Education and Research Network (ERNET)
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ERNET, India is an autonomous scientific society of Ministry of information technology (Govt. of India). ERNET is largest nationwide terrestrial and satellite network with point of presence located at the premiere educational and research institutions in major cities of the country. The activities at ERNET India are organized around five technology focus areas:
- National Academic and Research Network
- Research and Development in the area of Data Communication and its Application
- Human Resource Development in the area of High-end Networking; Educational Content
- Campus-wide High Speed Local Area Network
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ERNET backbone
ERNET backbone is a sophisticated link of terrestrial and satellite-based wide area networks. The satellite WAN, using VSAT technology. The VSAT network acts as an overlay for the terrestrial WAN by providing backup links between the backbone sites. International connectivity is achieved through gateways at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata, with a total capacity of 6.64 Mb. Daily traffic over ERNET exceeds 20 GB. ERNET architecture is based on industry standard TCP/IP protocol.
ERNET backbone is being enabled to support IPv6. The advantages of IPv6 are following Larger address space (128 bit addressing)
- Plug and play (Auto-configuartion)
- Auto neighbor discovery
- Aggregation of routes (Super netting and Sub netting)
- Better IP header management
- Quality of service (Flow Labellings Capability)
- Inbuilt security features (Authentication and Security)
ERNET international gateway and PoP sites
The ERNET is supported by the following backbone sites which enable organizations located at different geographical locations to access various services
- ERNET Head Quarter, New Delhi
- Center for Development of Advance Software Computing, Mumbai
- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
- Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkatta
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- University of Hyderabad.
- Center for Advance Technology, Indore
- Orissa Computer Application Centre, Bhubneshwar
- Indian Institute of Information Technology & Mangement – Kerala (IIITM-K), Trivandrum
- DOEACC Center, Gorakhpur
- Indian Institute of Technology , Guwahati
- ERNET VSAT HUB, Bangalore
IIITM-Kerala, Point of Presence site, ERNET, India
The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Kerala, (IIITM-K) was established in 2000 by the Government of Kerala as Kerala’s premier institution of higher learning in the area of Information Technology and allied fields. Presently, IIITM-Kerala is handling the responsibility of a node of ERNET in Kerala. According to MOU signed between ERNET India and IIITM-K
- IIITM-K will share with ERNET the responsibility for maintaining quality of service (QOS) of ERNET in the area handled by IIITM-K.
- IIITM-K will provide ERNET connectivity to research and educational institutions as per the charter of the society and the membership guidelines.
- IIITM-K shall nominate a permanent faculty as the person in-charge of the PoP
ERNET, India have installed a PoP at IIITM-K, in terms of equipment and links with 2Mbps bandwidth. The cost of the equipment, the links and bandwidth is paid by ERNET India in full.
There are following equipment have been installed by ERNET India at IIITM-K, PoP site,
| Product | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Router Cisco 3845 | 1 |
| Switch Cisco 2950 | 1 |
| ASA Primary Box Cisco 5520 | 1 |
| ASA Secondary Box Cisco 5520 | 1 |
| Server-I-WEB/DNS | 1 |
| Server-II-Mail | 1 |
| Server-III-Proxy | 1 |
| KVM Switch | 1 |
| Rack-APW 42U | 1 |
| Monitor-Wipro | 1 |
| Keyboard-Wipro | 1 |
| Mouse-Wipro | 1 |
| HWIC-4EWS Four Slot Ethernet Switch Interface card | 1 |
Brief Summary of ERNET equipments
Router Cisco 3845
The Cisco 3845 Integrated Services Router provides the following support:
- Wire-speed performance for concurrent services such as security and voice , and advanced services at full T3/E3 rates
- Enhanced protection through increased performance and modularity
- Increased density through High-Speed WAN Interface Card Slots (four)
- Enhanced Network Module Slot
- Support for over 90 existing and new modules
- Integrated GE ports with copper and fiber support
- Optional Layer 2 switching support with Power over Ethernet (PoE) (as an option) , supports the 36-port Cisco EtherSwitch module (NMD-36ESW)
- Security
- On-board encryption
- Support of up to 2500 VPN tunnels
- Antivirus defense support through Network Admission Control (NAC)
- Intrusion Prevention as well as stateful Cisco IOS Firewall support and many more essential security features
- Voice
- Analog and digital voice call support
- Optional voice mail support
- Optional support for Cisco CallManager Express for local call processing in stand alone business for up to 240 IP Phones
- Optional support for Survivable Remote Site Telephony support for local call processing in small enterprise branch offices for up to 720 IP phones
