ERNET India Education and Research Network INDIA Ranjan

ERNET India Education and Research Network, INDIA Ranjan Kumar ranjan@eis. ernet. in 1

ERNET India • Main Objectives – Set up and run a nationwide Network for Academic and Research community in India. – Undertake and promote Research & Development (R&D) in the area of computer networking. – Human resource Development in the area of computer networking. – Host content in various disciplines for users in the education and research institutions. – Domain Registration under ernet. in, ac. in, res. in and edu. in • Strengths – Support of Academic community – Connectivity through any media. – Reliable infrastructure 2

ERNET India Infrastructure Highlights • 15 Point of presence (POPs) at premier E & R institutions in the country. • STM-1(155 Mbps)Ready Fiber-Optic Backbone • Satellite Hub in C-band at Bangalore : § Beaming 3 Transponder of 36 MHz • Secure Network Infrastructure • State of the art Network Control Centres at ERNET Po. Ps • Training Lab for Network administrators and users 3

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INTERNET connectivity under various schemes UGC Infonet • 152 universities connected over ERNET backbone. Scalable network • Multimedia capabilities for video conferencing and distance learning • ICAR Net • A total of 277 institutions connected. Network to support applications such as VOIP, FAX, Video conferencing. • NVS Net • NVS Head quarters at New Delhi, 200 schools, 8 regional centres & 5 Training Centers • AICTE Net • Connectivity to AICTE recognized colleges and regional centers. A total of 48 institutions connected. Very Large potential 5

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IPv 6 in ERNET • ERNET is running IPv 4/IPv 6 dual stack backbone • Any user in ERNET can be provided IPv 6 connectivity 7

Routing in ERNET • Each ERNET Po. P is connected to one or more upstream internet service provider e. g. Reliance, Bharti. • ERNET Po. Ps at Delhi , Mumbai, kolkata & Chennai have peering with NIXI ( Network Internet Exchnage of India). • ERNET Po. P at C-DAC Mumbai has peering with European Research Network GEANT. • Routing information between various Po. Ps is exchanged through OSPF. 8

Connectivity with European Research Network GEANT 9

ERNET- GEANT Connectivity • To provide direct connection between the two region to support current & potential cooperative research between two regions. • Share each others resources. • Regular IP traffic between ERNET & GEANT 10

ERNET Connectivity with European Grid Univ. of Jammu Panjab Univ. Chandigarh Delhi Univ. of Raj. Jaipur (DU) IIT Guwahati AMU IIT Kanpur CAT Indore 45 Mbps IPLC Mumbai IUCAA Pune (TIFR, BARC) VECC Kolkata IOP Bhubaneshwar Univ. of Hyderabad • Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network IIT Chennai • Connecting 32 European Countries and 28 NRENs VSAT Hub • Backbone capacity in the range of: 34 Mb/s-10 Gb/s AT Austria DK Denmark BE Belgium EE Estonia HU Hungary LU Luxembourg CH Switzerland ES Spain IE Ireland LV Latvia RO Romania CY Cyprus FI Finland IL Israel MT Malta SE Sweden France IS Iceland NL Netherlands SI Slovenia GR Greece IT Italy NO Norway SK Slovakia CZ Czech Republic FR DE Germany HR Croatia LT Lithuania PL Poland PT Portugal IISC Banglore ERNET Po. Ps Universities / R&D Institutions proposed to be connected in Ist Phase Additional Links Proposed ERNET Backbone Links TR Turkey UK United Kingdom 11

VPN Cloud connecting Punjab University, DU, Viswabharti Shanti Niketan ERNET Cloud 6 Mbps 34 Mbps DANTE POP AT ITALY 45 Mbps IPLC ERNET POP AT CDAC MUMBAI 34 Mbps INTERNET Cloud VECC, KOLKATA 10 Mbps 34 Mbps VPN Cloud connecting Punjab University, Aligarh University, University of Rajasthan, Jammu University, Institute of Physics BARC MUMBAI TIFR MUMBAI 12

GARUDA NETWORK • GARUDA is a collaboration of Science researchers and experimenters on nation wide computational Grid having hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high end computational capabilities. • GARUDA has a total backbone capacity of 2. 4 Gbps. • It connects a total of 45 institutes in 17 cities across India. • 22 Institutes have been connected at 100 Mbps and 23 institutes at 10 Mbps bandwidth. • GARUDA is being used for applications in the field of Bio-Informatics, Weather Forecasting, Astronomy, Earthquake etc. 13

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Summary ERNET (Education and Research Network) was the first dedicated and integrated step towards encouraging and enabling the research and education community in the country. • Recently the backbone for ERNET India has been redesigned as per the requirement for deployment of MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) in ERNET backbone. • Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) has been deployed over ERNET India’s backbone. Deployment of MPLS has enabled ERNET India to offer its users MPLS VPN services. • The backbone of ERNET is dual stack. It means ERNET backbone can support IPv 6 & IPv 4 traffic simultaneously. ERNET can provide IPv 6 connectivity to its users. • Internet bandwidth is distributed across the Po. Ps for redundancy. 15

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