connectivity Policy High Level Committee Executive Committee Technical Advisory Committee Security Advisory Committee Model Projects Evaluation Committee Department of Electronics & IT National Informatics Centre National Informatics Centre Services Inc. Implementation Page 6
NKN Connectivity National Labs CDAC/DAE/ISRO/ CSIR/ICAR/MoES Educational Institutions Security Agencies National Internet Exchange Points (NIXI) INTERNET NKN EDUSAT IIT/IIM/NIT/ Universities (Central, State) / IISER/IISc. Connections to Global Networks (e.g. GEANT/TEIN4) Medical Colleges/ Hospitals/ National / State ICMR Data Centers/ Networks Page 7
NKN SUPER CORE MUMBAI BENGALURU DELHI HYDERABAD CHENNAI GUWAHATI KOLKATA
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Key Services Special Community Generic NKN Special VPN (L2) VPN (L3) VPN Service Multicast Streaming *These services may be through a CUG as well Community e-mail List Software (LISTSERV) Authentication Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Collaboration Service Content Delivery International Collaborations with EU-India Grid Generic Internet e-mail e-mail GW DNS - NKN DNS - Security for NKN Users Web Hosting VoIP MCU based Video Portal SMS GW Co-Location (PaaS & SaaS) Page 10
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 11
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 12
Status of NKN Connectivity (As on September 30, 2015) Particulars 2015 Super Core PoPs 07 Core PoPs 24 Total number of institutes to be allocated under NKN 1500 No of Institutes Commissioned under NKN 1081 Total Institutes commissioned 1449 (including 368 NMEICT institutes) Total no of core links allotted ( more details in table below) 91 Total no of district links allotted (more details in table below) 518 (Total 860 to be allocated) TSP Core links (Comm.) Core Links Number of Commissioned Links BSNL 31 1G 0; 2.5G 20; 10G 11 TSP TSP wise status NKN Institutes (Allotted) NKN Institutes (Commissioned/Remaining) RAILTEL 26 1G 02; 2.5G 00; 10G 24 PGCIL 33 1G 0; 2.5G 0 10G 33 TSP Dist. Links (Allotted) District Links Links (Commissioned) RAILTEL 134 127 PGCIL 121 91 BSNL 263 212 BSNL 210 175/35 RAILTEL 454 383/71 PGCIL 427 379/48 MTNL 79 70/09 NKN 107 74/33 Page 13
Virtual Classrooms At IITs and other institutes over NKN. Ø Total of 66 virtual classrooms are being created over NKN Ø 43 Virtual Classrooms have been created at IITs and NIC Ø 23 additional virtual classrooms at NITs, IISC, IISER etc Page 14
Virtual Classrooms Page 15
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 16
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 17
NKN Connectivity & TEIN4 The figure shows the network expanse of TEIN and connec8vity with other networks around the World. Barring the excep8on of Maldives, the SAARC na8ons comprising Afghanistan (yet to start but have signed the MoU, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are members of TEIN network. Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka connect to TEIN via NKN at Mumbai (Belapur) while Pakistan connects to TEIN via Singapore. The Internal Research Educa8on Network of each one of the country is like BdREN in Bangladesh, DrukREN in Bhutan, NREN in Nepal, PERN2 in Pakistan, AfgREN in Afghanistan, and NKN in India, LEARN in Sri Lanka, Maldives (REN does not seem to exist). Page 18
NKN & Internet2 To enhance: Research and Innovation Education Agriculture Public Health Fine Arts and Culture Business Free and Open Internet (NKN) and Internet2 signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 29 th April 2015 that will create a robust collaboration program between the two national research and education (R&E) networks. The NKN-Internet2 partnership will provide a better platform for collaborative work. The Internet2/NKN partnership will be based on a working group structure composed of NKN collaborators and Internet2 members Centered on the core cooperation themes of education, personalized medicine, and harmonization of research and education network infrastructure. Page 19
Internet2 Community 221 Higher Ed members 71 Affiliate members 37 R&E Network members 55 Industry members 100+ Int l partners 66,000+ Community anchor insituions Page 20
US-based International Exchange Points Internet2 US-based Exchange Points StarLight, Chicago IL MAN LAN, New York NY WIX, McLean, VA AtlanticWave (distributed) AMPATH, Miami FL PacificWave-S, Los Angeles CA PacificWave-N, Seattle WA Page 21
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 22
Agenda Agenda a Introduction b Current Status c Connectivity with TEIN4 & Other International Site Page 23