ERNET IndiaERNET India Education and Research Network of IndiaEducation and Research Network of India

DILIP BARMANDILIP BARMAN SR. Manager, ERNET SR. Manager, ERNET

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ERNET IndiaERNET India

• National Research & Education Network of India (NREN)

• An Autonomous non-profit organization.

Main Objectives:

–Set up and run a nationwide Academic and Research Network.

–Undertake and promote R&D in the area of computer networking.

Main Objectives:

– Human Resource Development in the area of computer networking.

– Content hosting relating to education and research.

– Registrar for domains- edu.in, res.in & ac.in

ERNET Network

• BackBone network with 15 nos of PoPs all the country.

• GEANT – ERNET Connectivity.

• ERNET Network- GARUDA Network.

• National Knowledge Network (NKN)

ERNET Backbone network

• ERNET is the ERNET operates through Point of Presence (POP) located at premier educational & research institutes

• 15 PoPs at various cities of India• 400 Mbps of Aggregate Internet bandwidth• 100 Mbps connectivity to global research

network through GEANT 2

ERNET Network- GARUDA Network

–National Grid Computing Initiative - GARUDA 

–National initiative  for grid computing as Proof of Concept

–45 institutes connected in 17 cities –2.4 Gbps bandwidth for grid fabric –More than 300 CPU computing

resource available in grid

Grid Computing

ERNET Network

• GEANT – ERNET Connectivity

• Applications over ERNET-GEANT Link 

• Access to LHC grid for Indian scientist • Relay of surgery from Korea & Japan to Tata Memorial Hospital,

Mumbai since Jan 2007 for tele-education • Regular DVTS session during APAN meetings on Healthcare • DVTS session from Delhi on 6 August’08 during APAN-NZ

meeting

National Knowledge Network(NKN)

• Interconnect all National Research & Education• Institutes, Leading National Labs, Colleges etc• • Connect more than 5000 sites across the country• • Serve millions of end-users + eScience Projects• • 3-tier Architecture, partially subsidized by National• funds: Links national, regional and international• initiatives• • The Campus Network• • The NREN• • The International connectivity

NKN Design Philosophy

• Common Network Backbone like national• highway, wherein different categories of

users• shall be supported• • To build a scalable network, which can

expand• both in Reach (spread across the entire• country) and Speed (capacity)

NKN Features

• High Capacity, Highly Scalable Backbone• • Provide Quality of Service (QoS) and Security• • Wide Geographical Coverage• • Bandwidth from Many NLD’s• • Highly Reliable & Available by Design• • Test beds ( for various implementation)• • Dedicated and Owned.• • Connectivity for International & other global R&D

Networks

NKNTOPOLOGY

Applications to show cased

• Countrywide Real Time Classroom (IITs)• • GRID Applications• - Climate Change Modeling (MOES)• - High Energy Physics (DAE/DST/Univ)• - Health (EYE) Grid (Major Hospitals)• - Collab-CAD (NIC/BARC/VSSC)• - Open Source Drug Discovery (CSIR)• • Agriculture• • e-governance

Migrating present Grids to NKN

• LHC regional Grid (DAE/DST)• – 2 X Tier II CMS & ALICE and 14 Universities• • Garuda Grid (C-DAC/DIT)• – 45 institutes in 17 Cities; partially using NKN• • EU-IndiaGrid (European Grid)• – 9 Indian partners and 5 European• • DAE Grid (DAE private Grid)• – Operational with NKN backbone• • International connectivity• – Geant (100 Mbps, EC+DIT)• – TIFR-CERN Link ( 1Gbps, DAE/DST)

SN - EYE CARE

• Tele Medicine• – Diabetic Retinopathy• – Glaucoma• • Tele Education• – Training of Nurses• – Sharing of Pubmed Database• – Current areas of Research Interest• • Sankara Nethralaya (SN) will act as a Nodal

Agency

For further details kindly contact:

• Mr. N. MohanramExecutive Director,ERNET India.Phone : 011 - 2436 3081Fax : 011 - 24362924 E-mail : mohan@eis.ernet.in

Thank YouThank You

ERNET India (NREN of India)

An Autonomous non-profit organization under

Department of Information Technology

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Government of India

New Delhi