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ERNET India ERNET India Education and Research Network, INDIAEducation and Research Network, INDIA

Ranjan KumarRanjan Kumar

ranjan@eis.ernet.inranjan@eis.ernet.in

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ERNET IndiaERNET 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

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ERNET India Infrastructure HighlightsERNET India Infrastructure Highlights

• 15 Point of presence (POPs) at premier E & R institutions in the country.

• STM-1(155Mbps)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 PoPs• Training Lab for Network administrators and users

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ERNET Backbone

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INTERNET connectivity under various schemesINTERNET 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,IP,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

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IPv6 in ERNETIPv6 in ERNET

• ERNET is running IPv4/IPv6 dual stack backbone

• Any user in ERNET can be provided IPv6 connectivity

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Routing in ERNETRouting in ERNET

• Each ERNET PoP is connected to one or more upstream internet service provider e.g. Reliance, Bharti.

• ERNET PoPs at Delhi , Mumbai, kolkata & Chennai have peering with NIXI ( Network Internet Exchnage of India).

• ERNET PoP at C-DAC Mumbai has peering with European Research Network GEANT.

• Routing information between various PoPs is exchanged through OSPF.

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Connectivity with European Connectivity with European Research Network GEANTResearch Network GEANT

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ERNET- GEANT ConnectivityERNET- GEANT Connectivity

• To provide direct connection between the two region to support current & potential co-operative research between two regions.

• Share each others resources.

• Regular IP traffic between ERNET & GEANT

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• Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network• Connecting 32 European Countries and 28 NRENs• Backbone capacity in the range of: 34Mb/s-10Gb/s

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BE

CH

CY

CZ

HR

HU

IE

IL

GRDE

DK

EE

ES

FI

FR

Austria

Germany

Belgium

Cyprus

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

Spain

Greece

France IS

IT

LT

LU

LV

MT

NL

NO

PL

PT

RO

SE

SI

SK

Croatia

Hungary

Ireland

Israel

Iceland

Italy

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Latvia

Norway

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

TR

UK United Kingdom

Turkey

Univ. of Jammu

Panjab Univ. Chandigarh

Univ. of Raj.Jaipur

(TIFR,BARC)

IUCAA Pune

CAT Indore

IISC Banglore

IIT Chennai

Univ. of Hyderabad

IOP

Kolkata

IIT GuwahatiAMU

Mumbai

Bhubaneshwar

VECC

IIT Kanpur

(DU)Delhi

Universities / R&D Institutions proposed to be connected in Ist Phase

ERNET PoPs

45 Mbps IPLC

ERNET Backbone Links

Additional Links Proposed

ERNET Connectivity with ERNET Connectivity with European GridEuropean Grid

VSAT Hub

VPN Cloud connecting Punjab University, DU, Viswabharti Shanti Niketan

DANTE POP AT ITALY

TIFR MUMBAI

ERNET POP AT CDAC MUMBAI

BARC MUMBAI

VECC VECC, KOLKATA

VPN Cloud connecting Punjab University, Aligarh University, University of Rajasthan, Jammu University, Institute of Physics

ERNETCloud

INTERNETCloud

45 Mbps IPLC

6 Mbps

34 Mbps

10 Mbps

34 Mbps34 Mbps

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GARUDA NETWORKGARUDA 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.

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SummarySummary

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 IPv6 & IPv4 traffic simultaneously. ERNET can provide IPv6 connectivity to its users.

• Internet bandwidth is distributed across the PoPs for redundancy.

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