National Knowledge Network

Agenda

► Introduction
► Key Highlights
► National Knowledge Network Evolution
► 9th April, 2009
► 5th February, 2011
► Current Status
► Technical Overview
► NKN Services
► NKN Infrastructure
► NKN Connectivity to Medical Institutions
► NKN: On Conclusion of Final Phase

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 Introduction
► An idea from Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt. of India
and National Knowledge Commission.
Commission For the execution of National
Knowledge Network (NKN), following committees were formed:
► High Level Committee (HLC)
► T h i l Advisory
Technical Ad i C
Committee
itt (TAC)
► NKN will connect Educational Institutes, R&D institutions, Health
service facilities, Agricultural
g institutions and Libraries of the country
y
► In March 2010, Government of India allocated a budget of INR 5990
Crore for the Implementation of NKN
► Implementation plan was finalized by TAC under the guidance of HLC
► National Informatics Centre (NIC) was appointed as the Project
Execution Agency (PEA)
► In Phase – I NKN plans to connect 550+ institutions by March, 2011
► On Conclusion of the final Phase NKN would have connected 1500+
institutions
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 Key Highlights
► NKN will provide a common platform to the scientists, researchers,
doctors scholars and students to work together for advancing human
doctors,
development.
► NKN shall be a knowledge base for revolutionizing the education
system
t off country
t
► The architecture of NKN has been designed for reliability, availability
& scalability
y
► The network consists of an ultra-high speed core, starting with
multiple 2.5/10 G and progressively moving towards 40/100 Gigabits
per Second (Gbps)
► The core is complimented with a distribution layer covering all districts
at appropriate speeds
► The participating institutions at the edge would seamlessly connect to
NKN at Gigabit per second speed.

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 National Knowledge Network Evolution
9th April,
April 2009
► Hon’ble President of India, Smt.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil
inaugurates the National
Knowledge Network on 9th
April, 2009

► Points of Presence (PoP) : 16

► Backbone Links : 26
► Edge links : 57

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 National Knowledge Network Evolution
5th February,
February 2011
► Hon’ble Minister for
communications and IT, IT Shri
Kapil Sibal and Hon’ble
Minister of State for
Communications and IT, Shri
Sachin Pilot launched the Logo
and Website for the National
Knowledge Network on 5th
February 2011
February,

► Points of Presence (PoP) : 31

► Backbone Links : 76
► Edge links : 200

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 National Knowledge Network Evolution
Current Status
Particulars 2011 Final Phase
Super Core PoPs 7 7
Core PoPs 16 24
Distribution PoPs 0 550
Edge PoPs 550+ 1500+
Name of TSPs BSNL MTNL RAILTEL PGCIL TOTAL BSNL MTNL RAILTEL PGCIL TOTAL

Target 9 0 9 11 29
Super
p Core links
C
Connected 7 0 9 11 27 Targets for year 2011 and 2012
are the same for super core
Target 21 0 17 22 60 and core links
Core links
Connected 14 0 17 19 50
Target 334 32 106 93 565 NA NA NA NA 1500
Edge locations
Connected 36 13 77 79 205 NA NA NA NA 1500
Distribution Target 0 0 0 0 0 NA NA NA NA 550
locations Connected 0 0 0 0 0 NA NA NA NA 550
Edge locations Target NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
with double links Co
Connected
ec ed 1 1 9 4 15 1 1 9 4 15

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 Technical Overview

► The backbone of the network starts from 2.5 Gbps and progressively
mo es onto 10 Gbps connectivity
moves connecti it between
bet een 7 Supercore
S percore (fully
(f ll
meshed) locations across India.
► The network is further spread out through Core locations with multiple
of 2.5/10 Gbps partially meshed connectivity with Supercore
locations.
► The network architecture and governance structure allows users with
options to connect to the distribution layer as well.
► For special interest groups, NKN enables Virtual Private Networks
► NKN provides international connectivity to its users for global
collaborative research. Presently, NKN is connected to:
► Trans Eurasia Information Network (TEIN3)
► Similar connectivity to GLORIAD network is in the pipeline

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 Technical Overview
MPLS Services: Multicast VPNs

Multicast Source
TIFR
IIT D
Multicast M lti
Multicast
tRReceiver
i
in the
core
IIT B IIT H
MPLS VPN Network

BARC
C
VSC Receiver

Multicast VRF CAT

Multicast Source

IIT M

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 NKN Services
Service
S.No Description
Type
VPN (L2), VPN (L3), P2P (L2), P2P (L3), VPN
1 Special Switching Service

* These services may be through a CUG as well

Shared Storage, e-Mail List Software Application

(LISTSERV) Authentication Service,
(LISTSERV), Service EVO,
EVO Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP), Collaboration Service,
2 Community
Content Delivery Service, International Collaborations
with EU-India
EU India Grid, Global Ring Network for Advanced
Applications Development (GLORIAD) etc.
Internet, e-Mail, International Services (SS, CS), e-
Mail Gateway
Gateway, DNS - NKN,NKN DNS - Security for NKN
3 Generic Users, Web Hosting, VoIP, MCU based Video Portal,
SMS Gateway, Co-Location Services (CPU,
Applications & Application Services)

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 NKN Infrastructure
► Creation of Virtual Classrooms at IITs Over NKN
► 38 Virtual Classrooms are being created at I5 IITs
► 26 Virtual Classrooms are fully ready and 12 are under preparation
► All Virtual Classrooms are equipped with state-of-the-art high end teaching cum
learningg infrastructure
IIT, Bhubaneswar IIT, Gandhinagar

IIT, Mandi IIT, Ropar

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 NKN Infrastructure
► 23 Additional Virtual Classrooms being developed at:
► Indian Institute of Science (IISC)
► National Institute of Technology (NIT)
► Indian Institutes of Science, Education & Research (IISER)
► Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI)
► TIFR Centre for applicable Mathematics

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 NKN Connectivity to Medical Institutions
► NKN will enable doctors, scientists across the country to work in the
critical and emerging areas of medical field.
► In Phase-I, out of 550 institutes 58 medical institutions are getting
connected with NKN
► In Phase-II, a total of 244 institutions are getting connected.

Phase-I Phase-II

Medical Institutions
58 244
(Medical + ICMR)

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 Some of the Medical Institutes/ hospitals
connected to NKN

► Sanjay
j y Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical
Sciences, Lucknow
► Regional
g Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
p
► National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi
► Central Drugg Research Institute,, Lucknow
► Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi

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 NKN: On Conclusion of Final Phase

► At the conclusion of the final

phase NKN shall have presence
phase,
in more than 500 districts of India
with connectivity to major
research and education
institutions.

► Points of Presence (PoP) : 31

► Backbone Links : 89
► Edge links : 1500

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 Thank You

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