ERNET India
Education and Research Network of India
DILIP BARMAN
SR. Manager, ERNET
ERNET India
• National Research & Education
Network of India (NREN)
• An Autonomous non-profit
organization.
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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)
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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
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• • To build a scalable network, which can
expand
• both in Reach (spread across the entire
• country) and Speed (capacity)
NKN Features
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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
NKN
TOPOLOGY
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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
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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
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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. Mohanram
Executive Director,
ERNET India.
Phone : 011 - 2436 3081
Fax : 011 - 24362924
E-mail : [email protected]
Thank 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