NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK:

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Presented by Prof. S. V. Raghavan, IIT Madras

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  Computational Resource Access

  Critical Mass of Scientists in Key Areas

  Common Country-wide Classrooms

  Increased Peer Group Interaction

  Data Bases Sharing Online

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Application Requiring High Bandwidth
  Virtual Laboratories
  Collaborative Mega Science Projects
  Innovative Info-Bio-Nano Experiments
  Non-invasive Medicare for Diseases like Cancer
  Diagnostic Domes as Public Health Centers in Rural Areas
  Country-wide Classroom
  University without Walls
  Voice Conferencing among Researchers
  Video Conferencing among Researchers
  On-line access to Electronic Resources
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Life @ 10 Gbps
  Scenario #1: Education
  Scenario #2: Research

  Scenario #3: HealthCare

  Scenario #4: Governance

  Scenario #5: FarmCare

  Scenario #6: HPC: Weather Modeling

Contemporary INDIA
  Large and Complex Democracy
  More than a Billion people (80% lives in villages)

  Large population is YOUNG!

  Federal structure with 35 states and Union

Territories
  Growing Economy

  Global Presence
Networking Scenario in INDIA
  Large number of networking initiatives with limited
scope in each sector
  NICNET (Government Information)

  ERNET (Education)

  GARUDA (Grid Computing)

  ANUNET

  SPACENET

  SWANs (35 in number)

  Each one covers a specific application domain)

Synergize, Integrate, Leverage…
  Objective of NKN is to build a national highway to enable
different initiatives to leverage the common infrastructure
  NICNET – being the oldest and widest in geographical
coverage – having over 100 Mbps in CORE and 2/8 in
EDGES is being upgraded for INITIAL Phase of NKN in
order to present a turf for all to experiment with
applications
  60 – 70 institutions of higher learning and high end scientific
research are being connected NOW.
  The CORE is 2.5/10 Gbps and EDGES 100 Mbps/1 Gbps.
NKN Design Philosophy

  To build a scalable network, which can expand both

in the Reach (spread in the country) and Speed.

  To be a common Network Backbone like national

highway, wherein different categories of users shall
be supported.
Features NKN
  High Capacity, Highly Scalable Backbone
  Provide Quality of Service (QoS) and Security
  Wide Geographical Coverage
  Common Standard Platform
  Bandwidth from Many NLD’s
  Highly Reliable & Available by Design
  Test beds ( for various implementation)
  Dedicated and Owned.
NKN TOPOLOGY
 Educational
Institutions Cert-IN

Research Labs
CSIR/DAE/ISRO/ICAR

EDUSAT
National
Internet
Exchange
Points (NIXI)
NKN MPLS
Clouds

INTERNET
Broad Band
Connections to
Clouds
Global Networks
(e.g. GEANT)
National / State
Data Centers
 Some of the Major Applications of NKN

Applications Acronym Technology Feature

Country-Wide Class Multicast,
CWCR Real time interaction
Room Streaming

Agriculture AGR Web Services Scalability & Reach

High bandwidth &

Telemedicine TLMED P2P
Low latency

Storage High availability &

E-Governance E-Gov
Technology High reliability

Grid Computing
GC-CM Grid Technology High Performance
(Climate Modeling)
Constraints, Realities, International
Experience
  No Single NLD is covering throughout the country

  Reliability demands links be from two or more NLDs

  QoS across NLDs still an unresolved issue

  QoS across MPLS clouds across ISPs is still an unresolved issue

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NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK:

WELCOME TO 10,000,000,000 BITS PER SECOND !

Presented by Prof. S. V. Raghavan, IIT Madras