ERNET INDIA

http://www.eis.ernet.in/RnD.htm#o8

Research and Development in the area of computer networking has been the forte of ERNET. Current areas of interest are high-speed networking, network   management, ATM, digital libraries, electronic publishing and multimedia. The R&D efforts initiated by ERNET core groups have resulted in product development and technology transfer to the industry.

Ongoing R&D projects
	Wide area ‘Quality of Service Network Testbed’
	“Bringing Europe’s electronics infrastructure to expanding frontiers”
	Setting up of vocational centers for skill creation for the disabled children in the area of Information Technology
	Planet Lab test bed
	EU-India Grid
	GEANT
	GARUDA
	Community Information Centres – Vidyavahini (CIC-VVs)
	Mobile IPv6
R&D projects Undertaken during the last four years
	ASEAN India Digital Archive
	Instruction on Demand
	NETMASTER (Bandwidth manager)
	Network Monitoring Tool (NMT)
	Establishment of IPv6 enabled test bed at ERNET

	To build and promote an effective Communication network Platform to forge alliances between academics & industries;
	To identify key application areas on grid-based and other ‘electronic infrastructures’.
	To identify the main technological and other challenges in bringing electronic infrastructures to serve the corresponding applications.
	To develop, maintain and populate a Multimedia Digital Library;
	To deliver Network Workshops, and participate & organize conferences, exchange knowledge;
	To publish technical report relating to research issues, polarizing the interests of the GRID infrastructure etc;
	Attract and develop relationship with Industry community to bring them on GRID platform

Following Courses for inculcating the computer literacy, enhancing the skills and providing job-oriented training to the disabled children to obtain employment in the IT and IT enabled service industry.

	Computer Operation & Access Technology
	Computer Application & Access Technology
	Special course on IT Enabled Service industry-Call Centre/BPO.

The 18 ICT vocational centers have already been established in Tamil Nadu and Delhi for blind and deaf students

The computer lab at the vocational centre equipped with computers/Server, Brail Printer; Scanner Screen Reader, Specialized software – Web Software, CCTV with Screen Magnifier for blind, listening devices for deaf and 256Kbps Internet connectivity

M/s Ability Foundation, Chennai has been engaged to train the teachers and students of the school in Tamil Nadu as well as children from nearby areas of schools. The ability foundation has already initiated training of teachers from schools for disabled from April 2006.

Inter-operability testing of IPv6 enabled Cisco Routers with Juniper Routers. 

Test the basic IPv6 mobility. Create and maintain an issue list that is generated on the basis of testing.

Test Mobile IPv6 deployment and transition issues in the presence of IPv4/IPv6 networks.

To develop, maintain and populate a Multimedia Digital Library;

Test the Mobile IPv6 functionality for data and VoIP applications in LAN environment WiFi environment and WiMax environment.

 

For further details kindly contact:

Dr. Gulshan Rai
Executive Director,
ERNET India.
Phone : 011 – 2436 3081
Fax : 011 – 24362924
E-mail : grai@eis.ernet.in

ERNET India is under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Project Abstract

ERNET and IIT Kanpur embark on a prestigious initiative to implement IPv6 on the ERNET Backbone for the first time in India.

The project is funded by Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India.

Key Milestones

• April 15, 2005 – IPv6 Multicasting has been tested between ERNET Delhi and IIT Kanpur using VideoLAN software.
• April 5, 2005 – All 9 PoP backbone routers have been upgraded to support additional load of IPv6 routing.
• Jan 15, 2005 – DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at VECC Kolkata PoP.
• Dec 23, 2004 -DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at Univ. of Hyderabad PoP.
• Nov 29, 2004 – DNS Server and Mail Server has been installed at IIT Chennai PoP.
• Nov 20, 2004 – DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at ERNET VSAT HUB Banglore PoP.

Key Milestones April 15, 2005 IPv6 Multicasting has been tested between ERNET Delhi and IIT Kanpur using VideoLAN software. April 5, 2005 All 9 PoP backbone routers have been upgraded to support additional load of IPv6 routing. Jan 15, 2005 DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at VECC Kolkata PoP. Dec 23, 2004 DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at Univ. of Hyderabad PoP. Nov 29, 2004 DNS Server and Mail Server has been installed at IIT Chennai PoP. Nov 20 , 2004 DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at ERNET VSAT HUB Banglore PoP . Oct 30, 2004 DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at IISc Banglore PoP. Oct 15, 2004 DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at IUCAA Pune PoP. Sept 23 , 2004 DNS Server and Mail Server have been installed at CDAC Mumbai PoP. Aug 30, 2004 Email transfer over IPv6 protocol has been successfully tested between IIT Kanpur and ERNET Delhi. July 20, 2004 One DNS Server and Mail Server is also configured at ERNET Delhi HQ. July 15, 2004 Email transfer over IPv6 protocol has been successfully tested. July 11, 2004 IPv6 enabled Mail Server has also been configured. July 5,  2004 IPv6 enabled DNS Server has been configured June 30, 2004 One IPv6 test lab has been estalished at IIT Kanpur for regrious testing of Dual Stack routing over ERNET Backbone. June 10, 2004 OSPFv3 routing has been successfully enabled between 6 PoPs location of ERNET. Ping and Traceroute are working beetween theses PoPs. May 29, 2004 IISC Banglore also has been upgraded with new Cisco IOS May 15, 2004 ERNET VSAT Hub has been upgraded with new Cisco IOS May 5,  2004 CDAC-Mumbai and Pune has been updgraded to support IPv6 and Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Routing has been enabled. April 29, 2004 Basic IPv6 and OSPFv3 testing started on Kanpur and Delhi routers. April 3,  2004 IPv6 compliant IOS has been upgraded on ERNET Delhi and IIT Kanpur PoP routers.

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ERNET India is an autonomous scientific society under Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India. ERNET has made a significant contribution to the emergence of networking in the country. It practically brought the Internet to India and has built up national capabilities in the area of net-working, especially in protocol software engineering. It has not only succeeded in building a large network that provides various facilities to the intellectual segment of Indian society–the research and education community, it has over the years become a trendsetter in the field of networking. UNDP has lauded ERNET as one of the most successful programmes it has funded. The Govt. of India has committed itself to further strengthen the project by including it in the 9th Plan with the allocation of funds and by creation of a new organisational set-up in the form of a Society. The Science community of the country has also recognized ERNET’s contribution–both for infrastructure services as well as for R&D. The Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet has adopted ERNET as the platform for launching an S&T network in the country.

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is engaged in carrying out original research of significance and technology development at the cutting edge.It imparts training to students so that they become competent and motivated engineers and scientists. The Institute celebrates freedom of thought, cultivates vision and encourages growth, but also inculcates human values and concern for the environment and the society. The Institute awards Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in various branches of technology and science. It has been making special efforts to recruit talented faculty on a world-wide basis and to admit bright students from all over the country by a careful selection process (JEE). The Institute has about 1450 undergraduate and 850 postgraduate students, 300 faculty, and more than 1500 supporting staff. It has one of the finest scientific & technological library with an online information retrieval system over the campus LAN.

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MEMBERS

ERNET Delhi Team

Deepak Singh (Project Coordinator)
Tarun Arora (Project Co-Coordinator)

IIT Kanpur Team

Dheeraj Sanghi (Project Coordinator)
Navpreet Singh (Project Co-Coordinator)
Deepak Sharma (Project Associate)

Deepak Singh Principle Project Coordinator ERNET India, Electronics Niketan 6, CGO Complex, New Delhi – 110 003 Tel:- +91-11-24361701 Fax:- +91-11-24362924 deepak@eis.ernet.in http://www.eis.ernet.in/	Tarun Arora Project Co-Coordinator ERNET India, Electronics Niketan 6, CGO Complex, New Delhi – 110 003 Tel:- +91-11-24363379 Fax:- +91-11-24362924 tarun@eis.ernet.in http://www.eis.ernet.in/
Dheeraj Sanghi Principle Project Coordinator Head Computer Center, IIT Kanpur, India – 208016 Tel:- +91-512-2597077/2597252 Fax:- +91-512-2590413 dheeraj@iitk.ac.in http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/dheeraj /index.html	Navpreet Singh Project Coordinator Network Group, Computer Center, IIT Kanpur, India – 208016. Tel:- +91-512-2597371/2590697 Fax:- +91-512-2590413 navi@iitk.ac.in http://home.iitk.ac.in/~navi/

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 RESOURCES

Documents

• IPv6 Design document 
• IPv6 Addressing Design Document
• 7206VXR Router IOS upgrade Guide
• Report on Establishment of IPv6 Test Bed at ERNET

Online References

• IPv6
• IPng Current Specifications
• IPv6 Forum India

IPv6 Workshop at IIT,Kanpur

• IPv6 Tutorial by Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi Head,Computer Center,IIT Kanpur.  
• Some Interesting Research Experiments in IPv6-based Internetworking by Prof.Rahul Banerjee,BITS Pilani.
• Implementation of IPv6 in ERNET by Mr.Deepak Singh,Director ERNET India.
• Talk by Ansar Pasha CISCO SYSTEMS
• IPv6 Host Configuration and Application Server Implementation by Mr.Deepak Sharma,IIT Kanpur
• IPv6 DHCP and IPv6 Multicasting by Mr.Santosh Yadav & Miss Kaveri Bhaumik,IIT Kanpur.
• Demo Session by Mr.Deepak Sharma(IIT Kanpur)&Mr.Tarun Arora(ERNET Delhi)

Misc.

• Linux+IPv6-HOWTO

____________________________________________________________________hat’s New

IPv6 has been implemented on ERNET backbone since 5th April 2005.

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Contact US

 

Deepak Singh Principle Project Coordinator, Sr. Manager ERNET India , Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi – 110 003 India Tel:- +91-11-24361701 Fax:- +91-11-24362924 Email:-deepak@eis.ernet.in

Dheeraj Sanghi Principle Project Coordinator Head Computer Center IIT Kanpur, India – 208016 Tel:- +91-512-2597077/2597252 Fax:- +91-512-2590413 Email:-dheeraj@iitk.ac.in