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

2. ERNET India Main Objectives Strengths
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

3. ERNET 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

4. ERNET Backbone 4

5. 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,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

7. IPv6 in ERNET ERNET is running IPv4/IPv6 dual stack backbone
Any user in ERNET can be provided IPv6 connectivity

8. Routing 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.

9. Connectivity with European Research Network GEANT

10. ERNET- 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

11. ERNET Connectivity with European Grid
Univ. of Jammu
Panjab Univ. Chandigarh
Delhi
(DU)
Univ. of Raj.
Jaipur
IIT Guwahati
AMU
IIT Kanpur
CAT Indore
VECC
Kolkata
45 Mbps IPLC
Mumbai
IUCAA Pune
IOP
Bhubaneshwar
(TIFR,BARC)
Univ. of Hyderabad
Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network
Connecting 32 European Countries and 28 NRENs
Backbone capacity in the range of: 34Mb/s-10Gb/s
IIT Chennai
ERNET PoPs
VSAT Hub
IISC Banglore
Universities / R&D Institutions
proposed to be connected in
Ist Phase AT BE CH CY CZ HR HU IE IL GR DE 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
Additional Links Proposed
ERNET Backbone Links

12. 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
ERNET
Cloud
INTERNET
6 Mbps
34 Mbps
45 Mbps IPLC
10 Mbps
34 Mbps
34 Mbps

13. 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.

15. 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 IPv6 & IPv4 traffic simultaneously. ERNET can provide IPv6 connectivity to its users.
Internet bandwidth is distributed across the PoPs for redundancy.

16. Thank You