1. Application of local
Internets content of
Bangladesh
By-­‐
Md.
Shaqul
Hasan
A2ab
IT
Limited
hasan@aitlbd.com

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Internet in Bangladesh
• Online ISP Start its operation in 1996 via VSAT
• Bangladesh connected with Submarine cable
from May,2006 and connected with ITC in Nov,
2012
• More than 35 Millions internet user
• They are using More than 50 Gbps Internet
bandwidth
• Internet User and B/W are increasing day by day

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Internet Service Providers
• Total 37 International Internet Gateway
• 123 Nationwide ISP
• 300+ zonal ISP
• 6 Mobile operators
• 3 Wimax operators
• And thousands of local internet provider
and cyber café’s

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Internet use in Bangladesh
• Searching information
• Social networking
• Communication
• File transfer / P2P sharing
• Entertainment
• BPO
• Education
• News
• And many more

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Internet contents of Bangladesh

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Internet Domain name of
Bangladesh
• Registered 15652 .bd Domain’s
• Other 22464 domain’s name are registered from
Bangladesh
• Few domains are used only for e-mail service
• Maximum domains are hosted in outside of
country
• Very few organization’s hosted their web site
locally.
(Ref: www,btcl.net.bd & www.webhosting.info)

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Most visited web sites from
Bangladesh
• www.facebook.com
• www.google.com
• www.youtube.com
• www.prothom-alo.com
• www.yahoo.com
• www.blogspot.com
• www.bdnews24.com
• www.live.com
• www.wikipedia.org
• www.bdjobs.com
• And above all sites are coming from out side of country …….!!!!
(Ref: www.alexa.com)

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A Case Study of web traffic
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Web contents status of
Bangladesh
• They are only focus on organization
• Inadequate organizational information
• Very poor web contents
• No updated data and information
• Maintained irregularly
• Web traffic limitation
• No user classified web
• No search engine optimization

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Other internet content status
• No public ftp server
• Very few public torrent server
• Very few online Gaming server
• No Video Streaming Server
• Only Two Linux ftp mirror server
• No ftp server for free software or plug-ins

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Impacts of local internet
contents lacking

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Impacts
• Slow browsing speed
• Content transfer time is very high
• users not getting web content during peak time
• Most mobile internet user are sufferer
• Higher use of download internet traffic
• Most of the cases we are using transit b/w
which is expensive then peering b/w.
• Country losing huge currency for hosting and
transit b/w .

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A service providers traffic status
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How to overcome this situations ??

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We
may
deploy
following
Systems
• Local Hosting Service
• Split DNS
• IXP Peering
• Content Delivery Network Peering
• Public Server mirror
• IPv6

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Local Web Hosting

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Advantages
• Very cheap rate
• Local Internet contents will increase
• Faster browsing experience
• Unlimited data and contents
• Peering b/w be will use
• More business opportunity
• Saving of money and time

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Challenges
• Security
• Uptime
• Bandwidth
• Infrastructure
• Customer service
• Regulations

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Mitigation
• Need Awareness
• Infrastructure facility
• We have to setup tier 1 Data center
• Peering with IXP
• Policy & Regulation from regulatory body

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Split DNS

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Advantages
• One web server for local use
• One web server for outside
• Local server will connect with IXP
• If any attack occurred ,only one zone will
be affected
• Local User will get web sites locally

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Challenges
• Technology
• Need Expert
• New investment
• Infrastructures

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Mitigation
• Awareness
• Training
• Facilitate Local Web hosting spaces
• Few popular web site (like
bdjobs.com,prothom-
alo.com,bdnews24.com etc) may deploy
this technology for better local experience

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Internet Exchange Point

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Advantages
• Local traffic goes through locally
• No transit B/W needed
• Unlimited peering B/W
• Very cheap
• We already have a IXP named BDIX
• It is Sharing 2.8 Gbps local traffic
• More than 50 Service providers connected

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Daily Average Traffic of BDIX
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Challenges
• Connectivity
• NTTN Cost
• Technology
• IP & ASN
• Infrastructure

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Mitigation
• Awareness
• Need Special package from NTTN
• Training
• Apnic is ready to give IP & ASN
• Cheapest hardware solutions are available
• By connecting all service provider

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Peering with CDN

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Advantages
• Get web contents locally
• Faster web contents
• Buffering less video streaming
• Content delivery network will give high
speed web and internet contents

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Challenges
• CDN Peering
• IPLC Cost
• Infrastructure
• Maintenance

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Mitigation
• Peering with common place like IXP
• Service provider can take CDN service
from IXP as Value added service
• They will pay extra for this service
• Peered service provider will share all
expenses as per their contents sharing

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Public Server Mirror

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Advantages
• Faster file transfer
• Local content delivery
• Unlimited data
• No transit B/W cost

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Challenges
• Infrastructure
• Technology
• Maintenance
• Peering with IXP
• Policy

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Mitigation
• Awareness
• Service Provider may facilitate this service
• We may start with different type of free
software, open source software, add-on &
plug-ins, mobile apps by public ftp service
• Anti virus update mirroring server
• Need policy from authority

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IPv6 Deployment

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Advantages
• NAT free network, Every device will get IP
address
• IPv6 supports multicast rather than
broadcast
• IPv6 reduces the size of routing tables
• Peer-to-peer network is ready to create
and maintained
• Auto configuration by local link

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Challenges
• Lack of knowledge
• Network Device incompatibly
• Supported Software
• Customer ask for services don’t care for
which protocols are used
• Transition cost

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Mitigation
• Public Awareness
• Training
• Maximum new network device are
compatible
• Few of our internet service providers are
using ipv6

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Benefits of Local Internet
Contents
• Faster internet
• Unlimited B/W capacity
• More usage of Outbound Bandwidth
• Quick contents delivery
• Reduced consumption of international bandwidth
• Reducing internet cost
• More Job opportunity for experts
• More business
• New model for Digital Bangladesh
• New role in national developments
• And more….

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Questions ?

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Thank You